Two utterly different musical offerings in this week’s update! First up is Sumida Gawa / Curlew River, the combination of Western opera and Japanese dance which my friends at City Opera Vancouver are putting on starting tonight. Then for something completely different, a sneak preview of The Broadway Chorus’ show for summer 2010: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, coming in June (and including myself as “Yuri”!).

The only connection between these two wildly different shows, perhaps, is the men-in-drag element. “Sumidagawa” maintains a historic/cultural tradition of men playing all the roles, and “Priscilla” features three drag queens in a battle against vampires. However, the drag queens’ costumes feature WAY more glitter…