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ArtsFlash: Pig Iron In-hog-ural Ball, aka your chance for a one-on-one with Dito van Reigersberg
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Don't forget to hit Brown Paper Tickets ASAP to reserve yourself a seat for Friday's annual "For the Love of Pig Iron" fundraising event, this year dubbed the In-hog-ural Ball. Get it? Hog? Anyway, the show usually sells out, so hop to it if you're gonna.
Mark Cofta gave us the skinny on the oinkfest in last week's CP:
The term "fundraiser" conjures mind-numbing images of dry, desperate public television beg-athons, but Pig Iron Theatre Co.'s annual event is actually one of the acclaimed avant-garde company's biggest, craziest productions. This year's timely "In-hog-ural Ball" features Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (New York's all-male prima ballerina company), Nichole Canuso Dance Co., James Sugg (reprising a part of his Fringe hit The Sea), the Philly Circus School and a Project Runway-inspired contest pitting three local designers against one another to costume Pig Iron's own first lady, Dito van Reigersberg's drag persona Martha Graham Cracker. Add a silent auction and a specially created drink, "The Swearing-In," and you've got one wild hope-and-change event.
Silent-auction prizes include vacation packages, gym memberships and a private session with Martha Graham Cracker, which makes us nervous in the giddy-schoolgirl-with-a-crush-on-a-drag-queen sort of way. See you and your checkbook there.
Fri., Jan. 16, 8 p.m., $30, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-627-1883, pigiron.org.
