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There will be a Dakota Divas in Drag Show on April 11, 2009 at the Doublewood Inn Heritage Ballroom. Doors will open at 7:30pm and the show will start at 8:30pm. There will be a full bar, serving up all your favorite drinks. After the show there will be a dance.

Did you even know that there were Drag Shows in the state of North Dakota? Dakota OutRight has the biggest and best show in the region with each show averaging over 600 people. The crowd is very friendly and is made up of straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people. We welcome you and your friends to join in on some good fun.

What is a Drag Show?

A drag show is an entertainment consisting of a variety of songs, monologues or skits featuring either single performers or groups of performers in drag meant to entertain an audience. They range from amateur performances at small bars to elaborately staged theatrical presentations. Many drag shows feature performers singing or lip-synching to songs while performing a pre-planned pantomime, or dancing. The performers often don elaborate costumes and makeup, and sometimes dress to imitate various famous female singers or personalities. And some events are centered around drag, such as Southern Decadence where the majority of festivites are led by the Grand Marshals, who are traditionally drag queens.

A drag queen is a person, usually a man, who dresses (or “drags”) in female clothes and make-up for special occasions and usually because they are performing and entertaining as a hostess, stage artist or at an event. This is in contrast to those who cross-dress for reasons other than as a source of entertainment for others or transgender people who are not necessarily drag queens or cross-dressers but sometimes fit into those labels.

There are many kinds of drag artists and they vary greatly from professionals who have starred in movies to people who just try it once. Drag queens also vary by class and culture and can vary even within the same city. Although many assume all drag queens are gay men or transgender, there are drag artists of all genders and sexualities who do drag for various reasons. Generally, drag queens dress in a female gender role, often exaggerating certain characteristics for comic, dramatic or satirical effect. Other drag performers include drag kings, who are women who perform in male roles, faux queens, who are women who dress in an exaggerated style to emulate drag queens and faux kings, who are men who dress to impersonate drag kings.

“Drag Queen.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 30 Oct 2008, 20:10 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 10 Aug. 2004. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_queen>.

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I got an email from the producer I was talking to at WE TV saying that I had not been selected as a Bridezilla for season 6 of the show.  When I inquired if the “powers that be” had said why they thought I wasn’t Bridezilla material, I was told, and I quote, “Unfortunately the network doesn’t feel the need to let us in on the “why” of their decisions.”  Now, obviously someone above him on the ladder was having an off day because they somehow missed all of the raging, flaming, fiercely bitchy fabulousness that is Miss Janessa Jaye Champagne and decided to pass on the slightly white trash, totally dysfunctional, pharmaceutically enhanced monkey show that will be my “happily ever after.”  I mean, HELLO, ratings heaven!

Now, not being a person to take things lying down (unless you paid cash in advance, plus 15% gratuity), I have decided to ask all of you fabulous people out there to let me and, more importantly, let WE TV know what a ridonkulous mistake they have made.

The letter writing campaign has begun!

Please send an email to CastingBridezillas@gmail.com letting the WE TV folks know that you think that they have made the biggest mistake since Beyonce agreed to let her mother make the clothes for Destiny’s Child.  If they think I’m too nice for Bridezillas, you let them know the error of their ways and tell them what a raging bitch I really am.  If enough people send emails, they might just reconsider and put me on the show after all.  And if not, what are they going to do?  Take me off the sho…oh wait, I’m not ON the fucking show.

Send an email, get all your friends to send an email, then call your mom and have HER send an email.  Call your frat brothers, your friends from the bingo parlor, the ladies from the church women’s circle (you know you are all secretly big drag show fans!), anyone you can think of!

HELP ME TO HELP OTHERS!

To keep this from being entirely self-motivated, I’m going to make all of you a deal.  When you send your email to CastingBridezillas@gmail.com please CC the message to JanessaJaye@hotmail.com so that I know you sent them your 2 cents worth.  If I receive 250 copies of emails before the end of the year (11:59 pm, central time, on December 31), I will organize a special fundraiser drag show to support Breast Cancer research in early 2009!  So not only can you help me pursue my dream of cheesy reality show psuedo-fame, you can also help raise much needed funds for people affected with that terrible disease (this cause is very near and dear to my own heart as my grandmother is a survivor). 

It’s a win-win situation, so get to those keyboards y’all and let’s let WE TV know that Miss Janessa Jaye Champagne isn’t just a Bridezilla, she is THE Bridezilla!

Kisses and Cocktails!
Miss Janessa Jaye Champagne

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