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Priscilla Queen of the Desert – Waterside Arts
8May By Helen JonesNo Comments
North West

Priscilla Queen of the Desert – Waterside Arts

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was originally a 1994 film starring the sublime Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce.  Some years later it was converted into a stage musical, and it is one of the campest but fun musicals around.  Sale Nomads have this year brought it to Waterside Arts for a four-day run. The plot takes two drag queens and a transgender woman as they travel together across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs to perform at a resort there.  One of the drag queens, Tick, has a more important reason for organising the trip.  The resort is run by his wife and the six-year-old son he has never met is there.  Buying an old bus they name Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, their journey is an experience of rejection, acceptance and frien...
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Sweeney Todd – Waterside Arts
18Oct Avatar photoBy Paul WilcoxNo Comments
North West

Sweeney Todd – Waterside Arts

I always jump at any chance to see a show written by Stephen Sondheim, and as we approach the second anniversary of his death next month opportunities on both the professional and amateur stage approach thick and fast. Tonight, Sale & Altrincham Musical Theatre present 'Sweeney Todd' written by Sondheim and his long time collaborator Hugh Wheeler, a production that despite some excellent individual performances never fulfils its potential as the 'sensational horror show' that Sondheim conceived. Written at the zenith of his productivity in 1979, 'Sweeney Todd' is the tale of a tortured barber (played this evening by Richard Ross), escaping from transportation to Australia for a crime he did not commit, returning to Victorian London to exact his revenge on evil Judge Turpin (Jon Gard...
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