Which US singer/actress produced the Broadway production of ‘Priscilla Queen of the Dessert’?
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (musical) End production in addition to its Bette Midler-produced Broadway debut in 2011. While the original production received one out of its seven Helpmann Award nominations, "Priscilla" was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical as well as two Tony Awards, winning these awards in the costume design categories. The drag queen Mitzi Mitosis – whose real name is Anthony "Tick" Belrose – is performing at a club ("Downtown" [Australia and London]/"I've Never Been to Me"; "It's Raining Men" [Broadway]) when his wife Marion, whom he has been separated from for several years because of his homosexuality, calls
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and its positive portrayal of LGBT individuals helped to introduce LGBT themes to a mainstream audience. It received predominantly positive reviews and won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design at the 67th Academy Awards. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and became a cult classic in both Australia and abroad. "Priscilla" subsequently provided the basis for a musical, "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", which opened in 2006 in Sydney before travelling to New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada and Broadway. Anthony "Tick" Belrose (Hugo Weaving), using the drag pseudonym of