Her Rebel Highness

WOW! What a show. You just can’t get this anywhere. You’d either have to be in Las Vegas, New York or… San Francisco.
Her Rebel Highness is a fantastic group of amazing singers, who are also trained dancers. I was deeply enchanted by their stunning costumes as well!
They delivered a truly unique blend of pop and classical music, while busting out of the box to incorporate themes related to empowering women. Which I can definitely get behind.
I was surprised to see that their audience was a wide a range as I could imagine, from little girls who love the princess theme and costumes, to drag queens who love it for the same reason! But I also met people who were there to see their serious vocal technique and inventive tonal blending.
I found Her Rebel Highness to be a lavish, funny and really heart warming group.
I think this they are destined to become a Bay Area Treasure.

Went to see a Sunday evening performance of Her Rebel Highness. I was a little nervous about the venue — Harlot, in SOMA — because they had some pretty terrible revues relating to things like racism and rudeness. But since the company was only renting the venue, and it wasn’t being organized and run by the venue itself, I figured it’d be ok. Drinks were expensive: $ 16 for a beer and a Tanq n’ Tonic.
The atmosphere before and during most of the show was kinda dead. The actor playing Henry Barnes tried to raise the energy of the audience, but there just weren’t enough people (and the people that were there were all middle-​aged and older, and not inclined to be very lively).
My boyfriend and I got discount tickets through my membership with Theatre Bay Area. The tickets were Earl/​Countess tickets (normally $ 65e) and were said to include VIP seating, complimentary «regal» hors d’oeurves, dessert, 1^st in line for photo ops after and a «royal» souvenir. But there was no VIP seating that I could locate. The hors d’oeurves were open to anyone, no matter how much you paid for your ticket. They were nothing special, however — bite sized puff pastries with sausages in them, or a little bit of herb spread on top, little pieces of toast topped with shrimp, and frosted grapes; The dessert was flat shortbread cookies shaped like crowns, topped with a lot of hard frosting and sprinkles. They seemed like something that you’d buy at Safeway. We didn’t stay for the photo op or the souvenir.
The show itself was an artsy show — the kind of performance created by artists — meant to display the art forms (in this case, dance and music) rather than tell an engaging story. Not the kind of show that I was expecting, but I was able to appreciate the talented voices and fun costumes.