There's a new shop in Westerville, and unlike the ones on State Street, you won't want to take your mother antiquing here.
"Little Shop of ‘Censored,'" the title of this year's spring quarter drag show, gets its name from the off-Broadway musical-turned-cult classic "The Little Shop of Horrors."
"We had issues with the name obviously because it says ‘wh----,' but we came up with the censored idea, which made it funny, but still got the point across," said Kyle McIntire, junior BFA musical theatre major and the show's coordinator and performer.
Much like last year's "Real Housewives of Otterbein," it's meant to give those who wish to attend and become involved creative breathing room.
"We always try to come up with something creative for the audience to dress up as, but that also allows us to stay pretty generic in our ideas so we can do many things in the show," McIntire said.
The tounge-in-cheek ambiguity of this year's theme calls upon the nature of drag culture while allowing for the night's details to remain behind closed curtains, which allows for an element of surprise to reign supreme. Those who have attended previous shows know this very well.
"At last year's performance, one of the drag queens was coming up the aisle, and I suddenly found them in my lap," said Jessica McGill, sophomore English creative writing major.
Sophomore education major Matt Taylor said, "I'm excited for the show. I expect it to be fierce and a lot of fun."
Those involved will remain tight-lipped until the unveiling on Sunday, May 8, at 7:00 p.m.
"We don't want to give away any of our secrets, but the show is for charity and all the proceeds will go to ... Equity Fights AIDS," McIntire said.
Equity Fights AIDS was started in 1987 and raises money for people with AIDS and other severe illnesses.
Otterbein's queens in question for this performance are McIntire, Scott Drayer, Mike Weingand, Troy Burton, Hayden Clifton and Simon Trumble.
