babyBLUESTAR | Changing Nightlife One Show at a Time

babyBlueStar Productions LLC, established in 2003, is an ambitious production company with over 25 independent working performers and entertainers as well as a full time promotional and graphics team. Blue, owner/creator/visionary, has been working in the entertainment industry for over 14 years, and has built a solid reputation and growing fan base not only the Orlando area, but the state of Florida.

Company Shows

VarieTEASE

Created in late 2004 as a way for all types of entertainers to perform on one common stage, VarieTEASE was meant to break down the barriers of Drag Queen vs Drag King vs biological men and women. The idea was to have a shifting theme with some continuity but without the presence of an MC. An hour of entertainment that should never really make sense! Here is a sample of VarieTEASE stage shows ready for the road.

VarieTEASE: NIGHTCLUBBING is a live sixty minute stage show with Blue and her kinky coterie of exotic girls, boys and "somewhere-in-betweens” on a journey to the dark and decadent side of a fabulous big city nightclub and floor show. The show features a seamless collection of original choreographed numbers inspired by contemporary and retro musical artists such as: Joan Jett, Amy Winehouse, Grace Jones and The Pussy Cat Dolls, to name a few.

VarieTEASE SHEE HAW. This Queer-Field County is like none other! Inspired by the classic TV show, SHEE HAW celebrates all things country and incorporates live and recorded music and comedy. Cloggers, guest stars and a laugh a minute format, this show gives "And now for something different” a whole new meaning!

VarieTEASE CARNIVALE is an award winning stage show full of spectacle and wonder. "A hallucinogenic day at a particularly cheeky circus provides the backdrop for glittering costumes, half-naked jugglers and an array of acrobatic naughtiness.” CARNIVALE was the Patron´s Pick at the 2007 Orlando FRINGE Festival honored as the most attended show.

babyBLUE´S Revue – GIRL BURLESQUE. Hot and sexy, sensual and bewitching.

LESBO-A-GOGO™ - The longest running lesbian event in the southeast. Providing classy cabaret style entertainment with a female MC.

SHOWBOYZ - Extreme Male Entertainment featuring sexy talented dancers. We like to call it BOY BURLESQUE. Flashy costumes and high energy choreography always takes the word GOGO to a new level.

The GENDER F**KS - The Ultimate DRAG KING EXPERIENCE. More Theatrical - not your average King Show. Always themed, this show will knock your sox off with the art of illusion.

Goals

Short term – Enhance the overall look of each show in order to compliment the increasing levels of talent and the shows´ success. Reach out promotionally to other avenues with in the community, and increase exposure and attendance in hopes to broaden audience demographic. Continue to dominate my current venues as well as move outside of existing performance spaces and into more general and accessible locations to appeal to a wider audience.

Long term – Continue to grow as a production company and as an individual artist by surrounding myself with top notch entertainers, venues, and sponsors. Expand my shows to multiple locations both nationally and internationally while keeping a home base in Orlando, Florida.

Awards/Press/Reviews

VarieTEASE - CARNIVALE

Orlando Fringe Festival The annual Orlando Fringe is an unjuried theatre festival that takes place in Loch Haven Park. In 2007 over 30,000 patrons enjoyed 77 shows, 243 pieces of visual art during the 12 day festival. The Orlando Fringe proudly provides a venue for theatrical performing artists to display their creative talent and novel performances. All acts are uncensored, exposing patrons to performances ranging from mild to wild.
• Patrons Pick of the 16th Annual Orlando International Fringe Festival.
• Best of Festival Award for most overall tickets sold.

This particular incarnation of the VarieTease dance/burlesque shows has had plenty of practice in its prior run at the Parliament House, so it´s no surprise that it comes especially polished and with a built-in crowd of admirers. But then, there is plenty to admire. A hallucinogenic day at a particularly cheeky circus provides the backdrop for glittering costumes, half-naked jugglers and an array of acrobatic naughtiness. The dance, trip-hop (and country!) music is frenetic, as is the choreography by babyBLUE – enough so that you´re not likely to notice the occasional rough moments as such. All the while, the characters charm the pants off the audience (and each other) with aplomb. For added fun, lay bets with your fellow fringer in a running game of "Guess That Gender".
- Tod Caviness, Orlando Sentinel

Two words: f**king mind-blowing. The razor-thin premise (a girl runs away to join the circus) is a hook on which director/choreographer babyBlue hangs a breathtaking phantasmagoria of sideshow seduction. Stilt walkers, dancing girls (or are they?), even world-class juggler Matt Henry; a swirling sensory overload in the best three-ring tradition. This Cirque-meets-P. House bacchanalia is erotically charged without getting overly explicit. It´s the rare Fringe show you´ll want to see more than once.
- Seth Kubersky, Orlando Weekly

VarieTEASE CARNIVALE, the one and only show I have seen thus far to which I would attach the following sentiment: NOT TO BE MISSED! If you can only see one show at Orlando FRINGE 2007, this is the ticket to buy!
- Michael Wanzie, Real Radio 104.1 FM, Local Celebrity

ORLANDO - Just as surely as we know the sun will rise and set, it's a given that at least one play from the Orlando Fringe Festival will move on to a local theater.

This year has been no exception, though it is interesting to note that the production that has found a new home stage -"VarieTEASE Carnivale," also turned out to be this year's No. 1 crowd pleaser, having been voted the best play out of a lengthy selection.

I missed "VarieTEASE Carnivale" during its Fringe run in May at Orlando's Loch Haven Park, but having just caught it at its new venue at the Footlight Theater at the Parliament House Resort, I can understand why. It's a stunning production unlike anything else I've seen on stage here.

"VarieTEASE" was conceived by a local dancer, model and actress who uses the stage name babyBlue, she created the show in late 2004 as a vehicle to incorporate music and dance in a carnival-like atmosphere - or, as she notes in the Fringe playbill, "an hour of nonsense that should never really make sense. … I always said, 'It doesn't have to make sense, it's 'VarieTEASE.'"

"VARIETEASE CARNIVALE" The show has no plot, but certainly doesn't need one. It has atmosphere, energy and creativity to spare.

A group of singers and dancers in spectacularly outlandish costumes meet in a circus-like environment, which is appropriate because what the performers do comes startlingly close to looking like genuine acrobatics. The performers are singers who lip-sync to an eclectic set of familiar tunes ranging from rock to country to dance and show tunes. Since you'll recognize songs like Heart's "Magic Man" and understand the performers are not singing the words, the focus shifts to their dancing. And here, the show is just breath-taking.

"VarieTEASE" offers some of the most high-energy dancing routines you're likely to see, as the performers sometimes move at the speed of lightning in sets where they race across the stage so frenetically that you'll feel dizzy keeping up with them.

If you can recall some of the dance moves in films like "Cabaret" or "Moulin Rouge," you'll get an idea of what this hour-long show is like, except that I think babyBlue makes it all feel like "Cabaret" on steroids. She takes that 45 single and plays it at 78 rpm speed - the dancing, not the music - so that the hour feels like it whizzed past you in a matter of minutes and by the end you're starving for more.

Some of the set pieces are amazing - the dancing tall man on stilts, the woman tigress in the cage who is set free to stalk the audience, the baby boy with the lollipop - you truly believe in every character because of the dynamic way the dancers are matched to the song to which they perform. "VarieTEASE" is like an hour's worth of show stoppers thrown into one production. You don't want to miss this one.
- Michael W. Freeman, The Lakeland Ledger

VarieTEASE – SHEE HAW

VarieTEASE: Carnivale was the runaway hit of the 2007 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, earning the Patrons Pick award and an encore run at the Parliament House. So how do you top an avant-garde fable set to a blistering pop soundtrack? If you're director/choreographer/performance artist Baby Blue, you return to your roots – which in her case are evidently Southern-fried and served with cornbread and sweet tea.

For VarieTEASE: SHEE-HAW, whose homespun feel is 180 degrees from the polished Carnivale, Blue's regulars (like Lollie and Nick Gray) are joined by fresh faces, including guitarist Amy Mullins and the American Racket cloggers (whose parents probably didn't have this in mind when buying that first pair of tap shoes).

Those old enough to remember the 1971 "rural purge" that wiped Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies off the airwaves will recognize the affection poured into parodying Hee Haw. Beyond the profane puns on Buck Owens and Roy Clark, there's real reverence for the time-tested variety format and country music. Between cornpone comedy and stoner satire, Blue and company show off fine singing voices with soulful renditions of classics such as "Blue Moon of Kentucky." Even those too young to get why Minnie Pearl (Miss Sammy) still has the price tag on her hat should appreciate the intentionally awful litany of "walked into a bar" jokes and single-letter Southern slang.

Blue presides over this white-trash wonderland as a shotgun-toting belle in her mama's dress. If some bits bomb badly, she can always save the show with a wink, saying, "Y'all should've seen that in rehearsal!" By the fatally frantic finale, featuring a faux-Dolly Parton (Danielle Hunter) flailing to "Stairway to Heaven," you have no choice but to surrender to the Confederate chaos. Go in with a gut full of white lightning (or a head full of herb), and you're guaranteed a shit-kicking good time.
- Seth Kubersky, Orlando Weekly

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