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Barbie 09

Matt Baney’s “Legends III, Superstar Barbie”

 

In breathtakingly opulent evening, both informative and dazzling, our Homecoming Queens prove that, with a lot of hair and makeup, and good corsets, our Queens do not fade away!

One thing’s certain the Grove loves its queens and they in turn love their dolls. Or maybe its director extraordinaire Matt Baney who loves them both. In a remarkably well researched evening Matt gave us a Barbie history lesson:  born in 1959, the year Charity surprised everyone by graduating high school, 300,000 sold for $3, her hourglass figure based on foul mouthed promiscuous German cartoon figure Bild Lilli, traits adopted by our Queens out of respect.

A Flower Girl leads the royal procession

Director ‘St. Olaf Loganberry Festival Queen’ impresario Aida Herring (Matt Baney) makes his entrance

He then read the names of beloved HQ’s who could not be with us: Bluesy Blowhole, Sissy Bloomingpale’s, Charro. James, Lulu, Dale Bailey, Rhondam Rigo, Goo ma da, Sidonia, Vera, Juanita, Melanie Margearet, Wynn, Gianna. Luisa Verde, Freeda Chews and 3 Homecoming Kings: Rusty Troccoli, Lynn Hutton and Cliff Bloomingpale’s

 

THE PREPARATION

June Haber – ticket mistress – with a smile!

Why, its Mickey, what’s he doing here?

There will seem to be duplicates but too much of a good thing in this case is never enough

 

SHOWTIME

The query (queerie?) is who is the mystery queen?

Through these portals…THE QUEENS

1976  Panzi the Grove’s first HG “It took 15 artists to create Barbie’s flawless look, much like Panzi”…later described by Bella as “the

First time I saw her she was a skinny bitch, she has come a long way since then - she is Ireland’s favorite Lassie – I don’t mean the dog”

Panzi repeats her reign in ’77, “proving anything and everything is for sale at the right price”

1989  Barbie joins the army becoming an icon for lesbians throughout the world and Cherry Grove elects Juanita

1990 Philomena is crowned “after careful examination by the judges proves she is, in fact, a hermaphrodite”.

1995 Legs LaBohn, aka Sylvia Shapiro, the first glatt kosher HG comes with the rabbinical seal of approval becoming a role model un the Jewish community and reigns over several bungalow colonies in the Borscht Belt, She late resigns when Loehman’s moves out of towni

1996 The year Ralph Loren designs Barbie in haute couture the Grove elects Timothea, there’s an irony here!
Very different, she doesn’t walk talk or wear fashion like the rest of us but she turned out to b e one of best. During rehearsal she wanted to sing in her own voice, so we found her a better one – you can’t imagine what she sounded like”

1997 Barbie discovers that Share-A-Smile Becky’s wheelchair doesn’t fit in Dream House elevator and the Grove elects Cobra (?)

2004 A woman of many hats, Barbie has had 108 careers in her life, much like this year’s HG Mandi!

2000 with the appearance of Mary Kate & Ashley dolls, the Grove elects 2 HQs – Good & Plenty who prove two wrongs don’t make a right, here we have e one of the pair Angela Mercy

2001 Following the example of Angelina Jolie kissing her brother at the Oscars, “here is our French kissing HG” China

2002 Ariel Sinclair makes it to the crown using it as a stepping stone to her ultimate goal – Miss Pilgrim Psychiatric Center 

2003Barbie as SUoergirl, Barbie as Wonder Woman and Charity being crowned on the 100th anniversary of her win as Miss Fire Island. Bella, “she’s much older than I, after she sings ‘Big, Blonde & Beautiful’ she takes someone hoe. The Big stays but the Blonde & Beautiful disappear”.

2004 Paris Hilton’s amateur porn tape is released to the pubic so no one notices the porn tape starring our HG Queen Donna Piranha

2005 Using her celebrity as HG she reigns over the bar at Cherry’s and under every other bar, Ivana Cocktail

2006 Justin Timberlake has the hit “sexy Back” and we have our own sexy back Coco Love who goes on to be the president o the Arts Project. Guaranteed her cuffs an collar don’t match!

Like the best new artist of the year, Amy Winehouse, rehab didn’t help Lola either, our international Barbie from South America.

Like Michael Phelps’ swimming I Beijing, our own queen of water sports Margo

2009 this year’s 34th Homecoming Queen, Urban Sprawl, has “a special affinity to Barbie…both are synthetic and both held up remarkably well”.

Dan Daly came to our community, a lonesome cowboy looking for a bride, asking “Why are all the girls in Cherry Grove so doggone queer?” In his extraordinary style he sang an original song inserting many of the Queens provocatively.

 

THE SHOW

Charity once again hit the rafters with her tailor made song “Big, Blonde and Beautiful”

I Donna Piranha and Ivana declared “You Don’t Own Me.”

In a soon to be immortal show stopper the usually glam Bella brought the house down as Susan Boyle, belting out “I Dreamed a Dream,”

Margo proved her fitness threatening “I told you I was trouble, you know that I’m no good.”

Angela Mercy, in another feminist song with a whip and stilettos declared, “The female of the species is more deadly than the male.”

Philomena offered an odd song ”I’ll plant my own tree” (?)

 

Even China performed “Diamond are a Girl’s Best Friend”

Ever tasteful as usual Ariel Sinclair demonstrated her hit “My vagina is eight miles wide,”

In another show biz rarity, the usually mute Cobra boasted “I’m Still Here.”

Urban Sprawl as Ken seemed unable to resist the advances of the girls gradually stripping to reveal….he had no balls

 

ACT II

In another show stopper Panzi, mourning the memory of Max Killingworth with “My Heart Will Go On and On,” toked on some helium and brought the house down as her voice got higher and weirder

Timothea lectured “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar,” (if only we had the sound tract) till HQ 1994 “Doctor” Joan Van Ness/Scarlett Oh!  escorted her back to the asylum.

Hot tamale Lola flamenco-ed  “I Will Survive” in Spanish

“Mambo Italiano,” Ivanna Cocktail was wholesome waitress tossing pasta into the crowd until…….. until

she revealed her sexier underside

Sylvia, as Ann-Margret sang, “Bye, Bye, Birdie” (i.e. “Bye, bye, 30”) to the decades: 30, 40 and 50 years of age

Joan kept Coco modest and ”Pretty in Pink”

 

FINALE – BIG FINISH

 

TAKE YOUR BOWS

Alison, Craig Williams, Michael Romanelli, Sherri Rase, Arthur Cohen, Martha, and Wendy Lewis as tech and stage crew took their bows in a very complicated fast moving show. Harold Seeley and George “Will” McGarvey designed the sets

 

OK HERE IT COMES

They Said I coud use the flash

So this is the big payoff: