It was only a year ago that Grisha and his friends -- including 32-year-old Valera, his co-star for this evening's performance -- first started dressing up for their own private drag shows.

"We all sort of had the idea together," he says. "So we bought some clothes from secondhand shops and then put on our own little show. It is a lot of fun to dress up and just goof around, but that's all it is, really. Nobody takes it seriously."

"It takes a lot of energy to put on a show, so we don't do it very often," he says. "Getting everything ready, putting on the makeup -- it all takes time. And we don't want to do it just halfway." Instead, on quieter evenings, Grisha can just pop in one of several videos that he and his friends have made of themselves in drag during the past year.