{"product_id":"midnight-at-the-palace-my-life-as-a-fabulous-cockette-9781555838744","title":"Midnight At The Palace: My Life As A Fabulous Cockette","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Weissman and Bill Webers 2002 documentary  The Cockettes  wowed audiences at the Sundance Film Festival and shined a bright new light on the Cockettes. Now one of the founding members of the legendary troupe takes us inside this flamboyant ensemble of countercultural radicals  who decked themselves out in drag and glitter for a series of legendary midnight musicals at the Palace Theater in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Arriving in San Francisco in 1969 from suburban Detroit  Pam Tent met Hibiscus  a New York actor who had dropped out. One night  in burst of LSD-fueled spontaneity  Sweet Pam took to the stage in a cellophane hula skirt  when Hibiscus and a group of friends commandeered the stage of the Palace during The Nocturnal Dream Shows  a weekly midnight eclectic film series  to perform a chorus line dance to Honky Tonk Woman. The Cockettes were born! Pam Tents account recalls the heyday of the rebellious  gender-bending troupe  the inevitable infighting that accompanied fame  and finally how a Rex Reed column raving about the Cockettes led to a disastrous New York opening where the audiencewhich included John Lennon  Gore Vidal  Angela Lansbury and Anthony Perkinswalked out in droves. The Cockettes gave their last performance in the autumn of 1972. But despite their short life  the Cockettes unique burst of cultural experimentation and artistic outrageousness continues to influence the worlds of theater  music  fashion  gay politics  gay spirituality  and urban club life. After leaving the Cockettes  Pam Tent moved to New York City for a brief stint as a blues singer. Then it was back to the West Coast for a new career in film distribution and finally her current livelihood as an accountant. She still lives in the Bay Area  sharing her house with a small menagerie of animals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636941811765,"sku":"ByrdShop_155583874X","price":241.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781555838744.jpg?v=1784754502","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/midnight-at-the-palace-my-life-as-a-fabulous-cockette-9781555838744","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}