As its title suggests, Drag: The Musical has sass in abundance. These keen to look beneath the off-Broadway play’s sequin-studded floor, nevertheless, will discover a considerate story about household, self-acceptance and the sanctity of LGBTQ-inclusive areas.
RuPaul’s Drag Race veteran Alaska Thunderfuck, one of many musical’s stars and in addition a co-writer, labored with director-choreographer Spencer Liff to create a present that will provide a “sneak assault” on audiences’ feelings.
“Should you love drag, it’s going to make sense to you and it’s going to talk to you. If you recognize nothing about drag, it’s going to make sense to you and it’s going to talk to you,” Alaska instructed HuffPost. “It’s humorous and silly, however it additionally has one thing to say, and, I hope, may presumably make you cry.”
The author-performer added: “You may deliver the children, you possibly can deliver your straight dad and you may deliver your grandparents, and everyone will come away feeling like we now have extra in widespread with one another than we now have variations.”
