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Within hours of Friday night’s Amateur Night Drag Show Cabaret, Ryan Allen will do what he always does before such events; become Reann Ballslee, his alter ego and drag queen extraordinaire. He will squeeze into his outfit, contour his face in all the right places, throw on his hair and heels and become a statue of perfection — and though skirts may make you nervous, and you may not know your way around a tube of mascara, he still wants you to join him. Who knows, you may end up the belle of the ball.