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Article: Cross-dressing comedy queen's revue is no drag.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- June 4, 1999
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If you like high-concept drag comedy, and didn't catch Varla Jean Merman's sold-out shows at Club Cafe last week, you missed some sidesplitting stuff. But there's more where that came from.
Starting July 1, you can catch the cross-dressing cult-comedy queen billed as the "illegitimate child of Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine" (they were actually married for 38 days) six nights a week at the Post Office Cabaret in Provincetown.
Prior to the Club Cafe appearances, Merman last performed in Boston as Mary Sunshine in "Chicago."
"It was kind of weird," said Merman of his "Chicago" touring-company stint, from which he bowed out after the Boston run. ...