PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review, Pic and Discussion Thread- Page 2
PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review, Pic and Discussion Thread
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#25
Posted: 10/9/06 at 11:12amI really hope this one makes it to Broadway. I would LOVE to see it.
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#26
Posted: 10/9/06 at 11:41amWITH the original cast - or at least Sheldon. Please.
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#27
Posted: 10/9/06 at 12:02pmGREAT reviews.....thanks everyone for posting. *goes to play lotto so that Rath and me can go*
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#28
Posted: 10/9/06 at 12:03pm
YAY! 
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#29
Posted: 10/9/06 at 12:20pmAny news on a OCR yet?
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#30
Posted: 10/9/06 at 12:23pmI haven't heard...good question. Hopefully someone here has an answer.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#31
Posted: 10/9/06 at 7:59pmI'm guessing but I doubt there will be a OCR. I notice on the website there is a CD of songs used in the show (original recordings). This is possibly as good as you'll get. This is what they did with DIRTY DANCING.
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#32
Posted: 10/9/06 at 8:02pm
Well that makes me sad.
Hey, let's start a petition!
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#33
Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:13pmShelly is now a LEGEND! outside his own mind!
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#34
Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:15pmummm, Shelly?
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#35
Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:21pmThe fantabulous Tony Sheldon- BIG FAT FAKKING THEATER STAR OF THE GALAXY!!!
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#36
Posted: 10/10/06 at 1:25pmHe should be after this, anyway!
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#37
Posted: 10/11/06 at 8:48am
SX News Review:
SX News
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#38
Posted: 10/11/06 at 9:20am
Thanks for posting that Rath..can't wait to see this...and I have faith that I will. 
BTW.....doesn't sound like there will be an OCR..seems Australia isn't big on them...so we'll just have to wait until it gets here.
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#39
Posted: 10/11/06 at 5:10pm
What a fabulous (and completely sound) idea! And it sounds like a hoot.
Man, to be able to travel to see all this great stuff.....
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#40
Posted: 10/11/06 at 6:53pm
God, Australian reviewers are ****, if this was a sports game the review would be in depth.
Not just 100 words of nothing!
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#41
Posted: 10/11/06 at 6:56pmI agree, rosscoe.
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#42
Posted: 10/13/06 at 8:57am
Here's a fun article/interview with Sheldon from BBC Sydney:
Priscilla, Queen of the Musicals
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#44
Posted: 10/18/06 at 9:01am
Well Variety came in with there review, and is not that kind...
The stage adaptation of Stephan Elliott's quirky 1994 Aussie film "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" is much like a preening drag queen: brash, glittering and a towering achievement, but upon close inspection her bones are not as fine as might be expected.
Tale of three glamazons on an road trip from Sydney to Alice Springs in a dilapidated bus has received a full-throttle makeover. There are almost twice as many numbers (39, mostly disco), with all but those laid over the various drag bits performed in full voice, and the stage is awash with jaw-dropping costumes.
But the celebration of camp Australia that was fresh and contemporary in 1994 is somewhat passé in 2006, and the rich national flavor that will enchant local auds could limit the production's export potential, vital to justify its A$7 million ($5 million) development cost.
Tony Sheldon was born to play the older transgender character, Bernadette (portrayed by Terence Stamp in the film). Equally, Adam Scott as the Guy Pearce character Felicia is energetic and comic, but Jeremy Stanford as Tick (Hugo Weaving in the film), who brings the trio together and carries the weight of the story, lets the side down.
He misses cues and doesn't come close to matching the strong moves and fine voice of his co-stars. Somehow, he also got the really uninspired costumes, the single flaw in the otherwise best-dressed musical ever staged in Oz.
Costume designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner, who won an Oscar for their wardrobe on the movie, insisted on a significant budget increase, and every dollar has been well spent here. Show swims in color, not just in the imaginative drag getups but also in the frocks adorning the three divas, the chorus in various bars and the queens' street clothes.
The sets were always going to be tricky. The Aussie Outback is sparse, flat, endless and unchanging, so the kitted-out bus in which the drag queens travel is key. But the vehicle is mostly dwarfed by the vast stage.
Helming his first commercial tuner, Melbourne Theater Company's artistic director Simon Phillips has drawn on disparate influences. A funeral scene marking the death of Bernadette's partner was inspired by the funeral of theater director Richard Wherrett, whose pallbearers walked to Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way."
A bush dance scene wherein audience participants are left stranded onstage is reminiscent of a scene in Phillips' 2005 production of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." And the parade-like finale, a hodge-podge celebration of Australiana, recalls the 2000 Sydney Olympic closing ceremony.
Allan Scott's book only occasionally deviates from the original script, mostly to good effect, as in added references to contempo gay icons Kylie Minogue and Madonna. The addition of a "Macarthur Park" scene, complete with twirling cupcakes, is indulgent but gorgeous.
Nearly all the music is sourced from existing hits that come from outside Australia: Petula Clark's "Downtown" and Charlene's "Never Been to Me" hail from the original film, but Womack and Womack's "Teardrops," for example, has been added.
The humor, vernacular, even the gentle sociopolitical references wed this show to Oz, where it will be warmly appreciated by auds fond of the film. But the production in its current form falls short of the stated aim of family entertainment.
The infamous ping-pong ball scene, where an Asian woman stages an impromptu sex show, is done tastefully, but removal of liberal profanities and of a scene with the boys cavorting in a leather bar would broaden the show's appeal beyond a narrow demographic.
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#45
Posted: 10/18/06 at 9:14amI recall reading that Sheldon was "born" to play Roger DeBris as well - he must be one fine actor. Dying to see him in something.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#46
Posted: 10/18/06 at 10:16pm
PRISCILLA - Song List.
ACT 1.
Overture
Downtown
I've Never Been To Me
What;s Love Got To Do With It
Don't Leave Me This Way
Venus
Go West
I Say A Little Prayer
I Love The Nightlife
Both Sides Now
Follie! Delirio vano e' questol...Sempre libera ( La Traviata)
Colour My World
I Will Survive
ACT 2
Thank God I'm A Country Boy
A Fine Romance
Shake Your Groove Thing
Pop Musik
A Fine Romance ( Reprise)
Girls just Want To Have Fun
Hot Stuff
All By Myself
Mac Arthur Park
Boogie Wonderland
The Morning After
All By Myself (reprise).
Always On My Mind
Confide In Me
We Belong
Finally ( Finale)
Phew!
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#47
Posted: 10/18/06 at 10:31pmWhoa. What an amazing list. Are we sure they aren't going to record it?
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
re: PRISCILLA: THE MUSICAL Review Thread#49
Posted: 10/18/06 at 10:46pmOh believe me, I am.
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