ENTERTAINMENT: No bad loss for ‘La Cage’ Britney

   “Maybe America wasn’t ready to see a boy impersonate Britney like I do,” Derrick Barry says of being sent home Wednesday from “America’s Got Talent.”
  “There may be some people who weren’t ready to see my performances on prime-time TV like that.”
  But millions of YouTube viewings suggest America might just be willing to go for Barry as part of an “America’s Got Talent” live arena tour. That’s right. The “Evening at La Cage” drag performer says an arena tour is very likely after the show ends, much the way “American Idol” puts its finalists out on the road for a quick cash-in.
  And why not? Last year’s winner, Terry Fator, got famous because of “Talent,” but then went out and cut his own multimillion-dollar deal with The Mirage that the show won’t profit from. It makes sense that “Talent” producers would remedy that by handing this year’s winner a contract that says, “You’re free to do whatever you want ... AFTER you finish our tour.”
  But anyway, Barry and Las Vegas magician Shimshi both were cut free to leverage whatever they can from the national exposure. For the 25-year-old Barry, there’s plenty of good news. For one thing, he’s been told the real Britney Spears loved his act; in his four years of “La Cage,” he never had any indication she was aware of him. So if the real Britters ever goes out on tour again, maybe she would take him along to fake out the audience as Cher and Reba McEntire have done with impersonators on past tours.
  Barry also hopes he opened the door to late-night talk shows. “I made a name for myself more than I have in the past four years. We’ll see where it goes.”
  Barry says the TV producers nixed the idea of him singing in his own voice, citing some objection to blending live vocals with recorded backing (even if they had no such objection to another contestant, Queen Emily, doing just that).
  But he figures that not getting to sing or show the world what he really looks like gives him more room down the road to prove he is more than Britney. “I’m open to anything right now as long as I get to call the shots,” he says.