How ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’s “Fun, Campy” Musical This Season Became A Timely Commentary On Anti-Drag Legislation – Contenders TV: The Nominees
deadline.comFor the past 10 years, RuPaul’s Drag Race has delighted fans with the Rusical — a musical production during each season that features the remaining contestants performing their take on a famous show.
The concept has become somewhat of a staple on the series, though none have been quite as topical as Season 15’s Wigloose. “Like everything on RuPaul’s Drag Race for 15 season, it started with a bad pun.
We’ve done 10 years of musicals. It’s one of our favorite things. We always are brainstorming year round, really, about what would work…we thought, ‘We’ll just do a fun parody of the Footloose story, which is about a town that didn’t have dances, so we’ll do a town that doesn’t have drag,” executive producer Tom Campbell said during the show’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees event, where he was joined by Season 15 winner Sasha Colby and Season 15 Miss Congeniality Malaysia Babydoll Fox.
But what started as a “fun, campy parody of Footloose,” as Campbell put it, would transform into a timely commentary as anti-drag legislation began to pop up in state legislatures across the country.
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