The Melbourne Age Newspaper
The Sound of Music Drag Show is one of the best, most perversely entertaining shows of its kind. Featuring The Showbags (Jessica James, Amanda Monroe and Roxy Bullwinkle) and the Manly Sisters, this is one twisted take on the Von Trapp family: James plays a corpulent Fraulein Maria; the countess is a lesbian and the baron has a problem with flatulence. One daughter is the town bike, one son wants a sex change, and there’s an exploding chicken. What more could you want?
Lily Bragge. Cabaret Review , ‘A2′ The Melbourne Age, September 30, 2006
Melbourne Age Comedy Festival Blog
The Sound of Music Drag Show has got to be the funniest show I’ve seen at the Festival so far. When the children all saluted the Captain when he farted I just about fell off the seat. I’ve only seen a few drag shows and they’re pretty much rubbish, but this show is so well done I wouldn’t put it in the same class.
Maria is played by a very big girl and she must have watched the movie a lot of times to get Maria’s character down so well. The sex mad oldest daughter (Lisa?) is just great too. All hormones and petulance and its a pleasure to see puberty blues on stage done so well. The others are all on the mark too and the cute baby one is hilarious. Overall its a lot of fun. More fun than most I might add. Why can’t more shows be like this where the performers don’t take themselves too seriously and the jokes are actually funny.
This one is on at the Bosco tent which is behind Federation Square and it only has a short run so get in early. I’m doing it again tonight its that good. Its the sort of show you want to share so be nice and take your mum. I am.
Source: www.theage.com.au
Melbourne Age Newspaper
The Sound of Music Drag Show
Tim Hunter
April 11, 2007
***
A subversive, bawdy and tacky retelling of the family Von Trapp. The hills are alive with the sound of drag queens.
Just when you thought The Sound of Music was camp enough, direct from the gay drag venue PINK comes this show, a subversive, bawdy and tacky retelling of the family Von Trapp.
The much-loved 1966 film is cut, diced, spliced and pasted together by a cast of six drag queens, led by Jessica James as a jaded Maria and Amanda Monroe as the sex-hungry Liesel. Squeezed liberally into a one-hour show, it still manages to borrow from The Producers, Cabaret and Eurovision.
With more glitter and gaudy costume changes than a Kylie concert, this is great fun. There’s bad taste aplenty and it feels put together with sticky tape, but what else would you expect from a drag show?
It’s refreshing to see this out of smoky and dingy gay clubs and performed in front of a much wider – and very appreciative – audience. Why should the gays have all the fun?
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The Sound of Music Drag Show
Reviews - The Sound of Music Drag Show
The Melbourne Age Newspaper
The Sound of Music Drag Show is one of the best, most perversely entertaining shows of its kind. Featuring The Showbags (Jessica James, Amanda Monroe and Roxy Bullwinkle) and the Manly Sisters, this is one twisted take on the Von Trapp family: James plays a corpulent Fraulein Maria; the countess is a lesbian and the baron has a problem with flatulence. One daughter is the town bike, one son wants a sex change, and there’s an exploding chicken. What more could you want?
Lily Bragge. Cabaret Review , ‘A2′ The Melbourne Age, September 30, 2006
Melbourne Age Comedy Festival Blog
The Sound of Music Drag Show has got to be the funniest show I’ve seen at the Festival so far. When the children all saluted the Captain when he farted I just about fell off the seat. I’ve only seen a few drag shows and they’re pretty much rubbish, but this show is so well done I wouldn’t put it in the same class.
Maria is played by a very big girl and she must have watched the movie a lot of times to get Maria’s character down so well. The sex mad oldest daughter (Lisa?) is just great too. All hormones and petulance and its a pleasure to see puberty blues on stage done so well. The others are all on the mark too and the cute baby one is hilarious. Overall its a lot of fun. More fun than most I might add. Why can’t more shows be like this where the performers don’t take themselves too seriously and the jokes are actually funny.
This one is on at the Bosco tent which is behind Federation Square and it only has a short run so get in early. I’m doing it again tonight its that good. Its the sort of show you want to share so be nice and take your mum. I am.
Source: www.theage.com.au
Melbourne Age Newspaper
The Sound of Music Drag Show
Tim Hunter
April 11, 2007
***
A subversive, bawdy and tacky retelling of the family Von Trapp. The hills are alive with the sound of drag queens.
Just when you thought The Sound of Music was camp enough, direct from the gay drag venue PINK comes this show, a subversive, bawdy and tacky retelling of the family Von Trapp.
The much-loved 1966 film is cut, diced, spliced and pasted together by a cast of six drag queens, led by Jessica James as a jaded Maria and Amanda Monroe as the sex-hungry Liesel. Squeezed liberally into a one-hour show, it still manages to borrow from The Producers, Cabaret and Eurovision.
With more glitter and gaudy costume changes than a Kylie concert, this is great fun. There’s bad taste aplenty and it feels put together with sticky tape, but what else would you expect from a drag show?
It’s refreshing to see this out of smoky and dingy gay clubs and performed in front of a much wider – and very appreciative – audience. Why should the gays have all the fun?
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