Provincetown Fringe, Cape Cod Serial Killer & Hooking (w/ Ryan Landry)

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by the king of Provincetown fringe performance — playwright and drag theater impresario, RYAN LANDRY! Topics: bringing JENNIFER COOLIDGE and PARKER POSEY to P-Town, setting fire to The Pyramid Club, working as a hooker, appearing in the Roy Cohn documentary, his cemetery plot with MARGARET CHO, the Cape Cod Serial Killer, hosting the long-running weekly Provincetown show, SHOWGIRLS… and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and Ryan Landry has been the
0:18.3	undisputed king of New England fringeinge Performance for years.
0:22.8	He's a playwright and an impresario of Drag Theater.
0:26.0	You can catch him every single Monday hosting Showgirls,
0:29.2	the longest running show in Provincetown.
0:32.0	Hi Ryan Landry. Hi how are you? How is your week going?
0:35.6	So is this the start of Carnival Week? Yeah so I think now it's becoming the idea of like better get to the grocery store now you better stock up on just about everything you can possibly find including like OxyContin and like you know get ready because it's going to be
0:56.6	nuts it's going to be really crazy here soon but you know it's so funny I here I am
1:01.6	at my little house on the corner of Pearl Street in Baker Ave, and it's really quite peaceful.
1:07.0	Until you hear the carry-on luggage being wheeled down the pavement, you know know you hear lots and lots of that.
1:15.5	So you were telling me how you first came to Provincetown in 1979.
1:21.4	I want to hear the story of your very first trip to Peetown. Like who are you with? How did you get here?
1:27.0	When the very first time I came to Provincown, these two gorgeous Dykes told me they'd take me to town there they had an
1:33.6	M. G it was only a two-seater car so I had to crawl up in the
1:36.8	fetal position because they had a convertible M. G and the top was broken so
1:41.8	they didn't care if I crawled you know curled up and they took me from New Haven to
1:47.1	Provincant with the bars they didn't want to leave the bars so it closed the bars back then closed
1:50.9	at 4 o'clock in the morning in New Haven. So we finally got here around 7.30 in the morning and I woke up from this, you know, like as a fetus, you know,
2:00.8	turn the corner here at Baker Avenue and Pearl Street and saw this house this very house that I'm sitting in right now and I said oh my God if this is what province towns like this I want to live here because it reminded me so much of my
2:14.0	family's houses way up in the woods of Maine they all live way up in the in the
2:18.7	real country the little towns which are all now meth labs but they used to be used to be very bucolic thing and so I said
2:27.6	God if this is what it's like I want to live here and I ended up buying that house the very
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