The many faces of Trevor Ashley
Trevor Ashley will channel a dozen extrordinary divas for his upcoming show I'm Every Woman.
"It's quite a feat to get from one diva to the other," says Ashley. His 70-minute show, which will also has a four-piece band, premieres from July 7-10 at The Studio.
"There are costume changes but everything's done on stage - it's going to be fun for the audience to see the stripped-back nature of how a drag queen does everything rather than me just coming on looking fabulous and disappearing again to do another change. They're going to get a glimpse of what we do and what we go through to put it all on."
According to Ashley, I'm Every Woman is "a love letter to all the famous women I've loved."
"Even growing up, I never really had any favourite singers who were boys. Of course I end up impersonating women for the rest of my life but I didn't know I'd be doing that when I was a child. So I tried to think about all the women who are my favourites - and some of them who aren't - and I've put them all together into one big show and I get to do all my different voices."
As to the songs that will be included in the show, there will be oldies as well as more recent hits..
"It covers pop songs from the 1950s - we're doing Judy Garland's That's Entertainment - to something as recent as Lady Gaga. I think audiences are really going to enjoy the fact it's every ultimate drag number from the last 50 years."
At last year's Liza show, he said: "I've decided not to put too much Liza into this show because everyone's seen me do her to absolute death over the past year or so ... but of course she does make an appearance. This time she's doing a duet with her mother, so I'm doing a full duet by myself, which will be interesting."
As for the other divas who weren't able to make it on his list, Ashley says: "There's a few people who I would have loved to have done but there's just no possible way of me emulating them in any way, shape or form - I really wanted to do Julie Andrews but sadly I can only do Julie post-nodules and nobody wants to see that. But then again, I am going to do Whitney Houston as she is now - I think that will be fun but cruel at the same time."