Creative Loafing: So, Merry Stripmas is this Saturday. What does it mean when you say, 'everybody gets scrooged?'

Big Mamma D: I kind of based a lot of the acts, especially the opening act, on the original movie Scrooged. There is a lot of Victorian dresses and stuff like that. I've done some theme work with the movie Scrooged and that was kind of my inspiration for this Merry Stripmas Show. Every year I have a different inspiration for the show.

This show features the return of Lola Midnight, who is she?

Lola Midnight was with us for all of 2008 and her last show was in February 09. She hasn't done a show with us since then. When she left, people kept asking what happen to (Lola Midnight), because she is just so talented and people wanted to know where she was. When she said that she was interested in coming back for a couple of shows, I was like, yes, yes, yes. She's a classically trained dancer, so her movements are just special on stage.

Tell us about your other special guests.

White Lightin comes in from Knoxville and they are a wonderful troupe. This time we're bringing Mizz Kitty back from White Lightin and she's doing a lot of real neat acts. One is to Elvis's "Blue Christmas" and one is to "Feliz Navidad." She is, again, another super talented girl and everybody knows her, so it was exciting to get her back in again.

Who is opening the show this weekend?

You know about Robot Johnson. Well, they are opening the show for us. Robot Johnson is Charlotte's premiere sketch comedy group. They've been doing shows at CAST theater and I wanted to get them in there because they have just signed a 13-episode deal to go on the Speed Network to do a clip show. So this is your chance to see them before they are on TV. Doors open at 8 p.m. and they go on at 9 p.m. So, you get a chance to see 45 minutes of Robot Johnson doing their wonderful sketch comedy. They have prepared some special woman-centric type acts for our show.

Want to go to the Stripmus and see how Big Mamma D and her girls "hang their stockings?" Then head over to the Visulite this Saturday. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 the day of the show.