How an Off Broadway Drag Show Choreographer Spends His Sundays
The New York Times
Spencer Liff, who choreographed “Drag: The Musical,” searches for New York’s best Bloody Mary, stops by the theater and tries to find his next great jacket at the flea market.
Before Spencer Liff returned to New York this summer to direct and choreograph the Off Broadway show “Drag: The Musical,” he spent 10 years in Los Angeles as a resident choreographer for “So You Think You Can Dance.”
Hell’s Kitchen, where he lives with his best friend Gage Kearns, 34, a high school guidance counselor, is different from the Upper West Side neighborhood he called home for 17 years.
“It’s loud loud,” he said.
But it’s convenient to New World Stages, where Mr. Liff checks in with “Drag” performers such as Alaska (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”) and Joey McIntyre (New Kids on the Block) before weekend matinees.
Mr. Liff, 39, doesn’t get the Sunday scaries. Because the casts of Broadway shows often have Mondays off, he likes to meet up with friends after their evening performances for a drink at a Hell’s Kitchen gay bar.
A NEVER-MISS The first thing I do every day — and I never miss this — is drink hot lemon water. That’s been my routine since the dawn of time. It has health benefits — digestion, metabolism, skin. Whenever I travel I always try to get my hands on some lemons.
