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:

Tony Clancy - 16 April 2013

This touring musical takes one of the campest films ever made and camps it up some more, staging a celebratory romp through transgendered excess. The story is a road movie where three drag queens drive from their natural environment, the revue shows of Sydney, through the aggressively heterosexual Australian outback, arriving after a series of mishaps and adventures to the welcoming arms of Alice Springs. Families are reunited, true love is found in unlikely places, the show goes on. An entertaining story, but its the songs that matter here.

The score is a compendium of gay disco classics ( starting of course with 'Its Raining Men') and the three main characters and a wonderfully energetic chorus line sing, dance and lip synch their way through a blazing succession of routines. The costume changes come at a breath-taking pace and showcase surely some of the wildest headwear that the Hiippodrome has ever seen. Feather boas abound and by the final number the cast is dressed as a...

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