Palm Casino Revue. Two offset lithograph posters. Sizes vary. 1974.
Posters promoting the underground, electric sensation that was the Palm Casino Revue, holding just 40 performances in 1974 at New York's Bouwerie Lane Theatre.
"The audience was treated to a variety show unlike any other I've seen before or since. Take a big slice of vaudeville, top with a hefty dollop of musical comedy, add in some thrift-shop, nineteen-thirties Hollywood glamour, season it with early punk rock and the nascent, Lower-East-Side art scene which was already percolating, cast it with every energetic, talented performer around via La MaMa, CBGB's, Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company plus half a dozen East coast transplants from San Francisco's Cockettes, throw in a few legendary downtown drag queens including Mario Montez, the off-off-Broadway legend and underground film star of Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, and you'll get some idea of the wild ride that the Palm Casino Revue gave to its lucky audiences for forty performances in the late spring of 1974." (Turtle Point Magazine) Performers depicted included Tish and Snooky; Mario Montez; Fayette [Hauser, formerly of the Cockettes]; Tomato du Plenty and many others.
