It seems there is a new revolution when it comes to drag in the city. It may not be new to some but to those who follow the glamorous ones there is a whole world out there besides the Drag Mafia and the Dollstars! I first became introduced to this underworld, so to speak, when I visited Qream last year, then when I met the amazing boys and girls of LiCK! My eyes have been flung wide open to this movement of drag, burlesque and total bohemian living art! The mix of creativity and total self expression has changed the way I see drag shows! I applaud them all! I have yet to see the Dumpsta Players but I look forward to their next show!This is a new event that features many of the people on the forefront of this new wave of drag in the city! So it is a must for all the drag hags!
Sugar Town's benefit for Phreak and Queer
Saturday May 26th 11pm-2am
Kung Fu Necktie
1250 North Front Street
Who will be performing and a little bit about them!!
Click HERE to go to the facebook event page!
RAINBOW DESTROYER (Last seen opening for Rupaul's Drag Race winner
Sharon Needles!)
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... In a barrage of sparkles and blood, Rainbow Destroyer has resurrected pop and metal to make Zombie Pop. Sass-divas Rainbeaux Bite and Brian Reignbow are comin' at cha neck with slammin' fresh beats and sweet harmonies. Philebrity says, "The tunes are really entertaining — think Ke$ha if Ke$ha would once and for all admit that she eats brains."
TAMMY FAYMOUS (Qream, Drag Mafia, Voted Philebrity's Most Fabulous in 2011)
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Tammy Faymous is a live singing drag performer whose career started in May 2011. Ms. Faymous is apart of QREAM and Brittany Lynn's Drag Mafia. She has also performed at The Dollhouse Review, Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret, Bob and Barbara's with Ms. Lisa Lisa, Dragapalooza, and Trocadero Theatre, In 2011, she was nominated for Philebrity's Most Fabulous award, named Most Talented New Drag Queen by Philadelphia Weekly, and won the 2012 BIG Award for Best Vocalist.
LIBERTY CITY KINGS DRAG & BURLESQUE
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Liberty City Kings, AKA LiCK, is Philly's award winning only queer
drag and burlesque performance troupe. LiCK explores and explodes the performance expectations of drag and burlesque.
Liberty City Kings have produced Dragadelphia, Mr. Philly Drag King
Annual Competition, and Vixens & Vagabonds Queer & Kinky Cabaret. In the last few years, they have regularly hosted and performed at the Philly Dyke March and Sister Space Weekend. In addition, LiCK has performed at Sugartown, FUSE Party, the Dive, Dr. Sketchy’s, Pleasure Garden, Woody’s, Sisters, the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, M Room, Philly Pride, the Scene Party, and many other locations.
MISS MARY WANNA
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It's no coincidence that a heat wave hit Philadelphia the same weekend this lil' lady left her home for a taste of city living! She hails from the hills of North Carolina via the glittering sands of the Gulf Coast. Miss Mary now finds herself shaking it in the city of Brotherly (and sisterly!) Love, oozing southern charm and uncompromised sexuality on stage and off. Mary has performed with The Dresden Dolls, A'Naturale, Making Friends, John Howie, Americans in France, Juan Heuvos, JJak Hogan, Robosapien, Katastrophe, Nicky Click, Athens Boys Choir, Scream Club, and many more. She has also been seen making trouble with the short-lived Carolina Heartbreakers, Chapel Hill's on-again-off-again Cuntry Kings, Asheville's Tranzmission, Philadelphia's Screw Smart, NY's Rebel Cupcake, creating waves at queer conferences, Heavy Rebel Weekender (2009) and guest spotting with traveling acts such as One Freak Act (2010) and the Heels on
Wheels Roadshow (2010).
MESSAPOTAMIA LEFAE
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Messapotamia Lefae is a contemporary dancer and choreographer, a post-gender character surrealist, and a freelance sartorialist. Through spectacle, sarcasm, and intellectual seduction, she intends to dismantle the social constructs that discourage gender deviance, neutralize creative self-expression, and perpetuate cultural disenfranchisement. Messy fled Rhode Island to study at Vassar College, where she performed with the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre and Kathy Wildberger Dances. She enrolled in the Professional Training Program in Contemporary Dance at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Messy founded the House of Lefae Post-Contemoprary Dance Company and CDRW Dance Theatre, performs with the Dumpsta Players, was an organizer of the 2011 Phreak N’ Queer Festival, and is now an improv and project dancer in Philadelphia.
ALAYA RICHMIN (Dumpsta Players)
http://lancepawling.com/
Known for his outlandishly dressed drag performances with the Dumpsta Players, Lance Pawling (a.k.a. Alaya Richmin) has been transferring his costume-design knowledge to home décor. Magnificent embroidered and fringed lamp shades are his specialties, as well as kitschy doll-head tissue-box covers and bicycle-part wind chimes. Pawling's medium is found and discarded items, and he has a whole room full of treasures for when inspiration hits. "I never know for sure where I'm going to end up ... anywhere from a teacup chandelier or an X-ray lamp shade to a Last Supper collage in playing cards." Pawling, who says he truly enjoys "rummaging through neighborhood trash heaps in the rain at 1 a.m.," offers this advice to aspiring DIYers: "Comfort with your abilities comes with time, patience and tenacity. If you want to see the beauty the world offers, take time to observe." (CP)
Do not get me wrong as you read this article. Most of these performers have been performing in the city for awhile. They are just new to me and this site and to a lot of my readers. As I follow the drag scene it seems that more events like this are popping up and I think it is amazing! This is a fabulous group of truly original performers and this show is not to be missed!!
PUT YOUR PUMPS UP MY LITTLE DRAG HAGS!!
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