Dizney in Drag: Once Upon a Parody
Dizney in Drag: Once Upon a Parody has had a difficult debut in Adelaide. Cancelled a number of times due to COVID issues, it triumphantly opened in the last week of the Fringe and what an opening it was!
It centres on a central character who is looking for his/her own true love. This is accomplished with the help of his/her Hairy Godmother, a vision in pink with a multitude of surprises under her voluminous skirt.
On her search she meets Ariel, Snow White and her seven men, Peter Pan, Pocahontas, the spirit of the tree, Princess Jasmin and more. Each character adds their own particular brand of advice to solve our hero’s dilemma.
The adult nature of Dizney in Drag: Once Upon a Parody forbids me from revealing the exact help the Dizney characters give - let’s just say this is not a show for the kiddies. However, the audience (myself included) laughed till we were sore and left armed with new tools to enhance our relationships.
My personal favourites are – Ariel’s box of ‘tricks’ and her parody of ‘Under the Sea’; Pocahontas’ painting demonstration with an unusual paintbrush; the Hairy Godmothers’ song ‘Sandwiches and Sausages’ and Princess Jasmine’s introduction to online dating, parodying ‘I Can Show You the World’.
Audience participation and adlibbing abounds in this show. The ad lib of the night (which I believe was not rehearsed) came from the Hairy Godmother in answer to some mike feedback, “That was more feedback than my Mum gives me!”, comic genius!
Just when we think the show is over, Sebastian from The Little Mermaid arrives to clean up and to tell us, in her own way, to leave.
Dizney in Drag: Once Upon A Parody, which was worth waiting for, is a gender-bending exploration into the human psyche and the journey to find inner truth, which turns out to be there all the time! Bravo Hairy Godmothers!
Barry Hill
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