RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is back!
12.08.2023 - 20:59 / deadline.com
For 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. In March, Tennessee became the first state to officially pass strict limitations on drag performances. Just a few weeks later, Season 15’s Wigloose episode aired.
“We shoot about a year ahead,” Campbell explained. “It escalated so quickly … by the time it aired, and just when it aired, because the drag gods are good, we were in the middle of this — the Tennessee law, and the Florida law, and the Texas law. So it ended up being wildly, wildly topical.”
While the show wasn’t aiming to be particularly on the nose with Wigloose, the producers and stars do recognize the platform and its ability to create change.
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RuPaul’s Drag Race UK is back!
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“The music video episodes are our main episode where we showcase the best queens from that season,” says production designer Gianna Costa. After winning an Emmy last year for Season 14’s music video episode “Catwalk”, Costa is nominated again this year for “Blame it on the Edit”, which is ideal for someone who grew up watching music videos on MTV. “My favorite part of the music video episodes is getting to look back at all these music videos I love.”
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