Fox’s ‘Rent’: Valentina on Pressure of Quick Changes Between ‘Boy Angel’ and ‘Full-on Drag’

“We gotta have it down to a science,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star says of Sunday’s live performance

Valentina Rent Live
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As a “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star, Valentina is no stranger to intricate costume changes. Of course, Valentina has never had to go from street clothes to full-on drag in four minutes — until now.

Valentina is playing Angel, a street performer and drag queen in the ’90s, on Fox’s telecast of “Rent” tonight. And with that fan-favorite role from the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical comes the great responsibility of going back and forth between two versions of the character, while accounting for the fact its a live broadcast. Because there are definitely not 525,600 minutes between commercial breaks.

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