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The full cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 2 (l-r) Tayce, A’Whora, Ellie Diamond, Asttina Mandella, Joe Black, Cherry Valentine, Tia Kofi, Ginny Lemon, Veronica Green, Sister Sister, Biini Bon Boulash and Lawrence Chaney
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE UK: THE OFFICIAL TOUR
RU-TURNS TO THE UK FOR 2022
EXTRA DATE ADDED FOR SOUTHEND!

Southend Cliffs Pavilion – Friday February 11 AND April 12
The UK’s BIGGEST EVER Drag Race tour just got even BIGGER! Drag Royalty is set to Ru-Turn in 2022 for the UK’s biggest ever Drag Race tour.
 
And the original 19-date tour has now become 41 dates as extra shows have been added across the country including a second date at Southend’s Cliffs Pavilion on Tuesday April 12, as well as their previously announced show on Friday February 11.

More dates have been added to the UK’s BIGGEST EVER Drag Race tour with an extra date for Southend.

Drag Royalty will Ru-Turn in 2022 for the UK’s biggest ever Drag Race tour and the original 19-date tour has now been extended to 41 dates as shows continue to sell out across the country.

Join the queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK for two evenings of endless eleganza extravaganza as this brand-new tour takes in theatres and venues across the UK including dates at Southend’s Cliffs Pavilion on Friday February 11 and now Tuesday April 12 too.

Witness the Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent of your favourite queens LIVE on stage as they sashay into a theatre near you.
Tickets are available from www.cuffeandtaylor.com with tickets for the extra shows going on sale at 10am on Friday April 9.
Acclaimed for their amazing production values, expect the unexpected in this glittering tour featuring UK Season 2 winner Lawrence Chaney alongside A'Whora, Asttina Mandella, Bimini Bon-Boulash, Cherry Valentine, Ellie Diamond, Ginny Lemon, Joe Black, Sister Sister, Tayce, Tia Kofi and Veronica Green*.

The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Series Two Tour is presented by Werq The World producers Voss Events and creators of Drag Race World of Wonder, in cooperation with Live Nation and Cuffe and Taylor.

Ben Hatton, Director of Theatre Touring for Cuffe and Taylor, said: “The excitement for this tour is incredible so we have decided to add extra dates across the UK.
 
“RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is always a huge hit so we look forward to presenting a series of outrageously entertaining shows starring all the queens from Series 2 of Drag Race UK.”
 
Tickets start at £35 and there are exclusive VIP options where guests can enjoy a private meet and greet with the queens before the show!
 
*Cast subject to change

 
 


*See the dictionary according to RuPaul, below under Dragtionary
 

THE RUPAUL DRAG RACE UK NEED TO KNOW DRAGTIONARY
  • Beat: To apply your makeup flawlessly.
    Used in a sentence: "Girl, you beat your face so good, I can't stop looking at it."
 
  • Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent: The four elements that a queen has to have to take Drag Race crown. It's also an acronym for cunt.
Used in a sentence: "You're going to need to use all your charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent to win this challenge.
  • Condragulations: The drag version of congratulations.
    Used in a sentence: "Condragulations you are the winner of this week's challenge."
 
  • Dragmother: Queens on the show often refer to their 'drag families', the families they have made with other queens and members of the gay community when their own families wouldn't accept them. Dragmothers are the queens who took them under their wings and taught them the art of drag.
Used in a sentence: "Alyssa Edwards is dragmother to Gia Gunn, Laganja Estranja and Shangela."
  • Eleganza extravaganza: A runway category in which queens must serve pure elegance.
    Used in a sentence: "The category is: eleganza extravaganza."
 
  • Fish: Basically refers to looking/feeling ultra-feminine. To "serve fish" or to feel "fishy" is to be extra girly.
    Used in a sentence: "Tonight I am serving pure fish on the runway."
 
  • Gag: For something to be so amazing that you have an actual physical reaction.
    Used in a sentence: "Her dress on the runway was so good it had me gagging."
 
  • Gurl/girl: The term queens use to address other queens, usually when they're about to read them.
    Used in a sentence: "Gurl, look how orange you fucking look."
 
  • Lip sync for your life: The bottom two queens from each week lip sync against each other. Whoever impresses Ru the least is eliminated.
    Used in a sentence: "The time has come for you to lip sync for your life. Good luck and don't fuck it up."
 
  • Read: To criticise or critique. In Drag Race, the act of "reading" is meant to be savage and hilarious. RuPaul opens the "library" where queens read each other once a season. This has spawned the catchphrase "Reading is fundamental".
    Used in a sentence: "I'm sick of the judges reading me for my outfits."
 
  • Realness: To do something authentically. Often on the runway the queens are "serving XX realness."
    Used in a sentence: "Tonight on the runway I'm serving Vivienne Westwood realness."
 
  • Sashay away: RuPaul tells eliminated contestants to "sashay away", in what is now one of the show's most iconic catchphrases.
    Used in a sentence: "I'm sorry my dear, but the time has come for you to sashay away."
 
  • Serve: One of the most important terms in the Drag Race vernacular; to serve is to use your look to offer the judges something amazing.
    Used in a sentence: "Tonight on the runway I am serving executive realness".
 
  • Shade: Insulting someone in a sly, under-the-radar manner (different to a read).
    Used in a sentence: "She was throwing serious shade when she insinuated you let the team down this challenge."
 
  • Shantay, you stay: The flip-side of "sashay away", this is how Ru tells a queen who survived the lip sync that she is still in the competition.
    Used in a sentence: "Shea Couleé, shantay you stay."
 
  • Sickening: For something to be so incredibly good that it actually makes you sick.
    Used in a sentence: "Did you see her Beyoncé impression? It was sickening."
 
  • Sissy that walk: To hit the runway like a supermodel. ("Sissy That Walk" is also the name of a single from Ru's 2014 album Born Naked, which is played while the queens walk the runway throughout the series).
    Used in a sentence: "Now sissy that walk."
 
  • Tea/tee/T: T refers to gossip. To "spill the tea" is basically to just talk shit together.
    Used in a sentence: "Are you free for drinks tonight? I've got some tea to spill."
 
  • Tuck: Tucking is the art of taping/pulling back your junk while in drag.
    Used in a sentence: "Go backstage and untuck."
 
  • Work/Werk: To own it on the runway.
    Used in a sentence: "You'd better work, bitch’
 
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RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: The Official Tour will visit:
01-Feb IPSWICH REGENT THEATRE
04-Feb OXFORD NEW THEATRE
05-Feb EDINBURGH USHER HALL
06-Feb GLASGOW SECC ARMADILLO
07-Feb NEWCASTLE O2 CITY HALL
08-Feb NOTTINGHAM ROYAL CONCERT HALL
10-Feb BOURNEMOUTH PAVILION
11-Feb SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILION
12-Feb MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE
14-Feb SHEFFIELD CITY HALL

15-Feb BLACKPOOL OPERA HOUSE
16-Feb LLANDUDNO VENUE CYMRU
18-Feb BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY HALL
​19-Feb CARDIFF ST DAVID’S HALL

20-Feb LIVERPOOL EMPIRE
​23-Feb BASINGSTOKE ANVIL
24-Feb PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL
​26-Feb PLYMOUTH PAVILIONS
27-Feb LONDON PALLADIUM
28-Feb LONDON PALLADIUM
01-Mar LONDON PALLADIUM
​22-Mar LLANDUDNO VENUE CYMRU
​24-Mar LONDON PALLADIUM
​25-Mar DERBY ARENA
​26-Mar BIRMINGHAM, SYMPHONY HALL
​27-Mar BRISTOL, HIPPODROME
​29-Mar BRADFORD, ST GEORGE’S HALL
​30-Mar ABERDEEN, MUSIC HALL
​31-Mar GLASGOW, SECC ARMADILLO

02-Apr IPSWICH, REGENT THEATRE
03-Apr SOUTHAMPTON, MAYFLOWER THEATRE
06-Apr NOTTINGHAM, ROYAL CONCERT HALL
07-Apr NEWCASTLE O2 CITY HALL
​08-Apr STOCKTON, GLOBE THEATRE

09-Apr SHEFFIELD CITY HALL
11-Apr OXFORD NEW THEATRE
12-Apr SOUTHEND CLIFFS PAVILION
14-Apr PLYMOUTH PAVILIONS
15-Apr BRIGHTON, THE BRIGHTON CENTRE
16-Apr NEWPORT, ICC
17-Apr MANCHESTER OPERA HOUSE

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