Fame, stardom, iconicism, whatever you want to call it, seemed to choose Grant Gibbs and Ashley Gill, or as the world (and 600,000 followers on TikTok) knows the duo, A Twink and A Redhead.<\/p>\n
The duo \u2014 or Adam and Eve, as they humorously call themselves \u2014 are embarking on a sexy and salacious national tour this week, and it starts in no better place <\/a>than the buckle of the Bible Belt: Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n The show, set for the Texas Theatre on March 25, has kept them busy with all-day rehearsals. It\u2019s a scripted Broadway-style musical<\/a> chronicling their partially fictitious bop to the top. The show uses some of their existing songs, and some that will exclusively premiere for Dallas ears \u2014 Gibbs describes it as \u201cPop c**t.\u201d<\/p>\n Starting with some of their earliest moments of greatness in a bouncy house in sixth grade, during a botched first-kiss attempt, the story captures everything that makes the two social media stars so entertaining. But it\u2019s not all butterflies and pride rainbows, as the story, which panders to the girls and the gays, includes story lines about coming out and religious trauma. Take everything with a grain of salt; some of it is real, some of it isn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt is a fun show,\u201d Gibbs tells the Observer. \u201cI can\u2019t see our audience coming and hating it, no shade. I guess we\u2019ll find out. If it wasn\u2019t social media, we would put our art somewhere else and our comedy somewhere else. So performing for crowds was always, at least in my vision, the goal. This is very exciting to me.\u201d<\/p>\n Twink and a Redhead: A Musical Comedy brings the twink, the redhead, two background dancers, a drag queen, some acrobatics and surprises they refused to say on or off the record. The night will be boisterous, preposterous, profane and supremely gay. For her part, Gill isn\u2019t too worried about bringing a show like this to the South. <\/p>\n \u201cI haven\u2019t really thought about it in terms of like, the sex of it all, to be honest, because I assume that anyone buying a ticket to a Twink and a Redhead would know what they\u2019re getting into,\u201d says the redhead. \u201cBut if they did have any hesitancy, I would hope they see our show and it opens their mind to more sex positivity.\u201d<\/p>\n @a_twink_and_a_redhead<\/a> <\/p>\n It\u2019s officially been a whole year since we released our debut single, A Twink and a Redhead, and we never could\u2019ve imagined how much this silly little song would resonate \ud83e\udd7a\ud83d\ude0d\u2728 Name a more iconic duo than a twink and a redhead? Okay, probably a million\u2026 but somehow, y\u2019all proved us wrong. Maybe the most powerful duo IS a twink and a redhead. It\u2019s a dynamic that transcends time and space entirely. They\u2019ve existed in every generation \u2014 and we\u2019re just so lucky to be this one\u2019s Twink and Redhead \ud83e\udd70\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83e\uddb0 Thank you for listening, screaming, sharing, making edits, coming to our shows, and making it all feel so real. Now\u2026 onto bigger and badder things \ud83d\ude08 Barnes & Noble soon\u2026 \ud83d\udcda\ud83d\udc95\ud83d\udc8b\u2728 #atwinkandaredhead<\/a> #twinkandareadhead<\/a> #originalsong<\/a> #musicvideo<\/a> #iconicduo<\/a> #gay<\/a> #redhead<\/a> #bestfriend<\/a> <\/p>\n \u266c original sound \u2013 Grant & Ash<\/a> <\/p>\n The two are both from Jersey, where Gibbs says \u201cfuck you\u201d is as much a nicety as \u201chello.\u201d He has a little more apprehension about how the South will receive the show, but he\u2019s never been to Oak Lawn, either. We\u2019re willing to bet they\u2019re going to love Round Up just as much as Round Up would love them.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI am most nervous about Texas. It feels the most foreign to me,\u201d Gibbs says of the tour dates. \u201c\u2026 If you\u2019re buying a ticket, I hope that it\u2019s the queer people in these red areas, that want to find that community because that\u2019s what the show\u2019s for.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018Twink and a Redhead\u2019 Since 2022, Iconic Since Forever<\/p>\n Essentially lifelong best friends, or at least all those years that matter, Gill and Gibbs started posting satirical comedy skits as \u201cA Twink and a Redhead\u201d to TikTok in 2022. Their eponymous single launched them to widespread social media stardom, and since then, they\u2019ve released a myriad of musical delights across a broad spectrum of genres.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some of their classics are the pop song \u201cPanera,\u201d which is about having sex in the bathroom of the boulangerie chain. It\u2019s never happened (yes, we asked), though they did spend lots of time as hormonal teenagers in a Panera, dreaming of a rendezvous in the stall. The rock-inspired \u201cDon Cheadle\u201d is a charged love letter to Oscar-nominated and not-so-widely accepted sex symbol, Don Cheadle.<\/a> Some of their songs are in the touring show, but they promise there\u2019s also brand new, never-heard-before material.<\/p>\n They\u2019ve loved the drama of it all since puberty, or when Gill was \u201cbusted\u201d and Gibbs was closeted. In high school, they found a love for performing and entertaining.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was always like a layer of delusion, because it was a joke and funny, but we made it so extra,\u201d the Twink half of the duo says of their adolescent shenanigans.\u00a0<\/p>\n During this time, Gibbs got really good at video and audio editing. It led him to a career in journalism, working in production at the national ABC Network headquarters and on TLC\u2019s 1,000-Lb. Sisters. Gill, who also studied writing, worked in Broadway marketing, learning the ropes of musical creation. It was kismet that the two would find their way in front of a camera, fusing all the skills they didn\u2019t know they were building for later greatness.\u00a0<\/p>\n Being Aware is Hot <\/p>\n Most of their work poignantly balances being hot and horny in a society that attempts to silence both with prudent values. The two aren\u2019t inherently political, says Gill, but ask any gay man and woman how they feel about the state of the Union<\/a> and tell us if it\u2019s even possible to remain ignorant of the climate.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI think to do satire successfully, you really have to be tapped into what\u2019s going on in the moment,\u201d Gill says. \u201cYou really have to know it in order to make a joke about it and find the other perspective on it to either poke fun at that or comment on it in a way that\u2019s not just talking to the camera and telling someone they\u2019re dumb for thinking a certain way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n While deeper messages are sprinkled throughout the production, the duo shared their greatest and most potent message in their show.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201c[What]\u00a0we want people to take away from it is that you shouldn\u2019t care what anyone thinks if you love something or if you want to be whoever you want to be,\u201d Gill says. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t care what anyone has to say about that. All the right people will stick around.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n A Twink and A Redhead: A Musical Comedy will run at the Texas Theatre (231 W. Jefferson Blvd.) on March 25 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $48.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t