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Shaftesbury Avenue W1V 8AY
The Musical
Map ©Silvermaze Ltd
2008
Photo kind permission Tony
Reading
2008
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Local Info Top Class restaurants nearby; Beotys (Greek & Trad English) 79 St Martin's Lane 020 7836 8768 Laureate (Chinese) 64 Shaftesbury Avenue 020 7437 5088 Spice of Life (Great Pub food & Live music) Cambridge Circus 020 7437 7013 (Next door to the theatre) |
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A note from the author We put this AVMovie together (a compilation of still photos and video clips) to show off London theatres as they are seen most often by theatre goers – by night. Thanks to Ben Shafik for his lighthearted and informative commentary and Fionn O'Lochlainn for the original music. Watch out for the new version with current liveries and the names of the theatres as they appear. Baxter |
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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 Billington
Men 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
• Tick (Mitzi) - Jason Donovan
• Bernadette - Tony Sheldon
• Adam (Felicia) - Oliver Thornton
• Bob - Clive Carter
• Miss Understanding - Wezley Sebastian
• Marion - Amy Field
Director - Simon Phillips • Design - Brian Thompson • Lighting - Nick Schlieper • Choreography - Ross Coleman • Costume - Tim Chappel
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