Broadway Rewind: PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT Reaches Its Final Destination on Broadway in 2011!

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Broadway Beats. Broadway Beats. Broadway Beats. Following productions in Australia, London, and its North American debut in Toronto

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the musical, has come to Broadway's Palace Theatre

Based on the Academy Award-winning film, the musical stars Tony Sheldon, Will Swenson, and Nick Adams

We're at the show's opening night to celebrate with the company. It's raining men. Hallelujah, it's raining men. Amen

I'm gonna go out. I'm gonna let myself get absolutely soaking wet

I saw it at the invitation of Jimmy Niederlander. I was doing some promotion in London and he said

if you're there, go over and see my show. So I saw it and I was like, I had never seen an audience carry on like that

So when he invited me in, I said I'd love to be involved in it. It's terrific

Well, we just started with an idea. I mean, it's a lovely movie, but it's not a musical movie

It's a movie with some music. But it seemed to have a great story arc

So we added some songs. We talked about, we developed it for two or three years

we enlisted the help of Australia's greatest theatre artists and here we are

It's just fun, you go and you know the music and everybody's having a good time

and there's a sweet story and everyone ends up happy and it's exactly what we need

I sick of seeing fingers being cut off The entire cast here is just remarkable I said to them before the show what just gives me so much joy is that a group of people could have such wattage at their centres

and such electricity in their fingertips. They work so superbly in every moment of the show

They give it everything they've got. And they're led by these four actors who, in their different ways

they're just a tribute to the most wonderful qualities that different leading men could bring to a show

You've got Tony's extraordinary capacity to inhabit that feminine character, Will Swenson's exquisite integrity

and the sense that he's holding the heart of the show between his hands

while he's making the journey. And then Nick Adams, this kind of irrepressible

manages to, he's got such fantastic warmth in his personality that he managed to make that kind of rather unpleasant character

seem like just a playful kid who's heedless and doesn't think about anything

Dancers like crazy. They're just wonderful. with the sky of the sun

And you can color my world Just waving with your eyes Just color my world

Just color my world Yeah, the leading men are amazing, of course

You have the three divas who can sing anything, but the ensemble is so strong

that they're all principal ensemble members. So this company is so strong and there are triple threats all over the place Plus they look good in drag and to look good in drag that a quadruple threat What the biggest highlight of the three of you doing the show Do you have a favorite moment

The entrance. Yeah, I love coming down on the perches in the end. I love the entrance

That's crazy, are you kidding? The audience is all hyped and excited and they see these three people descending and they're like, what

Yeah, no, that's pretty brilliant. That's like the best entrance on Broadway. They're the best co-stars in the world

I have learned so much from working with them. They make me a better actor. They've been so encouraging from the beginning and supportive of me

We really have such a special chemistry between the three of us that is so true and so real

I can't imagine doing this show with anybody else. I'm just lucky. I've just lucked out with co-stars

You always hope that you have chemistry with them, that you get along with them as people, because it's incredibly hard to try to fake chemistry on stage

if you don't like the person you're playing with. but Tony Sheldon if there was a competition for the most lovely gentleman in the history of the

world I think he might win he genuinely is just the best guy and that translates on stage he's

just oh he's he's such a role model to me on and off stage so humble and so talented at the same

time and the way that he works an audience and just his timing is perfect I just I look up to

in every way. Well, Will Swenson and Nick Adams, I could not have asked for anyone better

We're a mutual admiration society and it's a joy to recreate things every night

and come to it fresh. And they're just so much fun. They're easygoing and they're beautiful and loving

and I adore them. Together, we will fly so high. Together, tell our friends goodbye

Together we will start like you Together this is what we do Go West I can be the man go West Look I love the fact that the show is so multifaceted

that it presents itself as just a big, splashy, sort of production number Ziegfeldian type thing

done almost on the cheap. But there's also a really interesting story happening underneath

that's very revolutionary about two drag queens and a transsexual. I mean, I think that even tops Le Cage

I will survive I will survive I will survive Oh Oh Oh Oh

It's the one thing I had I just won't walk It's trying hard to make the pieces of my broken heart

And I've spent oh so many nights There are so many dinosaurs

Feeling sorry for myself I used to cry And lay down in time

Oh, my eyes I'm just alive Oh, I'm just alive I don't have a long road

I'm just alive I've got all my life to live I've got all my life to live

I'm just alive I'm just alive