How Nick Gaga, a Lady Gaga Impersonator, Spends Sundays

For the Lady Gaga impersonator Nick Gaga, Sundays get increasingly intense toward the end of the month, when preparations start ramping up for a new installment of Gaga Ball, the drag performer’s signature event.

This month’s Gaga Ball happens Feb. 22 at Balcon Salon in Midtown Manhattan. Adding to the usual buildup is the release of a new Lady Gaga album, “Mayhem,” in March. Nick Gaga, who uses he/him pronouns when out of costume and she/her pronouns in costume, expects to see throngs of “little monsters” — Lady Gaga’s nickname for her fans — in addition to the usual crowd. “It lets them enjoy a Gaga show while they’re waiting for something new,” he said.

Gaga, 29, lives alone in a loft in Hell’s Kitchen. “It’s basically a mini Lady Gaga museum, with outfits and headpieces and wigs and posters all over the walls,” the performer said. “I’m obsessed.”

MORNING JOLT Because I work in nightlife, Sunday is never me waking up at 8 or 9 in the morning. It’s very delayed. I’m trying to have a long morning in bed, especially in the middle of winter, when I want to stay home and start doing prep for the week instead of getting myself looking presentable and ready to see the world. I’ll have a Red Bull in bed and try to kick off the day by 12.

SEWING, STONING By prep work, I mean preparations for my next shows or anything I have coming up in the next few weeks. The most important prep happens at the end of the month, when I’m doing the last checks on any missing props for Gaga Ball or maybe finishing up sewing a costume or stoning. “Stoning” is applying rhinestones, if you’re not familiar. I’m also doing wig prep. Depending on what I have planned for the show, it might be one wig for the whole show or it might be multiple wigs that are going to change, and that requires more preparation. I don’t physically create the wigs. But I do style, color and cut them.