Editing Freddie Mercury (section)

===Portrayal on stage===
On 24 November 1997, a [[monodrama]] about Freddie Mercury's life, titled ''[[Mercury: The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God]]'', opened in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lefkowitz |first=David |title=Freddie Mercury To Rise Again, Off-B'way, Nov.&nbsp;24 |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/35833-Freddie-Mercury-To-Rise-Again-Off-Bway-Nov-24 |work=Playbill |date=24 November 1997 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021131502/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/35833-Freddie-Mercury-To-Rise-Again-Off-Bway-Nov-24 |archive-date=21 October 2012}}</ref> It presented Mercury in the hereafter: examining his life, seeking redemption and searching for his true self.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Marone|first=Mark|title=On Stage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3gkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA46|magazine=Billboard|date=13 December 1997|page=46}}</ref> The play was written and directed by [[Charles Messina]] and the part of Mercury was played by [[Khalid Gonçalves]] (né Paul Gonçalves) and then later, [[Amir Darvish]].<ref>{{cite web|author-link1=Robert Simonson|last=Simonson |first=Robert |title=Bohemian Rhapsody: Freddy Mercury Play Begins Performances Off Broadway, Jan.&nbsp;11 |url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/83716-Bohemian-Rhapsody-Freddy-Mercury-Play-Begins-Performances-Off-Broadway-Jan-11 |work=Playbill |date=11 January 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021131929/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/83716-Bohemian-Rhapsody-Freddy-Mercury-Play-Begins-Performances-Off-Broadway-Jan-11 |archive-date=21 October 2012}}</ref> [[Billy Squier]] opened one of the shows with an acoustic performance of a song he had written about Mercury titled "I Have Watched You Fly".<ref>{{cite news|last=Barron|first=James|title=Public Lives; Theater Records|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E2DC153FF93BA25751C0A96E958260|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 February 1998|author2=Martin, Douglas|access-date=8 February 2017|archive-date=31 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331092156/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E2DC153FF93BA25751C0A96E958260|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2016 a musical titled ''Royal Vauxhall'' premiered at the [[Royal Vauxhall Tavern]] in Vauxhall, London. Written by [[Desmond O'Connor (cabaret performer)|Desmond O'Connor]], the musical told the alleged tales of the nights that Mercury, Kenny Everett and [[Princess Diana]] spent out at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London in the 1980s.<ref name="Diana"/> Following several successful runs in London, the musical was taken to the [[Edinburgh Fringe Festival]] in August 2016 starring Tom Giles as Mercury.<ref name="Diana">{{cite news |title=A cheeky trip down memory lane |url=https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/84245-royal-vauxhall/ |access-date=21 July 2018 |publisher=Edinburgh Festival |archive-date=30 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220330012151/https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/84245-royal-vauxhall/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>