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Mr. Lady, Galaxy Girls and Mr. Showman
TraniWreck trio moves closer to contest finale
By Ryan Lindsey
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third set of Wreckage contestants took to Jacque's stage on April 18,
moving Truth Serum Productions' monthly all gender/all genre talent
search one step closer to its September finale, in which the top two
winners from each of the February through August contests will compete
for the title of Boston's Biggest Wreck and a $500 prize. The show is
divided into five sets, with two performances by each contestant
sandwiched between performances by non-competing professionals. The
latest group of contestants included the Galaxy Girls; Belinda
Davenport, who also competed in February; drag king Richard Lance; The
Playboy; The Showman; and Donita Roxx/Sir Loins, this month's
TraniWreck contestant. (Each contest includes one member of the
TraniWreck troupe, who is graded on a curve for fairness.)
The professional performances were provided by Jacque's regular
Ashley Michelle, TraniWreck's Mr. Lady, and drag king host Heywood
Wakefield. Unlike the first contest show, in which the competitors
offered the most engaging performances, the "professionals" carried the
night. Ashley Michelle was the evening's standard-bearer of glamour,
particularly in the opening performance to The Braids' cover of
"Bohemian Rhapsody," in which she wore a shimmering floor-length gown,
tightly fitted to her enviable figure. Heywood Wakefield also gave
crowd-pleasing performances, exchanging his usual gloomy demeanor for a
more studly persona.
But it was the table-hopping, lap-dancing, drink-spewing,
audience-rebuking outrageousness of Mr. Lady that made the evening.
After her first performance-in which she took a man's hat, placed it on
her beer-drenched head, and humped his back until he fell to the
floor-she informed her victim that she'd done so because he had talked
over an earlier performer. Her remarks garnered enthusiastic applause
and, if nothing else, established an expectation of respect for the
competitors.
This expectation is admirable, but respecting a person's
willingness to go before an audience is not the same as being engaged
by his performance. With six acts varying wildly in both tone and
quality, the night was split between the entertaining and the downright
mystifying.
The Galaxy Girls-two incredibly fit, scantily clad young women-tied
for the night's top prize by hula-hooping to songs by Go Go Bordello.
Initially, their act seemed strange and possibly pointless, but after
only a few seconds they amazed with their abilities and captivated with
their gyrations-these women deserved the win they shared with
TraniWreck's Donita Roxx/Sir Loins, who did both femme and masculine
drag, each showcasing an obsession with the male sexual organ.
Drag king Richard Lance was the last of the entertaining acts, winning
the crowd with his alarmingly convincing masculinity and sexiness,
though this wasn't borne out by the contest's outcome: the tie for the
top spot left no room for second-place, and third place went to The
Showman, whose look evoked Lucky the Leprechaun crossed with Sammy
Davis, Jr., but who had little else to offer.
The third contest was a mixed bag, but Wreckage, likely the most
surreal event Boston has to offer, remains a must see, where creativity
and eccentricity rule the night.
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