And the boy’s done good! But overall, Priscilla owes as much to each and every member of the impressive ensemble cast as she does to the leading ladies (and gentlemen, of course) both front and backstage. In 2019, he hung up his high heels and stepped into the producers’ shoes for the first time the production we’re focusing on today is the result of Donovan’s career gear-shift. Having appeared in the role of Tick/ Mitzi in the 2009 London stage (and touring) production of Priscilla, Jason Donovan knows far more than most about keeping the show’s wheels turning. Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical – Photo credit Darren Bell Twelve years later, the stage musical adaptation premiered at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre since then, Priscilla has dragged Bernadette,Tick/ Mitzi, Adam/ Felicia and all the tears, tantrums and tiaras their battered suitcases can hold to theatres around the world multiple times… and on this outing, they’re in the hands of a very competent tour guide. When writer/director Stephan Elliott’s uniquely offbeat Australian road movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert shimmied into the cultural consciousness in 1994 it became an unexpected worldwide hit, lauded and applauded for bringing an intelligently positive portrayal of LGBT themes to a mainstream audience and swiftly earning global cult classic status. Restrictions are lifting, holidays are on the near horizon and happy days are (almost) here again if we’re going to have any kind of coming out party at all, three drag queens in a battered camper van are the perfect hosts.

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