New Years Eve 2026 with Varla Jean Merman

After spending a year tagging herself on thousands of photos on Instagram, international drag chanteuse Varla Jean Merman recently discovered that she had confused herself with Grammy Award-winning pop sensation Chappell Roan. With the feminomenon’s gigantic red hair, over-the-top outfits and saucy songs, Varla realized that Roan has been ripping her off this whole time! As well as all the other current pop princesses! Despite her overall lethargy and low blood sugar, Varla sets out to reheat the recent hits of Chappell Roan, Dua Lipa, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus. Can Varla take her place on the top of the pop charts alongside her “colleagues?” Good Luck, Babe!

“A cyclone in a sequin factory!” – Los Angeles Times

“…a deliciously loony sensibility…a voice that suggests a happy collision of Shirley Bassey and Barbara Cook…imagine it in a lounge act of a much younger Ann-Margret as conceived by John Waters and you’ll have an idea of the irresistible insanity in store for you.” – Bay Windows

Varla Jean Merman (a.k.a. Jeffery Roberson Loe) starred in the musical Lucky Guy opposite Leslie Jordan in New York in 2011 and in the films Hush Up, Sweet Charlotte, Girls Will Be Girls, and Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads. Off-Broadway audiences have also embraced Mr. Roberson in the title role of Menotti’s opera The Medium, and the title role in the musical comedy farce Mildred Fierce. He played the role of Mary Sunshine in the revival of Chicago on Broadway and in the first national touring company. In 2010, he won Boston’s Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance in Phantom of the Oprah. Mr. Roberson’s longtime collaboration with Ricky Graham has produced such hits as Hello Dawlin’!, Gone with the Breaking Wind, Steel Poinsettias, and Scrooge In Rouge. As Varla Jean Merman, Mr. Roberson has filled concert halls and cabarets across the world including the Sydney Opera House and Carnegie Hall. He made his network television debut on All My Children, guest starred in Ugly Betty, and was on Bravo’s Project Runway, Season 5 as the winning model for the show’s drag challenge.

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