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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Calendar, Events, Theater, Drag, Gay, Comedy, etc. Lovingly crafted by SF's Best Comic Playwright (SF Weekly) Sean Owens, STALE MAGNOLIAS is an original script that pays loving homage to America's 80's romance with tortured, strong Southern women, inspiring such classics as Steel Magnolias, Crimes of the Heart, Come Back to the 5 & 10, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. With a cast featuring legendary SF talent, this is the first theatrical event to grace the doors of the Glama-Rama, the real-life beauty salon run by SF makeover maven Deena Davenport and it will steel your heart.
STALE MAGNOLIAS is the story of the Last Chance Salon, a nightspot turned day-spa in the overheated town of Rectal, TX. Proprietress CC Chesterfield (Julia Mitchell) struggles between fulfilling her mother’s dying wish and keeping her clientele from killing each other. Naïve new shampoo girl Sugar Sweetly (David Bicha) learns the ropes as the townswomen sink their fresh manicures into each other. Trouble hits the hot curlers when ex-beauty pageant queen, Spuvina Fetlock (Arturo Galster) runs into her long-time rival, Raven Looney (Jef Valentine), power-hungry businesswoman and suspected murderess. Meanwhile, Fanny Chaffer (Sean Owens) bristles at her new title of Rectal’s Oldest Living Citizen, bestowed upon her by aspiring roller-model Louisiana "Loos" Morales (Rik Lopes). Wishing their problems would vanish in to thin hair, these high-haired hotheads learn that their spa experience comes with an inner beauty treatment—whether they like it or not. STALE MAGNOLIA runs May 2 – June 14, 2009, Saturdays and Sundays @ 8pm at the Glama-Rama Hair Salon, 417 South Van Ness at 15th. There is NO SHOW on SUNDAY, MAY 31. Tickets are $20 at the door or $15 online at http://brownpapertickets.com/event/60804. EVERY NIGHT IS STYLIST NIGHT!! Do you make your living as a beautician? Do you spend all day making other people look good? Come and have a laugh on us! Have your salon manager contact us at foulplaysf@gmail.com and we'll send you a special password to get in for only $10, HALF PRICE! This is a Foul Play from Sean Owens (author, director) and Cameron Eng (production) and features: David Bicha, Arturo Galster, Rik Lopes, Julia Mitchell, Sean Owens and Jef Valentine. Based upon a concept by Sean Owens and Jarrad Webster. Costumes by Steven LeMay of Retro Fit, your premier destination shop for your complete vintage look. Whether perusing the clothing, bellying up to the T-shirt Bar or getting your make-over at our Beauty Counter, we have to expertise to make it a reality. 910 Valencia St, SF. 415.550.1530 http://retrofityourworld.com Wigs by House of L'Moore Wigs, which has been serving the wig styling and maintenance needs of the Bay Area for the last four years, out of Glamarama Hair Salon. Jordan L. Moore has created beautiful custom hair pieces for many of San Francisco's drag luminaries, theatrical performances, and exotic dancers. His work has even appeared in Vogue magazine on the legendary star Diahann Carroll. Custom wig orders by appointment 415-867-0734 Sound engineered by Jim Fourniadis at the Dark Room Theater, is your one-stop shop for comedy, theater, events, entertainment, rehearsal space and recording studio facilities (both pre- and post-production). 2263 Mission Street, b/t 18th and 19th, SF, CA 94110, 415-401-7987 for info. http://darkroomsf.com Lighting design byShady lady Lighting who has created a name for herself by mind blowing lighting effects, strong imagery with using conceptual lighting. 415-505-2671, http://shadyladylighting.biz The Glama-Rama is a Hair Salon / Art Gallery that has become a staple as a community space in San Francisco. 417 South Van Ness, SF, 415-861-GLAM, http://glamarama.com, proprietress Deena Davenport. *****************************************
DAVID BICHA (Sugar Sweetly) most recently appeared in It's Murder Mary at the New Conservatory Theatre and Shark Bites at Theatre Rhinoceros. He's also been seen locally in What the Butler Saw, Medea: The Musical!, Not About Nightingales, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Awe About Eve, Christmas With the Crawfords, Lavender Lockeroom, Dirty Little Showtunes!, A Beautiful Man, The Andrews Sisters Hollywood Canteen, Gross Indulgences: The Trials of Liberace, Queen of Angels, and Bent, his SF debut in 1992. David dedicates his Glama-Rama debut to the wonderful and amazingly supportive David Mahr and his endless patience. CAMERON ENG (production, graphics, publicity) survived an Attack of the Killer B-Movies and the burning sensation of a rock opera Wicker Man to bring you our third Foul Play. With roots in the KLUBSTiTUTE KOLLECTiVE (Faux Queen Pageant), he returned to theater learning the ropes at the knee of the masters, Jim Fourniadis (thank you so much!) and Erin Ohanneson, and forming Impossible Productions (CLUE, the Princess Bride, Batman, Emperor Norton, Young Frankenstein, Duck Soup and more) at the beloved Dark Room Theater. Stale Magnolias represents a special opportunity in Cameron’s life as a chance to work with some of the legendary SF talent that first inspired his love of theater. He has had the extreme fortune and honor to team up with co-conspirator Sean Owens for a little foul play. Special thanks goes out to Deena Davenport, his amazing team of designers, his dedicated cast and all the friends who helped put this show together, one bit of glamour at a time. He dedicates this show to Terrance Alan, his muse and the reason his life is so much fun. Be on the look out for Foul Play’s next comedy of terrors The 2nd Attack of the Killer B-Movies at Ty & Cory McKenzie’s Stagewerx this Fall. ARTURO GALSTER (Spuvina Fetlock) has had the privilege of working with some of the legends of S.F. Bay Area Theater, Cabaret, Film and Drag! As a student of The San Francisco Art Institute he worked with George Kuchar, Paul Kos, Tony Labat and Karen Finley. In the 1980's he and friends Mark and Mary Kay Lee Harrison formed their infamous Tribute to Patsy Cline featuring The Memphis G-Spots. Arturo has performed as the Queen of Country Music in a number of S. F. venues and on tour in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans. In New York City he has played at The Pyramid Club, Danceteria, Limelight, Tavern on the Green and Wigstock. He appeared in Naked Brunch, directed by Marc Huestis and starring Doris Fish, Miss X, Tippi, Ginger Quest, Tommy Pace, Silvana Nova and Sandelle Kincaid, all of whom he also appeared with in Vegas in Space directed by Philip R. Ford. Arturo appeared as Miriam Polar in Philip R. Ford's Dolls and as Cousin Miriam in Matthew Martin's Hush up Sweet Charlotte. His mother and one of his three sisters are also named Miriam. Weird. He has appeared in Christmas With the Crawfords, Tom Orr's Dirty Little Show Tunes, Naked Boys Singing and Lavender Locker Room all directed by F. Allen Sawyer. He has understudied at The Berkeley Rep in The Legend of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam and Fete de la Nuit by Charles Mee. Mr. Galster has also appeared in a number of Marc Huestis's productions at The Castro Theater, most memorably as Patsy Cline with Karen Black, as Hedwig with John Cameron Mitchell and as Tim Gunn in Bad Boys of Project Runway. He couldn't be happier than to be working again with David Bicha and Julia Mitchell and for the first time with Sean Owens, Cameron Eng, Jef Valentine and Rik Lopes! Arturo thanks his family and friends for all their love and support! San Francisco has always been a hotbed of creativity, and THE GLAMA-RAMA (venue) has always been a gathering place and glamour stop for many of those involved in making the city a magical place. The members of the Glama-Rama family are performers, artists, milliners, writers, designers, D.J.'s, students, seamstresses, blacksmiths, roller derby queens, film makers, environmentalists, musicians, mothers, travelers, caregivers, and even second degree black belts! This is what makes our Glama-Rama family great, and what makes us enthusiastically embrace the production of Stale Magnolias in our home! 417 South Van Ness, SF, 415-861-GLAM, glamarama.com, proprietress Deena Davenport. STEVEN LEMAY(costume design)owns Retro Fit, your premier destination shop for your complete vintage look. Whether perusing the clothing, bellying up to the T-shirt Bar or getting your make-over at their Beauty Counter, they have to expertise to make it a reality. 910 Valencia St, SF, 415.550.1530, retrofityourworld.com HOUSE OF L'MOORE (wig design), which has been serving the wig styling and maintenance needs of the Bay Area for the last four years, out of Glama-Rama Hair Salon. Jordan L'Moore has created beautiful custom hair pieces for many of San Francisco's drag luminaries, theatrical performances, and exotic dancers. His work has even appeared in Vogue magazine on the legendary star Diahann Carroll. Custom wig orders by appointment 415-867-0734 RIK LOPES (Louisiana “Loos” Morales) is not exactly what one would call a drag artist—unless of course you count his now infamous one-night turn as Special Agent Eppie Taff, the aristocratic widow assassin. Much of his misspent youth occurred in and around a variety of Southern towns that are not entirely dissimilar to Rectal, Texas, and he thanks his parents for buying him a pair of roller skates at the tender age of 6. These seemingly disparate events have led him to Stale Magnolias and he is thrilled to finally realize his Southern trash roller-derby destiny. Rik was seen most recently as Thomas in No Nude Men's production of FISHING by David Duman, directed by Stuart Bousel. He is overjoyed to be co-helming HurLyBurLy Productions with creative partner Mikka Bonel and looks forward to directing their inaugural show in August—Cat's-Paw by William Mastrosimone. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University and has studied improvisation with Bay Area Theatre Sports. He thanks his friends and family for their support and dedicates his performance to his smokin' hot boyfriend Josh, who loves him enough to brave chest stubble for the first time. JULIA MITCHELL (CC Chesterfield) is a bay area native who grew up studying modern dance, creating characters and playing dress up. Her pursuits evolved into different kinds of theater-making and she has appeared in numerous productions – most recently performing in a five woman adaptation of Macbeth with Woman’s Will. Other favorite roles include Mona in Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean with California Conservatory Theater, Maria in Mill Valley Curtain Theatre's Twelfth Night and Spock in an all-drag production of Star Trek: Mudd’s Women. She has graced the stages of Trannyshack and other clubs as faux drag queen Windy Plains and drag king Paul Wanka. Thanks to Cameron and other KLUBSTiTUTE veterans for helping launch her drag career at the 2000 Faux Queen Pageant. This has been a hoot and a holler! SEAN OWENS (adaptation, production, direction, Fanny Chaffer) has had the honor of making the kind of theatre he loves for 20 years in the Bay Area and beyond. A long-time collaborator at the EXIT Theatre downtown (now their Playwright-In-Residence), Sean most recently served as lyricist and host for Lady of the ‘Loin, this year’s DIVA Cabaret at the EXIT, with singer Shannon Day and songwriting partner Don Seaver. Lady of the ‘Loin will return to the EXIT later this year—go to theexit.org for details. This year, Sean was honored with a Bay area Critics’ Circle Award for his performance as Oscar Wilde in Chris Jeffries’ Vera Wilde for Shotgun Players, both the Audience Choice and the Sold-Out Award for his play End of the Trail at NY’s 2009 Frigid Fest, and was served with a cease-and-desist order for his attempted portrayal of Paul Lynde in his childhood memoir Center Square. Up next, Sean will serve as adaptor and co-director for Season Two of Attack of the Killer B-Movies, to be presented at Stagewerx in San Francisco, beginning September 2009. Jenny B of SHADY LADY LIGHTING (lighting design) has returned home by lighting the first theatrical production at the Glama-Rama. As a co-founder of the salon thirteen years ago, Jenny B went onto bigger things, lighting a plethora of impressive venues such as San Francisco's City Hall, The De Young Museum, and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Always ready to support community projects, she is part of Grey Area Theatre Project, San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Destiny Arts Project of Oakland. Having helped build the Glama-Rama, no one knows the space, and the possibilities of it more than the Shady Lady.... NIKITA SCHOEN (choreography) is grateful for the chance to get someone else's booty shakin' after way too much time dancing alone in her apartment, and is honored to be working with Sean and Cameron. She has been seen performing on the Dark Room stage in such wonderful shows as Young Frankenstein, Lovesick: the cat allergy musical, and the Twilight Zone plays.. She is happy to be back to help put on shows once again. ALEXIA STANIOTES (production assistant, light operation, sound operation and many, many other jobs) loves to write bios. Boy, are they fun or what? She remembers this one time when she wrote a bio and everyone was like “Holy shit that was a funny bio, where do you come up with this stuff?” And she was all “I don’t know, like I think about stuff and they’re all like, wow, and then they appear.” Heh, good times. She is also stage-managing Cat’s Paw at Periscope Cellars in Emeryville. Oh…and is in Attack of the Killer B Movies, which Cameron or Sean have probably already mentioned. JEF VALENTINE (Raven Looney) recent roles include Dr. Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show with Ray of Light Theatre and the title role in Charles Busch’s Theodora; She-Bitch of Byzantium with Thrillpeddlers. As said she-bitch, the SF Weekly declared that “Valentine commands the stage like a true empress”. Other credits include Christmas with the Crawfords with Artful Circle/Theatre Rhinoceros, Pageant at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in Ashland, Dirty Little Secret at the Empire Plush Room, Midnight Mass Players and countless appearances at the legendary Trannyshack. Valentine holds the Guiness World Record for Longest Distance Tap Dance (9.6 miles) and still has the blisters to prove it. The spawn of native Texans, he dedicates this performance to his grandmother, the original Flaming Agnes. SPECIAL THANKS to our hostess Deena Davenport, Petrina Cooper, Michelle Talgarow, Don Wood, Sam French, Nigel, Paul and Ghee, Amanda Ortmayer, Ryan Wilkes, Jim & Erin & the Dark Room, Kymberly Pantoja, Adam Davies, Debra Walker and her staff, Patrick Simms, Raging Stallion Studios, Christopher Kuckenbaker and Terrance Alan without whom this show would not be possible |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — This May there's Magic in the Hair when Foul Play presents STALE MAGNOLIAS, the Ultimate 80’s Southern Woman’s Play. High hopes, dashed dreams, betrayal, murder and... male-pattern balding? These ladies have a lot invested in their hair... which means they have a lot to lose. This show is so funny, you'll dye laughing!
