Sketchy Queens @ Casita del Campo through Easter Sunday
Sketchy Queens
Casita del Campo, Silverlake
starring Dee W. Ieye and Kay Sedia
directed by Kimberly Lewis
Saturday April 23 @ 8 pm and Sunday April 24 @ 7 pm ONLY
If you're looking for lots of laughs this Easter weekend, head on over to Casita del Campo for Sketchy Queens starring two artists in drag, who just happen to be two of the Top Six Tupperware sales persons in the country. In fact, Dee W. Ieye is Number One, but the show is not about tupperware - that's right, it's ten sketches of comedy with music that cover the world of entertainment from the 60s to the present.
Ieye and Kay Sedia, both former beauty queens - and they never let us forget it! - have a bang up time and their infectious sense of playful chemistry transfers to their audience in spades. Joined by four other energetic talents: Beth Leckbee, Cher Ferreyra, Danny Casillas and Bryan Lovell, they open with a splashy "Comedy Tonight", the altered words implying no tupperware, but their little top hats are - you got it, tupperware bowls sprinkled with glitter. This is low budget after all, but the costumes, especially the gowns for Dee and Kay, more than compensate in the gaudy and ultra-colorful departments and are designed by Shaun Wunder.
Some terrific highlights of the evening include: Lovell playing Charlie Sheen, auditioning modest Dee and Kay for two sexy goddess assistants, a tacky home shopping program on TWS Radio - that stands for Totally Worthless Shit - with Dee as over-the-top gleeful hostess Crystal and Leckbee hilarious as a white trash housewife selling her tacky homemade ware and so pregnant, she's about to pop any second, a TV commercial to promote The Best of Jennifer Tilly on DVD, with Ferreyra right on target as the dotty Tilly acting out brief one-line scenes from her films, an outrageous telenovela in which two new maids witness the glaringly adulterous activity of their bosses firsthand, a wonderful takeoff on a neighborhood watch group with Danny and Kay essaying leaders Juan and Conchita Pelon to the strains of "Don't Cry for Me, West Covina", and a great finale sendup of Beach Blanket movies with Kay and Dee competing for every man's attention on the beach at Tijuana.
Director Lewis keeps the pacing up, up, up and the entire cast is having a blast. So will you, so head on over to Casita del Campo on Hyperion in Silver Lake, and join the fun. This weekend only through Sunday, April 24!
For tix visit: www.CavernClubTheater.com or
call: 1 - 800 - 595 4849.
(Photo credit: Stan Mazin)
Post note: Dee W. Ieye is a good old Southern gal from Tennessee and Kay Sedia, best known for the online web series Chico's Angels, is a cross between Googie Gomez from The Ritz and Liz Torres. It's a hoot of a combo - particularly sans tupperware!
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