2025 Rex Ball & Meeting of the Courts of Rex & Comus

Description

WYES presents the 2025 Rex Ball along with the historic Meeting of the Courts of Rex and Comus on Mardi Gras night – March 4, 2025.

Comus, founded in 1857, is New Orleans’ oldest Carnival organization. It stages its pageantry on the same evening as Rex, founded in 1872.

WYES host/producer Peggy Scott Laborde, along with Errol Laborde, Carnival historian and author of Mardi Gras: Chronicles of the New Orleans Carnival, and Will French, Rex Organization historian, provide commentary throughout the evening.

The program contains interviews with past and present Rex and Comus royalty, honored guests including Gayle Benson, the wife of Rex 2025, the parents of the Queen of Carnival and Comus Queen, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club president and New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, along with historical video vignettes and more.