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MISSION

Who are we?  Better yet: what are we? And even better : what do we do?
CALYPSO is not a common >Ladyboy Show<.  We do not parade the label >Ladyboy< . 
We are neither ladies nor boys, but naturally born individuals, although different from the natural norm.

CALYPSO-performers are THAI TRANSGENDER ARTISTS. What we do on stage is unique. We do not just dance, do not just parade costumes and decorations. Our presence on stage is a SHOW OF INDIVIDUAL TALENTS , a whole language by its own. A meticulous balance of exclusive choreography featuring the individuals to their very best of abilities and the concept of highly valued class, style and taste.We lip-sync through 16 various performances, ranging from all-time favourite classics to up-beat and in-trend show tunes, suitable to open-minded audiences of all ages and nationalities. We engage BODY AND SOUL to this production and it has nothing and yet everything to do with being TRANSGENDER, because of who we are and what we do, is only what we, CALYPSO, can do. 

We wish to welcome you, to witness A SHOW FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE PEOPLE, dedicated to the Art Of Entertainment.   

About Calypso Cabaret

CALYPSO - since 1988 through out the year, two shows a day. Each show an audience of Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Indonesian, European, American nationalities. Different languages, religions, traditions, attitudes, mentalities at CALYPSO. An impact, at times a clash of cultural weight is unavoidable. CALYPSO's female performers are transgender people, born as boys, morphed by their genuine need to live as a female, to look like a woman.
Transgender shows in general impress with look-alike performances, personnell lavishly decked with costumes, feathers, sequins. The individual human being disappears under the spell of décor and effect. CALYPSO's history is the constant effort to free us from that stereotype, to fill the stage with rigorously trained and educated, spirited free bodies and minds, with beauty and excitement of individual talents for music, rhythm and dance - never catering to clichéd expectations what and how a show should be. Passionately fighting prejudices with that purebred CALYPSO-mantra of quality: class, style and taste.

OPENING :

THE CLASSICAL OPENING WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC, GLAMOUR AND FEATHERS ON TOP.

ELVIS :

THE LEGEND REBORN AT CALYPSO WITH JOY, SPEED AND OUR BEAUTY GIRLS.

ARIRANG :

A KOREAN TALE OF LOVE AND BROKEN HEART. A TALE OF FINDING HOPE IN BEAUTY AND LOVE.

CHINA BALLAD :

THE CHINESE TALE OF POWER AND LUST TO WIN. NOBODY GIVES IN BUT ONE IS THE LOSER.

RIHANNA IN BANGKOK :

WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THIS MAGNIFICENT WOMAN IN ALL HER MIGHT OF BODY AND SOUL. A FEAST FOR YOU.

INDIA SHOW :

A KALEIDOSCOPE OF MUSIC, LIFE, COLOUR AND PEOPLE - WE ADORE THE MUSICAL WORLD OF INDIA. 

GEISHA :

SECOND TO NONE - INFATIGUEABLE, INFECTIOUSLY WITTY - OUR INCOMPARABLE COMEDIAN AS A RAVING JAPANESE GEISHA. 

MISTY :

THIS WE DON'T TRY TO DESCRIBE. YOU'LL SEE ONE OF THE BEST IN A RAVISHING RENDITION OF WHAT WE CALL SHOW POWER A FIRE WORK.

ALL THAT JAZZ :

AND WE DARE AGAIN FUNKY SASSY UNINHIBITED JOY WITH A HEFTY LOAD OF SPOOF AND IRONY.

HAVA NAGILA :

HARDLY ANY OTHER SONG IS CELEBRATED AND INTERNATIONALLY ENJOYED AS THIS HAVA NAGILA - ASKING YOU AND US TO JOIN, REJOICE, AND ENJOY LIFE TOGETHER.

SAMMY :

WE SHOW WHAT YOU CAME TO SEE: THE NATURAL PHYSICAL BEAUTY OF CALYPSO GIRLS ACCOMPANIED BY THE SPARKLING CHARMES OF SAMMY'S. I GONNA LIVE TILL I DIE!

DELLA :

ANOTHER SIGNATURE PRODUCTION FROM OVERLOAD TO NATURAL. WE STRIP DOWN CLICHÉS TO THE BARE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE HUMAN BODY - OUR STATEMENT.