The Mike Haddad Show: This is relevant to my interests.

For those of you who've never been to homohop, and for those of you who haven't even seen a drag queen, it's hard to explain what happened last night. Drag queens have a tendency to perform songs that are either really popular at the moment or are old school classics. Perform also means perform, not sing, because it's very rare for a drag queen to actually sing. Instead they just stand on stage and pretend to sing to a track they love.

So last night at the homohop you can understand why I expected another cheesy, overplayed pop hit for the show. Something like Ashlee Simpson, Pink, Britney or Madonna. Instead I got smacked on the head by the song that came on. There was a second girl on the stage, and it took a while to understand why someone was saying "Elphaba, why couldn't you stay calm for once?!"

I know exactly who Elphaba is. Anyone who spends as much time with Sheridan students as I do would know. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've heard the soundtrack to Wicked, but I can tell you that it's only slightly less than the number of times that I've heard people sing along to it. I mean, Nancy and Jeremy had spent most of the day singing songs from Wicked. Partly because I'm so sick and tired of Rent, and partly because they know I love it.

So standing near the back of the crowd with about ten other Sheridan students, it was like being caught in an explosion when it clicked in their heads what was going on. If you thought people could normally scream loud, then you've never heard music theatre students scream when a drag queen performs a song from a musical. So as the show went on up on the stage, we stood in a horribly formed circle singing along at the top of our lungs. I'm not sure what the best part was: the fact that Defying Gravity was on, the fact that we were singing, or the fact that most of the other people were too tasteless to even know what was going on. No, that's a lie. The best part was when I got the witch's hat at the end of the night.