'Priscilla Queen Of The Desert- The Musical'- Palace Theatre — Page 16

I didn't realise that the management encouraged audience participation.

At this rate they'll make you an honorary cast member. Now Mama, please tell me you are not wearing drag this time.

The 100 performance photos look good.

Lol! A trifle embarrassing for ITV.com. Maybe they've been subtly influenced by scenes of dancing cupcakes...

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The schedule for the rest of the week is supposed to be:
Tues - Oliver
Weds - Jersey Boys
Thurs - Wicked
Fri (saving the best for last) - Priscilla (Queen of the Dessert)

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Because the songs are fantastic and the vocals incredible, particularly Ryan Molloy's! They were the best thing going at West End Live and must have sucked in a whole new load of fans from that performance.

Producers have now asked all agents to remove any reference to cast holiday dates from websites and literature. Summer sales aren't great apparently and the fact that Tony Sheldon, Oliver Thornton and Scott Robinson all have time off in August isn't helping.

They're putting out a 'you pay to see the show, not the actors' line. As true as that is in an ideal world, it doesn't work like that. I reckon they'll get some pissed off customers while they just take the money.

Hmmm... Jason Donovan's holiday dates have been well-publicised since the show opened and he is by far the most well-known (over here) of the three leads, plus actors taking up to a week off during the summer is a common occurence in the West End so not sure why any absences / holidays would lead to 'pissed off' customers who feel they have been ripped off (as lp implies)? I took a friend to see Spamalot at the Palace a couple of years ago - she's a huge, lifelong Tim Curry fan and he was out that night, but we loved his understudy and she had a fantastic time. I've seen Priscilla with JD's and OT's understudies on and can't say the audience reaction seemed in any way muted or diminished. In fact I'm sure some people weren't even aware of the change!

James1969: do you mean you'll be seeing the show on Saturday 11th July? If so I'll be going (again!), think at least one other BWW regular will be too. Hope you love it as much as I do!

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Hey James and Tiggo, I'll be there on Saturday night (it's my birthday) in my fabulous new outfit - even Liberace would think it too OTT. If you see me in my feathers(!) say hello.

I'll look out for you John - if you're wearing feathers it's only right that you take to the stage during farmer's boy! You might not look out of place up there during the finale either...

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I personally think its a loud of crap...but it does have its moments and I wouldnt say its anywhere near bad enough to walk out of

lol whoops!

Well now you mention it...both!

I must admit I was not too keen the first time I saw it but after giving it a second chance and a second visit and after many listens of the soundtrack (so camp but so good!) I thoroughly enjoyed it. I could happily go back to see it again. I think if you go expecting a deep storyline you will be disappointed. If you go expecting a camp, fun, exciting and colourful experience then you will really enjoy it.

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I've been reading the above posts and thinking that there must be a new song called "Farmer Boy", then I realised the song you are referring to is "Thank God, I'm a Country Boy".

What's with all this dressing up in costume? To the best of my knowledge this never happened in Australia. It must be something that is peculiar to english audiences. Very strange.