All Male Cast Presents “Golden Girls X-mas Special Live!” at Funhouse Lounge

Saturday, December 06, 2014

Byron Beck, GoLocalPDX Features Editor

Golden Girls

The "original" Golden Girls will be performed by an all-male cast at the Funhouse Lounge.

Funhouse Lounge presents "Golden Girls X-mas Special Live!" a live stage show featuring two holiday episodes of the iconic television show "The Golden Girls," performed by an all-male cast.

The cast features Honey Bea Hart, one of Portland’s most popular drag entertainers, as well as Trenton Shine of The Unscriptables. Those two will be joined by an all-male cast.

These guys will play the put-open "Rose," outspoken "Sophia," sexy "Blanche" and the leader of the pack "Dorothy," originally played by Emmy award winners Betty White, Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan and Bea Arthur.

The hourlong stage show will recreate two of the classic sitcoms Christmas specials including ''Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas" (1986) when our "girls all plan to visit their respective families for Christmas, but their plans are ruined when they are held hostage by a man dressed as Santa Claus at the Grief Counseling Center" and "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas" (1989) when the "girls volunteer at a homeless shelter on Christmas day and learn that Stan (Dorothy's ex-hubby) has been thrown out on the streets by his current wife."

Golden Girls X-mas Special Live, Funhouse Lounge, 2432 SE 11th Ave., (503) 309-3723, [email protected]. 7 pm and 10 pm, Dec. 5-27. Click here for tickets.