Melissa Rose Bernardo, writing for TimeOut:
Your ears are not deceiving you: That is indeed the voice of Liza Minnelli, the patron saint of pizzazz, narrating the pop art–inspired opening of the bubbly, bedazzled Drag: The Musical. After all, the showbiz icon is one of the producers, so what better way to kick off this sequin-studded song-and-dance story?
Drag, which arrives at Off Broadway’s New World Stages with a studio album and a Los Angeles run under its garter belt, is exactly what you’d expect: high heels, big hair, sassy one-liners and enough RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants to fill their own season.
Perhaps most important, however, the wigs—a gravity-defying collective effort between the cast and creative team—are amazing, and director-choreographer Spencer Liff works in some terrific hairography. (He also cleverly incorporates a few “Hot Honey Rag” moves into the catty Alexis-Kitty duet “Two Bitches Are Better Than One.”) And Marco Marco’s sculptural costumes are bejeweled works of art: cascades of chiffon, lamé, satin, and lace, not a paillette out of place. As Alexis might say: They’re gorge-a-rella.”
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