Mr. Nice Jewish Boy DC Pageant Returns After Hiatus
metroweekly.comMr. NJB pageant, takes four people of Jewish heritage and puts them in a competition, where they’ll have to perform in a group musical or dance number, showcase some of their personal talents, answer questions from a panel of judges, and get the audience (who votes for their favorite contestant, with results comprising half of the eventual winner’s score) on their side.In addition to the crown, the pageant winner will earn $250 in drink tickets from Pitchers, the popular Adams Morgan gay sports bar, and $250 gift certificate from Floriana, the popular Dupont Circle restaurant.
Both Pitchers and Floriana are the primary sponsors of this year’s pageant.“We have an application that’s open to basically anyone in the community.
We blasted out the announcement to the entire NJB listserv and any LGBTQ Jewish people we knew. On the application, we ask them basic questions like, ‘Why do you want to participate?’ or ‘Tell us a little about yourself,’ or ‘What would be your talent?’ And from there, we just try to select as diverse and representative of a contestant group as we possibly can,” says Jeremy Sherman, the Mr.
NJB 2018 winner and one of the pageant organizers.“We have four new contestants this year who’ve never been a part of it before,” adds Sherman. “Some of them have never even attended a previous Mr.
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