Projects

Johnny and Gene together at last!

Event info: August 17, 2012 &ndash 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm.

[ August 17, 2012; 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm. ]

Gene Dante and the Future Starlets are letting you get a sneak preview of the new music on their upcoming CD, and we’re helping them celebrate!

Friday August 17
doors 8 pm
show starts at 9 pm SHARP!

Jacques World Famous Cabaret
79 Broadway, Boston MA
21+
Free! or $10, your choice. See below.

Admission:
FREE to all on the Starlets VIP [...]

Pretty Boys and Gene Dante at Jacques Underground

Event info: August 17, 2012 &ndash 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm.

[ August 17, 2012; 8:00 pm to 11:59 pm. ] Gene Dante and the Future Starlets are letting you get a sneak preview of the new music on their upcoming CD, and we’re helping them celebrate!

Friday August 17
doors 8 pm
show starts at 9 pm SHARP!

Jacques World Famous Cabaret
79 Broadway, Boston MA
21+
Free! or $10, your choice. See below.

Admission:
FREE to all on the Starlets VIP List (must [...]

JOCK COUTURE: Jock Strap Runway Show

Event info: June 8, 2012 &ndash 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm.

[ June 8, 2012; 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Friday June 8, 2012
doors 8 pm
show at 9 pm
Dance party to follow!

549Columbus
549 Columbus Ave, Boston MA
$3-6 donation, nobody turned away for lack of funds
Wheelchair accessible

Ever wonder why jockstraps are all too often so plain and simple? Open your eyes to a new world of jockstraps - dripping with gold, lace, [...]

Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys

Featuring members of Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, Walter Sickert and the ARmy of BRoken TOys, Jeff Michaels Band, Rotary Club, plus our very own Ph.D candidate, we rock out on soul, funk and Motown – plus a few songs we’ve decided to restyle into one of those genres — done [...]

wo(n)man show

Johnny Blazes’ wo(n)man show is an evening-length performance that blends cabaret arts with theater to create a charming semi-narrative series of vignettes. These vignettes are character-driven comedic moments that explore notions of gender and embodiment. Unseen forces seem to possess Blazes in this journey through a world that is constantly pressuring us to choose a [...]

The Femme Show

(c) 2008 Steph Plourde-Simard
www.thefemmeshow.com
The Femme Show is a revue of smart, sexy, interactive performance about queer femme identity that features film, dance, literary readings, burlesque, drag, and performance art from award winning artists
Johnny joined The Femme Show for their premiere in October of 2007 in Jamaica Plain, MA. Since then, ze has toured with the [...]

Swizzle Styx

Swizzle Styx is flamboyant and fabulous. He is gayer than a P-Town pride float and saucier than fettucine alfredo. He has been seen at Jacque’s Cabaret, TraniWreck, Northeastern University and is probably headed to a college near you– so watch out!

Quantanime

www.myspace.com/circusexperiment
In June of 2008, Johnny collaborated with The ExtraTerrestrial Circus Experiment to create Quantanime, and anime-inspired circus. The ensemble-based show told the story of twins searching for lost items of magical significance. Johnny assisted the cast with story-writing, staging, dialog and choreography. The dialog for Quantanime was entirely pre-recorded; the cast lip-synched the dialog with [...]

OCircus!

www.ocircus.com
In 2004, Johnny co-founded Oberlin College’s student circus with Naomi Altman. During hir tenure at Oberlin, Johnny directed three large-scale productions and one smaller cabaret-style show. The latter was titled Hotel Bermuda, and featured smaller acts that incorporated adult-themed material, such as burlesque acrobalance and dildo juggling. Johnny served as artistic director for OCircus!, as [...]

Mischief in the Machine: A Circus Folktale

www.mischiefinthemachine.com
Mischief in the Machine was a full-length narrative circus created to the music of Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band. The circus embodied a steampunk-inspired aesthetic and told a dark tale of a land “where a malevolent Autocrat rules over a ruined world of silent labor.” The show featured musical guests HUMANWINE, and included amateur and [...]