The Golden Girls, in a Shade of Pink From left, Luke Jones, Nick Brennan, John de los Santos and Chad Ryan as housemates in Miami, sort of as seen on TV. Wilson Models To feel the love for "The Golden Girls," one of the best-written and -acted sitcoms of the "80s and "90s, you have only to see the capacity crowd gathered for "Thank You for Being a Friend," at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Wednesdays. A woman at my table announced before the show that she could recite whole passages from the series. So you have to wonder what that audience takes away from this drag parody, directed by Nick Brennan, which is so raunchy and overwrought, it's hard to call it affectionate. Blanchet (a preening Chad Ryan, in the Rue McClanahan role); Dorthea (Luke Jones, falling far short of Bea Arthur's crack timing); Sophie (John de los Santos, doing a pale Estelle Getty); and Roz (Mr. Brennan, delivering a hilariously outsize if one-note Betty White) play aging women in Miami. When Blanchet notices gay men at the home of the pop singer Ricky Martin (Adrian Rifat) next door, she masturbates at the sight. "Don't gay men do anything else but have sex?" she says. "No," says Dorthea. Blanchet's response: "God, I wish I was gay." When she tries to crash a poolside sex party there, she is told, "No women allowed - ever!" An opportunity for comeuppance arises when the Shady Oaks Retirement Home offers its Talent Challenge, a musical competition, and the girls" act (initially called the Bimbos) takes on Ricky's. But Dorthea, who is transgender, may be disqualified on those grounds from the group. She eventually gets in. Told she is too opinionated, Dorthea says, "Why don't I just wear a sign that says "I'm too unlikable to live?" " When the girls lose the competition, the penalty is cleaning floors at Ricky's revels, attired in raincoats. The show concludes with a disco-ish ode to Miami, but by that time the desecration is complete.