'The Lady Behind the Moustache' brings Merman to Hartford
Joe Meyers, Staff Writer
Published: 08:17 p.m., Tuesday, June 15, 2010

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Somewhere Mark Twain is smiling.

Friday night, the Twain House and Museum in Hartford will be the scene of "The Lady Behind the Moustache," a new show featuring Jeffery Roberson in drag as the outspoken Varla Jean Merman, who claims to be the product of the notoriously brief marriage between Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine.

You might think that Twain and a drag queen comedian would have little in common, but the great man himself once performed in a dress in a little play he put on in his backyard. And his recently discovered Twain play "Is He Dead?" -- which debuted on Broadway last year -- features a cross-dressing con man.