Dina Martina Christmas Show
Re-bar, through Dec 31
Reviewed by Christopher Frizzelle
How Many Stars Jesus Would Give It: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
What It’s Like: Dina Martina has been performing in Seattle for 27 years, and somehow, against the odds, she gets better with time. “Compliments of the season to you and yours! He is risen. Christ is risen. I’m lovin’ it,” she says, pumping the air with a raise-the-roof gesture, a poinsettia attached to her Madonna-like head mic. “Oh, did you see that fly?” she asked, as a fly that would not leave her alone swooped in front of her face. “That’s Derek. He’s always stealing spotlights.” And then she went off on what had to be an entirely ad-libbed jag about Derek the fly, fabled house fly at Re-bar, concluding with a sad story about finding him dead on a windowsill last year. “He was flat and lifeless, but everyone told me he’s back! He’s back!”…