BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Legendary, leggy, lewd drag queen Lady Bunny has returned to her NYC home base, after being a sell-out at Australia’s Sydney Comedy Festival. No, wait, we mean selling out—as in, every available ticket was gobbled up. Now that she’s back in town, word on the street (or perhaps more accurately, the back alley) says that Bunny is bringing her uncompromisingly profane brand of solo comedy to The Green Room 42.

With new and classic material in tow, Hot Troll Summer sees the lady in raunch (and sometimes red) offering a “scorching set list of her trademark one-liners and filthy song parodies,” including her take on the La Cage Aux Folles song I Am What I Am (renamed I Am Such a Ham) and a reimagined version of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way that calls out often-overlooked members of the LGBTQ+ community. “It’s my honorarium to lesbians, size queens, and scat freaks,” says Bunny, adding it’s “high time they are recognized and celebrated, too!”

Elsewhere on the roster of Bunny’s full-frontal assault on good taste is her new single, Is It Ozempic…Or AIDS? (possibly a musical explainer of what’s behind her weight loss); a lewd love letter to Fire Island’s notorious Meat Rack; and a takeoff on the RuPaul hit Sissy That Walk, recontextualized as a deeply offensive examination of all things monkeypox. With so much to say about pee, poop, and penises as well as sex, sex, and sex, it’s a wonder Lady Bunny has so few mid-performance walkouts. Maybe after all these years of making sure reservations come with a boilerplate “This Show is Really Dirty” disclaimer, the teeming masses seem to have gotten the message. Or perhaps we’re just as jazzedabout jizz as she is. Either way, it’s shaping up to be one hot summer–and seeking shelter with a troll seems like the thing to do.

“Lady Bunny: Hot Troll Summer” is performed at 7pm on June 19 and July 2, 5, 6. At The Green Room 42 (570 10th Ave. at W. 42nd St., 4th Floor of Yotel). Runtime: 75 minutes. For tickets ($32.75 to $57.75 plus purchase fee), click here. To visit Lady Bunny online, click here.

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