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Priscilla
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An Energy dance production which is OTT Super glam, super throb, Sheer Ebullience.
What the show is really about is spectacle; which, thanks to Brian Thomson's production design and the costumes of Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, is hurled across in bucketloads. Michael BillingtonMen Wearing fancy costumes - only men can render them so fancy. As with many camp productions costume and spectacle are forefront. The gags are gratuitously glaring. However the sheer force of the music and dancing allow them the trivial status they deserve among other things that create the OOh and AAh. The glaring unapolgetic musical, had its gala opening Tuesday 10th March 2009. It was adapted from an Australian movie released 1994 - fifteen years ago about a transsexual traveling with two drag queens on a bus across Australia's Outback. (It was a hit in Australia where they love raw energy and outrageousness) The Story Tick, a slightly tattered drag artiste travels from Sydney to Alice Springs in a battered bus to meet his son whom he hardly knows. Tick and his companions - drama-loving diva Adam and mature transsexual Bernadette - receive mixed receptions wherever they go from animosity to love. They give out crude single entendre humour as well as realness - they sure are there in their boots. The Bus 'Priscilla' is a lot of fun - She carries a tender and simply slender story. Eye grabbing costumes and a karaoke like soundtrack relentlessly offering classic pop and disco from "Downtown" to "I Will Survive." "makes 'Mamma Mia!' look like Chekhov,"Charles loves its "insanely euphoric and wildly contagious vulgarity." Charles Spencer - The Daily Telegraph Brits can be a little offish unless there's at least a double entendres if not three. Those who disapprove may get something to disapprove of here. "Everyone else will have a ball as well." Cast
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