“The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes” Perform a Limited Engagement at BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre

  San Francisco’s most eagerly-awaited holiday tradition — “The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes” — are currently perform a limited engagement through Sunday, December 22, 2024 at BroadwaySF’s Curran Theatre (445 Geary St., San Francisco).

     Now in its 19th year, The Golden Girls Live: The Christmas Episodes takes four drag legends and casts them in two parody Christmas episodes of the uproarious TV show The Golden Girls. Directed by Drollinger, this drag send-up and heartfelt tribute to the characters the entire world has come to know and love features the return of Coco Peru (Dorothy), Matthew Martin (Blanche), D’Arcy Drollinger (Rose), and Holotta Tymes (Sophia). The cast also features Manuel Caneri, Michael Phillis, and Tom Shaw on the piano.
     The Golden Girls: Live on Stage started performances in 2006 in the front parlor of a Victorian Mansion in San Francisco’s Western Addition. The shows quickly became more and more popular with the shows being performed twice annually—for a month every June and for a month each December. As The Golden Girls became more popular, they moved to larger quarters of sold out-runs at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory and then to CounterPULSE. In 2011 the show moved to the 500-seat Victoria Theatre, where it had enjoyed many great years of sold-out houses.

     The Golden Girls TV shows (which began airing 30 years ago) is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from Sept. 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. It starred veteran TV actors Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty. The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and won several awards, including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series twice. It also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the 4 stars received an Emmy Award (from multiple nominations during the series' run), making it one of only 3 sitcoms in the award's history to achieve this.

     For tickets or more information please visit broadwaysf.com or phone 888-746-1799 opt. 3.

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Photo caption: Coco Peru (Dorothy), Holotta Tymes (Sophia), Matthew Martin (Blanche), and D’Arcy Drollinger (Rose) are the featured actors in The Golden Girls: The Christmas Episodes. (Photo credit: Gareth Gooch)