It’s an overused phrase, but Priscilla truly is the hottest ticket in town, with barely a handful of seats available for the remaining four performances this week at The Courtyard.

From start to finish this now iconic musical is a total joy – hilarious and uplifting, packed with irresistible infectious dance tracks from It’s Raining Men to Boogie Nights , Go West to I Will Survive, and at its core a beating heart of gold.

Gloriously camp and deliciously daft, the story of three bickering drag queens taking a battered bus called Priscilla across the outback to Alice Springs saw the audience dancing out of the auditorium with a song - plenty of songs - in their hearts.

Drag queen Mitzi (aka Tick) has cajoled fellow queens Bernadette and Felicia to join him on a voyage into the unknown on a battered bus they name Priscilla, but neither of his companions is aware of his hidden agenda – because fear of who-knows-what-the-reaction-will-be has kept Tick silent about his six-year-old son living in Alice with his mother Marion.

Priscilla is the latest production from Ross-based X-entricity, an amateur group which entirely belies that adjective – this was a dazzling show, brilliantly executed and boasting a cast who wouldn’t look out of place on a professional stage, directed by the very sure hand of Steve Liddle.

Performances were credible and moving across the board – no bum notes here – and this is a show that calls for real commitment to character and the highest of energy levels, both of which everyone on the stage delivered by the bucketload. By the end, so good was this production and so convincingly was the world of Priscilla created that I think we were all convinced we’d been on that bus journey across the dusty outback.

It’s a journey that proves life changing, particularly for Tick when Priscilla arrives at her destination – Tick’s first meeting with his son. And six-year-old Benji offers the adults a lesson as he unquestioningly accepts his dad and his lifestyle. As Tick reads his son a bedtime story, Benji asks ‘can you do Elvis?’, prompting Tick to respond with a moving You Were Always on My Mind.

A fabulously dazzling array of unimaginably over-the-top costumes and a playlist of the best of disco, many delivered in dynamic style by the trio of Divas – Millie Francis, Charlotte Green and Honey McKenna – make this a feel-good musical in every way. It offers lessons in tolerance, living and letting live and, of course, friendship.

X-entricity have delivered on every front, blessed with three properly fabulous performances from Ben Abbott, Lucas Abbott and Matt Elliot as Bernadette, Tick (Mitzi) and Adam (Felicia) and a wealth of talent in the ensemble and brilliant cameos from, among others Beth Smith as Cynthia, the mail-order bride, and Jo-Anna Grove as Shirley in a tour de force comic number.

Hereford will be talking about this production for years to come – if you want to be in on the conversation, head to courtyard.org.uk or call 01432 340555 to snap up one of the very few tickets left for two hours of unadulterated joy.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert runs until Saturday, November 4 at The Courtyard.