Night Fever guest · Season 2, Episode 1
Michelle Visage
The club-scene singer turned Drag Race's sharpest judge.
Timeline
Late 1980s
Comes up through New York's club and dance-music world with the group Seduction.
1990s
Becomes a radio personality.
2011–present
Judges RuPaul's Drag Race, the World of Wonder flagship.
2020s
Tours, hosts and takes on West End and Broadway stage work.
What they are doing now
Still judging Drag Race across its many franchises - and performing worldwide.
Scenes & rooms
Connected to
In the episodes
2 mentions across all episodes - S4E8 2
- S4E8 · Richie Rich · 2 mentions in this episode
Picked up 'honey, honey' at Drag Race in James's theory. Links to her Night Fever episode
On the scene timeline
1989 · New York and the Billboard Hot 100
Seduction charts with Two to Make It Right
Michelle Visage's freestyle group takes the sound of the New York clubs into the Billboard top three.
1989 · 530 West 27th Street
Sound Factory opens and Junior Vasquez takes the booth
No alcohol, no last call, twelve-hour sets. Vasquez's residency becomes the template for the modern club night.
1991 · Cinemas worldwide
Paris Is Burning reaches cinemas
Jennie Livingston's documentary makes the Harlem ball houses legible to the world and hands drag its vocabulary.
1993 · New York
RuPaul's Supermodel (You Better Work) charts
The Pyramid Club's own goes from Wigstock stages to the Billboard charts, and World of Wonder starts filming.
2 February 2009 · Logo TV
RuPaul's Drag Race premieres
World of Wonder turns everything the Pyramid Club invented into a global television format. Michelle Visage joins the panel in season three.
2021 · World of Wonder, Los Angeles
Night Fever starts recording the survivors
World of Wonder's podcast sits the scene's originals down one by one, and they keep naming each other.