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Jinkx Monsoon Announces 'Everything at Stake' Tour Dates

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The Queen of all Queens is ready to cast her next great spell! Two-time RuPaul's Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon will launch her biggest tour to date with Jinkx Monsoon: Everything at Stake.

After Monsoon finishes up her run as Matron 'Mama' Morton in Chicago on Broadway on March 12, her summer tour will perform in 44 cities across the U.S. and Canada from June 12 - August 14.

For the first time ever, Jinkx and her musical main squeeze Major Scales will tour with a full rock band performing a decades' worth of covers and original music from her critically-acclaimed albums (The Ginger Snapped, The Inevitable Album), along with new songs from her upcoming 3-part album The Virgo Odyssey.

Known for her electric and eclectic performance style, "Everything at Stake" shows Jinkx weaving together tales from her enigmatic life in a show where music, comedy, witchy magic, and camp-fantasy collide. At a time where literally everything is at stake, get ready for a spellbinding, bombastic, and revolutionary experience straight from the heart of this "internationally tolerated" superstar.

Registration for the "Everything at Stake" Artist Presale begins at 9 a.m. PST here , and registered users will receive presale codes on Wednesday, February 22nd at 12 p.m. PST. The public on-sale will take place Friday, February 24 at 9 a.m. local time here .

Monsoon says, "It's all been building to this! 'Everything at Stake' marks my biggest concert tour ever- where I get to flex every one of my performance muscles with my musical partner in crime, Major Scales. What's most exciting is, we're coming to over 40 cities across North America, many of which will be for the FIRST TIME! I know, crazy, right? In these tumultuous times, it's important to unapologetically claim our space as queer and trans people; to celebrate the revolutionary act of drag and living one's truth. I'm getting my broom ready, I can't wait to see you soon. Mama loves you."

The tour announcement comes during a whirlwind year for Monsoon. In January, she made her Broadway debut (a lifelong goal since she began doing drag at 15) in one of the longest running shows on Broadway-Chicago-playing Matron "Mama" Morton.

She kicked off her press tour for Chicago by becoming the first RuPaul's Drag Race queen to guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers, which quickly went viral when it hit online for her celebrity impressions. She's also recently appeared on CBS Mornings, Good Morning America.

Last summer, Jinkx competed on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7, becoming the first drag queen in Drag Race "herstory" to win the crown twice, earning the coveted title "Queen of All Queens" in a competition against previous winners. Her most recent tour was the critically-acclaimed theatrical spectacular, "The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show" (Produced by BenDeLaCreme Presents) co-starring with her best friend and fellow drag superstar, BenDeLaCreme.

The 2022 tour became their highest grossing holiday tour to date and is expected to return for its 6th year this holiday season. Jinkx also released her latest studio EP, The Virgo Odyssey: Prologue (PEG Records), spawning cult hits like "Know-It-All" and her dazzling cover of "Strange Magic" by Electric Light Orchestra.

The "Jinkx Monsoon: Everything at Stake" tour is produced by the AEG Presents Comedy Division in association with the Producer Entertainment Group (PEG).

Jinkx Monsoon Tour Dates

June 12 - Victoria, BC (Royal Theatre)

June 13 - Vancouver, BC (Orpheum Theatre)

June 16 - Calgary, AB (Southern Jubilee Auditorium)

June 18 - Edmonton, AB (Northern Jubilee Auditorium)

June 20 - Regina, SK (Conexus Art Center)

June 21 - Winnipeg, MB (Burton Cummings Theatre)

June 23 - Toronto, ON (Massey Hall)

June 24 - Kitchener, ON (Centre in the Square)

June 25 - Ottawa, ON (Southam Hall)

June 26 - Montreal, QC (Olympia De Montreal)

June 28 - Albany, NY (The Egg)

June 29 - New Haven, CT (College Street Music Hall)

June 30 - Boston, MA (Shubert Theatre)

July 1 - Brooklyn, NY (Kings Theatre)

July 5 - Durham, NC (Carolina Theatre)

July 6 - Tysons, VA (Capital One Hall)

July 7 - Glenside, PA (Keswick Theatre)

July 8 - Cleveland, OH (The Agora)

July 9 - Pittsburgh, PA (Stage AE)

July 11 - Columbus, OH (KEMBA Live!)

July 12 - Royal Oak, MI (Royal Oak Music Hall)

July 14 - Chicago, IL (Chicago Theatre)

July 15 - Milwaukee, Wi (Pabst Theater)

July 16 - St. Paul, MN (The Fitzgerald Theater)

July 18 - Newport, KY (MegaCorp Pavillion)

July 19 - Charlotte, NC (Knight Theater at Levine Center for the Arts)

July 20 - Atlanta, GA (The Eastern)

July 22 - Tampa, FL (Tampa Theatre)

July 23 - Orlando, FL (Hard Rock Live)

July 24 - Coral Springs, FL (Coral Springs Center)

July 26 - New Orleans, LA (The Orpheum)

July 27 - Austin, TX (Paramount Theatre)

July 28 - Dallas, TX (Majestic Theater)

July 29 - Kansas City, MO (Folly Theater)

July 30 - Midwest City, OK (Rose State College Hudiberg Chevrolet Center)

August 1 - Denver, CO (Ellie Caulkins Opera House)

August 2 - Salt Lake City, UT (Eccles Theater)

August 6 - San Diego, CA (The Balboa Theatre)

August 8 - Los Angeles, CA (The Orpheum Theatre)

August 9 - San Jose, CA (California Theatre)

August 10 - San Francisco, CA (Warfield Theatre)

August 12 - Seattle, WA (Paramount Theatre)

August 13 - Spokane, WA (Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox)

August 14 - Portland, OR (Keller Auditorium)

About Jinkx Monsoon

Two-time RuPaul's Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon (she/her) is the "internationally tolerated" drag icon who's taken over the entertainment industry as an award-winning stage actress, acclaimed vocalist, stand-up comic, and theatre sensation.

Jinkx has garnered an international fan base following her win on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 5 (2013), and continued her winning streak on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 (2022) where she was crowned "Queen of All Queens", competing against previous winners. In 2023, Jinkx made her highly-anticipated Broadway debut as Matron "Mama" Morton in Broadway's longest-running show, Chicago.

She has toured the world performing her original cabaret shows with music partner Major Scales, including highly-acclaimed shows like The Ginger Snapped, The Vaudevillians (which became a hit off-broadway sensation) and their most recent production, Together Again, Again (2022). As a recording artist, Jinkx has released three critically-hailed albums of original music written by Major Scales including her most recent The Virgo Odyssey (2022), The Inevitable Album and The Ginger Snapped.

In 2018, she partnered with best friend and fellow RuPaul's Drag Race star, BenDeLaCreme for their first major holiday tour To Jesus, Thanks for Everything! - Jinkx and DeLa. Jinkx and DeLa's co-written holiday productions have grown into a worldwide phenomenon, spawning the 2019 tour, All I Want for Christmas is Attention, a Hulu holiday hit, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special (2020), and The Return of the Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show, LIVE! (2021) which performed for sold-out audiences across the U.S., U.K. and Canada. In 2022, she and DeLa had their highest grossing international tour to date with their 5th annual The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show.

No stranger to film and TV, Jinkx has appeared on the CBS cop drama Blue Bloods, the Netflix original AJ and the Queen, and has voiced characters for such animated shows as Steven Universe, Mighty Magiswords, Bravest Warriors, as well as a few surprises that are yet to come! Jinkx has been the subject of two documentaries: Drag Becomes Him, and The Queens.

She is an award-winning stage actress, having won the Gregory Award for her portrayal of Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and most recently, The MAC Award for her show The Ginger Snapped, co-written with Major Scales.

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The Witch of all Witches is ready to cast her next great spell! Two-time RuPaul's Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon presents her biggest concert tour to date with "Everything at Stake."

For the first time ever, Jinkx and her musical main squeeze Major Scales, will tour North America with a full rock band performing a decade worth of covers and original music from her critically-acclaimed albums (The Ginger Snapped, The Inevitable Album), along with new songs from her upcoming 3-part album The Virgo Odyssey. Known for her electric and eclectic performance style, Jinkx weaves together tales from her enigmatic life in a show where music, comedy, witchy magic, and camp-fantasy collide. At a time where literally everything is at stake, get ready for a spellbinding, bombastic, and revolutionary experience straight from the heart of this "internationally tolerated" superstar.

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Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme reveal new Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show tour dates for 2022

RuPaul's Drag Race icons, performance artists, and holiday legends exclusively reveal their 2022 tour dates for a new version of their beloved holiday show.

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Drag icons Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme are ready to jingle your bells this holiday season with a new version of their beloved Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show live spectacular — and EW has the exclusive reveal of the pair's 2022 tour dates.

The new traveling stage show — written by Jinkx and DeLa — will visit 22 cities across North America between Nov. 23 and Dec. 30, with DeLa directing from a production she worked on through her BenDeLaCreme Presents company alongside Kevin Heard and Gus Lanza.

"It will take everything you expect from a drag queen variety show, and spin it on its side. It will test the limits of stupidity, while being unexpectedly deep and reflective. We strive for entertainment while always proving that the holidays are for you to celebrate however you want to," Jinkx says in an exclusive statement to EW about the new show, which follows her legendary run on the current season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 7 , while Drag Race All Stars 3 alum DeLa promises "nonstop laughs, biting social commentary, dazzling spectacle, and that special Jinkx and Dela brand of over-the-top camp."

"The one thing that always remains the same is that our show is about the importance of friendship, chosen family, and creating our own holiday traditions," DeLa adds. "And creating our own traditions means always staying present with what has worked in the past and what needs some freshening up, and that's true of entertainment too! We want to give our audiences a place to go that can be reliably fun, exciting, and bring something new to their season in addition to comfort and familiarity. Every year we take an honest look at ourselves and the world around us, and create new material that reflects back our common experience. We want people to feel entertained and seen!"

The 2022 edition of The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show follows the duo's successful domination of the holiday season across multiple projects, including their prior tours To Jesus, Thanks for Everything and All I Want for Christmas Is Attention , guest roles in Clea DuVall's Kristen Stewart-starring Christmas rom-com Happiest Season , and a film version of The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show , which streamed on Hulu through the holidays in 2020.

General on-sale for The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show 2022 North American tour dates begin today at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT on the queens' website . United Kingdom dates will be revealed in the near future.

The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show 2022 tour dates:

Nov. 23 — Buffalo, NY (Riviera Theatre) Nov. 25 — Toronto, ON (Queen Elizabeth Theatre) Nov. 26 — Ottawa, ON (Algonquin Commons Theatre) Nov. 27 — Montreal, QC (Olympia) Nov. 29 — Boston, MA (Chevalier Theatre) Nov. 30 — Philadelphia, PA (The Fillmore) Dec. 2 — New York, NY (Town Hall) Dec. 3 — New York, NY (Town Hall) Dec. 4 — Washington, DC (Lincoln Theatre) Dec. 6 — St. Paul, MN (The Fitzgerald Theater) Dec. 7 — Chicago, IL (Auditorium Theatre) Dec. 8 — Detroit, MI (Royal Oak Music Theatre) Dec. 9 — Indianapolis (Murat Theatre at Old National Centre) Dec. 11 — Austin, TX (Paramount Theatre) Dec. 12 —Dallas, TX (Majestic Theatre) Dec. 14 —Denver, CO (Paramount Theatre) Dec. 16 — San Diego, CA (Balboa Theatre) Dec. 17 — San Francisco, CA (The Warfield) Dec. 18 — Los Angeles, CA (Orpheum Theatre) Dec. 21 — Seattle, WA (Moore Theatre) Dec. 22 — Seattle, WA (Moore Theatre) Dec. 23 — Seattle, WA (Moore Theatre) Dec. 24 — Seattle, WA (Moore Theatre) Dec. 27 — Portland, OR (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall) Dec. 29 — Calgary, AB (Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium) Dec. 30 — Vancouver, BC (Vogue Theatre)

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The Witch of all Witches is ready to cast her next great spell! Two-time RuPaul's Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon presents her biggest concert tour to date with "Everything at Stake." For the first time ever, Jinkx and her musical main squeeze Major Scales, will tour North America with a full rock band performing a decade worth of covers and original music from her critically-acclaimed albums ("The Ginger Snapped," "The Inevitable Album"), along with new songs from her upcoming 3-part album "The Virgo Odyssey." Known for her electric and eclectic performance style, Jinkx weaves together tales from her enigmatic life in a show where music, comedy, witchy magic, and camp-fantasy collide. At a time where literally everything is at stake, get ready for a spellbinding, bombastic, and revolutionary experience straight from the heart of this "internationally tolerated" superstar.

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A drag queen with bright red hair mimes whispering in the ear of a drag queen with a black bouffant. Both are wearing red velvet suits.

Holidays a Drag? Every Year, Thanks to Jinkx and DeLa.

The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alums Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme put on a queer, clever and heartfelt Christmas show that keeps getting bigger.

What began in small standing-room-only clubs has grown into a 30-city theater tour for Jinkx Monsoon, left, and BenDeLaCreme. Credit... Justin J Wee for The New York Times

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  • Dec. 12, 2023

It was half past 3 the day after the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, and a pair of America’s most famous drag queens strode up to the spruce’s formidable footprint, chatting about abundance.

“I don’t like being inundated with anything,” Jinkx Monsoon announced as holiday music jingled loudly nearby.

“She has this conversation about Christianity,” BenDeLaCreme started to explain, before Jinkx resumed her gripe: “Christianity, the Kardashians and ‘Star Wars,’” she chimed back in. “All things that I have never asked to know about, but I know everything about.”

The reason for their visit, however, was indeed the season. For the fifth year, the duo — both alums of the TV competition “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — are presenting a live Christmas show filled with dancing candy canes, glittery gowns and songs about trauma. (In 2020, Covid forced them off the road, so they made a movie .) What began in small standing-room-only clubs has grown into a 30-city theater tour that kicked off mid-November in Glasgow and wraps in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Dec. 30. The day after the queens’ stroll, on Dec. 1, their show hit Kings Theater in Brooklyn, a former movie palace that seats 3,000.

“I’ve been around for a while,” said Murray Hill , a fixture on downtown drag, burlesque and cabaret stages who’s done his own delightfully queer Christmas show for around 25 years. “I can’t believe in my lifetime that I went to go see two drag queens at a huge theater like that in New York. It’s progress!”

The latest iteration of “The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show” is its most ambitious yet: an hour and a half of gags that lean naughty and inspirational messages that make it nice. It includes a Fosse-style number skewering the nearly orgasmic satisfaction Americans get from shopping, and one about sex with Krampus set to a beloved seasonal tune. Like its predecessors, it’s queer, hilarious, clever and heartfelt — a fitting reflection of the two performers who made it.

On a stage with large lighted ornaments suspended from above, four performers dressed like snowmen with red-and-white striped scarves surround two drag queens, one in a red gown, the other in a green one.

DeLa, as the 42-year-old BenDeLaCreme is known, grew up in “rural and idyllic” Connecticut, where she felt like an outcast — dying her hair different colors, being mocked in English class for writing “these insane things about, like, purple dragons,” which, she pointed out, is a direct link to what she does onstage now.

Jinkx, 36, is from Portland, Ore., and attended a magnet arts high school, “so we were all freaking freaks,” she said. “But I’ve been visibly queer my whole life,” she added. (She identifies as trans feminine.) “Even though I wasn’t necessarily an outcast, it was just a whole life of being told I’m just too much. And drag is the one place where you can’t be too much.” She let out her signature giggle, which is only a touch wicked.

For a middle school talent show, Jinkx dressed as a woman and told crass jokes — and the rest, as they say, is herstory. She developed a psychic persona named Miss Lily and improvised reading classmates’ and teachers’ fortunes: “Before I even really knew what drag was, I already had a drag character.”

In the late 2000s, while Jinkx was studying theater at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, DeLa was becoming established as a drag innovator in the city after attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Jinkx’s favorite teacher, the performance artist Keira McDonald, insisted she go see DeLa, and told DeLa about her gifted mentee.

DeLa caught one of Jinkx’s shows first: an early version of “The Vaudevillians,” in which Jinkx and her musical partner Major Scales portray an old-timey duo who are thawed out after being frozen alive, returning with their “original” versions of contemporary pop songs. The 4 p.m. set was at one of Seattle’s less heralded venues.

“As a performer, Jinkx is miraculous to behold,” DeLa said. “And I was beholding it in a Starbucks.” She remembered thinking she’d either have to align with Jinkx or risk becoming adversaries exploring similar ideas.

“She handed me a paper business card,” Jinkx recalled of this first meeting, “and I was like, this is the most professional drag queen I have ever met.” Cue the giggle.

Jinkx was likewise floored when she first saw DeLa live, doing an imaginative piece about a queen trying to perform the Charlene song “I’ve Never Been to Me” as a skipping CD thwarted her. (DeLa lip synced not just to the song, but to the edited skips and all the ensuing dialogue with the D.J. as she fought to carry on with the show.)

BenDeLaCreme had studied visual art, but found she had a knack for performance — and, crucially, the organizing and bean-counting that goes into making performances happen. She was already running a production company; Jinkx rushed to audition for one of its shows, and the seeds of a dream team were sown.

Drag has long been an underground art form buoyed by its own lingo, networks and irrepressible joy — crucial elements since its practitioners are often scraping to make a buck in the unstable nightlife business while enduring homophobia or transphobia, and the accompanying emotional impacts.

Nothing has done more to take drag to a wider audience than “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which started in 2009 and now has international adaptations in Thailand, Brazil, Australia and Sweden, among other places. In 2013, Jinkx won its fifth season and rocketed to national attention. She came home, sat DeLa down and told her she needed to do the show “because I knew that what she would do with the exposure is exactly what she’s done,” she said, “which is build her production company and start doing what she was doing in Seattle worldwide.”

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” helped entrench them as characters: Jinkx as a boozy witch with a big voice and a deep reserve of uproarious impressions; DeLa as a comedic powerhouse with classic pinup looks who never misses her mark. Both have benefited from its spotlight, although “we both had to do two seasons to get where we wanted,” Jinkx pointed out. (They returned for all-star competitions.) Earlier this year, Jinkx fulfilled a dream, starring in Broadway’s “Chicago” as Matron “Mama” Morton , where her arrival onstage each night was met with such rapturous applause, she created a bit where she impatiently glanced at a pocket watch.

Four blocks from the Ambassador Theater, where fans swarmed Jinkx nightly at the stage door, she and BenDeLaCreme concluded their meander through Midtown’s merry landmarks at the Museum of Broadway. After a morning in red velvet suits and wigs piled a mile high, they were dressed down in dark sweaters, a tuft of DeLa’s black hair peeking out from a knit hat, and a scarf twisting around Jinkx’s neck.

BenDeLaCreme’s history with holiday shows dates back to 2008, when she started one largely so she could avoid going home at what had become a challenging time of year. “When I was really little, I loved the holidays,” she said. She lost her mother to cancer when she was 13, and “things changed very rapidly.” The Christmas show became “a way to find something I loved, a way to find a sense of homecoming that I didn’t feel I had access to,” she explained. Audiences looking for their own soft places to land were grateful.

Murray Hill said the message of “chosen family” that permeates “The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show” is familiar. “A lot of gay people growing up, and anybody who’s quote unquote, a misfit, had a rough time at the holidays,” he said. “Drag queens, drag performers, gay performers — we have Santa-like qualities,” he continued, listing them off: “A larger-than-life personality. We bring gifts, we entertain, we make everybody forget about how bad everything is.”

“Camp humor does address important things, which they did in the show,” he added. And as a duo, he said, they recall Mike Nichols and Elaine May, or Louis Prima and Keely Smith. (“I always say we’re like Lucy and Ethel if it was both Lucy,” Monsoon quipped.)

The pairings that resonate most with Jinkx and DeLa — Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley of “Absolutely Fabulous,” or the comics Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney — originate in genuine friendship. “Yes, we have our solo careers, but I personally feel like I am always at my best and I’m showing off my skills the best when paired with DeLa,” Jinkx said. They unlock something in each other, and audiences recognize it: “I think it’s just friendship.”

A few things are different in this year’s show. In the past, the script’s arc was built on tension between Jinkx and DeLa. This time, the two are united as they try to tame a common enemy: the show itself. (Yes, it’s meta, but it’s hysterical.)

“There’s far too much conflict out there around us,” DeLa told the crowd at Kings Theater during the curtain call. “There is far too much negativity, and we don’t need to be pitting ourselves against each other within our own community. Let’s break out of that mind-set and lift each other up.”

There was also a big shift behind the scenes: Jinkx quit drinking (it was “standing in the way of me being my best self”), and her onstage character did, too. The members of the core production team — the two stars, plus Kevin Heard and Gus Lanza of BenDeLaCreme Presents — are still doing about six jobs apiece, but they have reinforcements, their biggest cast and crew yet.

While other Jinkx and DeLa projects are surely on the horizon, the holiday show will remain an anchor. “It has become really important to a lot of people, and that’s the most fulfilling thing,” DeLa said. “People who are like, ‘This is my tradition, this is where I go.’”

Jinkx noted that they don’t take that power lightly. “It’s crazy sometimes, because you’re like, how did my dick jokes and blasphemous sexy Krampus number save you? But my job is not to question,” she said. “My job is to say thank you and I’m so glad that my work could do that for you.”

Caryn Ganz is The Times’s pop music editor. More about Caryn Ganz

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The Witch of all Witches is ready to cast her next great spell! Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon presents her biggest concert tour to date with “Everything at Stake.”

For the first time ever, Jinkx and her musical main squeeze Major Scales, will tour North America with a full rock band performing a decade worth of covers and original music from her critically-acclaimed albums ( The Ginger Snapped , The Inevitable Album ), along with new songs from her upcoming 3-part album The Virgo Odyssey . Known for her electric and eclectic performance style, Jinkx weaves together tales from her enigmatic life in a show where music, comedy, witchy magic, and camp-fantasy collide. At a time where literally everything is at stake, get ready for a spellbinding, bombastic, and revolutionary experience straight from the heart of this “internationally tolerated” superstar.

Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon (she/her) is the “internationally tolerated” drag icon who’s taken over the entertainment industry as an award-winning stage actress, acclaimed...

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The Witch of all Witches is ready to cast her next great spell! Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon presents her biggest concert tour to date with “Everything at Stake.” For the first time ever, Jinkx and her musical main squeeze Major Scales, will tour North America with a full rock band performing a decade worth of covers and original music from her critically-acclaimed albums (The Ginger Snapped, The Inevitable Album), along with new songs from her upcoming 3-part album The Virgo Odyssey. Known for her electric and eclectic performance style, Jinkx weaves together tales from her enigmatic life in a show where music, comedy, witchy magic, and camp-fantasy collide. At a time where literally everything is at stake, get ready for a spellbinding, bombastic, and revolutionary experience straight from the heart of this “internationally tolerated” superstar.

Hi Jinkx! ♥️♥️➕ ⛈️ Award-winning actress, singer and two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner, @JinkxMonsoon will appear in a major role in the new series of #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/CGiqAufHB9 — Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) April 3, 2023

Bio: Two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and Broadway breakout star Jinkx Monsoon(they/she) is the “internationally tolerated” drag icon who’s taken over the entertainment industry as an award-winning stage actress, acclaimed vocalist, stand-up comic, and theatre sensation.

Jinkx has garnered an international fan base following her win on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season5 (2013), and continued her winning streak on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 7 (2022) where she was crowned “Queen of All Queens”, competing against previous winners. In 2023, Jinkx made her highly-anticipated Broadway debut as Matron “Mama” Morton in Broadway’s longest-running show, Chicago.

She has toured the world performing her original cabaret shows with music partner Major Scales, including highly-acclaimed shows like The Ginger Snapped, The Vaudevillians (which became a hit off-broadway sensation) and their most recent production, Together Again, Again(2022).As a recording artist, Jinkx has released three critically-hailed albums of original music written by Major Scales including her most recent The Virgo Odyssey (2022),The Inevitable Album and The Ginger Snapped.

In 2018, she partnered with best friend and fellow RuPaul’s Drag Race star, BenDeLaCreme for their first major holiday tour To Jesus, Thanks for Everything!-Jinkx and DeLa. Jinkx and DeLa’s co-written holiday productions have grown into a worldwide phenomenon, spawning the 2019 tour, All I Want for Christmas is Attention, a Hulu holiday hit, The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Special(2020), and The Return of the Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show, LIVE!(2021) which performed for sold-out audiences across the U.S., U.K. and Canada. In 2022, she and DeLa had their highest grossing international tour to date with their 5th annual The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show.

No stranger to film and TV, Jinkx has appeared on the CBS cop drama Blue Bloods, the Netflix original AJ and the Queen, and has voiced characters for such animated shows as Steven Universe, Mighty Magiswords, Bravest Warriors, as well as a few surprises that are yet to come! Jinkx has been the subject of two documentaries: Drag Becomes Him, and The Queens. She is an award-winning stage actress, having won the Gregory Award for her portrayal of Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and most recently, The MAC Award for her show The Ginger Snapped, co-written with Major Scales

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Jinkx Monsoon Is Making Her Carnegie Hall Debut in 2025: ‘I'm Thrilled and Humbled and Ready'

There's no need to "convince yourself" of any "delusion" - drag superstar Jinkx Monsoon is really performing at Carnegie Hall!

On Wednesday (Feb. 7), Carnegie Hall officially announced their 2024-25 concert season. Among the many new shows coming to the legendary New York City venue, one in particular stood out to Drag Race ; on Valentine's Day 2025, the concert hall revealed that Monsoon would be taking to the stage.

While the performer has yet to reveal the title or poster for their show, Monsoon teased in a press release that the one-night-only concert would feature original songs and covers spanning genres like cabaret, show tunes, rock and pop, as well as a few unannounced special guests.

"I truly don't know what to say - my whole life, I've listened to my idols' voices as they sung on the stage of Carnegie Hall … and now I get to join them in the pantheon?" she said in a statement. "All I know is, I'm thrilled and humbled and READY!"

This won't be the queen's first time on an iconic New York stage - in January 2023, Monsoon made her Broadway debut in Chicago , where she played the Cook County Jail's mother hen Matron "Mama" Morton for a 10-week engagement. Following her run on the Great White Way, the triple-threat performed their character's signature song, " When You're Good to Mama ," on the finale episode of RuPaul's Drag Race season 15.

Subscriptions to the Carnegie Hall's 2024-2025 season are available now , with individual tickets for Monsoon's show going on sale August 12. See what Jinkx had to say about her impending Carnegie Hall show below:

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