1.   As a drag performer, Busch has never had the acerbic or political edge of his theatrical kindred.

2.   A drag performer called Lady Bunny introduced the club singer Ultra Nate.

3.   But this is a serious film about a drag performer in mourning who takes in an addict and her son.

4.   Even among drag performers, Busch said, he is an anomaly.

5.   In revenge, he makes a kind of onstage slave of another drag performer of indeterminate gender, played as a sneering second banana by the terrific Miriam Shor.

6.   The ad, created in-house at Metrosource, shows a drag performer named Brenda Starr wearing a red hair-ribbon that complements an all-red ensemble.

7.   The drag performer Lypsinka deconstructs an Elizabeth Barrett Browning sonnet, reciting it in the style of Jane Mansfield.

8.   The production stars Charles Busch, the drag performer.

9.   The spots feature same-sex couples, celebrities known to be homosexuals, drag performers and even a transsexual or two.

10.   To encourage audience participation, MGM hired a bevy of drag performers to appear at the first midnight shows, at the Village East Theater here.