Priscilla - Queen of the Desert

Synopsis

Sydney drag queen Mitzi and her two fish-out-water friends, Felicia and Bernadette, are heading west across the desert to Alice Springs in their battered old bus. They are each on their own personal journey of discovery, but together they put on a show unlike anything the locals have ever seen before. The musical is fashioned around disco hits including I Love the Night Life, I Will Survive, Shake Your Grove Thing and Finally. Based on the Oscar-winning film.

Our Review:

21 May 2013

A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do: travelling across the Australian Outback to see his son… and put on a bit of a show with two other drag queens. All three naturally have their own journey to make and it’s a shame the dialogue is not crystal clear throughout, although pithiness is balanced with poignance, particularly in the father and son reunion.

Jason Donovan puts in an exuberant turn as Tick/Mitzi, matched by Graham Weaver’s flighty Felicia, who even soars into an operatic aria, gorgeously assisted by the three Divas. Conversely, one of them, Ellie Leah, is something completely different in a bar scene, as the unreconstructed Shirley, while mechanic Bob, altogether more down to earth, is in the capable hands of Giles Watling.

Mitzi and Felicia are occasionally outshone by the stately Bernadette, for whom it is not just a matter of simply dressing up. Alan Hunter admirably reverses a trend: all sweetness and light on th...

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