PORT ANGELES — Miss Gay Seattle Jessica Paradisco and Miss Gay Washington Drew Paradisco will get fabulous Saturday during the “Goddesses and Monsters: Clash of the Queens” drag show.
The show will be at the Alle’ Stage upstairs at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St.
The theme of the show — open to those 16 or older — is Greek mythology.
Doors open at 7:30 p.m., with the show starting at 8 p.m.
Admission is $10.
Joining the two reigning performers on stage will be Lucy Paradisco and Blake McCabe.
McCabe is a Port Angeles native who is “very well-known for his elaborate gowns and creative stage costuming,” said Merryn Welch, owner of Grinding Gears production company, which is co-producing the show with McCabe.
“The Paradiscos and McCabe are veteran performers whose most recent Port Angeles show had the audience in awe of their portrayals of Joan Crawford, Audrey Hepburn, Pink and Marilyn Monroe in last year’s Celebrity Drag-Off,” Welch said.
Saturday’s show “is an opportunity to have entertainment they would not normally see in Port Angeles,” Welch continued.
“The high caliber level of performers we are going to have on the Alle’ stage is a special treat.”
For the performers, this type of entertainment “is something they have always wanted to do, have aspired to do and have been doing for several years,” Welch said, adding that the performers mentored early in their careers with “more seasoned performers.”
Welch has been pleased with the support the production has received in the past.
“What is amazing, with the first drag show we had in Port Angeles going on three years ago, we really did not know how well it would be received,” she said.
“We were all very delightfully surprised to find a packed house.
“All of the shows we have done since, we have had a good turnout and are very proud of the community [at large] for being so supportive of the LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer] community.”
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Reporter Chris McDaniel can be reached at 360-452-2345, ext. 56650, or cmcdaniel@peninsuladailynews.com.
