Will I Get to Have Really Big Boobs?
“Will I get to have big boobs?” I asked the director. There was a long pause.
“What?” He wasn’t sure what to say.
“Y’know… Bazungas! Hooters!”
“Okay, yeah, Joko, I think we can manage to get you some very large breast forms.”
“Allrighty then. I’ll take it. You’ve got your Frosine.”
This was the phone conversation I just concluded with director of the Theatre Arts Students Association’s production of Moliere’s “The Miser”read synopsis here). I had just accepted the role of Frosine, an over-the-top matchmaker who gets to be one of comic keystones of this hilarious 400 year-old comedy. She is also, yeah… a woman. (
I was a little surprised when I was asked to read the role during auditions, but I went ahead and gave it my all, put on my best Monty Pythonesque shrill voice, and in all modesty, made it very funny. It’s a funny role to start with; having it being done by a 6’0” somewhat pudgy man in drag… yeah… I can see why the director chose me.
That’s a Frosine over there on the right….—>
It was about a year and a half ago that I started getting interested in doing community theatre again after a 20 year hiatus, and it will be my fifth role overall. It’s my first in drag. Well, there was that one strange party back in my undergraduate college, but that was a long time ago…
Two more pictures of Frosine I’ve found…
The performances won’t be until June, but if you’re anywhere near the Puget Sound, I hope to see you there!
So I would end this blog with one of those cliche blog-ending-questions created to beg for comments, but “Have you ever gone out in public in drag?” or “Do you have really big boobs?” are the only two I can think of.
Bwa ha ha. If you are asking me the answer to both questions is yes. 😉
And may I say you have never looked lovelier.
I Love community Theater. I have not been involved in awhile. Life has seemed to have gotten in the way.
You inspire me.
No to both but it is a great blog.:o))
No, to both questions 🙂
Who’m I kidding. At my Budweiser best I never managed more than an A-cup. Now please define “public.”
I keep forgetting your more of a romantic Ballard type of singer so here ya go,no I promise just one more,no seriously no more,but if I win your in serious trouble J.
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
High school Homecoming Week. Old lady – no one could id me, so I got to whack a few people I didn’t like HARD with my cane, under the guise of “fun”, “satire”, & “school spirit”. Now I know what it feels like to be a bitter old person.
My “appendages” sagged, & by the end of the school day, I needed “augmentation”.
🙂 I spent ten years in working in creative collaboration with a deaf Drag King. At one point we put together a deaf boi-band and performed a signed version of East 17’s “House of Love”. I had quite a few pics on myspace of me and my boi posse. It was weird to discover my “inner man” is actually a rather unattractive thirteen year old boy!
Just love Drag Kings!
Congrats!!!! It sounds like alot of fun!
:entertained: 😀
Do blue jenes n wife beaters count as drag?… if so then yes to that question. N my boobs are… well they were big at one time. Not like huge big but big nuff to notice the pain of gravity. lol
n I cant wait to see you in drag! You totally gotta video at least a snippet for us to see.
mornin JOko!
Yes, to only one of your questions.
If I’ll be around, I’m sure I’ll hunt you after your performance for an autograph. 😛