Photos: DRAG: THE MUSICAL Starring Alaska Thunderf*ck, Nick Adams & More

DRAG: The Musical is written by superstar Alaska Thunderf*ck alongside her longtime musical collaborators Tomas Costanza and Ashley Gordon. The production, directed and choreographed by Spencer Liff opens Monday, October 21 at New World Stages. Liisi LaFontaine has joined the the cast as of Dixie Coxworth. Get a first look at photos here!

Liisi LaFontaine, making her Off-Broadway debut, has starred as Deena in Dreamgirls and Satine in Moulin Rouge! in the West End and appeared in Fly at La Jolla Playhouse. She was most recently seen as Martha in Gun and Powder at Paper Mill Playhouse. Her TV credits include "Good Trouble" on Freeform.

The cast of DRAG: The Musical features Alaska Thunderf*ck as Kitty Galloway (through 1/11/25), Nick Adams as Alexis Gilmore, Lagoona Bloo as Tuna Turner, Jan Sport as Savannah St. James, Jujubee as The Tigress, Nick Laughlin as Puss Puss Dubois, J. Elaine Marcos as Gloria Schmidt/Rita Laritz, Liisi LaFontaine as Dixie Coxworth, Luxx Noir London as Popcorn, Eddie Korbich as Drunk Jerry, Remi Tuckman and Yair Keydar alternate the role of ten-year-old Brendan Hutchinson, and Joey McIntyre plays the straight man, Tom Hutchinson.
 
The ensemble includes Cameron Mitchell Bell, Teddy Wilson Jr., Nicholas Kraft, Christine Shepard, and Kodiak Thompson. In DRAG: The Musical, two Drag Houses, both alike in indignity, vie for supremacy in a wig-snatching journey of fashion, family, and forgiveness. After a bitter split, two estranged queens bring their already simmering tensions to a boiling point when they open competing clubs. In this queen-eat-queen tale of spite and survival, there’s only one rule: no lip-synching allowed. 

Photo credit: Matthew Murphy