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  Transgender actor Vonni lands ‘role of a lifetime’ in Gold Coast Priscilla produ

  Posted by Adrian on 27/04/2022 at 11:43 am

  From ABC Gold Coast
  By Nicole Dyer, Tom Forbes, and Kirsten Webster

  When The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert hit movie screens in 1994, the lead role of transgender character Bernadette Bassenger was played by male English actor Terrence Stamp.
  In 2006 the musical theatre version was first performed in Sydney and travelled around the world, including Broadway in the United States, and male actors were almost always cast in the role of Bernadette.

  But now transgender performer Yvonne Britain, whose stage name is Vonni, has been cast in the lead role of the Gold Coast production, in what is believed to be an Australian-first.

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