On Indy Drag Theatre show days, with a Red Bull in hand, performer Brentlee Bich enters the dressing room at the District Theatre on Mass Ave, about three hours before showtime. Bich sets their costume changes in the wings, checks on props and walks around the theater. “To wake up the acting bones” and settle in to start their makeup process, they said.
Why so early? Bich has a lot of prep to do. These aren’t your typical shows. Indy Drag Theatre, a nonprofit, combines “traditional” theater with drag, which means performers are typically in full drag, lip-syncing to recorded audio. “Legally Blonder” featured audio from both the 2001 film and the “Original Broadway Musical Cast Recording.”
“We really try to look at what shows could we best reimagine or tell with a queer lens,” said IDT co-founder April Rosé, who choreographed the show…