Home #Theater and Stage, Arts & Entertainment, StageIan Bell’s Brown Derby Players are back at Re-bar and the sky is ALL purple and there are people running everywhere!

Ian Bell’s Brown Derby Players are back at Re-bar and the sky is ALL purple and there are people running everywhere!

June 15, 2010• by

If you don’t love actor/director/provocateur Ian Bell’s Brown Derby series of movie parodies that have been a fixture at Re-bar for the last 22 years, then there is something seriously wrong with you…their productions/travesties of Basic Instinct and Fame and Footloose starring the likes of Nick Garrison, Imogen Love, Brandon Whitehead, Andrew Tasakos, Rebecca Davis, Ursula Android and Jackie Hell, among others, have been comedic theater highlights since Sophocles was in glee club. And, just in time for almost, kinda, sorta summer, they are bringing to the stage a very special production of that Prince extravaganza, Under the Cherry Moon Purple Rain this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8PM (doors open at 7pm) at Re-bar, (1114 Howell Street @ Boren)! Tickets are $16 at the door, cash only, no advance sales, and obviously it’s a 21+ event.

I’m excited about this show, because I loves me some Brown Derby AND it’s been awhile since I’ve seen one of their shows; due to the busy, busy schedules of Mr Bell and many of his players, it’s tough to schedule these shows on a regular basis. Also, I’m very interested to see how they pull off this show and have to wonder WHO will be playing Prince…Nick Garrison? Dusty Warren? Ade? Prince, himself? Also, will doves cry? And, will Darling Nikki be masturbating in a hotel lobby? Hopefully, all these questions will be answered at Re-bar this week…

-Michael Strangeways

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As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.

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