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:

Glenn Meads - 13 February 2013

Over the last few years, touring shows have stopped becoming the poor relation to their West End brothers and sisters - offering audiences high production values, decent casts and lavish sets. Step forward Priscilla, which along with the Lion King and Hairspray - is currently on the road and in the North West.

The narrative is familiar to fans of the hit movie which starred Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp. Three drag queens go on a road trip/tour - taking in the sights and sounds of the Australian outback in an old battered bus. Original star of the show Tony Sheldon has said that in the beginning the producers avoided celebrity casting "because the bus was the star of the show." This was the case in the West End version, as even poor sight-lines couldn't stop the audience applauding this gorgeous set design. The bus was a star; after all the name's in the title and that's in lights.

Here, the bus has been downsized so much, you hardly...

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Latest User Review

Heather - 25 February 2013:

The cast worked their socks off and created a great atmosphere, but the downsizing of the set from the West End meant that Priscilla the bus was hardly noticeable, and I couldn't understand why after Colour My World, the screens on the "bus" were all blue - surely pink would at least have tried to give the impression of a bus now painted pink. And the shoe scene - ridiculous having Graham Weaver perched on an oversized ladder. Some attempt at a shoe should have been made. The two iconic emblems of the show, the bus and the shoe, are sadly now missing and this lets down the splendid cast and well-loved show for anyone who has seen the West End production previously....

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