The three main characters are Tick, Bernadette and Adam, two Beginning in March and continuing through September, the musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert will be performed at the Palace Theater in London. This musical is based on the motion picture by the same name. transvestites and a transsexual from Sydney who agree to take their glamorous drag show on the road - to the Australian outback.
Jason Donovan as transvestite Tick / Mitzi, Tony Sheldon as transsexual Bernadette and Oliver Thornton as transvestite Adam / Felicia. Zoe Birkett, a former contantant on the ITV show Pop Idol, will play one of the divas. Jason Donovan is an Australian actor and singer who had the best-selling album in the UK in 1989.
Priscilla Queen of the Desert replace Monty Python & # 39; s Spamalot, which ends January 3. Other recent shows at the Palace Theater were Les Misérables, which ran from 1985-2004, The Woman in White from 2004-2006 and Whistle Down the Wind in 2006. The Sound of Music was done 2,385 times in the 1960 & # 39; The Palace Theater has been home to several productions that had long runs. Les Misérables ran for nineteen years and Jesus Christ Superstar for eight years, from 1972 to 1980. s. The Palace Theater also produced No, No, Nanette, which ran for 665 performances in the 1920 's.
The Palace Theater was built as an opera house by Richard D & # 39; Oyly Carte in 1890. The structure was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and was considered to be a novel design at the time of construction. Collcutt used concrete in many areas of the He also used steel cantilevers for support in order to avoid blocking the view of the stage with pillows.
The theater was originally called the Opera House. Unfortunately Carte did not have enough operas lined up to keep the opera house open, and he ended up selling the building to Walter Emden, who converted it into a music hall. The Palace Theater of Varieties and became successful under the new ownership. In 1911, the name was shortened to The Palace Theater.
She died of pneumonia shortly before her 50th birthday. It was reported that the Palace was haunted by the ghosts of Anna Pavlova and Ivor Novello. Anna Pavlova was a Russian Ballerina who performed at the Palace while it was was the management of Alfred Butt. Ivor Novello was a Welsh composer who also acted on stage occasionally.
The palace Theater is located on Shaftesbury Avenue near Chinatown and Leicester Square. It seats 1,394 people on four levels: stalls, Dress Circle, Grand Circle and balcony. The seats that have restricted views are available at a lower price and can often be a good Because of the most of them, especially in the last three rows of the stalls, the restriction is not different.
