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| Porsche Closes Ice Palace Season with Amazing Marathon |
by Bruce-Michael Gelbert
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| Photo by Bruce-Michael Gelbert |
| Nikki Starr, Rae Lindsay, Bob (Rose) Levine & Porsche |
As part of the Ice Palace's closing festivities, on September 28, Porsche finished off her seventh Fire Island season with a three-and-a-half hour, three-dozen-plus song marathon, with many of the selections audience requests, a number of guests performing, and the indispensable DJ Chuck on sound.
Porsche opened dynamically with "Fame," continued with a Dixie Chicks number ("Baby, I can love you better") and, with versatility, sang "These Boots Are Made for Walking" as Cher, Carol Channing and Eartha Kitt might, with a soupçon of Edith Piaf for good measure. When someone clapped a straw hat on Porsche's head, she launched into Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man." She promised to turn over a new leaf, Wynette-style ("Your good girl's gonna go bad"), and went on to a favorite earth mother Shirley Bassey song, "History Repeating," which was my request. In tragic Billie Holiday mode, she silenced a lover's protests with "Don't Explain." Porsche practiced potent magic, paying tribute to Nina Simone with "I put a spell on you."
Porsche saluted Ethel Merman-and Rose Levine-by belting out "There's No Business like Show Business" and sang "New York, New York" à la Rose, who joined her on stage and sang with her. Nikki Starr, singing as Stevie Nicks, collaborated with Porsche on pair of songs, "Too Far from Texas" and "Landslide."
Porsche took a break while Rae Lindsay, with futility, begged a beau, "Please don't be gay-we don't want to lose you" ("You really love me, but not in that way"); let us know that "(It's a bitch sorting out our) Sordid Lives;" addressed "I who have nothing" to Kermit the Frog, in the presence of her rival, Miss Piggy, and concluded by dismembering the hapless amphibian. (Frog's legs, anyone?) When Porsche took the stage once more to sing "Right Now," Miss Piggy was looking over her shoulder.
Porsche honored the "Redneck Woman" ("Hell, yeah!") and remembered the defunct Sunsets bar and its view of the harbor with "The redneck yacht club." She invited the audience to sing along with her in the refrain of "Delta Dawn."
After a Mama Cass moment ("Dream a Little Dream"), Porsche sang a parody of the "Gilligan's Island" theme, concerning 14 drag queens taking a boat home from the Pines. She also gave us samples of the Pines song, sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things" ("Boys in white tank tops ... upturned behinds/these are the things you will find in the Pines"), and the Grove song, to strains of "The Lonely Goatherd" ("Drama every day"), which she wrote with Tommy Kirby. Porsche offered some Karen Carpenter ("Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby?"), Björk ("It's oh so quiet"), and Blondie ("Heart of Glass," "The Tide Is High")."
With Rhett Kalman, Porsche sang a duet from "Avenue Q" ("Schadenfreude") and a Key West calypso number ("The Tranny Hooker Song"), which inspired Aurora Stone to lead a conga line around the Ice Palace. Porsche followed a wistful "Somewhere That's Green," from "Little Shop of Horrors," with a touching "Suddenly Seymour," sung with Chuck, as they bid farewell to each other until next season."
Porsche focused on the 1960s, with "White Rabbit," "Somebody to Love" and, singing like a person possessed, Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart." She received well-deserved standing ovations as she paid homage to gay icons Judy Garland ("Over the Rainbow") and Elaine Stritch, proposing a toast to her guests with "Ladies Who Lunch"), and dedicated Bette Midler song "Wind Beneath My Wings" to the ever-supportive Chuck.
In drag king mode, Porsche became Elvis ("Falling in Love with You"). When she sang "Come on in my house," in a Japanese translation prepared for Eartha Kitt, fans threw ice on the stage in remembrance of an incident earlier this season, when a disgruntled audience member had pelted the diva. With ice on the stage, what could follow but "My heart will go on and on," the "Titanic" theme?
Porsche wrapped up her memorable marathon with Doris Day ("Everybody loves a lover"), Peggy Lee ("Fever"), and "Dreamgirls" ("One night only").
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