You’ve come a long way, baby: Wigstock now star-studded

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Though he didn’t know her well, says Burtka, “I ended up calling Bunny and saying, ‘Hey, would you be into doing this?’”

The Wigstock founder sure was, starting Saturday at 3 p.m., rain or shine, on the rooftop of Manhattan’s freshly renovated Pier 17.

Working on the revival with her as executive producer were Harris, Burtka, Jack Turner, Jason Weinberg and Oscar award-winner Bruce Cohen, along with production company Matador Content and Pride Media, which publishes Out and Advocate magazines. Broadway’s Tony Awardwinner Michael Mayer was director.

The main creative credit goes to Lady Bunny, whose legal name is Jon Ingle, a 56-year-old DJ and promoter with a Tennessee drawl in a foot-high wig. “Everything runs through her. Bunny’s the backbone, she’s the driving force, she’s our almanac,” says Burtka.

Performers included Harris, who won a Tony for the 2014 Broadway revival of the cult musical “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” about a transgender, East European rock singer. He re-created part of that glam-rock performance on Saturday.

Harris and Burtka noted that drag culture has gone from an underground fringe phenomenon to front-and-center pop culture, with RuPaul hosting the Emmy award-winning “RuPaul’s Drag Race” competition featuring musical challengers in wigs and heels.

EW YORK (AP) — Neil Patrick Harris and his husband, chef and actor David Burtka, fired up what they call New York’s “last summer blowout” — a six-hour, 50-act drag-queen spectacle staged Saturday on a glitzy Manhattan pier.