Today, Karli and I attended the Vancouver matinée show of the RuPaul Drag Race Werq the World 2022 tour, skillfully hosted by Season 13 finalist Rosé, who definintely displayed charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent over the course of the afternoon.
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| Photo by KT |
The time-themed sets piqued our curiousity, but all was explained once Rosé completed her opening number and started the show.
It turned out that she'd inherited a time machine from Asia O'Hara, who had apparently transitioned from drag queen to drag mad scientist at some point since her fourth place finish in Season 10. Rosé's plan is to use the time machine to travel back in time to the Season 13 finalé and overturn the results so that she is the winner - perhaps not the best use of the opportunity, but not everyone wants to see the Titanic before it sinks.
Sadly, as so often seems to be the case with time travel, it didn't quite work* out like that, and we ended up bouncing across time and visiting Caribbean pirates, the Spanish Empire, the Boston Tea Party**, 1961, the Mesozoic Era, and the year 3000, with performances by Naomi Smalls, Jorgeous, Kim Chi, Jaida Essence Hall, Lady Camden and, of course, Rosé herself, who is very much the star of the entire show.
Ultimately, the moral of the story is that you should live in the present and not dwell on the past, and the show ends on that note with an all-star revue performance.
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| Photo by KT |
Although the majority of the cut sequence time travel animations featured the iconic DeLorean from the Back To the Future franchise, I was surprised and touched to see one sequence where a blue British police box gyrated across the time vortex. Although, really, it shouldn't be surprising - if you're inclusive of everyone who falls under the LGBTQIA2S+ umbrella, you probably have some love to spare for nerds and geeks.
- Sid
* Or werq.
** You get used to some unusual costumes if you watch Drag Race, but seriously, dressing everyone as tea bags?
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