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Listen Up, Kitty Girls –
The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 11 Tour is Coming to Cincinnati!Friday, July 19, 2019
Aronoff Center – Procter & Gamble Hall

CINCINNATI, OH – Emmy-award winning production company World of Wonder and Voss Events present The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race: Season 11 Tour, to kick off a sickening run of shows on Sunday, May 26 in Los Angeles.  The tour plays the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Friday, July 19 at 8:00 PM.

Tickets are on sale now at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office. Group discount tickets for ten or more are available by calling (513) 977-4157.  An exclusive VIP Experience is available for $123.75 and Includes a private meet and mingle with the queens before the show, a customized VIP laminate with lanyard, and a seat in the first few rows of the theater.

All fifteen Season 11 Queens including A’keria Chanel Davenport, Ariel Versace, Brooke Lynn Hytes, Honey Davenport, Kahanna Montrese, Mercedes Iman Diamond, Nina West, Plastique Tiara, Ra’Jah O’Hara, Scarlet Envy, Shuga Cain, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, Soju, Vanessa “Vanjie” Mateo, and Yvie Oddly will slay the runway as the tour commences during the official RuPaul’s DragCon LA after party, and continues to sixteen cities across the US and Canada.

Season 10 Queen Asia O’Hara will serve as host for the tour (including the Cincinnati stop), with legendary RuPaul’s Drag Race judge Michelle Visage helming the Los Angeles and New York tour stops.

“I’m thrilled to bring, for the first time ever, the breathtaking Queens of Season 11 LIVE to audiences in the US and Canada!” said RuPaul’s Drag Race and upcoming RuPaul’s Drag Race UK judge Michelle Visage. “Category is: slay that runway!”

“This summer I’m hitting the road with the baddest queens in the land…the land of Season 11!” said Asia O’Hara. “All bets are off and all rules are out the window as the Queens show you what they are REALLY made of! And of course, I’ll be safe behind the microphone.”

The fifteen fierce Queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 11 will appear in the following cities:

• 5/26 –   Los Angeles (RuPaul’s DragCon LA weekend)
• 5/28 –   San Diego
• 5/29 –   San Francisco
• 5/30 –   Portland
• 5/31 –   Vancouver
• 6/1 –      Calgary
• 6/3 –      Seattle
• 7/10 –   Boston
• 7/12 –   Montreal
• 7/13 –   Providence
• 7/14 –   Toronto
• 7/15 –   Winnipeg
• 7/17 –   Philadelphia
• 7/18 –   Washington DC
• 7/19 –   Cincinnati
• 7/20 –   Atlanta
• 7/21 –   Nashville
• 9/6 –      New York (RuPaul’s DragCon NYC weekend)

ABOUT WORLD OF WONDER
For more than two decades, award-winning production company World of Wonder has introduced audiences to new worlds, talent, and ideas that have shaped culture. Programming highlights include: Emmy® Award-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” (VH1/Logo), “Million Dollar Listing” LA & NY (Bravo), “Dancing Queen” (Netflix), “Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce” (Fuse), and “Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric” (National Geographic).  Award-winning films and documentaries include “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” “Menendez: Blood Brothers,” “Inside Deep Throat,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” “I Am Britney Jean,” “In Vogue: The Editor’s Eye,” “Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking,” “Monica in Black and White,” Emmy-winning “The Last Beekeeper,” and Emmy-winning “Out of Iraq.” Seven of WOW’s films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival including “Becoming Chaz” and “Party Monster.” World of Wonder has also created a substantial digital footprint with its YouTube channel WOWPresents (1M+ subs), SVOD digital platform WOW Presents Plus, along with an award-winning blog, The WOW Report. World of Wonder’s bi-annual RuPaul’s DragCon is the world’s largest drag culture convention, welcoming 100,000 attendees across LA and NYC in 2018. Co-founders Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey authored “The World According to Wonder,” celebrating decades of production, which can be found online at http://worldofwonder.net/. Randy and Fenton were honored with the IDA Pioneer Award in December 2014, celebrating exceptional achievement, leadership, and vision in the nonfiction and documentary community, named to Variety‘s Reality Leaders List in 2017, and chosen for the OUT100 list in 2018 for their trailblazing work in the LGBTQ+ community. World of Wonder was also selected for Realscreen‘s 2018 Global 100 list, which recognizes the top international non-fiction and unscripted production companies working in the industry today. World of Wonder creates out of a historic building/gallery space in the heart of Hollywood.

ABOUT VOSS EVENTS
Voss Events is a creative agency specializing in event design and production, promotions, tour and talent management, influencer relations and content creation. Founded by Brandon Voss, an event producer best known for his elaborate parties throughout New York City, as well as hot ticket events that have featured Lady Gaga, Cher, and Caitlyn Jenner, among others, the company produces “Voss Events Drag Brunch” in New York, Miami, and Las Vegas, and the wildly-popular global tour,RuPaul’s Drag Race “Werq the World”, starring Michelle Visage and the leading talent from RuPaul’s Drag Race.

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(CINCINNATI, OH) – Voss Events, the producer of RuPaul’s Drag Race Werq the World Tour, has announced that Bob the Drag Queen will host the much-anticipated show at the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall on Thursday, October 18 at 9:00 PM.  The previously-announced host, Michelle Visage, is no longer with the tour due to a schedule conflict. The event is part of Cincinnati Arts Association’s 2018-19 Presenting Season.

Tickets are on sale now at www.CincinnatiArts.org, (513) 621-ARTS [2787], and the Aronoff Center Ticket Office. Group discount tickets for ten or more are available by calling (513) 977-4157.

Host Bob the Drag Queen will introduce sickening live performances by some of the series’ most unforgettable queens, including newly crowned Season 10 winner Aquaria; runner-ups Asia O’Hara, Kameron Michaels, and Eureka; and veteran queens Kim Chi and Violet Chachki.

Bob the Drag Queen is best known for winning the eighth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.  On the Emmy Award-winning TV series, Bob was noted for her focus on comedy, and won three challenges, including the recurring Snatch Game (where she portrayed Uzo Aduba and Carol Channing). Shortly after winning Drag Race, Bob released the single “Purse First” featuring DJ Mitch Ferrino. She also collaborated on the single “Yet Another Dig” in 2017, and contributed to the compilation album Christmas Queens 3.

In 2018, Bob debuted the podcast Sibling Rivalry on SoundCloud, with Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 10 sixth-place contestant Monét X Change as co-host.  Bob appeared as a guest co-host alongside Trixie Mattel on The Trixie & Katya Show, filling in for regular co-host Katya during her hiatus. Her TV comedy special, Bob the Drag Queen: Suspiciously Large Woman, aired on Logo in July 2017.

Under the name of Caldwell Tidicue, Bob played the role of Belize in Berkeley Rep’s production of Angels in America from April to July 2018. 

Produced by Voss Events, Drag Race producers World of Wonder, and VH1, the hilarity and hijinks will travel to thirty-two North American cities throughout the USA and Canada beginning September 5th in NYC and ending October 27th in Miami. Major stops along the way include Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Following North America, the RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE 2018 WERQ THE WORLD tour will move on to Asia and Australia.

For more information, visit www.werqtheworld.com.

CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION SPONSORS

SEASON SONSORS:  AMERITAS (Founding Season Sponsor), FIFTH THIRD BANK (Lifetime Endowment Partner), CINCINNATI-NORTHERN KENTUCKY HONDA DEALERS, FURNITURE FAIR, LOCAL12 WKRC, The P&G FUND of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

SEASON PRESENTING SPONSORS:  21C Museum Hotel, Cincinnati Herald, CityBeat, Courtyard Marriott & Residence Inn-Rookwood, Heidelberg Distributing, Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Hyatt Regency-Cincinnati, Macy’s, Pepsi, Prosource, Skyline Chili, TriHealth, Ultimate Air Shuttle, Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc.

Founded in 1992, the Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA) is a not-for-profit organization that oversees the programming and management of the Tri-state’s finest performing arts venues – the Aronoff Center for the Arts and Music Hall – and is dedicated to supporting performing and visual arts. Each year, CAA presents a diverse schedule of events; serves upwards of 600,000 people in its venues; features the work of talented local, regional, and national artists in the Weston Art Gallery (located in the Aronoff Center); and supports the work of more than one dozen resident companies. Since the inception of its acclaimed arts education programs in 1995, CAA has reached more than 1.6 million students. For more information, visit www.CincinnatiArts.org.

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