It's one of the oldest bits in the history of comedy.  The ancients Greek and Roman dramatists understood it.  Shakespeare understood it.  Putting a guy in a dress is funny.  Period.  Here, we look back at some of ACT I's best "guys in drag."

The cross dressing role of Leslie in Love, Sex, and the IRS transformed actor Steve Anderson into this fair creature.

Although he doesn't make a "habit" of it, retired Vinton teacher and school administrator Dr. Ron Baldwin appeared in The Boardwalk Melody Hour Murders as an FBI agent disguised as a nun.

For his role as Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Rick Murphy had to impersonate Philia.  (Rick's in the middle, by the way, with Halane Cummings as Domina and Sara Arnold as Philia on either side.)

It Runs in the Family had not one but three guys in drag!  Rick Murphy was back at it again (right) when his character Dr. Mortimore tried to impersonate the hospital Matron; no sooner does he show up on the scene when he realizes that Dr. Bonney (Jim Hilliard, left) had donned a wig and balloons and was already on the scene doing the same thing.

Below, Travis Hendricks as Dr. Connolly completes the cross dressing trio for It Runs in the Family, complete with fishnet stockings.

Below, WHS student Matt Meyer prepares for one of the most famous and best loved drag roles in the history of theatre, Francis Flute as Thisbe, for a performance at Party in the Park of the Pyramus and Thisbe sequence from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream!  Matt is also wearing balloons, but his were filled with water to add a little extra visual humor to the climax of the scene!

We're still missing a photo of ACT I's most infamous drag role, Sophie Davenport from The Boardwalk Melody Hour Murders!  Austin?  Do you have one?

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