Everyone gets to step outside their gender – and their usual key – in Uptown Players' Broadway Our Way shows. This year's version of the annual fund-raiser, Broadway Our Way D3: Divas Unite?, which opened Thursday, is another feast of musical cross-dressing. Women take on songs written for men and vice versa, while duets are swapped and flopped in unusual pairings.

The revue, written and directed by Andi Allen, also works as a showcase for a crop of recent Broadway musicals. So the songs aren't as familiar, or as identified with one sex or the other, often blunting the novelty even as some of the gender-crossings prove rough. That said, it's a lot of fun.

Early on, M. Denise Lee and Coy Covington – the latter taking a night off from his signature drag – pretend to fight over who's hosting. Then B.J. Cleveland shows up as Dame Edna and proceeds to mop the floor with both of them. Screeching like the real item, in a wisteria wig and a series of hideous gowns, he makes sure we never take D3 too seriously.

You can't help but take John de los Santos' dancing seriously, though. The man is made of some new space-age material, even if his singing voice isn't. When he and Emily Lockhart dance to "Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago, the kinetic chemistry sizzles.

But boys and girls dancing together is nothing new. More startling is Ms. Lee singing the bawdy "Big Black Man" from The Full Monty, and Linda Leonard singing "The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine" from Pump Boys and Dinettes.

When Amy Stevenson sings "This is the Moment" from Jekyll & Hyde, you forget the song's about drinking green chemicals, and it's powerful. Jeff Kinman and Cedric Neal nail a stirring duet in "Elaborate Lives" from Aida. But Sara Shelby-Martin and Ms. Lee can't quite relax during their pseudo-Sapphic "Worlds Apart" from Big River.

Donald Fowler beautifully renders "There Won't Be Trumpets" from Anyone Can Whistle. James Wesley struggles heroically with "Defying Gravity" from Wicked; you decide who wins. Casey Robinson works the crowd seductively with Avenue Q's "Special." Courtney Franklin and Linda Leonard show how lovely is "You Walk With Me" from The Full Monty.

And in a reflection of the way theater works in Dallas, Cara Serber sings "I Wanna Be A Producer" from The Producers, and someone hands her a mop and bucket.