Mister, what a show
Once again Lake County has the luck to have a Mister. We all know that the Miss, as in Miss Lake County, indicates that the representative we have for the upcoming year is a young lady who is talented, beautiful, dignified and kind. The Mister Lake County title is a different thing altogether.
The Mister Lake County Pageant was held on Saturday evening at the Little Theater in the Fairgrounds. An awful lot of strange and wonderful events have happened there in the fifteen years I’ve been in Lake. The spirit of bold improvisation seems to infuse the air in that bedraggled building. The Lake County Theatre Company gets to use it in return for supplying all the customer relations for the two fairs that happen at the fairgrounds; that is many people for many hours. The income from tickets and auction sales is all going to the LCTC’s biggest need: their own theater.
The Master of Ceremonies was our otherwise dignified and reserved, far as I know, sheriff Brian Martin. His talent last year was for telling slightly off-color stories with balloons, but really you had to be there. He has great stage presence, sense of humor and a good voice, and he was wearing a suit and tie. He shared the MC duties with Tim “Cheese” Barnes of Cheese’s Pizza, who is as strange and flamboyant a person as you’re likely to find, and he and Brian worked well together. Tim wore all kinds of strange clothes. Don Anderson was in the audience, and you know that’s the same Don Anderson who is our District Attorney. This fills me with hope.
For the breaks between contests, there were dancing girls (Lake County has the sexiest dancing girls, even fully dressed!) and a cross-dressing songstress and a local singing duo, and to set it all in motion, Barbara Clark sang the national anthem. She got all of our flags waving. But the stars of the evening were the twelve contestants. Two were very experienced and capable dancers, two very solid actors, a district attorney, a rancher, and so on, a wonderfully mixed group.
It was an adult show, that’s for sure. Some of the contestants have remarkable bodies. Well, they all have remarkable bodies, remarkable in different ways, perhaps. Everyone in the audience voted for the categories, Talent, Swimsuit, Formal Wear, and Interview, and no doubt some voted based on Sexy Body, although that wasn’t a voting category.
The overall winner was Larry Richardson, listed as “dance instructor” although he is that and more. Everybody always likes him, he’s friendly and charming and he and his beautiful wife Zoe can really dance. He’ll be a great Mister Lake County for the next year.
And then, and then … when next you see notices calling for contestants for the Mister Lake County Pageant, go on and apply! You will have a good chance to win. It’s not really a beauty pageant, and there are many odd talents exhibited. It is for a very good cause, one of the best. And if you don’t compete (if, for instance, you are a woman) you can buy a ticket, have a good time, have a really, really good time, and help with this serious need, for a theater meant for Theatre!
Xian Yeagan, Lakeport
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Brent Pomeroy, Lakeport
