"A frontier town past the desert rests,
Here in the queer and quite weird west
Let's stroll its streets as the sun creeps on down..."
Miss Helen's Weird West Cabaret is a one hour musical by Paul Shapera.
Ostensibly set in the fictional frontier town of Lost Hollow where our cast put on a musical review, recounting tales of Lost Hollow and its residents. Stories of werewolf girlfriends, carnivorous carnivals, train robberies flying face eating zombie babies, and more!
"Our town's like an address to an orgy
For tired tropes and pulp stories
Gaze on the floor once more as they writhe and copulate!"
However as the show progresses, the facade begins to crack due to the growing dissonance between the cast and the roles they are forced to play, in the process highlighting the racism, homophobia, and general bigotry at play in this setup, and the lack of control the marginalized have over the narratives of our own lives more broadly.
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