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Oasis, a popular San Francisco cabaret and nightclub was abruptly shut down by COVID but the owner had a brilliant solution.

Owner D’Arcy Drollinger thought, ‘If people couldn’t come to see drag, why not bring drag to the people?’

“The show must go on!” Drollinger added. “It’s like doing a drag show. If your zipper breaks or the DJ loses your song, you’ve got to figure out what to do. Put some duct tape on it and keep going.”

So the entrepreneur kicked off  Meals on Heels, a food delivery service that delivers so much more than dinner.
For around $100 fabulous drag performers lip-synch a performance outside your home (socially distanced of course) along with the restaurants food and cocktails.
‘It’s been such an amazing thing for the community,” said one patron. “People have been so isolated and living on Zoom or their phones and their computers, and to have that interaction and to see someone perform in the flesh has been so great for morale.”
But the idea wasn’t without its potholes:

“It’s definitely hard to perform here in San Francisco on the sidewalk because we have a lot of hills,” said Amoura Teese, a drag performer whose given name is Ryan Maldonado. “I was definitely performing on driveways that were at a 45-degree angle.” The unorthodox setting introduced “a fun element” to the performance, they added.

Said one customer, “I’ve kind of been a little depressed about this whole COVID thing,” he said, but the mini drag show “just brightened my spirits.”

Keep it up, girls!