Alcazar Cabaret Show

This guide to the Alcazar Cabaret Show traces the theater back to November 1981, when a three-hundred-fifty-seat house staffed by roughly a hundred transgender performers opened on a Pattaya side street with no guarantee tourists would come. You'll hear how the crowds outgrew that stage within a decade, leading to the twelve-hundred-seat house built in 1990, and about the performers who trained for years to command it. It follows how a nightly bet made in 1981 turned this address into what locals now call a local legend.