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RuPaul’s Drag Race Werq the World 2023

August 18, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm.

RuPaul’s Drag Race WERQ THE WORLD, the largest drag show on earth, will stop by The Arena at TD Place on August 18 as part of its 2023 World Tour.

Set in a dystopian future, the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race must choose between the real world and the artificial world they have come to know. The 2023 show delivers an all-new Sci-Fi production specially designed for large venues and arenas.

“We’ve really elevated the show this year with a cohesive storyline that weaves theatre into large scale concert style performance. It’s a multimillion-dollar production that rivals the largest popstars in the world,” says Brandon Voss, the show’s producer.

“WERQ THE WORLD is the official RuPaul’s Drag Race tour for a reason,” says Jon Norris of Voss Events. “It is the biggest, most spectacular drag show on the planet. The music, sets, fashion, choreography and lighting in this production are like nothing fans of drag have ever seen before.”

The North American cast will feature Asia O’Hara, Bosco, Daya Betty, Deja Skye, Jorgeous, Kandy Muse, Lady Camden, Laganja, Naomi Small, Plastique Tiara and two finalists from Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The Australia and Asia cast will be Aquaria, Jaida Essence Hall, Kim Chi, Naomi Smalls, Plastique Tiara, Rosé and Yvie Oddly. The Europe and Mexico cast will be Angeria, Aquaria, Bosco, Daya Betty, Ginger Minj, Jaida Essence Hall, Kandy Muse and Rose.

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The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race World Tour returns with an all-new production for 2022! An experiment gone wrong has sent the audience spiraling through time with no way of returning to the present.  Join Gottmik, Jaida Essence Hall, Naomi Smalls, Violet Chachki and all finalists from the upcoming 14 th Season on a journey through iconic periods of history in hopes of finding your way back to 2022. Presented by Voss Events in collaboration with World of Wonder and VH1 .

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The world's largest drag show returns to the stage in 2022. In the all new production, an experiment gone wrong sent Michelle Visage and your favorite drag superstars spiraling through time with no way of returning home.

The world's largest drag show returns to the stage in 2022.

In the all new production, an experiment gone wrong sent Michelle Visage and your favorite drag superstars spiraling through time with no way of returning home.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Werq The World Tour 2023

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Perception is not reality… Asia O’Hara, Laganja Estranja, Lady Camden, Bosco, Rosé, DeJa Skye and select finalists from Season 15 are unknowingly trapped in the Netwerq… Free your mind this summer at the world’s largest drag production.  Uploaded by Voss Events in collaboration with World of Wonder and MTV. Line-up subject to change.

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RuPaul’s Werq The World Tour stops in Toronto, Aug 20, 2023

RuPaul’s Drag Race WERQ the World Tour .will once again be touring across Canada, kicked off in Vancouver on July 27, 2033 and is ending at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on August 20, 2023. A full list of tour stops and ticket information can be found below.

The largest drag show will feature a variety of top queens from past seasons, including RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 winner Sasha Colby and finalist Mistress Isabelle Brooks . A lso starring Asia O’Hara,Bosco, Daya Betty, Deja Skye, Kandy Muse, Lady Camden, Laganja , and Naomi Small .

Werq the World  will be making several stops in Canada this summer, and you’ll be able to catch the Drag Race stars in the following cities: Tickets

• Vancouver, BC — July 27
• Calgary, Alberta — July 28
• Edmonton, Alberta — July 29
• Windsor, Ontario — August 6
• Montreal, Quebec — August 17
• Ottawa, Ontario — August 18
• London, Ontario — August 19
• Toronto, Ontario — August 20

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Bryen Dunn is a freelance journalist with a focus on travel, lifestyle, entertainment and hospitality. He has an extensive portfolio of celebrity interviews with musicians, actors and other public personalities. He enjoys discovering delicious eats, tasting spirited treats, and being mesmerized by musical beats.

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Recruiting mailbag: Georgia or Michigan — which national title model is harder to replicate?

Recruiting never stops. Neither do your questions. Let’s get right to them.

Note: Submitted questions have been lightly edited for clarity and length.

Ari, what do you think it will be harder to duplicate: Winning the national title following the Michigan blueprint (recruiting classes in the teens, development and transfer portal) or winning it all without adding a single transfer like Georgia did two years ago? — Rodrigo A. 

This question turned me into a pretzel and would have caused me to pass out if it had been asked in 2020. I don’t think there is a question that could unintentionally illustrate how much the sport has changed in the last few seasons more than this one. You know it’s a good one when the answer requires deep thought and a little bit of flip-flopping.

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Ultimately, I believe it will be harder for a team to win a national title without taking a transfer in the future. Why? Because you can count on one hand how many teams recruit enough talent to even attempt to do what Georgia accomplished. It was a recruiting juggernaut that had accumulated so much talent that there was no need to fill any holes. There were no holes. There is nothing other programs can learn from or do to assemble a roster the way Georgia has done during the Kirby Smart era. You can, however, attempt to accomplish what Michigan did.

The problem with this answer is this: I still think Georgia and teams like it are far more likely to win the national title than teams like Michigan because of their ability to recruit elite high school talent while also taking luxury pieces in the portal.

Recruiting mega-classes like Georgia, Ohio State and Alabama have done is always going to be important, but the job doesn’t end there anymore. Those mega-classes will certainly still exist, but top-level high school players are more open to signing with non-traditional powers. And when those top-level prospects do sign with Georgia, Ohio State or Alabama, they’re now more likely to leave earlier in their careers for a better deal or more immediate playing time.

That makes it almost impossible for teams like Georgia and past Ohio State, Clemson and Alabama teams to have as much depth as they did five or 10 years ago. That, of course, creates holes on rosters and the need to backfill those holes through the portal. Heck, look at how many portal additions Ohio State made in this past cycle despite how well it has recruited in recent years. Even recruiting juggernauts need boosts in the portal now.

Michigan and Washington played for a national title last season. Michigan won it all after beating Ohio State and Alabama along the way. I would have previously told you the Wolverines couldn’t defeat both in the same season based on how college football used to work. It doesn’t work like that anymore.

That doesn’t mean I think what Michigan accomplished is easily replicated. What Michigan did was one of the most remarkable things I’ve seen covering this sport — starting with high school evaluations, some top-tier recruiting and very effective additions through the portal. Getting that perfect cocktail mix is no easy task. But everyone is going to try it now.

As a result, it’s more likely we see another national champion that recruits in the top 15, evaluates at an elite level, maintains and develops a veteran roster, sprinkles a few five-stars into the starting lineup and nails it in the portal.

If you’re a lowly rated high school player, are you better off going to a smaller program where you can play sooner and then transfer to a big program based on that performance? In the age of name, image and likeness and unlimited transfers, it doesn’t seem wise for a lower-rated player to go ride the bench at a top program that will constantly bring in transfer players ahead of them. This seems particularly true for QBs. — Anonymous 

I view it the exact opposite way.

If I were a lower-rated high school player, I’d go to the biggest program possible right out of the gate. Old worries about making a 40-year decision and the penalties that came with transferring no longer apply. You don’t like where you signed? You can rectify it with impunity as soon as you like.

There are plenty of Jared Verses out there who weren’t big-time recruits, went to a smaller college and transferred up — and it worked out great in the end.

But why would someone intentionally go that route? If the ultimate goal is to transfer into a big-time program one day, why wouldn’t you just sign with the big-time program? If that program is offering you a scholarship, that means the coaches believe you have the potential to play. Go there, enjoy top-level coaching, amazing player benefits, incredible facilities and work your tail off. If you get to that place and you’re not good enough, you have the very easy option of transferring to a school that better suits your skill set.

Actively choosing to go to a smaller school — when you have options to play somewhere more prestigious — with the intention of transferring later is weak. That means the player doesn’t fully trust his ability, right? And when you break it down, there are as many unknown circumstances that could arise at a smaller school that could prevent you from completing that plan as there are circumstances that would lead to you never playing or being recruited over at the bigger place.

What if you go to a smaller school and get injured? Struggle in school? Aren’t as good as you thought? What if the transfer class is really deep at your position when you want to leave? There are a lot of ways your plan can go off the rails, too.

The ability to transfer with ease is a huge benefit for those who want to take the big swing. In the past, signing with a school with a loaded depth chart could derail your entire career. Now it’s a beautiful opportunity to go compete somewhere with the best of the best and really get an idea of how good you are and where you stack up. Also, being a transfer from a big-time program without tape is often just as appealing as someone who played really well at a lower level. Players leaving big-time programs get the benefit of the doubt.

Take your shot, work hard and see where things land. Transferring, in my opinion, should be a backup plan. Not the primary one.

With the transfer portal being so prevalent, do you think recruits take their signing out of high school less seriously knowing they can openly and easily leave at any time with tons of other options? — Adam C. 

This pairs well with the question above. I don’t think they take it less seriously, but they are certainly more willing to take risks. Atypical destination? Stacked depth chart? The hurdles aren’t as scary as they used to be when it comes to choosing a school. If you swing and miss, you can swing again in a year. That lessens the gravity of signing a national letter of intent.

Ari, you frequently criticize Deion Sanders for wasting recruiting potential by not going on more school/house visits. What other coaches do you think are wasting recruiting resources (personality of the coach, proximity to talent, etc.), and what coaches maximize said resources the best? — Sam W. 

I don’t want to relitigate the whole Sanders discussion but do want to make it clear that I believe Sanders did a very good job getting a lot out of his first Colorado team considering where the program was when he took over. My disappointment in Sanders is that he’s not using his top qualification  — stardom/fame — to the fullest potential in his pursuit of high school football talent. It’s not that he has done a terrible job building the program. In fact, you can say he has done a good job. It’s that he is seemingly giving very little effort to the high school piece, which, to me, is a clear giveaway that he doesn’t plan on being there very long. Quick turnaround? Portal. Program health/longevity for a real, true rebuild? High school. Sanders didn’t visit a high school in the last cycle, but he had plenty of time for his book tour.

Why Deion Sanders is not maximizing his potential at Colorado: Recruiting mailbag

I’m not sure there are many coaches out there who fall into the “not trying” portion. Sanders is such a unique figure in this sport, it really is hard to draw parallels between him and his potential and other coaches. If Colorado had any other coach, we wouldn’t be focusing on the program this much. But Sanders is a star, and I thought he truly wanted to build something with staying power there. His behavior indicates otherwise.

That said, my mind drifted right to USC when considering your question. When Lincoln Riley took over, I thought the Trojans had a really good chance to build a legitimate West Coast powerhouse. I thought USC would clean up in California, land five-star quarterbacks and other elite players and take the college football world by storm. That hasn’t happened. In fact, USC has been smoked in its own region in the area of talent accumulation. Now, part of that may be because USC isn’t in love with some of the highly ranked players in its area, but here’s a snippet from Antonio Morales’ story from Wednesday that I found jarring :

“No Trojans assistant coaches were at St. John Bosco’s college showcase two weeks ago. Does USC have its reasons for that? Likely. St. John Bosco doesn’t have a ton of highly touted recruits in the 2025 cycle, but when there are already questions about the Trojans’ local recruiting, it probably helps to stop by. Especially at the high school program that’s been one of the top talent producers in the state.” 

It doesn’t matter if one of the best high school programs in Southern California doesn’t have any elite players. USC has to be there every single chance it gets. Not showing up to that showcase blows my mind, especially after the program just signed only one of the top 12 players in the state of California in the 2024 cycle. Oh, and it’s been only a few weeks since five-star cornerback Dijon Lee of Mission Viejo (Calif.) High  — one of the best defensive prospects in the country in the 2025 class — didn’t even include USC in his top four. Bananaland.

USC does have a top-five class in this 2025 cycle. It has three five-star prospects committed, each from the state of Georgia, which is really hard to do. That’s a very nice start for Riley as he’s desperately trying to turn the program around. But it would be nice to see USC dominating in its own region, which I always believed was the imperative part of USC’s build.

This is a nice transition to a program I think does a really good job maximizing its recruiting resources: Oregon.

Despite not having any talent in their backyard and being forced to recruit nationally, Dan Lanning and his staff have the Ducks in countless high-profile recruitments. The Ducks raid California and do an impeccable job in the transfer portal. In this new age of college football — where a team can recruit a top-15 class and transfer portal its way to national contention — I think the Ducks are in a prime spot heading into the Big Ten and the 12-team College Football Playoff era. Of course, NIL has a lot to do with it. But when it comes to resources, the Ducks get results, which is part of the reason why they are unquestionably the best program on the West Coast right now.

I thought Riley and USC were going to win that war. Right now, they are losing. Bad.

(Photos of Kirby Smart and Blake Corum: Joshua L. Jones and Troy Taormina / USA Today)

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Ari Wasserman is a senior writer for The Athletic covering college football and recruiting nationally. He previously spent 10 years covering Ohio State for The Athletic and Cleveland.com, starting on the Buckeyes beat in 2009. Follow Ari on Twitter @ AriWasserman