Tag Archive: The Gilded Stage 2010


I’m an honored to be joining up with Three Dollar Bill Cinema to extend a limited offer joint cover to attend both of the spectacular Joey Arias events to hit  Seattle this October!

For $25 you can attend both “Strange Fruit” at The Triple Door October 12th, and the Docufantasy “Arias with a Twist”‘ at The Lesbian Gay Film Festival, October 16th at The Egyptian. Joey will be staying on after his performance at The Triple Door to attend the screening on Saturday and partake in a Q&A.

To take advantage of this offer please call The Triple Door Box Office 206- 838-4333 and use the code ” Holiday” to make your reservation. You will receive a voucher to attend the screening on October 16, when you check in with the hostess at The Triple Door to attend “Strange Fruit”.

October 12th – Joey Arias and Eliot Douglass in “Strange Fruit”

Tuesday October 12, 7:30 PM The Triple Door

For those of you who are uninitiated to the magic that Joey Arias conjures up when he takes the stage to sing the songs of Billie Holiday you are in for a treat and will be delighted by this sublime 90 minute sojourn of song and banter.  A dear friends mother (now in her 80’s) came to see the show last year sums it up best “ I never thought I would live to see Billie Holiday perform live!” or Christopher Frizelle of The Stranger “It will blow your fucking head open! ”, mind bending indeed. Read more about this event HERE

October 16th – Arias With A Twist : The Docufantasy

Saturday, October 16, 5:00PM , The Egyptian Theatre

Bobby Sheehan; 2010; US; 88 min.

When legendary performance artist Joey Arias and internationally renowned puppeteer Basil Twist collaborated to make the avant-garde show “Arias with a Twist,” the result was a trip into the dreamworld imaginations of two extraordinary artists. In between jaw-droppingly beautiful scenes from the show’s world tour, this Docufantasy explores the lives and art of both Arias and Twist. Along the way, we met their friends and collaborators, including Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Klaus Nomi, Jim Henson, Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Elvira, Pee-wee Herman, Paula the Swedish Housewife, and many others. Be prepared for a groundbreaking, magical, and surreal experience! Read more about this event HERE

Can’t sleep at night as you ponder who Waxie Moon (as King Neptune) will crown as the first ever Royal Sea Urchin on August 7th at The Triple Door during The First Annual Seafarer Follies?!

What does it take to be The Royal Sea Urchin?

Style, Poise, Grace and Eloquence as “The One who wears the Crown” will have Royal Duties throughout Our Little Fishing Village during their one-year reign.

What are the Duties of The Royal Sea Urchin?

The Royal Sea Urchin will carry the Sprit of Summer for four seasons,  making appearances at major arts events and festivities, be the Spokespersons and Representative of this Alternative Summertime Celebration.

Duties Thus Far Include:

Pressing the Official Clock for 14/48 ” The Worlds Quickest Theater Festival” in January

Opening The Moisture Festival with an official blessing

Cutting The Ribbon to start The Solstice Parade

Who Qualifies to Compete?

Any human over the age of 21

Come dressed to the 9 Fathoms in your most outrageous Nautical, Aquatic, Flyboy, Flygirl, Sailor, Sea Captain, Mermaid, Merman, or “you make it up” costume to win prizes and the prestigious year-long title of Royal Sea Urchin!


What will you have to do in the competition?

Come walk the stage on either Friday or Saturday night and say “Hello” to your adoring Court

You will be scored by our panel of Local Celebrity Judges!

El Vez-  The Mexican Elvis

Lily Verlaine – The Living Breathing Work of Art

Maque Davis – Producer of The Freemont Solstice Parade

Scotty The Blue Bunny – Yes!!! He lives here now!

More to come…..

Three contestants from Friday night will be invited back Saturday evening for the final selection and Crowing of  “The Royal Sea Urchin”.

Please e-mail paula@swedishhousewife.com  to register yourself to compete on either night.

May the Lucky Star Fish be with you!

“Strange Fruit”

A dear friend’s 80-year-old mother sums it up best…. ” I never thought I would live to see Billie Holiday perform live!”

Legendary underground entertainer-turned international cabaret sensation Joey Arias returns to Seattle’s historic Triple Door theatre once again, for an evening of signature song and banter, accompanied by his longtime pianist and creative co-conspirator, Eliot Douglass. Fresh from a five-year run as emcee/”Mistress of Seduction” for Zumanity: the Sultry Side of Cirque de Soleil, a role created expressly for him, Arias is the 2009 recipient of GLAAD’s “Off Off Broadway” Award for Arias With a Twist, an intimate “cabinet of curiosities” melding Arias’ legendary voice with puppeteer Basil Twist’s lavish, ecstatic visual creations.

For one night only, Arias and Douglass will appear at the Triple Door, performing original works alongside the material of Ms. Holiday–as only Joey Arias can conjure her. A two-time “Critic’s Choice” and “Pick of the Week” (Los Angeles Times), Seattle Gay News writer Sara Michelle Fetters said this of his last Triple Door performance:  “To say he left victorious would be something of an understatement… the only thing strange about this particular fruit is just how darn brilliant he really is.” -SGN, April 9 ’08

Outrageous and avant-garde, Joey’s one-of-kind voice and thoroughly modern take on the music of Ms. Holiday continues to bend minds, winning over music and theatre lovers all across the planet. He has been featured at such diverse spaces as NYC’s hallowed Carnegie Hall and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has collaborated with countless influential artists, including David Bowie and the late Klaus Nomi.

The First Annual “Seafarer Follies!”

The Swedish Housewife Presents the first annual Seafarer Follies! An aquatic cabaret to make Flo Ziegfeld fall off his boat. Just like in the olden days when “The Aqua Follies” rocked Greenlake, the Seafarer Follies! is the perfect Seafair antidote to loud boats, loud planes and suburban parades.


For our first commemorative year, performance artist Bradford Scobie (NYC) will be at the helm. With acts by Moisture Festival favorites: Trixie Little and The Evil Hate “Sea”-Monkey (Baltimore) and debuting Bambi The Mermaid (Coney Island), Seattle all stars Waxie Moon as King Neptune, The Shanghai Pearl, The Swedish Housewife, and introducing Thee Bearded Clam Chorus!!! Of course, a Real Live Band will be rockin’ the boat!


Come dressed to the nine fathoms in your most outrageous nautical, aquatic, flyboy, flygirl, sailor, sea captain, mermaid, merman, or “you make it up” costume to win prizes and the prestigious year long title of  The Royal Sea Urchin!


That’s right, more flotsam and jetsam than you can shake a stick at… more crustaceans than you can put in a pot! You can’t throw a catfish on this stage and not hit a mermaid! Packed full of Sardines and Sailors!!! Blue Angels, Red Devils, and not your average Chicken of the Sea!


Guaranteed to be Off The Hook!

Press about The Seafarer Follies!

Seafarer Follies makes Seattle Magazines August Must List!

The Stranger’s Burlesque Box

Blogs about The Seafarer Follies!

Burlesque Press Seattle – Charms City’s Trixie Little: a Q & A

Burlesque Press Seattle – The Crab-Clawed Attack of Bambi The Mermaid


“My Mid Century Modern Celebration Cabaret”

Come join in the fun as the Madcap International Bohemian Jet Set gather at The Triple Door to toast a half century of an epic life that has been lived to the hilt! A run amuck wild cabaret filled with Acrobats, Aerialists, Avant Guard muckety mucks, Burlesquers, “Dance Troupes”, Glamour Girls, Jugglers, and Wacky Performance Artists ( inhale here), that will be talked about in AA, NA,SA and ALONON meetings for years to come!

Starring !!!

Julie Atlas Muz – NYC- “Muz takes the aesthetic of burlesque and applies it to high art to create a dark fantasy of innocence and corruption. The movement is alternately playful and sexual, and the sex is alternately pure and prurient.” -Culturebot.org

Fancy Chance “Miss Alternative Universe 2009″- London

Scotty The Blue Bunny – The World at Large

Miss Astrid- Switzerland- “the true weimar fraulein” – Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic , “Enough attitude to sink the Bismark”- San Jose Mercury News

NANDA- Portland- “The Nanda boys do things I always wanted the Karamozovs to do, but couldn’t hire the talent… …Go, Nanda! Banzai!” -Howard Patterson,The Flying Karamozov Brothers

Ernie Von Schmaltz

Cherdonna and Lou

Catherine D’Lish- There’s a reason for her last name……

Lily Verlaine- The Living Breathing Work of Art

Miss Indigo Blue- Seattle’s Sapphic Sweetheart

Poppy Daze of The Aerialistas

Queen Shmooquan- ” She is Genius” – Stone Gossard

Waxie Moon

Stella Rose-  Le Pick up Artiste

DOOR  at  6:00PM

SHOW at 8:00PM

I am SO excited for Justin’s arrival to Seattle and his Up Coming performance March 18th at The Triple Door. I was thinking about how wonderful the show was last year and wanted to share a video with you from ” The Rites of Spring- More Songs for the Neo Pagan Revolution”. Deirdre Timmons of Golden Echo Films shot the show and we hope to eventually make it available to all of you. In the mean time please enjoy the following video of Justin Bond- New Depression

The Swedish Housewife Presents

“An evening of Glamour, History, Sizzling Hot Ladies and Celluloid”, Seattle debut performance of Britain’s Crown Jewel of Burlesque - Immodesty Blaize and West Coast Premiere of the documentary “Burlesque Undressed”.

Seattle’s Hottest Traditional Burlesque Show of 2010! A Full on Celebration of Femininity!

The Film Burlesque Undressed” @ 7:00 PM

Burlesque has shimmied itself into the mainstream ever so slyly that now even Cher and Christina are hopping on the bump and grind wagon! But before Hollywood goes all mainstream with their interpretation of the Art of Burlesque, there are now quite a few documentaries on the subject from different view points and perspectives that you should make yourself familiar with starting with “Burlesque Undressed” Directed and written By Allison Grist is a great addition to this growing genera in film and is a loving look into the history, costumes, the current bombastic explosion of Burlesque, with historical film clips and interviews with costumers, historians and several of the beautiful and original Ladies of Golden Era of Burlesque including Joan Arline.

British Reviews about ” Burlesque Undressed”;

“This curiously innocent little British movie is a celebration of the revival of the art of the striptease artist” Phillip French – The Observer

“Cheerfully entertaining” Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian

“Warm, celebratory, cheeky, glamorous and revelatory” – ODEON

The Show @ 8:45PM

This is my only full on traditional Burlesque Show of the year and it is all High Glitz, Glamour and Sex Appeal, it may very well be the sexiest show of the year to hit the Triple Door stage. This is the only show that can boast having 3 Internationally renowned Miss Exotic World title holders and a Living Legend of Burlesque in one night!

The show stars Miss Exotic World 2007 - Immodesty Blaize “Britain’s Crown Jewel of Burlesque” – the hottest British import since Marc Bolan and she is 100% W.O.M.A.N ! Immodesty will have you wiggling in your seats with her Bombshell Va Va Voom and Sass, her costumes as stunning and unless you are planning a trip to London anytime soon this is your only opportunity to drool and see her in the flesh …. in Seattle.

Miss Exotic World 2004 Miss Dirty Martini, is the walking definition of Burlesque, she definitely is tapped into the era of her fore mother Jenny Lee “Miss 44 and Plenty More” just like Lee she is the consummate crowd pleaser. Dirty has been making quite the International splash with performance all over the planet, including film rolls and recently was featured in a fashion spread shot by Karl Lagerfeld for V Magazine! The World Premier of her own film “Dirty Martini and The New Burlesque” is at SIFF Cinemas March 29th.

Just added to the line up is Miss Exotic World 1992 & 1994 Catherine D’Lish there is a reason why this Sex Pot Red Head is a two time winner and we all winners as she recently moved to Seattle. Miss D’Lish is known for her classic Strip Tease and over the top elaborate costumes and oozes like I said S.E.X. and had more titles under her shimmy belt than any other gal working in Burlesque today.

Living Legend of Burlesque Joan Arline “The Sexsquire Girl” now in her 70′s is just finished up her roll as “Electra” in a stage production of Gypsy at The Palm Canyon Theater. She has been in the business of Burlesque since her early 20′s. The Sexquire Girl is known as a walker , her performance is elegant and stunning and remarkably performing in one of her original costumes this evening.

All four of these ladies are in the film “Burlesque Undressed”.

To round out the night are Seattle’s own shakers and movers of The Seattle Burlesque scene Miss Indigo Blue and Miss Inga Ingénue , who both will be performing tribute acts to ladies of yore Wild Cherry and Sally Rand. Hosting the show is The Swedish Housewife.

10:00PM – Meet the Stars, buy some glamourous 8X10′s, DVD’s and get your autographs.
The Immodesty Blaize Channel

Price: $22 in advance/ $25 at the door. 17+. Buy tickets. Box office: 206.838.4333.

Justin Bond is one of the most exciting and spellbinding contemporary Cabaret performers, working internationally today. Mx. Bond’s storytelling is engrossing, endearing and witty. I am so delighted to be bringing Justin Bond back to Seattle to open my third season “ The Gilded Stage” at The Triple Door.

Last year Justin performed “The Rites of Spring- More Songs for The Neo Pagan Revolution” which included the songs from his solo debut album “Pink Slip” (a quadruple entendre!) that was released last April. The show concluded after three standin g ovations and encores. You should all buy it! (The album) or download it on itunes! What does Justin have in store for us this year?

On March 18- Justin will be performing “Angels of The Morning – The Ladies of AM Radio”. “Slip into your STRING BIKINI and turn on your TRANS/SISTER radio and say hello to SUNNY SKIES with Justin Bond and The Ladies of top 40 AM. Picture yourself POOLSIDE in the early 1970’s slathered in COPPER TONE. The sun is Killing You Softly as you sip a PINA COLADA and breathe in the AFTERNOON DELIGHT. Justin promises to Light Up Your Life with a bevy of special guests! WERQUE!!!” – Justin Bond

Justin will be backed by Seattle’s own Kurt Bloch on guitar, Mark Pickerel on Drums and Jim Sangster on Bass.

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