Black Cherry Sideshow presents SAWTOBER II: Tales from Da Cherry Pit Massacre

Black Cherry Sideshow presents SAWTOBER II: Tales from Da Cherry Pit Massacre

The Black Cherries: Xaddy Addy, Selena Surreal, Klondyke

The long awaited sequel to the acclaimed sideshow drag spooktackular Sawtober is finally here with even BIGGER thrills and chills than last year! 

Feast your eyes (and frights!) as you are guided by the hauntingly handsome Hood Keeper through the Tales of da Cherry Pit Massacre. From almost unbelievable horrors of the body to sultry scares that will shake you to your core, prepare to have your cherry popped by nefarious and spooky delights. 

Join The Black Cherry Sideshow (Selena Surreal, Xaddy Addy, & Klondyke) along with special guests The Zanything and Audrey Love as they experience and try to survive the entire spectrum of horror!

TUESDAY, OCT 27 DOORS @ 6:30PM | SHOW @ 7PM ARS NOVA 511 W 54TH STREET

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The Black Cherry Sideshow

Black Cherry is the only all POC, all Trans Circus Sideshow Troupe in existence. Historically, nonwhite and trans faces in the circus have been mostly limited to exploitation and mockery, Black Cherry is here to change that, to showcase their unique talents in the danger arts and inspire other people of color to join the Sideshow! Black Cherry’s Monthly show has been running for over two years at Purgatory and they have performed for high profile events and venues such as Clown Cult, Wunderkammer, Carnal, Coney Island USA, and Theatre 555.

Selena Surreal

Selena Surreal is a Brooklyn born, raised, and based performance artist, drag apparition, show-runner, femcee, movie lover, bone-chilling apparition, and currently the only Black Transfemme Sideshow Artist in NYC.

Known as the Serpent Siren of the Sideshow, she is the pioneer of the blended Drag-Sideshow art-form in the NYC performance world, and co-founder & mother of the Black Cherry Sideshow, the first and only all POC, all Trans Circus Sideshow troupe in the history of the world! She is the co-host of Re[Vision], a biweekly experimental open stage, and is also one third of The Esoterrorists, a counter culture Drag Collective. Selena Surreal is resident producer at Purgatory, and All Night Skate and has been seen haunting stages from Coney Island to Philadelphia.

Xaddy Addy

Xaddy Addy (he/they) is a Black trans Femme Drag King, Burlesque, Performance & Sideshow Artist born and raised in Harlem, NY.

As the Illegitimate Xather of Brooklyn Drag, he is the host of the weekly Queer + Trans centered Superstar Open Set, a member of the long running NYC burlesque revue Last Chance Dancers, and is proud to be a co- founder, producer, and Sideshow Casanova of the history making troupe, Black Cherry Sideshow! Xaddy’s most recent “claim” to fame has been a cameo in international pop artist Troye Sivan’s “She’s The Best” music video. Xaddy has been featured in publications Playgirl and The Nation, and has performed in high profile venues such as Sony Hall, 3 Dollar Bill, Theatre 555, and Coney Island USA.

Klondyke

Klondyke (they/them) is thee alien-clown tragg*t!!! Child of a black hole and a supernova, and raised by a queer, 4th dimensional rockstar. Experimental musical theatre composer, first winner of the Cakeboys’ Takes the Cake Competition, and The Black Cherry Sideshow’s Professor of Grotesque. They’ve graced such stages as Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns at Le Poisson Rouge, 3 Dollar Bill, La Mama, Bark of Millions by Taylor Mac & Matt Ray at the Sydney Opera House, BAM, and beyond! They are the King of Kreep and use lip sync, live vocals, & sideshow, through every genre imaginable to make you rethink the mundane.

Where does the show take place?

This show will take place at Ars Nova, located at 511 W 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.

What is the seating set-up & how do I get the best seats?

Seating is general admission and first-come f