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

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on Broadway Beats, Broadway Beets, Broadway Beets, Broadway Beets. 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 Theater. 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, man

Hallelujah, it's raining, man, amen. I'm going to go out, I'm going to 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 to see my show. So I saw it. 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 developed 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 kind of wonderful qualities that different leading men could bring to a show

You know, you've got Tony's extraordinary capacity to inhabit that, that feminine character

Will Swenson's exquisite integrity in the sense that he's holding the heart of the show

in his, between his hands, you know, 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. So you can color my world with sunshine every day

For you can color my world with happiness all the way. Just take the reef from the glass and the blue from the sky on the fun

And you can color my world. Just paint in with your life

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 they triple threats all over the place Plus they look good in drag and drag and to look good and drag that a quadruple threat What the biggest highlight of the three of you do in 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? Right, right. 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

And I can't imagine doing the 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 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 in audience and just his timing is perfect, I just look up to him 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, come our friends with pie

Together we will start like you This is one way do Go west I do Go west

Lots of open there. No west. To be behind me go west

This is what we'll do. 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 lacage

I'll survive. I will survive. I will survive. So as long is I know how I'll still live

I've got all my life to leave. I've got all my life to hear

And I'll survive. I will survive. I'm going to cry. I'm going to drink I had, nothing for the fog

and trying hard to make the pieces of my broken heart

And I'm trying to hold on so many nights, feeling sorry for a woman

I was able to cry. You cry. And lay out in time

Oh, no, I'm going to cry. I'm going to die. Oh, and I'm going to die

Oh, I don't have a love. I know I can't. I've got all my life to live

My God, I know my love again. It's a count that I

I know I will survive. I will survive