Preview: Redesigning Women
 

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag...05/b9a8/ae.jpg Will Coviello on the drag version of the '80s sitcom -- starring Ricky Graham and Varla Jean Merman by Will Coviello When the TV sitcom Designing Women debuted in 1986, it found its signature device in just the second episode: A rant by the character Julia Sugarbaker ? now immortalized on YouTube under the title "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia." ??In the episode about beauty pageants, Julia (Dixie Carter) doesn't like the way a pageant organizer belittles her sister Suzanne (Delta Burke).? [ Read more ]

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