A Drag Queen Christmas
is the special holiday-season spinoff of the successful
RuPaul's Drag Race
franchise. This show is a unique take on the holiday season. The inaugural
A Drag Queen Christmas
tour was staged in 2016. It brought a different kind of holiday feeling to cities across America. The tour stopped in Seattle and Atlanta, among other cities. It was a shady, screaming, wig-filled success.
Drag Race
stars like Kim Chi and Naomi Smalls made a big splash wherever they performed. Ever since then,
A Drag Queen Christmas
has become a new holiday tradition. It allows fan favorites from the
Drag Race
franchise to bring their show to the fans, live and in person.
Christmas entertainment can be so sweet that it's almost treacly. Christmas specials exhort us to remember that It's the thought that counts.
A Drag Queen Christmas
turns all of that on its head. Instead of sugar, spice and everything nice, the queens deliver glamour and over-the-top sexiness. They sing, strut and put on a grand old show.
A Drag Queen Christmas
is fast becoming an antidote to the squeaky-clean Christmas entertainments that take hold of cities and towns across America every December. If
Drag Race
has taught audiences anything, it's that there's nothing wrong with a good read and a little shade. That's true even during the holiday season.
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A Drag Queen Christmas
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A Drag Queen Christmas
tours the country. The show will be stopping at the
Orpheum
in Los Angeles, the
Shubert
in Boston and just about everywhere in between. Houston, Austin, Denver and Detroit are among the scheduled tour stops.
A Drag Queen Christmas
is packed with extravagant costumes, great songs, a wonderful set and tons of personality. It's peppered with classic, catty, drag-tastic moments. Though drag has gone mainstream in recent years, its roots are as an adult entertainment art form. This is, in many ways, a traditional drag show. The show's motto is, The holidays have never been this naughty. This show is frank about sex, will use some profanity and is not suitable for children.
The songs in the show change with every year. Past shows have included drag parodies of classic Christmas carols. For example, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was re-imagined as Kim Chi the Asian Drag Queen. That song delivered a shady Christmas reading to Kim Chi, one of the breakout stars of
Drag Race
.
The show has a two-hour running time and includes one intermission.
The cast, like the
A Drag Queen Christmas
schedule, changes every year. The show is made up of former contestants from
RuPaul's Drag Race
. The performers chosen for the holiday show are among the most popular members of the cast. In the past, the cast has included luminaries like
Trixie Mattel
.
There is nothing quite like
A Drag Queen Christmas
. This show offers audiences an opportunity to see their
Drag Race
favorites up close and in person. Of course, local and regional Christmas drag events have a long history. Some examples include Seattle's
Homo for the Holidays
, a perennial favorite with local audiences there. Trixie Mattel, a former cast member, will also be touring on her own this holiday season.