Captain Smartypants

Starstruck! — Captain Smartypants goes to the movies! September 13, 20 and 21 (2014) at The Triple Door.
We’re all a little star-​struck when it comes to our favorite movie stars. But nobody does it better — or more hilariously — than musical funnymen Captain Smartypants. From silent film star Charlie Chaplin to noisy film star Sandra Bullock, ‘Starstruck’ shines the spotlight on the movies we love the most, and those we love to roast.
A few of the sights you’ll see on the ‘Starstruck’ red carpet:
* A Disney princess duking it out with a Disney villain in song.
* Batman jazzing it up with three of his nemeses.
* Oscar-​losing songs strutting their stuff in front of Oscar-​winning songs.
* Macho movie hunks proving their sexy mettle to us mere mortals (in song.)
Starstruck also includes three very personal ‘movie song stories’ in which movies and their music played a pivotal role in a life-​changing event. In one such story a young gay man decides ‘Beautiful Thing’ and its Mama Cass soundtrack is the perfect opportunity to dramatically come out to his family. Another story relates a coming-​of-​age tale that takes place at a Dustin Hoffman drive-​in double-​feature (‘Midnight Cowboy’ and ‘Tootsie’), with a painfully awkward double date and a surprising first kiss from the coolest guy in high school.
‘Starstruck’ also features a touching tribute to the beautiful actresses that gay men have fallen in love with through the years, a raft of movie mashups (including ‘Man of Steel Magnolias’ and ‘Jesus Christ Superstar Trek’) and what theme songs from ‘Gravity,’ ‘Cabin in the Woods’ and ‘Prometheus’ would have been like.
‘Starstruck’ is Captain Smartypants’ first feature-​length appearance at The Triple Door. With a state-​of-​the-​art sound system, concert grand piano and full-​sized movie screen (for the many videos that accompany the show) you will imbibe and dine in comfort and style (The Triple Door shares a kitchen with Wild Ginger, housed upstairs.) Come see why artists like Suzanne Vega, Vicci Martinez, Rufus Wainwright, Quincy (and Jack) Jones and Sweet Honey in the Rock have earned The Triple Door the title ‘Seattle’s best live music venue.’

These are some talented funny homosexuals. You go!

Psst? Need a serious laugh? Check them out. They’re very funny they’re really good at being really bad. Very complicated harmony (Eight parts? Who’s counting?) with visuals that channel love children of PeeWee Herman and Dina Martina. They’re often inappropriate — make that always inappropriate — and they look like such nice boys, too. Smartypants never play to the lowest denominator — to appreciate them best, you need to be a bit of a smartypants yourself. Worth going out of your way to see.

CSP (aka «those nine homosexuals who won’t stop singing») has performed with Ann Wilson, Melissa Manchester, Megan Mullally, Kristin Chenoweth and Lea Delaria, and was the warm-​up act for Margaret Cho when she appeared in Seattle in 2002. They all live together in a treehouse in Yelm, and they weave their own clothes out of wild vines. Their favorite color is ‘plaid’ and they love long walks on a moonlit beach.
The Pants perform all over the Puget Sound region, as well as on stage in virtually every mainstage performance of Seattle Men’s Chorus, of which Captain Smartypants is a small ensemble. The highlight of the season is their June performances at Seattle’s Re-​Bar, where they facilitate the moistening of audience seating through complex hybrids of parody, harmony and insanity. The Re-​Bar show is pretty much an SRO affair, so get tickets in advance and show up when the doors open at 7 so you don’t get stuck standing in the back of the house.