If one bit of sketchery best represented Your New Best Friends—last Tuesday’s Clown Cabaret music, dance and tomfoolery-fueled spectacle courtesy of Cirque du Soleil and Le Reve performers—it was the final number before the 2:15 a.m. intermission.
As a woman screamed over the Onyx Theater sound system, the bald head of Wayne Wilson poked into view through the closed black curtain. His shoulders and torso followed until he flopped, outfitted with a flesh-toned bodysuit and plastic genitalia, onto the floor. Daniel Passer and John Gilkey were similarly birthed to ever-intensifying shouts. Finally lying in a row, the blank-faced triplets were introduced by a male announcer-type voice as “The Newbies!” With a jazz refrain building, the packed audience of 100 palpably close-knit fellow Strip performers, friends and supporters began clapping in time as the three followed simple yet hilarious choreography: rolling over, kicking their legs in the air and sitting up. But as newborns are wont to do, they soon needed to relieve their small bladders. On the audience. To the refrains of Young at Heart.
How else can $10 get a paying customer the (water)works in this town? Where else but the local-theater-hub-within-a-Commercial-Center-Plaza-fetish-shop could host the monthly production? And how else, amid the delighted, gasping shrieking, could the three top themselves by rising, training their streams upon each other, then the audience once again with greater force, higher arches and looks of pure artistic contentment on their now-grinning faces?