'RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue': Release date, plot, cast, trailer and all you need to know about VH1 docuseries
'RuPaul's Drag Race' has legions of fans globally and the popularity of the show paved the way for the UK and now Canadian iterations of the show. A recent addition to the widely popular franchise now includes a six-part docuseries and here's all you need to know about it.
Release date
'RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue' will premiere on August 21, 2020, with a new episode airing every Friday at 8 pm ET only on VH1.
Plot
The docuseries will chronicle the journey of six drag queens as they prepare both personally and professionally to front the 'RuPaul's Drag Rave Live!' residency show at the Flamingo resort. According to a press release from VH1, 'RuPaul's Drag Race: Vegas Revue' "brings viewers behind the scenes of a jaw-dropping live stage show as it launches on the world-famous Las Vegas strip. The series gives fans a deeper look into the lives of their favorite queens as they showcase the charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent it takes to pull off groundbreaking performances in front of a live audience."
Cast
Yvie Oddly
Yvie Oddly is the stage name of Jovan Bridges, a drag queen, fashion designer, performer, rapper and recording artist and the winner of Season 11 of 'RuPaul's Drag Race'. The Denver native adopted the stage name inspired by the critique that her performances received. Explaining to RuPaul during her season why she chose her stage name, she said, "I had some other boring who gives a s**t drag name but, people would say like, 'she just is so strange onstage'. So I named myself Yvie Oddly since I’m even odder than everyone else."
Asia O'Hara
Asia O'Hara is the stage name of Antwan Mason Lee, a drag queen, television personality and costume designer. O'Hara was a part of Season 10 of 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and was placed at number 4 in the competition. Before her elimination, she was pitted against Kameron Michaels to lip-sync in order to make it to the top 3. Colorful butterfly accessories were a part of her look and strapped to her chest and wrists were massive boxes with speculations rife that it had something to do with a butterfly reveal. And a butterfly reveal it was, but as the boxes opened, the insects fell to the ground with many fearing that they were dead.
After her elimination was aired, she took to Instagram to apologize for what had transpired. "Despite months of research and rehearsing with a professional company, what I hoped would be an amazing and safe display of optimism, and a surprise for everyone including production and the network, it did not go as planned. I would like to publicly offer the entire world my deepest apology. It’s important that everyone knows that I would never purposely hurt any living being and have the utmost respect for all animals," she wrote while also donating 100 volunteer hours to the ASPCA, an organization that has been dedicated to the fair treatment of animals since 1866.
Derrick Barry
Derrick Barry is a drag queen who participated in Season 8 of 'RuPaul's Drag Race', 'RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 5' and is also a professional Britney Spears impersonator. Derrick has also performed live on tour with Madonna. She was also a contestant on Season 3 of 'America's Got Talent' but was eliminated due to a lack of votes after reaching quarterfinals.
Kameron Michaels
Kameron Michaels is the stage name of Dane Young, a drag queen, and performer who was part of Season 10 of 'RPDR'. Kameron is known as the "muscle queen". Before participating in Drag Race she worked as a hairdresser and harbors a keen interest in creating fantasy makeup looks.
Naomi Smalls
Naomi Smalls is the stage name of Davis Heppenstall, a drag queen, performer and model. Smalls participated in Season 8 of 'RPDR' and 'RPDR: All Stars 4'. She ended up as a runner-up both times. Naomi was also placed in New York Magazine's list of top 100 drag queens in America, in 2019.
Vanessa 'Vanjie' Mateo
José Cancel aka Vanessa 'Vanjie' is a drag queen who participated in Season 10 of 'RPDR' and following a super early exit. She returned for Season 11 on the show. She is one of the most popular drag queens the franchise has cast and her time on the show and her farewell shenanigans after her elimination on Season 10 also gave birth to a very popular internet meme.
Trailer
Catch Vanessa 'Vanjie' and Kameron Michaels lock lips in this twenty-second sneak peek of the docuseries.
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