By Marcia Blondin***I wasn’t sure who the dreamboys in question were: the dancers from Kimberly LaRue’s Follies or the singers Seth Sikes, Nicolas King and Sargento Dan. The answer is: yes! all of the above. I caught the middle of the three Dreamboys shows on the calendar for The Palm Cabaret, to catch the harmonies from these three belters of Broadway tunes 
and find out how funny Sikes and King could be; we already knew that about ”Mentiras star,” Dan!
Dreamboys is a variety show. We don’t get those a lot in Vallarta (like, never), and this one was campy, adorable at times, side-splittingly funny, poignant and downright dreamy. Not all at the same time; I was caught off guard by the cast and writing—in a good way. In one number, The Palm became a speakeasy, in another, a forest dreamscape. The guys were in tuxedos at the start of Dreamboys, right down to the cummerbund on Dan; and wearing practically nothing at all by the end. Sikes was particularly tropical in a ditty about an ”Afternoon with Carlos,” which could be subtitled, ”Welcome to Vallarta; Massage, Amigo?” It was hilarious. And, David Diaz was tantalizing as Carlos.
I wasn’t sure how Dan would do with two singers whose combined time ON Broadway likely exceed Dan’s age, and he was, for a change, the tallest one on stage! Kinng and Sikes have sung together dozens of times, but the three barely knew one another a month ago. They did the impossible, 
pretended they’d been friends singing together since grade school, and bumped it up a notch just for Kimberly and the others of us in the audience.
Of note: Sikes had a groundbreaking show coming up at The Palm with Rose Levine, who, in case you don’t know, is the oldest working drag queen on Earth. She has some stories to tell, for sure, and continues to inspire drag queens and, for that matter, all entertainers around the world to never give up. King, soon to head back to NYC, had appeared at The Girls’ School at Teatro Vallarta’s Fundraiser Stars with a Heart, produced again for the 4th year by Mary Porter. And Dan is busy twice a week at Garbos’ with his Broadway sing-along, a wildly popular event that fills the bar with an ever-changing playlist, with additions, as Dan learns a new tune in English. He also has his monthly Mentiras Experience, where he reinterprets Mexico’s longest-running musical (sixteen years and counting).
As for Dreamboys, the show has great bones, wonderful twink appeal, too many costume changes, but that and nearly naked dancing boys have become the norm in Vallarta. I hope we will see Dreamboys resurface later this season or next, from here.
Enjoy this video of Dreamboys by Ed Gill:
Photos by Marcia Blondin
