Galactica shines in live singing debut
Joey DiGuglielmo | Jan 01, 2011
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/01/01/galactica-shines-in-live-singing-debut/After years of elaborately staged lip synced routines, Special Agent Galactica (the drag persona of Ganymede Arts' Jeffrey Johnson) made her live singing debut last night in a New Year's Eve cabaret act at Go Mama Go that proved the pink-coiffed hostess is capable of executing a tight and entertaining set without playing along to a recorded track.
It's difficult to compare the two — Johnson, while a capable singer, could hardly hold a candle to the legends' studio-tweaked vocals he usually uses for his shows. And accompanists Christopher Wingert (piano) and Paige Miller (drums), who proved a tight, efficient combo as the "Escape Pods," could hardly conjure all the bells and whistles a studio cut can provide. But that was never really the point. Still it's impossible not to compare the two kinds of shows since before last night, lip syncing was all we'd seen Galactica do.
