Live theatre is becoming a real drag at the Queen Street Playhouse
CHARLESTON, SC, (Feb. 28, 2022) – In a dingy and failing dive bar in the Florida panhandle talented Elvis impersonator and expectant father Casey has just been handed his walking papers. To drum up business, the owner has recruited two talented but equally desperate drag queens to hopefully draw bigger crowds.
It’s sink or swim for Casey who quickly picks up some new performance skills that send his act catapulting to ‘legendary’ new heights. That is the premise of recent Tony Award-winning playwright Matthew Lopez’s (The Inheritance) outrageous Elvis goes drag comedy The Legend of Georgia McBride, making its Lowcountry debut at the Queen Street Playhouse on March 11th. The play made its debut Off-Broadway at MCC Theatre in September 2015 before transferring to the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and receiving subsequent premieres throughout the country. The play is currently in plans to be transferred into a Netflix film by prolific producer Ryan Murphy.
With Casey (Footlight newcomer Brandon Chinn) barely making ends meet by living out his passion for performing, the brunt of the financial stability of the family is left to his newly pregnant and very practical wife Jo (Imani Lloyd). When seasoned drag queen Miss Tracy Mills and her more reckless protégée Rexy (‘Miss Anorexia Nervosa…it’s Italian‘) arrive and quickly begin drawing huge crowds at the bar, it is left to Casey to fill in one night when Rexy (Matthew Lombardo) is too wasted to go on for her Edith Piaf extravaganza. Casey is an instant hit and quickly picks up the art of drag with some Obi Wan-style mentorship from Brandon Chinn and Imani Lloyd as Casey and Jo
Miss Tracy (Footlight newcomer Clark Haywood). Without Jo’s knowledge, Casey has become a sensation taking on the persona of a new country-style queen named Georgia McBride and learning a whole lot about life, show business, and himself in this feel-good comedy.
Directed by Kyle Barnette (Ruthless! The Musical, Head Over Heels), the show features a lineup of fabulous live drag performances, stunning costumes, and the zing of hilarious one-liners and bon mots that only the most seasoned of queens can serve up on the regular!
Cast:
- Casey – Brandon Chinn
- Jo – Imani Lloyd
- Miss Tracy Mills – Clark Haywood
- Rexy/Jason – Matthew Lombardo
- Eddie – Chad Estel
The Legend of Georgia McBride
- by Matthew Lopez
- March 11 – 27, 2022 at the Queen Street Playhouse
- Tickets and more info at: footlightplayers.net or 843.722.4487
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