PRESS RELEASE RELEASE DATE IMMEDIATELY RUN DATES 01/07/10 – 02/25/10 COCKTAILS WITH SYLVIA AND TOR Email Contact: sylviaostay@hotmail.com http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q43/sylviaostay/Cocktails%20with%20Sylvia%20and%20Tor/ Press Photos Orient ExpressRestaurant and Lounge 2963 4thAve. S. Seattle WA. 98134 (SODO in Seattle) Restaurant reservations and information: 206-682-0683 Sylvia O’Stayformore, a longtime drag hostess and fixture onCapitol hill, is taking the new light rail to explore the city. She has takenthe lead pianist of her previous band, Pocket Hercules, and they are off toexplore the world. First stop Orient Express. Join Sylvia O’ Stayformore and Tor Middlewood as they explore rare Bacharach, vaudeville standards, girl group songs andoriginal compositions. It’s true intimate cabaret at it’s finest. The traincars are small so come early to get a good seat where all the action is. Dinnerand Drinks are served all night. Where: Orient Express Restaurant and Lounge 2963 4th Ave. S. (SODO) Seattle WA. Show runs every Thursday night (January and February) from8:00pm-10:00pm No Cover Andy’s Diner History: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/allyoucaneat/2009/01/22/history_in_a_railcar_my_lunch.html Sylvia O’Stayformore’s History: Sylvia O‘Stayformore has been the consummate hostess inSeattle since 1997. Sylvia is a local celebrity in over 1500 hundred dragshows, brunches, fundraisers, benefits, cabarets, radio shows, movies,weddings, premiers, openings and plays. Currently the producer of two ofSeattle’s most successful nights out; myspace.com/baconstriptheparty and myspace.com/magnum_the_night. She is a regular guestperformer and hostess with Le Faux at Julia’s on Broadway, Columbia CityCabaret, West Seattle Senior Center, Life Long AIDS foundation and more. Outmagazine voted Sylvia as the hottest drag queen in America of the moment 2003. Sylviais so excited to find Tor Middleton and embark on a new journey in performance.In this show, Cocktails with Sylvia and Tor, they follow up thesuccessful run of Vamps and Vixens at Julia’s on Broadway. These two take theretalents and collaborate their passions and their personalities to create a veryfun journey in musical entertainment.
Tor Middlewood’s history:
Tor Middlewood has an abiding love for 60s Pop of all kinds, but Girl Group artists and French Pop in particular. Since he encountered reactions ranging from bewilderment to dismay when suggesting to the heterosexual musicians he's worked with trying to work Girl Group songs into their repertoire, he thought he may as well give a drag queen performer a try. Good thing he did. He has found in Sylvia an alacrity and openness to so many kinds of music he loves, it has set the beehive, or should we say anthill, of his mind a-whirl with the possibilities. Tor, who plays guitar as well as keyboards, has played Rock of all kinds with a plethora of musicians and can bring the RAWK with the best of them, but, feeling it's not quite right for him to stuff a sock in his pants and perm his hair, and due to the fact that he doesn't have a Marshall stack, has decided to turn his talent elsewhere.... for the time being.Certain songs he's written which were turned down by other musical outfits he is in and has been in can now find an audience. He calls his pairing with Sylvia O "a little twisted, but overall, perfect. Now this is fun!"