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3 mar 2024 · The Woman in Black Comes to Sydney. 16 April, 2024 Sean McLoughlin. CHICAGO “The sharpest, slickest show on the block”, heads to Canberra. 16 April, 2024 Aussie Theatre. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Set for Broadway Transformation Under Director Jon M. Chu. 18 April, 2024. Adelaide, You Better Shape Up! as GREASE is set to open at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
3 giu 2020 · In nineteenth-century Australia, theatre managements usually relied on independently produced programmes in the style of a small four-page newspaper. The principal Melbourne ones were The Programme, The Call, The Lorgne tte and L’Entr’Acte. Sydney had Our Amusements and Adelaide The Electric Spark.
- Frank Van Straten
- Fangirls
- The Legend of King O’Malley
- The Deb
- Lola Montez
- Bran Nue Dae
- Only Heaven Knows
- The Sapphires
- Moulin Rouge!
- The Boy from Oz
- Keating!
Have you ever loved something so much all you could do is scream your guts out? Fangirls, Yve Blake’s musical (which is currently enjoying a raucous and wonderfully evolved new season at the Sydney Opera House) is all about the ways teenage girls and queer kids find themselves, and each other, in fandom. Fourteen-year-old Edna kidnaps a Harry Style...
You may not have heard of it, but this 1970 musical by Bob Ellis and Michael Boddy was a big hit when it premiered. In an unruly, vaudevillian style, the show tells the story of Australian politician King O’Malley, who was one of the colourful key figures in the early years of the Labor party. Some historians even believe the US-born politician was...
This is the newest entry on our list, but we’ll happily fight for its place. This sweetly moving showabout a dorky high school misfit in a rural town knows its own heart. It’s got a great and classically structured book by Hannah Reilly – like a golden age musical, every character has their resolution by the end of the night – and songs by Megan Wa...
Australian musical theatre history is full of forgotten gems: productions remembered by those who were lucky enough to be in the room where it happened, a song or two surviving to become cabaret and theatre school standards. Lola Montez, the 1958 musical with beautiful classical melodies, is one that may have been forgotten too soon. Written by Ala...
Bran Nue Dae was the first Aboriginal musical, penned by Jimmy Chi and his band Kuckles. It follows Willie Johnson, expelled from his boarding school in Perth, trying to find a way back home to Broome, and is set to a beautiful set of songs that draw on country and early rock’n’roll. The musical had a successful national tour when it premiered in 1...
Alex Harding’s musical charts the changing face of Sydney’s Kings Cross, one of Australia’s longstanding homes for outsiders and social outliers, and the action is observed by an angel: Lea Sonia, a real-life Tivoli-era drag performer. The first act takes place in 1944, where a young boy from the country finds love and family in a community of arti...
The Sapphires takes this spot on the strength of both its original stage production and its more expansive screen version, which had a powerhouse cast in Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell. Written by Tony Briggs, it was inspired by the story of his mother, Laurel Robinson, and aunt Lois Peeler, and follows a singing...
Baz Luhrmann reached peak Baz with his 2001 jukebox movie musical. His kaleidoscopic visual style – which was brewing away in his feature debut Strictly Ballroom, and pushed even further in Romeo + Juliet – explodes in full force in Moulin Rouge! The visuals matched the carefully curated soundtrack, which stitched together pop music from recent dec...
The first Australian musical to make it to Broadway, the 2004 turn was all but eclipsed by Hugh Jackman’s Tony award-winningBroadway debut. But its original production, starring Todd McKenney, was a classy biographical musical that reminded us of the talents and charisma of its protagonist, Peter Allen. The original book, by Nick Enright, threads t...
Casey Bennetto’s musical about Australia’s 24th prime minister had inauspicious beginnings, having started as a lo-fi production performed to small audiences at the Melbourne international comedy festival. But it quickly became the hottest ticket of the festival, winning the MICF award for best show. It was redeveloped and directed by Neil Armfield...
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Chicago the Musical. Her Majesty's Theatre Melbourne 219 Exhibition St, Melbourne. Apr 13. Featured 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm.
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Tosca “Drama to hit you in the gut ★★★★★” (The Independent) Margaret Court Arena, 24–30 May Sydney Opera House, 25 June–16 August Find out more Sunset Boulevard the Musical Princess Theatre Melbourne, from 21 May Sydney Opera House, from 28 August Find out more La Bohème National Tour From July Find out more Watershed: The Death of … Continued
26 mar 2020 · Stage. This article is more than 4 years old. 'You leave changed': critics pick the best of Australian theatre in 2019. From a reimagined Wake in Fright to Hannah Gadsby’s post-retirement...
