Piscilla, Queen of the Desert musical response essays

Piscilla, Queen of the Desert musical response essays This film represents freedom and inner growth through hitting the road and bonding with peers. For these three queens, the road offers a temporary, yet easy, way out of their everyday lives. Older and wiser Bernadette, middle-aged Mitzi, and young Felicia, ignorant to society outside the city life. Music director, Anthony Walker, did a nice job. Several of the songs reinforced the feelings of freedom as well as a journey into a new sense of life that runs throughout the film. The music is whats most memorable, perhaps second only to the costumes. The film has been criticized for being called a musical, as the queens are lip-synching to non-original songs, but it uses song and dance through its entirety. References are made to, "Les Girls," the 1957 film about three showgirls reminiscing upon their traveling days. It was a musical comedy directed by George Cukor, himself gay, and one of the actors name is Mitzi Gaynor, Hugo Weavings stage name in Priscilla. Some of the musical numbers and costumes have definitely inspired scenes in "Priscilla" and even some of the plot points are familiar. Terrence Stamp's character references it when he appeared to have been in the stage version of "Les Girls" during his youth. In both films, music is the method the three ladies, or drag queens, earn a living and enjoy life. Interestingly enough, Les Girls, was also criticized for being considered a musical due to the music being all staged and seen through flashbacks of the performers. In the Village Peoples Go West, the lyrics start the trios voyage with a sense of both togetherness and adventure. The chorus talks about starting a new life, finding oneself, together with friends. Its the perfect song to start a road trip with. In Charlenes Ive never Been To Me, the statement repeatedly made throughout the song is, I ran out of places and frien...