THE DORIS DEAR SPECIAL, LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER Packed the Rumpus Room

The Rumpus Room was packed for "The Doris Dear Special, Like Mother Like Daughter". 2016 MAC award winner, Doris Dear, the inner Housewife of Ray DeForest, returned to the Rumpus Room at The Triad Theater for a one night only event on April 20th where she and her friends celebrated her mother Taffy and mother's everywhere.

Top notch cabaret singers dropped by ... Meg Flather singing her original song "Song of Roses', Lina Koutrakos sang her parents favorite song "Because of You" and that mischievous dispenser of musical repartee Sidney Myer sang an old fashioned tune "My Mother's Eyes". The Rumpus Room was full of laughter as Doris Dear did a hysterical duet with Mr Myer from the musical Young Frankenstein... "Together Again" and Miss Flather and Koutrakos did a funny version of "If Mama Was Married" with Doris. Doris always tells stories and uses period magazines to enforce the period nature of her shows. As she says "The bible of the American housewife", Better Homes and Gardens, is used throughout. Hilarious reads from those magazines and an especially funny read from a cookbook of "Famous Foods from Famous Places" was delivered with hilarious ease by Miss Dear. Closing with a gut wrenching "Mama a Rainbow" which Doris started by letting us listen to a conversation she had with her mother days before she passed away from Alzheimer's. Doris Dear sent everyone home with a smile!

 

The show is written and performed by MAC Award winner, Dramatist Guild member and SAG/AFTRA National LGBT Board Member Ray DeForest and inspired by the great TV variety specials that were the standard of TV watching in the 50's, 60's and 70's!

 

Ray DeForest in "The Doris Dear Special" next plays The Triad Theater (158 W 72nd St, New York, NY 10023) December 19, 20 and 21st at 7pm. Tickets and information are available at http://www.triadnyc.com

 

MORE ABOUT RAY DEFOREST

Doris Dear, the "other" inner Housewife of Ray DeForest, has been featured in movies (Men in Black 3, The Normal Heart) and TV shows (The Carrie Diaries) and has toured with "her" successful show "Doris Dear's Gurl Talk". Ray has been performing professionally for 38 years around the world in tours, stage shows, revues and was a host on TV's HGTV, Food Network, and had his own "How To" TV show syndicated through Fox Syndication. Ray is also a commercial producer with his company "DeForest Theatricals" with projects in the works for Broadway and the U.K.

 

All pictures by Kristen Truax