NEW!!! Golden Gate Murders cameo from 1979 movie:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiVAe5z2s0Y

Channel 3 Las Vegas -- March 11, 2011

www.lasvegasweekly.com/videos/2011/mar/11/874

Update -- March 2011 -- Las Vegas Sun article.

www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/mar/10/keeping-em-guessing/

Watch Lavern's videos at:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=530B0WbtVoU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6EsOPozjdk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTU4o6VZ324

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhJ1tYH75g

One of the most beautiful transformations on stage from make-up and wigs to lovely gowns and the use of personalized musical charts to compliment his soprano voice Lavern left a stellar amount of acting and singing achievement on stage. He performed in The Jewel Box Revue from 1950 to 1956 and during that period had a short run in 1954 at The Beige Room in San Francisco. He opened at Finocchio's in 1956 and closed in 1982. Toward the end of his career he used the technique of dropping from soprano to baritone. Audiences were shocked seeing he really was a guy in drag. I am lucky to own some of his gowns and musical arrangements. In 1979 Lavern was featured in a TV Movie "The Golden Gate Murders". I was very happy for him when it happened. It meant a lot to him too. His latest project is putting together an act of Paul Cummings of today presenting Lavern from the past.

This tribute page would not be complete without the stellar presence of my friend Lavern Cummings. After he retired from Finocchio's, the stage lights dimmed and things were never the same. As long as my Web site exists, so will his theatrical past live in Cyberspace! And now ladies and gentlemen, the form and grace and lovely face of our sophisticate of song, the incomparable Lavern Cummings!