Miss Richfield On Her Lips, Her Musical Saw, And Why 1981
metroweekly.com“That was totally by accident and not by design,” he laughs. “I didn’t know what I was doing when I started, and I could never quite do it right.
And so I would overdraw because the more you try to get it even, and it’s not quite even, the more you draw. And so the lips got bigger and bigger, just because I didn’t know what I was doing.“The whole look is kind of an accident, if you want to know the truth.
Nothing was really planned.”King, who, at 60 is as chatty as a jovial cat, has been performing his drag character since the mid-eighties, and full-time since 2003, with bedrock appearances for Atlantis Events cruises, and annually during the summer in Provincetown.“This summer will be my twentieth in P-Town,” beams king, who will host the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s Spring Affair, on Saturday, May 14.
It’s the first in-person gala for the chorus since the pandemic reared its head in 2020.“We’ve been virtual for the last two years with our fundraising events,” says executive director Justin Fyala. “And they have been successful — our audiences and community have absolutely kept supporting us through all of that.“But to have everybody in the same room, to feel everybody coming back together to support this wonderful organization is just really, really exciting.
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