About the Show
Brought to you straight from Hernandez Laboratories, Jurassic Drag is part musical spectacular, part old-fashioned variety show with one awe-inspiring surprise for audiences: dinosaurs still roam the earth, and they’re talented to boot. Starring Sherry Vine, Jackie Beat, Coco Peru, and Varla Jean Merman, and hosted by insert-fabulous-young-famous-talent-name-here, our Jurassic specimens will impress with stunning feats of song, dance, and comedy. After all, they’ve survived a hostile world and trekked the earth collectively for more than 170 years… which we all know in drag time is roughly 250 million. For that reason, we at Del Rio Laboratories, thought it valuable to gather them together for the first time in herstory in one place, under one roof, because, let’s face it, folks, they’re all gonna be dead soon!
Meet the Queens
JACKIE BEAT has been entertaining audiences across the U.S. and in Europe for over TWENTY-FIVE YEARS with her razor-sharp comedy and hysterical song parodies. Jackie not only warps hits by Britney Spears, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Cher, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey and many others, but she flawlessly sings her twisted new versions LIVE — hitting every last note.
Her hilarious music videos on YouTube are huge hits that have been seen by millions of people. Her one-woman show “Jackie Beat Is A Whole Lotta’ Love” ran a record 18 months at NYC’s premiere cabaret, Fez, and she returns to The Big Apple every year with her award-winning, standing-room-only holiday show as part of her SOLD OUT national holiday tour. Jackie’s stand-up has been featured in comedy clubs across the country and on Comedy Central, VH-1 and MTV. Her scathing song parodies have been featured on America’s Top Forty with Ryan Seacrest, The Howard Stern Show, Much Music TV, Yo on E! and PerezHilton.com.
MISS COCO PERU (aka Clinton Leupp) has been a household name in the LGBTQ+ community for over 30 years. Coco got her start in the early 90's as a downtown favorite in NYC’s cabaret world. Since then, Coco has received worldwide acclaim for her award-winning solo shows and has enjoyed an expansive career in film, television, and digital work.
TV: Dead- Paranormal Park (Netflix) Will and Grace (recurring role), How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development and two stand-up comedy specials on LOGO.
Film: trick, To Wong Foo… and the cult classic Girls Will Be Girls.
Digital: Madame Coco Knows (Logo), Casa Coco (a monthly streaming show during covid lockdown) and her YouTube videos with over 13 million views.
SHERRY VINE With over 30 years under her sequined belt, Sherry Vine has earned the title of Drag Legend. Sherry tours the world with her all live singing, hilarious comedy shows, and is the star and writer of The Sherry Vine Variety Show (OUT Tv). She can be seen in numerous movies and TV shows, is a founding member of Theatre Couture, and is The OG Queen YouTube, where her video parodies have been viewed over 20,000,000 times. Most recently, she produced and co-starred in Dr. Jackie (OUT Tv) and opened for Bianca del Rio across the USA, Europe and Tel Aviv. Sherry can be seen touring the world with her hilarious and NSFW solo shows, as “Blanche” in Golden Girlz Live and in numerous TV, film and theatre productions.
VARLA JEAN MERMAN (aka Jeffery Roberson Loe) starred in the musical Lucky Guy opposite Leslie Jordan in New York at the Little Shubert Theatre, prompting The New York Times to rave, “If Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman had stood in front of the right pair of funhouse mirrors, they might have resembled Ms. Merman and Mr. Jordan in stature as well as comedic talent.” Merman has starred in the films Hush Up, Sweet Charlotte, Girls Will Be Girls, Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads, and most recently, Big Easy Queens. Jeffery played the role of Mary Sunshine on Broadway in the revival of Chicago and in the First National Touring Company. In 2010, he won Boston’s Elliot Norton Award for Best Musical Performance in Phantom of the Oprah. Her 26 one-woman shows have sold out cabaret venues across the globe, as well as filling international concert halls including the Sydney Opera House and Carnegie Hall.