In Pattaya Bar Girls Report Part Two, Bill describes how he became part of the ladyboy show at Alcazar.
I wanted to see the show for pure entertainment as well as my interest in stage presentation and production. However I was about to discover that this outing would provide me with me an experience that was worth a thousand times more than the 200 baht I paid for the discounted Alcazar Cabaret Show ticket.
We chose a seat in one of the first three rows closest to the stage. I thought we could get a good close up look at the faces and shapes of our unusual entertainers. It always intrigued me how a man could make his face beautiful and his body like a curvaceous woman.
After about three spectacular theme based scenes with ladyboys prancing around in glamorous costumes the music went quiet and the announcer began to introduce our next artist which was to be a soloist called Mimmie of Pattaya.
After a short fanfare an older ladyboy Mimmi bounced on to the stage supporting a bosom which looked like two medium sized weather balloons stuffed down the front of her / his glittering green dress. It must have used a whole tube of lip stick to paint its bulging lips.
Kentucky Fried must have made a fortune from her eating habit as she could have doubled for Mama Cass but an ugly Mama. Behind the buckets of powder plastered on her ladyboy face the wrinkles of her forty five year old plus skin still blistered their way to the surface.
She waddled across the stage miming the words of the song playing over the high tech sound system. "All I want is someone to hold me kiss me"
"Don't look at me" I thought to myself. But she did and a wide greasy red lipped smile spread across her face crinkling her makeup as it enlarged.
Her ladyboy eyes also enlarged as she pointed her finger at me "I want you " she continued to mime with her huge red painted lips shaping the sounds of the word you in a wrinkled circle . Collected laughter rattled from the Alcazar audience. I felt as if I was the only person not laughing. Even my girlfriend, Wun, laughed. But I began to sweat with fear because I had suddenly realized Mimmie needed to find someone from the audience to get up on stage with her. I hated that.
For my whole life I had avoided making eye contact with any artist soliciting for an assistant from the audience. But now fat ugly ladyboy Mimmie had stepped down from the stage and was waddling up the aisle toward my aisle seat. Is she going to make me face one of my phobias head on?
"Dam why did I sit here on the aisle. Hell I feel like a piss.How can I get out of this" I thought. "I'll get up and go to the toilet". I stood up but Mimmie's ugly face was one inch from my nose. Too late.
"All I want is someone to hold me kiss me" the last phrase of the song faded until there was no music.
"Please come with me darling" she said over the mic and pointing to the stage.
"No I can't " I replied.
Her face reacted quickly to my rebuff. Multiple droplets of perspiration dropped from her thickly powdered face staining my trousers.
"Please come with me don't spoil my show." she whispered into my ear so that her request could not be heard over the sound system. More in Pattaya Bar Girls Report