Edie - Las Vegas showgirl - UNLEASHED

After a 13 year run as the emcee of the groundbreaking Cirque du Soleil show “Zumanity,” Las Vegas drag legend Edie is back on the road! “Las Vegas Showgirl: Unleashed” celebrates Edie’s 30-year career as one of the country’s top drag personalities before Rupaul’s Drag Race made the art form a mainstream phenomenon. From the Ballet to Broadway to Cirque du Soleil, “Unleashed” is a high-energy, high-kicking, semi-autobiographical look Edie’s impressive career through song, stories, comedy, videos, and lots of dance!

EDIE is best known from Cirque du Soleil’s hit show ZUMANITY where she starred as the emcee, the “Mistress of Sensuality,” at the NY-NY Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. During her 13 year run, EDIE performed over 5,600 shows for over 6 million people. EDIE began her professional dance career at the age of 17 with Ballet Oregon. For the next eleven years she danced with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Chicago, and Pennsylvania Ballet before moving to New York to pursue musical theater. EDIE quickly became a fixture in New York City where she racked up a bevy of awards including Best Drag Queen (HX Award), Best Dance Artist and Entertainer of the Year (Glammy Award). She starred in her autobiographical, off-Broadway show “LEGS!,” performed on the MTV Video Music Awards, appeared on “Sex and the City,” was featured at Wigstock and Broadway Bares, and made her Broadway debut alongside Cyndi Lauper and Alan Cumming in the Tony-nominated revival of “The ThreePenny Opera” at Studio 54. The San Francisco Chronicle “strongly advises seeing the incredible EDIE whose talent and legs go on forever.”

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The Newport Theater is up a flight of stairs (no elevator) but a private entrance with a railing and seating near a side door/wheel-chair restroom can be arranged with advance notice. Email [email protected] for more information or learn more at newporttheater.com/safety

Event Venue

The Newport Theater, 956 West Newport Avenue, Chicago, United States