Betty White's 100th birthday is celebrated with sass, wit and tenderness on stage at Cavern Club.
Picture it: Silver Lake, 2022. A line of people in N95s and Orville Peck-inspired fringe masks carefully descend a staircase into a basement beneath a hot pink restaurant, greeted by lesbian fan fiction “Golden Girls” art as everyone is escorted to their seats. “Thank You for Being a Friend” plays, and the crowd goes crazy.
“Golden Girlz Live” may be influenced and rooted in the mainstream series but is truly an underground endeavor rooted in subversive and celebratory practices of queer fandom and performance. Vine and Beat — whose friendship is as much a part of their legacy as Theater Couture, zines, Wigstock and the drag shows that made them the legends they are today — started out doing a mix of performance art, theater and club drag in New York and Los Angeles in the 1990s.
“We’re all show ponies and vaudevillians,” says Droege, who got his start in the Groundlings, talking about how the members of “Golden Girlz Live” gravitated toward each other. “We’re weirdos and gay nerds and all laugh at the same things.” They all share a love of underground theater, performance art, dark comedy, John Waters, classic Hollywood and of course, “The Golden Girls.
While Beat and Vine are purists, Droege and Pancake do an interpretation that can be thought of as “The Golden Girls” on acid. Vine emphasizes the multiple syllables of Blanche’s Southern drawl, Pancake fully leans into Sophia’s dry butch gravel and wit. Beat uses Dorothy’s aggressive eyebrows like weapons, Droege plays Rose’s trademark naivety like a master instrumentalist.
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