When it ended I went straight into the West End and played a drag queen.
He played a drag artist desperately past his prime, a part in which pathos exceeded the comedy.
So beware the bluffer's pitfall: Donovan, despite playing a drag artist, isn't the Priscilla of the title.
After Neighbours, he played a drag queen in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, before his big break as a conscientious detective in LA Confidential and the lead in Christopher Nolan's 2000 film Memento.
He once described himself as a girlie guy - not just because he made his mark by playing a drag queen in Priscilla but because he 'grew up with my mum and my sister'.
One man who plays a drag queen said he went back and forth from his Harlem neighborhood to Hostos in full makeup to get comfortable with it on, while another man said he rehearsed playing a lifeguard at his real lifeguarding job.
"When I did 'Torch Song,' there were no hair people, no dress people, no makeup people," Mr. Fierstein said, referring to "Torch Song Trilogy," the 1982 Broadway play he wrote and that made him a star, in which he played a drag queen with a heart as big as the Lower East Side.
For example, when RuPaul is in the audience, and you're playing a Drag Queen on stage, that's very nerve-wracking!
Armendáriz, however, is an exótico, an openly gay luchador who plays a drag-queen character and forgoes the customary mask in favor of a full face of makeup and coiffed hair.
TB: They also wanted me to play a nun in drag.
