2012 New Year's Wishes: Tom Orr #tomorr #dirtylittleshowtunes #2012

The east coasters reading this might not know him, but San Franciscans love Tom Orr and his ability to write "dirty little showtunes". He's done porn, he's done cabaret, he's done leather and he's done Lance Navarro.. no wait.. yes, actually that's true. :)

Tom is one of those incredibly talented guys that I know so many of around the country and I'm hoping that 2012 is Tom's year to break out- because the world could use some dirty little showtunes in the coming months what with the election coming up that portends to be pretty dirty in it's own right. Shudder.

Anyway, here's Tom and check out his website and give him a shout!

Tom Orr
Website: www.dirtylittleshowtunes.com

What you do in the world work-wise: San Francisco's Original Musical Comedy Cabaret Porn Star™ and The Best Lyricist You've Never Heard Of.™

Upcoming Gig: I FEEL A THONG COMING ON! and HOT GREEKS! The first is an encore production of my big comeback solo show, "I Feel A Thong Coming On!", at New Conservatory Theatre Center, where I went on to do TOM ORR IN A CRASS ACT! and the return of my DIRTY LITTLE SHOWTUNES!, both of which earned me Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nominations for Best Actor in a Musical. That will be at the Eureka Theatre in March. Then I go right into HOT GREEKS! with the Thrillpeddlers, who did Pearls Over Shanghai in the NY Fringe Festival and Vice Palace at the 2011 HOWL Festival and Lincoln Center. It's part of The Cockettes Renaissance of revivals here in SF: hilarious epic queer camp drag sex musicals. Hot Greeks! is the story of Lysistrata set in Ancient Greece and a 1930s varsity college musical, where the cheerleaders withhold sex from their jock boyfriends before the Big Game. I play Pendulum Pulaski, the Quarterback. He's the biggest member of the team, so to speak. Damn typecasting. But after 20+ years since high school, I get to be Captain of the Football Team, save the day and get the "girl"!

2012 Wish: To finally make my NYC debut while there are still cabaret venues to do it . I lived in NYC for 3 years and was always to scared to produce DLST! or one of my solo shows. Now I'm in the best shape I've ever been in and, thanks to my bf Lance Navarro, getting 15 years of videos up on YouTube. I'm finally ready.

Something that went horribly wrong in 2011 that you will fix in 2012: I work at Mr. S Leather in, ahem, Shipping & Receiving ... with a little modeling on the side (I'm the spokeschlong for OxBalls CockSlings and Hot Rod 5000). In March I snapped my tendon when I whacked my hand on a ladder and was out on leave while it healed. I couldn't do anything with my right hand for 4 months. Let's just say now I'm ambidextrous, my left forearm is huge and I'm much more cautious at work.

Where do you want to be able to say looking back on 2012 on Jan 1st 2013?: That this was the year I finally got my act together and took it on the road.

Best New Year's Eve Ever: / Worst New Year's Eve Ever:

They're the same: it was New Year's Eve  and I was the headliner up in Guerneville at the Russian River Resort in the torrential rain. The river was about to flood so only the locals were there, and they were drinking calmly as we watched the water in the pool rise to be level with the ground and then overflow while I was freaking out thinking we had to evacuate any minute. We did the show anyway and it was a huge hit, then celebrated the new year with a dreamily perfect New Year's kiss from my boyfriend at the time. We went to bed with our bags packed and ready. Sure enough at 6am there was a bang at the door saying get out! We drove through a foot of water for a mile and got out of town just as they shut down the highway for days. We laughed and sang along to Forbidden Broadway all the way home.