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Freak Out with the Week Out [Freakshow-A-Go-Go]

Freakshow-A-Go-Go: Austin
Saturday, May 30
Emo's Outside Stage (603 Red River)
8:00pm doors open, $10 presale, $15 at the door
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This Saturday night, the Austin Drag Collective is turning back the clock with a revival of vaudevillian theatre, dubbed Freakshow-A-Go-Go, at Emo’s.


Freakshow-A-Go-Go began in Portland last May and is intended to reclaim freakshows as an empowering art form where performers can express their freakiness without being objectified ... freakily. The show will feature an extensive list of gender-bending talent from around the country performing live music, puppetry, burlesque, acrobatics, dance, and comedy. Fourteen performers have been confirmed, including a pre-show featuring the 1920s musical stylings of WinoVino and the professional clowning of Schave & Reilly. PJ Chavez of “Live! From PantsuitLand” fame will take on hosting duties in her usual retro pantsuit and visor.

The event will give Austin freak lovers the chance to check out some political dance, “catmospheric” “cattitude,” and drag superstars of all varieties and kinds from the foreign freakiness beyond our Texas borders. Check out the event’s MySpace for full details on the performers and see the girl who paints herself like a tiger. Seriously.

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