The Ladyboys of Bangkok: Red Hot Kisses.
Sabi Pavillion, Victoria Gardens, Brighton
Brighton Fringe
Wednesday, May 6
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in another sizzling and seductive production.
“Get hot under the collar whilst the stars burn up the stage in ‘Red Hot Kisses’ the brand new show for 2014. Setting the stage on fire with a fabulous mix of fun and frolics, this blazing hot production includes 16 of Thailand’s most beautiful and intriguing Lady Boys.”
So the Lady Boys are back in town for another fun filled feathery flurry of flouncing, feverish air kissing and general all round delightful dance routines and visually astonishingly entertainment. This is their new show Red Hot Kisses, but to be honest it doesn’t really matter what they call it. It’s a cross between a Las Vegas show and being trapped on a cruise but with the added delight of these highly lithe and attractive lady boys strutting, wiggling and dancing around.
I went along to the Gala night, not just to see the delightful image of our wonderful Lady Mayor being titillated and flirted with by one of the more robust and quixotic ladyboys but also because I know what to expect from them, and they never disappoint.
This is fun, relentless fun, with some smooth dancing and scene changes, amazing showgirl costumes the usual eye poppingly beautiful lady boys and some funny comedy moments all mixed in. The Lady Boys do what they do well, which is dress up, dance around, be a little bit cheeky, tease a touch, somehow keep their modesty and good humor in a packed pavilion tent full of drunken Sussex heterosexuals and smile, smile, smile and smile.
They are lovely and charming and I thought the dance numbers seemed a bit tighter and better choreographed this year. The show may change but the Lady Boys are as delightfully pretty as ever. They do a series of popular pop singers and well known actresses along with some set pieces that are just for fun. Then happily finish off with their famous over the top and sequined fabulousness of the finale.
This might not be the most sophisticated show in town, but it’s certainly got to be one of the most fun, high energy nights out in the festival and there are lot’s of ticket deals around too if you keep your eyes open in the bars and on line.
They are here till the 31st, working those cute little butts off twice a day, so do them a favour, go down, chill out in the warm, carpeted, comfortable big top – The Sabi Pavilion, grab a bottle of wine or some of the on site Thai food and kick back and let them entertain you. There are some funny naughty but not too vulgar comedy moments in the show too from the wonderful Ole who never fails to give the crowd what they want and must have the most menacing tongue in all Thailand, which my friends loved. I may have been caught rolling my eyes once or twice but that might have been in rapture or delight, or because of the smoke machines, anyway, moving swiftly on….
After a weekend of dripping interactive art, World Premier Opera, pendulums swinging in ruins and ruminations on consumption and art via some weighting scales in an old church it was nice to be free of the bullshit that the festival can generate and just be able to laugh.
I took, as is my festival tradition, some straight male friends who had never seen the Lady Boys before, they were eye popping with their encouragements and the usual questions… and were soon clapping along with everyone else in the room. Even her worshipfulness got into the Ladyboys YMCA action and it’s not everyday you get to write a sentence like that in a review!
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