2024

PAPAYA LOUNGE: ET CUM SPIRITU

January 25, 26, & 27 at 8 pm at The Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake.

Papaya Lounge’s audacious annual cabaret-style show sold-out for the fourth season in a row. Thanks to all who came out for the shindig. Keep an eye out for our next one in 2025!

**WARNING UPDATE: Papaya Productions recommended that if you purchased a ticket, you  got yourself some kind of adult diaper situation or did a ton of kegels before you came to the show because you just might have pissed yourself with shock and/or laughter. We are thankful you heeded this warning because clean-up was relatively easy and the sticky stuff on the floor wasn’t piss we were mopping up after even .

  • Audiences joined our blessedly sinful host, Velvet Q. Jones, her non-sexual life partner Nancy Schwartz, and her personal bartender, psychologist, and witch-wizard, Musty Beaver, as they razzle dazzled with their terrible and simultaneously endearing personalities in an effort to save the Papaya Lounge from a bunch of Texan Republicans who were adamantly against anal (that was the premise). All this against a backdrop of sparkling songs and top-hole guest acts that featured Jesse March, Komboujia, Gini Noggle, Will English, and Jesus Christ himself (played by Nancy Schwartz who was played by Kaitlen Osburn).

    We love our band, the Enthusiastic Consents, who lit up the show and features some of Humboldt’s finest musicians: Cory Goldman on guitar, Michael (Tofu) Schwartz on drums, Marla Joy on horn(s), Nate Zwerdling on bass, and Tim Randles on keys.

    The Saturday night January 27th performance was followed by an after dance-party at the world famous Logger Bar with beats by the delicious DJ Dry Hump.

    “Papaya Lounge: Et Cum Spiritu” was partially developed in residence at Dell’Arte International. Dell’Arte is also among the Papaya Lounge’s generous sponsors which include Septentrio Winery and Dead Reckoning Tavern.

2023

RUMBLE ROYALE II: SLOPPY SECONDS

April 21 and 22, 2023 at Septentrio Winery.

Thank you for those who slopped, dropped and rolled…up to Septentrio Winery with their fun-loving pals for Papaya Lounge Rumble Royale II: Sloppy Seconds. After the 2022 Rumble, Humboldt asked for another serving of delicious partying and so the juicy and alluring Papaya crew came back with two special evenings of unhallowed good times.

2022

PAPAYA LOUNGE: POSSESSED

November 10, 11, & 12 , 2022 at the Arcata Playhouse.

  • Audiences came and sunk their weird little vampire teeth into a shimmering night of hypnotic performance! Our annual fall cabaret never fails to bewitch with a fabulous line-up and stacked-ass bar.

    Oh…and we had a special thing happen after the Saturday night show. DJ DRY HUMP took down the house and kept the party lit in a post-show prance-dance. We boot scooted and new boot goofed our way to Sunday!

    The busty and beautiful hostess, Velvet Q. Jones, her non-sexual life partner, Nancy Schwann [sic], and Papaya’s resident psychiatrist, pharmacist, and cocktail slinger, Musty Beaver got into some seriously bizarre shit on this one, friends. Think…underground lounge meets a whisper from another dimension. Together, they shimmied up a tree of divine dark arts like monkeys in heat and then swing from the branches of absurdity in a tandem position (Brokeback Mountain style)….meets cabaret.

    Nancy was being a b-word, and Velvet wished she would be more like her (you know, wide-set, available, and down for pretty much anything…AN-Y-THING). Musty got kicked out of California witch camp for inappropriate relations with a warlock, but broke their ban her spellcasting to try and change Nancy for the better. But uh-oh, the spell went awry and Nancy got possessed by a demon. The crew united in the first ever aborticism (abortion-exorcism) to restore the lounge back to it’s former chaos. PHEW. Miss Behaivin’ and Eunice also joined us!

    Our house band, the Enthusiastic Consents, shredded the night away with (Cory Goldman on Guitar, Mike “Tofu” Schwartz on drums, Marla Joy on horns, Nate Zwerdling on bass, and guest keyboardist David Powell

 

PAPAYA LOUNGE: RUMBLE ROYALE

April 22 and 23, 2022 at Septentrio Winery.

We took over Septentrio Winery with the first-ever Papaya Lounge Rumble Royale; the most ruckus of smackdowns slapping that frown right off our audiences’ gorgeous faces and then we frenched kissed them with unparalleled passion. It was an irreverent night of human degeneracy (with wine!) where we pumped up our juice, got loose, and did things that involved a lot of whip cream. Our dazzling audience showcased their talents and skills and everyone drank a lot and danced. Our band killed it and we can’t wait to go back to Septentrio for more!