If you've been looking for something fun and absurd to do on a weekend night that isn't another casino show, here's your answer. "Golden Mean Girls," a drag parody mashup of "Mean Girls" and "The Golden Girls," is opening at Majestic Repertory Theatre in the Arts District. It's exactly what it sounds like: Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia navigating high school drama with all the one-liners and chaos you'd expect from both shows combined. Shows run select dates through late March.
This isn't some touring production passing through. Majestic Rep is our local downtown theater on Charleston near Main Street, the kind of place where you can actually see the performers' faces and feel like part of the show. The playwright, Jamie Morris, has built a whole catalog of these pop-culture parodies, including "Mommy Queerest" and "The Devil Wears Payless," so the writing's sharp and the references hit. It's the kind of night out where you laugh at jokes your parents would get and jokes your kids would get, sometimes in the same scene.
Drag shows have become a bigger part of the local entertainment scene over the past few years, but a lot of them are either big Strip productions or smaller bar shows. This sits in a sweet spot: polished enough to feel like an event, intimate enough to feel like yours. Tickets are affordable compared to most Strip entertainment, and you're supporting an actual Las Vegas theater company that's been around for years.
If you're tired of explaining to out-of-town friends that there's more to Vegas than the Strip, this is the kind of thing you take them to. Grab tickets online before weekend shows sell out.