Boys On Fire Ignite The Season
Oh! What a night at Coco Cabaret! Their Opening Night with BOYS ON FIRE. No amount of air conditioning could have cooled off that room. The Boys – Sebastian, Alex, Pedro, Angel, Woody, and their host and compadre, Nacho, obviously spent the last five months training like maniacs in the gym. Maybe not Nacho so much, but the rest of the cast was in competition shape to be sure. No mean feat when you are also learning new choreography and tending to your day job!
Boys on Fire’s second season at Coco is a ‘Best of’ compilation of the past seasons at The Palm Cabaret and last year’s Superheroes, which I thought was their best production ever.
The newest Boy, Woody Fox, an Australian bodybuilder, gymnast, aerialist, and strongman, gave us some tricky rope work that had the audience leaping back in their seats more than once when Woody seemed ready to fall off the thick rope from the roof! A looooong fall. He has settled into his skin with his cast mates and truly looks like he is having so much fun teasing the audience. His smile rarely left his face. Good on ya, Mate. (I couldn’t resist!)
Angel, whom I have adored for years, reprised his surprise to me from years ago at The Palm, during the ”policeman fantasy.” The dancers fanned out through the audience and picked two or three of us. I don’t even know how many of us were propelled onto the stage, but Angel pulled me from my seat again and into another chair facing a very crowded house. The rest of that was a delicious blur of Angel flesh in my face, and he put my hands in places they maybe would have gone on their own accord, but not in public! The press table had Zack from Out & About Puerto Vallarta Magazine videotaping the whole thing. Ufff.
Nacho Granados is the best host and is lightning fast on his feet, keeping up the patter between the vignettes and often nipping backstage to change and reappear as a singer, or a dancer, or a stripper, and sometimes all of those at the same time. He is a delight from start to finish, not shy (anymore!), and could be the poster child for Accepting Oneself! I love him!
Bravos to Sebastian Coronel, the Buenos Airies native and leader of the Boys on Fire, for his creativity and great sense of color. The Brazilian-themed ending is a riot of extravagant green and gold glitter and feathers.
The Boys on Fire have conscientiously raised money every year for two charities: Casa Hogar and Canirac. The first is an orphanage, and the second supports kids with cancer. They want to raise 100,000 pesos this Season, so take some extra cash with you and buy a calendar for 2026, a T-shirt, or whatever they are auctioning off to help them reach this lofty goal.
A fun, energetic show! Join me tomorrow for a look at the Rocketman and Pink debuts.