Ok, here's my humble attempt to turn this into a music thread...

I recently saw "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" which is about a band of drag queens travelling around Australia and doing gigs in various bars and clubs. Their show consisted of three cross-dressers or transexuals dressing up outrageously (I won't say they dress like women, cause not many women would dress like that) and strutting around the stage lip-synching to recorded songs. This confused me. Is there really such an entertainment genre, and if so, why? They didn't sing, they didn't dance, they didn't play instruments; so what would an audience be coming to see them do? Their only "talent" was the desire/willingness to dress up in their costumes, but I don't understand how that would hold an audience's attention for more than a few minutes. Unless maybe they were also stripping and that was just glossed over in the movie, but this wasn't a gloss-over kind of movie.

Can anyone explain this to me? I don't mean to judge the performers as moral individuals, but rather to judge them as entertainers. Are there really such "bands", and if so, how do they manage to get gigs/audiences?

Marion