Step Up meets To Wong Foo in a blast of leopard print, sequins and high-octane dance. It’s the musical story of lost boy Brad who, thrown out by his trailer trash mother, heads for LA’s bright lights and finds a hidden world of ‘bar dancing’ and ‘balls’ and, ultimately, a new family. But all families have their dysfunctions and when yours is a motley crew of drag/dance/performance queers named the House of Eminence, queened over by the strict Latina, things are not going to go entirely smoothly. And love gets in the way too, throwing up two suitors for Brad’s favours, the statuesque Princess Eminence and kind-hearted Carter. But all messages and dramas fade into the background as the dance, prance, strut and fly of the catwalk explodes onto the screen and the entrants ‘walk’. House of Eminence does battle with rival houses in various categories including ‘schoolboy’, ‘voguing’, ‘executive romance’ and ‘vintage prom princess’. Music by Beyonce’s music director Kim Burse and choreography by Michael Jackson’s Frank Gaston Jr. means the action is white-hot electric and it’s great to see a whole yield of new queer musical anthems emerging. Guaranteed to fill the clubs, post movie.
Los Angeles FF (2011)
Frameline (2011)
OUTFEST (2011)
NewFest (2011)
- Andre Myers – Carter
- Barbie-Q – Queef Latina
- Cameron Koa – Duke Eminence
- D.J. Fatha Julz – MC at 1st and 3rd ball
- Daveione Williams – House of Eminence Member / Voguer Cornelius Wilson – House of Eminence Member Koreyo Kreame – House of Eminence Member / Voguer
- Demarkes Dogan – Caldwell Jones
- Ephraim Sykes – Bradley Darnell Lyle
- Hailie Weaver – Ball Cashier / Hailie Allure
- James Alsop – Eppie Durall
- Lady Red Couture – Christina Allure
- Metra Dee – Deondra Lyle
- Phillip Evelyn – Princess Eminence
- Roxy Wood – Glam House Mother








