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Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
"‘Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce,’ a madcap brew of Christmas Spirit, extra spicy"
Taylor Mac’s beloved annual holiday extravaganza, Holiday Sauce blends music, burlesque and random acts of fabulousness in the most subversive and cathartic event of the season. Ibsen Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Taylor Mac (who uses “judy” as a gender pronoun) invites long-time collaborators (including Matt Ray as music director with looks and appearances from Machine Dazzle) and surprise special guests to celebrate the holidays in all of their dysfunction. There is more to the holidays than rampant gift giving—in Taylor’s world, creativity and imagination are their own spirituality. Taylor Mac reminds us of the collective power of our chosen families, a message that rings true in spite of capitalism’s attempt to hijack the holidays. Holiday Sauce is produced by Pomegranate Arts.
Holiday Sauce includes adult themes, humor, and language.
Meet the New Haven Holiday Sauce Queen!
At each Holiday Sauce performance, we crown a local "Holiday Sauce Queen" to honor our community elders. Please nominate someone who has advocated for the LGBTQ+ community or impacted LGBTQ+ advocates in Greater New Haven.
This recognition is made in collaboration with New Haven Pride Center, Yale Repertory Theater, Yale Pride Center, Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and Yale Schwarzman Center.
"‘Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce’ will cure your Christmas blues... plies acerbic wit, subversive politics, circus pageantry, sartorial riot and boundless compassion to the holidays"
"Tremendously charismatic...an extravagant celebration of queerness and chosen family"
Holiday Sauce, Photo: (c)Little Fang Photography
Conceived, written, performed and directed by
TAYLOR MAC
Music Director & Arranger Co-Director
MATT RAY NIEGEL SMITH
Costume Design Lighting Design
MACHINE DAZZLE PAUL FRYDRYCHOWSKI
Executive Producers
Linda Brumbach & Alisa E. Regas
Co-Produced and Commissioned by
Pomegranate Arts and Nature’s Darlings
Featuring
Taylor Mac - Vocals
Matt Ray - Piano
Machine Dazzle - Vocals
Steffanie Christi’an - Vocals
Thornetta Davis - Vocals
with
El Beh - Cello
Danton Boller - Bass
Viva DeConcini - Guitar
Antoine Drye - Trumpet
Greg Glassman - Trumpet
J. Walter Hawkes - Trombone
Joel E. Mateo - Drums
Skye Steele - Violin
with Special Guest
Ari Shapiro
Additional Production Team for Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
Jared Klein - Production Manager
Cassey Kivnick - Stage Manager
Florent Trioux - Company Manager
Brendan Aanes - Live Sound Mix
Emilie Canino - Monitor Mix
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