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Live Arts Miami (LAM) will present Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! as part of LAM’s 2020-21 30th anniversary season.
This unique live-streamed event, taking place on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m., reimagines Mac’s celebrated Holiday Sauce show for social distancing times. Admission to the event and special after show is free with RSVP.
Mac, a 2020 Ibsen Award winner and MacArthur Fellow, and his long-time collaborators, designer Machine Dazzle, music director Matt Ray, and producers Pomegranate Arts come together to celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction.
Conceived as a virtual vaudeville, Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! will blend music, film, burlesque, and random acts of fabulousness to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate in the most subversive and cathartic event of the season!
For Taylor Mac, there is more to the holidays than rampant capitalism and gift-giving, and imagination is its own spirituality. The show reminds us of our chosen families’ collective power, a message that rings true in this distinctly bittersweet holiday season. The Los Angeles Times has praised the performance for its “freewheeling love and generosity,” calling it “a present from the island of misfit toys…and a Christmas miracle.”
Mac dedicates Holiday Sauce to Mother Flawless Sabrina, Mac’s drag mother, who passed away three weeks before the beloved annual live show made its world premiere at Town Hall NYC in December 2017. As a tribute to her, each institution presenting Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! is honoring a local elder who has made a significant contribution to nurturing the LGBTQ community in their city.
LAM has selected HIV/AIDS and bisexual rights activist Luigi Ferrer, co-founder of Pridelines Youth Services. Ferrer and other elders collectively make up a group Mac refers to as The Queens; their names will be mentioned in the show, featured on the Holiday Sauce website, and amplified on social media.
Following the Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! premiere, guests are invited to a special virtual celebration with the cast and surprise guests in honor of local honoree Ferrer. In the spirit of holiday giving and to provide support in this time of need, the public is invited to make donations at any level to fund the MDC Pride Scholarship for LGBTQ students and further assist the Holiday sauce artists amidst the pandemic. After Dec. 12, the show will be available on-demand, on a pay-what-you-can basis, from Dec. 13 to Jan. 2, 2021, on the Live Arts Miami website, with all proceeds also directly benefiting these causes.
Holiday Sauce…Pandemic! was commissioned by The International Ibsen Festival, The Norwegian Ministry of Culture, and The National Theatre of Oslo who presents it with additional support from LAM, Artpark-Lewiston, NY, ASU Gammage at Arizona State University, Berliner Festspiele, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, Curran-San Francisco, FirstWorks/Brown Arts Initiative, The Guthrie Theater, The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, OZ Arts Nashville, Park Avenue Armory, Seattle Theatre Group and On The Boards, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Teatros del Canal Madrid, TO Live, UtahPresents, and Wexner Center of the Arts at the Ohio State University.
More about Taylor Mac is available at www.taylormac.org. Full information about the show’s cast and crew can be found on www.TaylorMacHolidaySauce.com.
The show will be streams live online via Zoom, but RSVP is required.
To register, visit www.liveartsmiami.org.
