Welcome to the Voodoo Lounge. Most nights, it is simply the downstairs bar of the world-famous drag-queen restaurant Lucky Cheng’s. But one night a month, through the ministrations of Piper McKenzie Productions, it becomes something more sinister: a portal to the fires of damnation! CURSED CAPTIVES OF THE VOODOO LOUNGE is a new serialized comedy/soap opera about a fantastical version of the titular bar that mysteriously appears at various locations around the world in order to snare the souls of the damned.
However, this Voodoo Lounge is a cut-rate portal to Hell, as evidenced by the incompetent staff, whose own lives, loves and misfortunes create a continuous thread between episodes. There is the manager, an existential Frenchman named Yves Moutarde; Chanteuselah, a ditzy immortal torch singer; Sissy the Skirt, the paranoid beatnik bartender; Slappy McFlanahan, the bouncer, a 19th-century Bowery gangster; and Gary “Nails” Goldfarb, the bar’s most recent staff member, a faded punk who couldn’t turn down the lure of a regular gig as a musician. Think of it as a cross between Fantasy Island, Casablanca and The Flying Dutchman, spiked with a significant dose of Fawlty Towers.
Each month also features a musical guest star! COUSIN HUBIE will perform on September 22; TRAV S.D. will perform on October 13; and DEBBY SCHWARTZ will perform on November 17!
Hey, it beats malaria.
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