Greenhouse Cabaret launches 2025 season with razzmatazz

Published 10:45 am Thursday, January 30, 2025

After selling out last year’s inaugural Liza’s Lounge, the dinner cabaret series returns to The Greenhouse Cabaret Feb. 6 through 8 with resident drag queen Fertile Liza at the helm, also known as the venue’s founder and owner, John Kish.

Love is the theme of the cabaret series, which falls a week before Valentine’s Day.

“There’s lots of songs and stories about love and different types of love,” Kish said. “I’m singing a song about falling in love with your barista, that’s always a good time — unrequited love — and I’m singing a Joni Mitchell song, which is always great as well, about love and loss throughout life.”

Kish will be joined onstage by pianist Meagan Iverson and actors Lily Nikzad, Lindsay Fuller, and Austin Comfort. Nikzad starred in the theater’s production of “Tick, Tick… Boom!” and “Little Shop of Horrors” and is also the founder of the ancestrally led Persian food project, Noosh. Fuller starred in “The Last Five Years,” put on by the venue in 2024.

Actors will banter with audience members as part of a performance that resembles a comedy show mixed with musical theater, Kish said.

Attendees will be wined and dined by candlelight, with shared plates crafted by Nickol Hayden-Cady of Bend’s former Foxtail Bakeshop. Waiters will deliver two savory courses during Act I and two dessert courses during Act II, served alongside beer and wine.

The evening of decadence will raise money for The Greenhouse Cabaret’s mainstage productions, which begin with rock musical “Next To Normal” April 4.

The dress code is black tie with a creative twist.

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Am I the drama?

On Sunday, iconic drag superstar Scarlet Envy of RuPaul’s Drag Race brings her “Bad Advice Tour,” presented by Travel Daddyz, to the intimate black box theater for a one-night 90-minute variety show of live cabaret, poetry and a jazz twist on her pop hits.

Scarlet Envy is behind the iconic line, “Is it me? Am I the drama?” that took social media by storm after a filming promo was released for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 14.

Front-row seating is sold out and only standing room remains.

If You Go

What: Liza’s Lounge

When: 7:30 p.m. Feb 6-8

Where: The Greenhouse Cabaret, 1017 NE Second St., Bend

Cost: $99-$120

Contact: thegreenhousecabaret.com or 541-699-2840

What: Scarlet Envy’s “Bad Advice Tour”

When: 7 p.m. Sunday

Where: The Greenhouse Cabaret, 1017 NE Second St., Bend

Cost: $35

Contact: thegreenhousecabaret.com or 541-699-2840

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