May 6th, 2008
What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie? – Mercy Fuque
As we all experienced on Queens of the Silver Screen night two weeks ago, the world of cinema has been an obvious and enormous influence on Trannyshack and its stable of performers. Besides the over-flowing bucket of pizzazz that comes with personifying Bette, Joan, Judy, Marilyn, and all the other idols and classic films of yesteryear, the Horror film is another constant source of inspiration and motivation. Things can’t be sunshine, lollipops, and Dexedrine all the time at Trannyshack; there needs to be regular injections of murder, mayhem, demon-possessed children, homicidial maniacs, vengeful ghosts, and malevolent witches. Oh yeah, and blood…lots and lots of blood. Streams of blood. Rivers of blood. So much blood it drips from the ceiling. And of course gore as well. For nothing says Trannyshack like getting slapped in the face with a chewed on pig’s foot, or a slimy handful of chicken livers. Ah…and such a lovely smell!
From such Tranny Killer classics as Psycho, Dressed to Kill, and The Silence of the Lambs, to the nightmarish phantasmagoria of The Shining and Suspiria, and all the chainsaw wielding, butcher knife cleaving and hockey mask wearing loonies in-between, What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie is a night that’s always kept the scream queens satisfied. A semi-regular theme at Trannyshack, Scary Movie has been hosted by the likes of Peaches Christ, Vinsantos and Cookie Dough over the years, all of whom brought their considerable Tranny talents to the cold, black slab.
Tonight’s co-hostess, Mercy Fuque, who has long been an admitted junkie for Horror films, wanted to bring the terrorizing theme back one final time before Trannyshack’s end in August. One of the most talented, stalwart, and unheralded performers in Trannyshack’s history, Mercy Fuque is an inspiring queen, who never does anything on that stage half-assed. She can conceptually re-envision a lyric in a way that’ll make your head spin, or do a straight up perfect impersonation of Babs, Judy or Annie Lennox, and deliver seemingly impossible lip-syncs without flaw, all the while juggling props, choreography or while standing perfectly still – nothing escapes the phenomenal range of Mercy Fuque. Having co-hosted One Hit Wonders, twice co-hosting Tired Night, and even infusing us all with an evening of performance art via The Mangina Monologues, Mercy truly is a queen-of-all-trades. First performing at the 3rd annual Star Search Pageant back in December of 2001, Mercy went on to place 2nd runner-up in the 2003 Trannyshack Pageant with her amazing performance to The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays”. Thankfully, many of Mercy’s numbers of legend are on YouTube: from the pinnacle of unplanned audience participation (thanks Spaz) in “Blue Bayou”, to the sublime, side-splitting pathos of “Sittin’ on Top of the World”; from the seamless passion in her tongue-in-cheek impersonations of Streisand, Garland and Madeline Kahn, to the mesmerizing, murderous mayhem of “I Just Called to Say I Love You”; all are available for your worship online.
So just what is your favorite scary movie? Chances are it’ll be personified on stage tonight. Perhaps not in the way you remember the film to be, but definitely in a way you’re not soon to forget. And speaking of things not soon forgotten, next week is the return of everyone’s secretly favorite tribute – it’s Kate Bush Night! The past two Kate nights are truly the stuff of legend at Trannyshack, and this final one is sure to be as well. Come help us celebrate this woman’s work!
What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie? – Mercy Fuque
As we all experienced on Queens of the Silver Screen night two weeks ago, the world of cinema has been an obvious and enormous influence on Trannyshack and its stable of performers. Besides the over-flowing bucket of pizzazz that comes with personifying Bette, Joan, Judy, Marilyn, and all the other idols and classic films of yesteryear, the Horror film is another constant source of inspiration and motivation. Things can’t be sunshine, lollipops, and Dexedrine all the time at Trannyshack; there needs to be regular injections of murder, mayhem, demon-possessed children, homicidial maniacs, vengeful ghosts, and malevolent witches. Oh yeah, and blood…lots and lots of blood. Streams of blood. Rivers of blood. So much blood it drips from the ceiling. And of course gore as well. For nothing says Trannyshack like getting slapped in the face with a chewed on pig’s foot, or a slimy handful of chicken livers. Ah…and such a lovely smell!
From such Tranny Killer classics as Psycho, Dressed to Kill, and The Silence of the Lambs, to the nightmarish phantasmagoria of The Shining and Suspiria, and all the chainsaw wielding, butcher knife cleaving and hockey mask wearing loonies in-between, What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie is a night that’s always kept the scream queens satisfied. A semi-regular theme at Trannyshack, Scary Movie has been hosted by the likes of Peaches Christ, Vinsantos and Cookie Dough over the years, all of whom brought their considerable Tranny talents to the cold, black slab.
Tonight’s co-hostess, Mercy Fuque, who has long been an admitted junkie for Horror films, wanted to bring the terrorizing theme back one final time before Trannyshack’s end in August. One of the most talented, stalwart, and unheralded performers in Trannyshack’s history, Mercy Fuque is an inspiring queen, who never does anything on that stage half-assed. She can conceptually re-envision a lyric in a way that’ll make your head spin, or do a straight up perfect impersonation of Babs, Judy or Annie Lennox, and deliver seemingly impossible lip-syncs without flaw, all the while juggling props, choreography or while standing perfectly still – nothing escapes the phenomenal range of Mercy Fuque. Having co-hosted One Hit Wonders, twice co-hosting Tired Night, and even infusing us all with an evening of performance art via The Mangina Monologues, Mercy truly is a queen-of-all-trades. First performing at the 3rd annual Star Search Pageant back in December of 2001, Mercy went on to place 2nd runner-up in the 2003 Trannyshack Pageant with her amazing performance to The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don’t Like Mondays”. Thankfully, many of Mercy’s numbers of legend are on YouTube: from the pinnacle of unplanned audience participation (thanks Spaz) in “Blue Bayou”, to the sublime, side-splitting pathos of “Sittin’ on Top of the World”; from the seamless passion in her tongue-in-cheek impersonations of Streisand, Garland and Madeline Kahn, to the mesmerizing, murderous mayhem of “I Just Called to Say I Love You”; all are available for your worship online.
So just what is your favorite scary movie? Chances are it’ll be personified on stage tonight. Perhaps not in the way you remember the film to be, but definitely in a way you’re not soon to forget. And speaking of things not soon forgotten, next week is the return of everyone’s secretly favorite tribute – it’s Kate Bush Night! The past two Kate nights are truly the stuff of legend at Trannyshack, and this final one is sure to be as well. Come help us celebrate this woman’s work!
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