GET READY TO SHAKE YOUR GROOVE THING DUNEDIN, BECAUSE MTF DUNEDIN proudly presents PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, the Musical IS ABOUT TO KNOCK YOUR FROCKS OFF!
Get ready to shake your groove thing Dunedin, because MTF Dunedin proudly presents Priscilla Queen of the Desert. This Musical is about to knock your Frocks off!
Due to popular demand - additional shows added!
Now live onstage from 3-12 May 2018. Click Here to Book now!
Based on the Oscar-winning movie, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT the Musical is the heart-warming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship and end up finding more than they could have ever dreamed of.
With a dazzling array of over 500 award-winning costumes, 200 extraordinary head-dresses and a hit parade of dancefloor favourites, this wildly fresh and funny musical is a journey to the heart of FABULOUS!
It's the world’s best party musical featuring all the hit songs from the movie and more including It’s Raining Men, I Love the Night Life, I Will Survive, Shake Your Groove Thing, Hot Stuff, Go West, Don’t Leave Me This Way and many more.
After winning a glittering array of international awards on Broadway, the West End, Europe and Asia, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT, The Musical will rock the Regent Theatre Dunedin’s foundations for a strictly limited season!
Don’t miss this “FEATHERED FABULOUSNESS & SEQUINED SPLENDOUR” by the same director and choreographer that bought us Mamma Mia, Grease: The Arena Spectacular and Mary Poppins
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ABOUT PRISCILLA
Based on the Oscar-winning movie by Stephan Elliott, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT the Musical tells the story of two drag queens and a transgender woman, who contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert.
As they head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla, the three friends come to the forefront of a comedy of errors, encountering a number of strange characters, as well as incidents of homophobia, while widening comfort zones and finding new horizons.
Produced by Allan Scott in coalition with Back Row Productions, Michael Chugg, Michael Hamlyn and John Frost, the Simon Phillips-directed and Ross Coleman-choreographed original production of Priscilla debuted in Australia at the Lyric Theatre, Sydney in October 2006.
Having had a successful run in Sydney, the production transferred to Melbourne in 2007 and then Auckland, New Zealand in 2008, before returning to Sydney for a limited engagement.
The Australasian success of Priscilla provoked a two-year strong West End production in addition to its Bette Midler-produced Broadway debut in 2011.
PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT IS A WORLDWIDE AWARD-WINNER:
Winner of Australian Greenroom awards, in London an Olivier award and the Whatsonstage.com award for “Best New Musical”, in the US a Tony award, in Canada 6 Toronto Broadway World awards for Best Direction, Choreography, Costumes, Lighting, Set and Sound, a Toronto Theatre Critics award, and 2 Dora Mavor Moore awards. In Italy Priscilla was the winner of 4 DAPA awards for Best Musical, Costumes, Make-Up and Sound as well as 5 Italian Musical Awards for Best Actor, Best Musical, Best Director, Best Costumes and Best Scenery. In Argentina the show won 7 A.C.E Awards including Best Musical & Best Production, 12 Hugo Musical Theatre Awards including Best Musical and 6 Carlos Paz Awards including Best Musical. In Spain Priscilla won 4 Spanish Musical Theatre Awards including Best Musical, Best Hair & Make Up, Best Costume Design and Best Male Newcomer as well as 5 Spanish BroadwayWorld Awards including Best Musical, Best Costumes, Best Musical Direction, Best Actor & Best Sound.
SYNOPSIS
ACT ONE
The drag queen Mitzi Mitosis – whose real name is Anthony "Tick" Belrose – is performing at a club "It's Raining Men" when his wife Marion, whom he has been separated from for several years because of his homosexuality, calls in for a favour.
While Tick is offstage, fellow drag queen Miss Understanding performs her own number ("What's Love Got to Do With It?").
From the phone in Tick's dressing room, Marion reveals that she needs an act for a few weeks at her business in distant Alice Springs, Australia. Tick is at first reluctant, but Marion informs him that part of the reason she's asking is because their now eight-year-old son Benji wants to meet his father ("I Say A Little Prayer"). Tick confides in another fellow drag queen Farrah, before deciding he will leave for Alice Springs.
After he decides to do the job, Tick calls a friend, a transsexual named Bernadette – whose birth name is Ralph – to join him but sadly, Bernadette's husband has just died. The pair meet at the funeral ("Don't Leave Me This Way") where Bernadette agrees to join him. Tick also asks a friend Felicia – whose real name is Adam Whitely – to come with them ("Venus"), with Bernadette taking an immediate dislike to his show-off performance style.
Nonetheless, the newly formed trio buy a "budget Barbie campervan" they nickname "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" ("Go West"). Tick informs them that the trip is a favour to his wife, but does not tell them it is also to meet his son who wants to see him ("I Say A Little Prayer (Reprise)"). As the journey to Alice Springs begins, Adam angers Bernadette after cracking jokes about her old life before being a transsexual.
Later the group goes into a bar, in full drag, and start a bar dance party ("I Love the Nightlife"), but when they return to the bus they learn that the townspeople wrote hateful statements on the bus in spray paint. Tick is very upset, but Adam and Bernadette comfort him ("True Colors").
While on the road, Adam practices his lip-syncing as Felicia sitting in the giant high heel on the roof of the van ("Follie! Delirio vano è questo! Sempre libera (from La traviata)").
The next morning, Priscilla breaks down and Adam buys lavender paint to erase the vandalism ("Colour My World"). They manage to get the locals of another town on their side and meet Bob, a mechanic from a small town nearby who agrees to help fix Priscilla. The group celebrates that they've found people that accept them ("I Will Survive").
ACT TWO
The second act opens with a group of bogans singing ("Thank God I'm A Country Boy").
Bernadette talks with Bob and learns that when he was in Paris, he saw her when she was a young "Les Girl" ("A Fine Romance"). The two begin to grow feelings for each other. Later in a bar ("Thank God I'm A Country Boy Reprise"), the trio is about to perform ("Shake Your Groove Thing") when Cynthia, Bob's wife, interrupts their act by "popping" ping-pong balls ("Pop Muzik").
After this, the trio leaves, leaving Bob to wonder about his feelings for Bernadette ("A Fine Romance (Reprise)"). All of a sudden, Bernadette asks if he wants a free ride back to his real home, in which he agrees ("Girls Just Wanna Have Fun").
Later when they arrive, Adam dresses up like a woman to try to meet men ("Hot Stuff"), but ends up getting chased and nearly becomes the victim of a hate crime until Bernadette rescues him by kicking one of his attackers.
Later as they arrive in Alice Springs, Tick reflects on the trip after someone literally leaves the cake out in the rain ("MacArthur Park").
As another act performs first ("Boogie Wonderland"), the trio gets ready to perform a variety of songs that they sang or lip-synced on their journey ("The Floor Show").
Afterwards, Tick finally meets his son, who accepts his father's sexuality and lifestyle ("Always on My Mind/I Say a Little Prayer") and Adam gets to perform his own solo Madonna hit, ("Confide in Me/Kylie Medley"), his favorite singer.
Afterwards the gang talks about their plans after Alice Springs, and realize they can't leave each other ("We Belong").
They go off stage together and the company performs a medley of songs to close the show ("Finally (Finale)").
Now live onstage from 3-12 May 2018. Click Here to Book now!
