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From the BroadwayWorld Vaults: Relive the Magic of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
Nov 7, 2022
In honor of Throwback Thursday, BroadwayWorld is celebrating the past with a new series that will take you back in time with some of our favorite vintage video features. That's right- we are opening up the BroadwayWorld Vaults to reminisce on shows are long gone from the Broadway-scene, but have left an indelible mark on the world of theatre as a whole. Today, we bring you a vintage video from 2011. Relive the magic of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT below!
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Broadway listen to the Broadway Bees
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Broadway makes you want to move your beat. Everybody's happening to everything that's happening on Broadway Beats
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Broadway Beets, Broadway Beat. Hello, I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway Beat. The new musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, which is based on the Academy Award-winning film
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will open on Broadway Sunday evening March 20th at the Palace Theater
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following its sold-out North American debut in Toronto. Under the direction of Simon Phillips
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it stars Tony Sheldon, Will Swenson, and Nick Adams. Here's a sneak peek at Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
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Kings rising, barometers get low, to all sources. The streets are based to the wood
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Custin night for the first time Just about half passed in For the first time in history
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It's gonna start lightning at night It's raining bed It's raining bed Hallelujah
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It's raining bed I'm gonna go out Let myself get absolutely soaking wet
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It's raining there. Hallelujah, hallelujah. It's raining, baby. There is best, amen
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Tall, fly, dark and darkly, rough and tough and strong and strong and mean
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I'm so brave, I'm so brave. It's raining bed
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It's raining bed. Godless mother nature, she'd be the rain to sky
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That each and every woman, Each and every woman So that each and every woman
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Get on the perfect guy Ladies and gentlemen, The Imperial Tully Prosses
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Cidney's premier gender allusionists A lot, the only Miss Miss Missy Metavers
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Ha ha! Ha ha! Wee, you know what's earth! Uh-huh
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And have you got news for you? You gotta listen. So get ready on you lonely girls
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And leave those umbrellas at home. Alright! Because tonight, for the first time
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Just about her has been. For the first time in history, it's gonna start right now
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It's rain, it's right, okay. It's tick
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Dick, dear. How kind would you be grateful? Dahls, you know how you always joked
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about a comeback tour? Well, the joke's over. Yeah. Are you all right
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No, no, I'm not. What's the matter? I thought you must have heard
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It's trumpet. He just died. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh
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I can survive. I can survive
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Can stay alive. Can't stay alive. Without your love Don't leave me this way
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I can insist I surely miss Your tender king is
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Don't leave me this away Baby
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My heart is for love and is that for you So come on down and do what you've got to do
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You started this fire down in my soul But can't you see it's burning out of control
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Now come on down and satisfy with meeting me Because only your good loving can set me free
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Don't leave me this way Don't understand
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Please don't leave me this way. It's not fair. I spent half of the life at all my savings trying to snag a nice, sympathetic husband
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The selfish little shit goes and dies on him. He was broke
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25 years old and he slips over and about. He was peroxiding his hair again and he was asphyxiated by the skin
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Ah, baby! baby my heart is full of love and it's time for you so come on darling do what you've got to do
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you started this fire down in my soul but can't you see it's burning at him's all
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now come on down and satisfy the meaning of me because only all your love and care
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Hatches to ashes dust to dust Set me free Pregn't Phaar Phaar
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We are unplugging Warring wands and going bush Now why would you possibly want to leave
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behind all of this glamour For a hide in the middle of nowhere
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You really want an eye? Yes, Bridgett Ever since I was a little boy
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I've had a dream A dream that our final if a chance
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Three laws. And that is. To boldly go when no drag queen has gone before
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Travel to the center of Australia. Climb to the top of A is wrong, a full shy girl tits and feathers
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Sing a dazzling medley of Madonna classics. That's great. That's just what this country needs
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A cock in a frock on a rock. We will go away together
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Together, we will do someday. Together, your hand in my hand. Together, we will make the plants
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Together, we will fly so high. Together, tell our friends goodbye. Together, we will stop like you
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Together, this is what we'll do. Go worse, life is peaceful there
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Go west, not so low in air. Go west, to be like new
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Go west, this is what we'll do. Go west, sun and winter time
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Go west, we will do just fine. Go west, where the skies are blue
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Go west, this is what we'll do. I know that there are many ways to live there in the sun of shade
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Together, we will start life new. Together, this is what we'll do
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Go west. Light is peaceful air. Go west. Who wants a open air
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Go west. Where the skies are blue. Go west. This is what we'll do
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What we're gonna do is go west Life is peaceful there Go west
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Come above we get Go west To begin life new Go west
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This is what we'll do Go west Sun and winter time Go west
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We will do just fine The sky's art will go west. This is what we'll do
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Go west. My team, darling
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Who's the loser who runs this casino in the middle of nowhere
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Your mother? No, my wife. Oh, don't tell we've got a single boyfriend up to out here somewhere
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Oh, my wife. I'm married. This is getting too weird
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You and a woman. Well what did you do on your wedding night
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The best man? You know there are two things I don't like about you, Felicia
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Your face. So how about shodding both of them? Got any more little surprises you'd like to share with us
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You haven't got any kids stashed away as well, have you? Well, well, wow, how
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Who's done for a step? I don't know whether to clap you or slap you
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I hope you haven't dragged this across the Nullibor under false pretenses
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You two aren't thinking of getting back together, right? Marion's just calling in a favour
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The other woman in my life put an end to our relationship years ago
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Another woman? Me. Oh, yeah. Alright. At least you gave me. At least you gave a go
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Some of us never even got a chance. You're thinking about Trompin? No
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Trumper was just a nice kid who had a thing about transsexuals
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A lot of people do. Sort of a bent status symbol. It's always good for a supper room, might
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Burn. I'm sorry I never told you I was married. But I'm not sorry you're here
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Don't worry about it, darling. I was jealous as all the hell
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Before I put on my makeup, I'll say a little prayer for you
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while combing my hair up and wondering what dress to wear now
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Say a little prayer Forever and ever, you'll stay in my heart and I will live
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Forever and ever we never will far go how I'll you. Together, together, together, that's how it must be
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Please live without you Would only be heartbreak for me My darling, believe me
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Believe me There is no one My youth
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Answer my prayer Answer my prayer Answer my prayer
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Answer my prayer Answer my prayer I'm full of the bestie
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But while riding I think of a steam see I say a little boy hey
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Forever and never yeah Yeah, yeah Forever never Yeah Yeah yeah Yeah
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Yeah yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah be heart made for me Nobody for me Yeah
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Thank you
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