All In For Britney



After lots of wincing, I finally bought two tickets for Britney Spears on April 11th.

I was amused by this article in this month's Outword Magazine talking about Derrick Barry, Britney impersonator:

Britney Spears will be coming to ARCO Arena for her first performance in Sacramento on April 11. [Derrick] Barry on the other hand will be performing on the intimate stage at Badlands on Friday, April 3 [8 p.m.].

The 25 year-old Barry is a native of Modesto, where at the age of 12 he began performing in junior high productions, later moving onto high school and college shows. But it was a Halloween costume in 2003 - when friends first told him how much he looked like Spears. - that helped launch him on his current career as a female impersonator.

When Spears was scheduled to appear on the Jay Leno Show, Barry managed to get a seat in the audience. It was only the second time that he had gotten dressed up as
Spears, but production personnel spotted him and got him on camera. When Leno pointed out the amazing resemblance, Spears laughed and clapped for him, and a
new career was launched.

An appearance on America’s Got Talent quickly followed and he was an obvious audience pleaser and had judge David Hasselhoff jokingly question his own sexuality. Barry made it to the semi-finals.

In June of 2004, Barry became the youngest cast member in a Las Vegas show called An Evening at La Cage, a six-day-a-week revue of female impersonators at the Riviera Hotel and Casino.