Party Of The Week: Carry on camping

Guests at Priscilla, Queen of the Desert's after-party were met by a pair of towering queens called Kandi-Kane Baxter and Heidi Licious, who twinkled in pink and offered air kisses to the likes of Elaine Page and Zandra Rhodes as they entered London's Hippodrome.

The venue's interior had been transformed to resemble a giant, glitterballed 1980s disco lounge, with delights including mischievously named finger-food such as "sausage surprise" and "Bernadette's Buttoned-up salad", as well a show-stopping floorshow, complete with dancers and a surprise visit from the legendary Motown singer, Charlene, who sung her classic, "I've Never Been to Me", before the admiring gazes of Julien MacDonald, Richard Curtis, John Barrowman, Summer Strallen and, of course, the four gender-bending stars of the musical, Jason Donovan, Tony Sheldon, Clive Carter and Oliver Thornton.

The cast of singers and dancers toasted the success of the preview performance at the Palace theatre earlier that night, as guests mingled amid a flurry of pink lipstick, feather bowers and diamante-studded gowns. Members of the original film's creative team – writer and director Stephan Elliott, costume designers Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel, and producer Michael Hamlyn – joined together for a moment of nostalgia and some champagne toasts.

Flourescent cup-cakes – which had appeared in a scene in the musical show hours earlier – were handed round to guests as they poured out on to the street.