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What do you most want for Christmas this year?
I just want my friends and family to be healthy and be in a positive mind, because it’s just been a struggle the past few years. I don’t really need anything monetarily for Christmas.
Who’s on your naughty list this year?
This year I am giving a pass to people that should be on my naughty list. Things are just starting to get normal again and I am feeling in a great holiday mood!
Who’s on your nice list?
The girls on the tour have been amazing, so definitely all of them. Also, my dogsitter who has put up with my dogs while I’ve been gone for a couple of months really deserves to be on the nice list! PHOTO COURTESY MURRAY & PETER PRESENT
‘WE’RE ALL FEELING VERY HOE HOE HOE’ Orlando’s Trinity the Tuck comes home for the holidays to host a ‘Drag Queen Christmas’ BY MATTHEW MOYER
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aybe because John Waters’ 1974 film Female Trouble — holiday and not — sly and raunchy humor, pop smarts and — with its iconic scene of Divine pushing over a unbelievable outfits up to and including a sexy Grinch. While Christmas tree on her mother because Santa didn’t the whole evening is very self-aware and over-the-top, there’s make with the cha-cha heels she demanded — is one of our still something really wholesome about a bunch of drag stars favorite Christmas films of all time, drag and the holidays are teaming up and hitting the road for a modern spin on the holiday revues of days gone by. inextricably linked in our minds. By the time Orlando Weekly That’s why touring showcase A catches up with Trinity the Tuck Drag Queen Christmas ticks all for a rapid-fire holiday-themed of the boxes of essential holiday A DRAG QUEEN CHRISTMAS inquisition, she’s been on the entertainment for us. 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 26 road since early November, but Hosted by Monét X Change The Plaza Live seems fully in the holiday spirit and Orlando’s own Trinity the 425 N. Bumby Ave. still — as befits someone who Tuck, the annual roadshow plazaliveorlando.org has their own entry into the brings together a who’s who of $50-$150 Christmas song canon, “Trinity RuPaul’s Drag Race luminarRuins Christmas.” Somewhere, ies into a sort of supercharged Divine is smiling right now. glam Rockettes: Jaida Essence Hall, Sasha Velour, Kylie Sonique Love, Shea Couleé, Miz Cracker, Brook Lynn Heights, Alyssa Is it surreal touring in 2021 … and, for that Edwards, Heidi N Closet, Crystal Methyd, Willam, Jan Sport matter, touring during the holidays? and Denali. Honestly I’ve done this tour several times and so it’s With this much diva energy being gifted to one stage, local almost like riding a bike. I do feel like we are all more excited devotees of drag excellence have either been very naughty, about touring this year because we haven’t been touring the very nice, or both at the exact same time. past two years, because of COVID. So we are just blessed and The festive evening promises plenty of musical numbers thankful to be working again!
Who’s most in the Christmas spirit out of your touring group?
Definitely not Brook Lynn, she hates Christmas music. Other than that, we’re all feeling very “hoe hoe hoe”!
What’s your favorite Christmas song? Favorite Christmas movie?
My favorite Christmas song is obviously my very own Christmas song called “Trinity Ruins Christmas” featuring Shea Couleé, and you can stream it now on Spotify! My favorite holiday movie would be A Christmas Story.
Do you have any particular favorite memory of spending the holidays when you were young?
Christmas has always been my favorite holiday because of the nostalgia as a kid when my grandparents would make a huge deal out of Christmas! Now that they are not around anymore, it really holds a special place.
What can your fans in Orlando expect when y’all come to town this week?
The fans can expect what all of our fans have gotten this entire tour, which is an amazing show! We have live singers, we have burlesque, we have backup dancers, we have comedy! It’s a great show!
You’re performing in Orlando the day after Christmas — do you ever get a little bit sad after the holidays or are you usually just relieved that it’s all over?
I put my Christmas tree up on Nov. 2 and it won’t go down until the beginning of the year, so I get a pretty extended holiday experience. By the time I take down my tree, I am ready to move on!
What do you have planned for 2022?
There’s so much happening next year with special projects to be announced as well as a U.K. tour in the fall, among a ton of other stuff. Just keep up with me on all of my social media to find out where I will be. (Instagram: @trinitythetuck)
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