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.

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’.

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!