Melbourne BnewS Newspaper
If you want to raise the temperature of your standard scene conversation then just bring up the topic of drag shows. Love them or hate them everyone has an opinion and you can’t argue with how popular they are. God, they’re all over the place. You can even watch them as you eat your dinner at the Spag ‘n’ Drag restaurant in Collingwood, but down in St Kilda there’s been a quiet revolution going on. Nothing spectacular, in fact its just a drag show. But not just any drag show. What the drag queens at PINK have done is take the whole concept of what a drag show is all about and thrown it up in the air. The result is their new Sound of Music production. Part theatrical exposition, part cultural reference, part audience involvement and wholly entertaining. They’ve produced the sort of entertainment you’d usually see in a theatre rather than on a drag stage in an old pub.
This hour long show is a gender bending extravaganza that makes the head spin with possibilities. Twisted in between the Sound of Music soundtrack is a subtle commentary on any number of family problems and sexual issues, but riding over the top of all this deep and meaningful interpretation is a completely joyous celebration of the madness and mayhem that drag can create.
Anyone who has followed the Showbags knows the details of their scant regard for synchronised choreography and the over the top costumes they’re renowned for, but this is unlike any Showbags drag show. In fact its unlike any drag show that Melbourne has seen.
The Showbags have been putting shows on at PINK for a few years now, mostly the same sort of thing that they were doing when they enlivened the drag scene with cult items like their renditions of Muppet Show songs. All that changed last September when Jessica James, the creative engine behind the Showbags decided to develop a show without compromise drawing in new kids on the block, the Manly Sisters and fashionista costume designer Roxy Bullwinkle.
It was a giant gamble that the audience would warm to a new format and a new way of viewing what drag is about. The result is the Sound of Music Drag Show. A gamble that seems to have paid off with full houses since its opening.
So if you have ever wondered if drag has any meaning above Priscilla’s ‘cocks in frocks on rocks’, or even if you just like a good laugh, then go and see the Sound of Music at PINK and get ready for the revolution.
You might as well start at the very beginning. It’s a very good place to start.
Reviewed 19 April, 2006
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The Sound of Music Drag Show
Reviews - The Sound of Music Drag Show
Melbourne BnewS Newspaper
If you want to raise the temperature of your standard scene conversation then just bring up the topic of drag shows. Love them or hate them everyone has an opinion and you can’t argue with how popular they are. God, they’re all over the place. You can even watch them as you eat your dinner at the Spag ‘n’ Drag restaurant in Collingwood, but down in St Kilda there’s been a quiet revolution going on. Nothing spectacular, in fact its just a drag show. But not just any drag show. What the drag queens at PINK have done is take the whole concept of what a drag show is all about and thrown it up in the air. The result is their new Sound of Music production. Part theatrical exposition, part cultural reference, part audience involvement and wholly entertaining. They’ve produced the sort of entertainment you’d usually see in a theatre rather than on a drag stage in an old pub.
This hour long show is a gender bending extravaganza that makes the head spin with possibilities. Twisted in between the Sound of Music soundtrack is a subtle commentary on any number of family problems and sexual issues, but riding over the top of all this deep and meaningful interpretation is a completely joyous celebration of the madness and mayhem that drag can create.
Anyone who has followed the Showbags knows the details of their scant regard for synchronised choreography and the over the top costumes they’re renowned for, but this is unlike any Showbags drag show. In fact its unlike any drag show that Melbourne has seen.
The Showbags have been putting shows on at PINK for a few years now, mostly the same sort of thing that they were doing when they enlivened the drag scene with cult items like their renditions of Muppet Show songs. All that changed last September when Jessica James, the creative engine behind the Showbags decided to develop a show without compromise drawing in new kids on the block, the Manly Sisters and fashionista costume designer Roxy Bullwinkle.
It was a giant gamble that the audience would warm to a new format and a new way of viewing what drag is about. The result is the Sound of Music Drag Show. A gamble that seems to have paid off with full houses since its opening.
So if you have ever wondered if drag has any meaning above Priscilla’s ‘cocks in frocks on rocks’, or even if you just like a good laugh, then go and see the Sound of Music at PINK and get ready for the revolution.
You might as well start at the very beginning. It’s a very good place to start.
Reviewed 19 April, 2006
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