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For a long time in the Drag Race canon, Snatch Game was the staple of the franchise, the one challenge every fan anticipated with each new season. But the Rusical — a portmanteau of RuPaul and musical — has slowly but surely equaled it as the challenge people get most excited about.
There’s a good reason for that: Rusicals highlight what every queen loves to do — perform onstage. While some queens have no experience with celebrity impersonation, they all know how to turn it out onstage (or at least they should). Whether lip-synced or sung live, Rusicals have an exciting unpredictability. Predicting what the Rusical will be about ahead of time is a fool’s errand, as past subjects have…
