It was sunny and about 60 degrees. A beautiful February day, if you like that sort of thing.
“It’s like skating on a soft apple,” former national figure skating competitor David Shapiro said, stepping off the ice at the Independence Blue Cross RiverRink in Philadelphia., with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, live musicians, and some of their frequent collaborators, a few of whom have little to no skating experience.Devan, who competed in singles and pairs in his native Canada, is also the general director of Opera Philadelphia.
Now 60, Devan skates once a week for fun, sometimes chatting with John Jarboe, the Bearded Ladies artistic director founder and artistic director, who also enjoys skating. When thinking about the reason to do this show, Jarboe said they “were thinking about being on ice and ice melting and this idea of climate change. The premise is basically that the climate crisis is so impossible to address, it’s almost as impossible as getting drag queens to skate. And so if we can get these drag queens to skate on ice, maybe we can solve climate change. It is an absurd reach towards hope.
Sam Rise plays two roles: Rinky the Penguin, a corporate mascot trying to encourage positive energy despite things falling apart, and Non-Binary Parental Guardian Nature.
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