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Jinkx Monsoon & BenDeLaCreme Deliver Laughs & Hard-Earned Truths With ‘The Jinkx & Dela Holiday Show’
Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme tackle pop music, boring ballets and our political reality for their 2024 holiday show. Read our critic's review.
Early on in their Thursday night (Dec. 5) performance at the Kings Theater in Brooklyn, NY, drag stars Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme told their crowd of a few thousand fans that they intended to do things a little differently this year. So for 2024, the dynamic duo told their audience that they just wanted to keep things straightforward — some lighthearted fun, some good laughs, and that winning parody combination of “a pop song you heard on the radio all year, plus Christmas,” as DeLa put it. A now Broadway-minted Monsoon flexes both her musical and comedic chops on the early standout performance of “Secular” (to the tune of Wicked ‘s “Popular”) as she delights in leaving the more Judeo-Christian aspects of the season behind.
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