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Peppermint makes history as first trans woman to create a principal role on Broadway
the performer will star in ‘Head Over Heels’
(Photo via Instagram.)
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” season nine alum Peppermint has been cast in the new musical “Head Over Heels,” making her the first openly transgender woman to originate a principal role on Broadway.
“Head Over Heels” is based on the Elizabethan comedy “The Arcadia,” and will feature music from the all-female band The Go-Gos known for their hits “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “Vacation.”
Andrew Durand, Taylor Iman Jones, Jeremy Kushnier, Bonnie Milligan, Tom Alan Robbins, Alexandra Socha, and Rachel York will also star. Michael Mayer, known for “Hedwig and the Angry Itch,” will direct and Gwenyth Paltrow is one of the musical’s producers.
Peppermint, whose exact role in the musical is still under wraps, announced the big news on social media tweeting, “I’m Head Over Heels.”
I’m Head Over Heels? https://t.co/5IJJiJHTXb
— Peppermint (@Peppermint247) January 30, 2018
She is the second “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant to appear on Broadway. Milan (Dwayne Cooper) has appeared in “Motown” and “Hairspray.” Openly transgender performer Justin Vivian Bond also graced the Broadway stage before Peppermint with a performance in “Kiki & Herb: Alive.”
“Head Over Heels” premieres in San Francisco in April before taking on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on July 26.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
Pope of Trash dishes on Trump, plane etiquette, last meal, and more
By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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