SouthBendTribune.com – Karen Rivers – Tribune Correspondent
Transgender actress stages her unique life in musical
“Before I Disappear” is a one-woman autobiographical play starring transgender actress Alexandra Billings — a comic, dramatic and honest piece told through story and song. Following her life from age 3 to 30, it touches on her drug addiction, her time working the streets of Chicago, her career as a female impersonator and, finally, her arrival in Hollywood.
At Friday and Saturday’s performances of “Before I Disappear” at the Acorn Theater in Three Oaks, however, don’t expect to see Billings just talking about Billings. When she set out to write the show, that was the last thing she wanted to do.
Why?
She was afraid it “wouldn’t be interesting.”