Canada.com/MontrealGazette – Bill Brownstein – The Gazette
They sing. They dance. They do comedy shtick. They dress up as guys. They’re King Size, a gaggle of Montreal girls who just want to have fun.
They perform their brand of drag-kinging tonight at La Sala Rossa in their latest burlesque escapade, The Parlour.
Think Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, and then some. The ‘then some’ also includes the delightfully dry wit of comic/emcee DeAnne Smith and the divinely inspired hoofin’ of the Dead Doll Dancers featuring the incomparable Velma Candyass.
Drag-kinging is something of a phenomenon in the rest of North America and Europe. Introduced in Montreal by the Mambo Kings a few years back, it petered out, but is now making a comeback with King Size, a 12-to-15-woman collective that has been kicking it up together since January.