Priscilla performance on "America's Got Talent"

I'm on West Coast, so it hasn't aired yet. What did they perform?

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They did McArther Park with the cupcakes.

This is the first promotional live performance I have seen that almost represents the actual Broadway show experience - almost.

The Tony award performance was a wreck. The Today show, the View etc have all been sad attempts to show off this fun show. I have seen the show 5 times and it is wonderful silly fun. I know people rank on it but I take it for what it is and just have FUN. If I used these promo performances to help me decide wether or not to buy tickets I would not. They need to stop doing these promos half assed, it is not helping them.

Tonight's promo performance was the best to date

Oye. Priscilla, why do you make yourself bad when you really aren't? When "With over 500 costumes" is in your intro YOU DO NOT SHOW OFF RAINCOATS!!!!!!!!!! And Lip Syncing a song that Tick DOES sing in? WHY!?

Also, is Lindsay Mendez in the show or was she just hired to temp a Diva?

Updated On: 7/13/11 at 10:13 PM

Isn't that dismal show shot in Vegas? I didn't realize it was LA...

Long time no post, but I'm a huge Priscilla fan and completely agree. The national promos are incredibly disappointing! I thought they ALMOST had it, but then they send Will out to the center of the stage, and he doesn't sing. It makes no sense AT all if you don't know what the show is about.

I've seen the show several times. I boast about how fun it is to family and friends, and after every appearance, someone says "I can't understand why you would like that show." It's not my typical show, but I absolutely love the chemistry between the 3 leads (not to mention the voices!), and the story about a father reuniting with his son is super sweet. Why not showcase those aspects?

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Will looked like he was in an insane asylum.....weird that they were promoting it on a dance show and the segment had virtually no dancing- just the usual marching and walking...they actually flew all these people and costumes out for that?????? I don't think the teen moms in the audience cared at all-that won't sell a ticket...did Flotilla de Barge put a curse on this show?

I believe those of you who say the show is very enjoyable on stage. But the TV promotions make it look like a hot mess. The numbers as performed on the Tonys and on AGT make no sense and give one no sense of the show. (I've seen the film and I'm assuming that's the basic narrative.)

And somehow on television, the costumes, no matter how ingenious, are just painful to the eye. It was one thing in the film when there were rarely more than 3 on camera at once and you had the monochromatic Outback for scenery; it's quite another when the costumes are backed by psychedelic swirls.

I'm surprised, given Midler is producing. She always does bad taste very tastefully.

Just throwing this out there. NBC consistently forces contestants and guests to change their performances at the last minute. It's almost always to tone down something super campy or simplify a sound scheme. I could see the show telling Priscilla to drop one of the mics onstage and not do costume changes for tech reasons. At least, they would claim they are tech reasons. It's a possibility.

But Broadwayboobs, she hand-wrote and signed all those letters to theatergoers about advanced ticket sale. c.c.

I don't know what is happening with the promotion of this show. If something as ridiculous as Mamma Mia can be a hit, why not Priscilla?

It is possible they were told to tone their performance down, would explain the raincoats, which usually cover up a more revealing & flamboyant costumes. But why would they have Mitzi (Will Swenson character) lip sync while not in drag. Not everyone is familiar with why they lip sync. The performance would have been way better if Will sang or if he opened the number the way it is opened in the show.

I am a fan of the show, it is fun, entertaining and wonderful on the eyes. Too bad this TV appearance did not reflect that, shame on who ever put it together.

Luv2Go, he did a pretty bad job of lip-syncing, too. That's what really got me thinking about how often AGT makes contestants and guests change their performances. Swenson's a better performer than that.

I'm glad to hear people saying that this spot was confusing and not a good ad for the show! Our family is going to New York in August and seeing 3 shows - Priscilla is one of them. Honestly, the best thing about that preview is that it has probably lowered our expectations, so we will probably end up enjoying the show even more once we actually see it! Our 10 year old thought the cupcake costume were hilariously random.

We are Broadway virgins (like I would imagine most of the Americas Got Talent audience would be) so only I have even heard Will Swenson, and that is only because I came on this site to get advice about shows! So my husband, my 13 year old and I just kept asking ourselves "who is that guy supposed to be?", "why isn't he singing?", "I thought this was supposed to be a musical about drag queen's, those 3 ladies singing weren`t drag queen`s, where they?". (10 year old was too busy laughing at the cupcakes to participate).

So... if we hadn`t already got tickets, I think that performance wouldn`t have compelled us to get them. But... I remain optimistic (based on what I have read here) that all it has done is lowered our expectations, which will make our experience of the real thing better!