Community Theatre

JYM Theatre Company (Vic) follows its sell-out season of Avenue Q with its inaugural play season. Staging Marvin Chernoff's play, Chaim’s Love Song from September 1- to 9, 2012, JYM is excited to be tackling a new style of show and also taking on the challenge of producing two shows in the one year.

Says producer and company founder Shlom Eshel, “over the last ten years JYM has grown from strength to strength. I have a dedicated team and many supporters...it was the right time to expand.”

Rockdale Musical Society (NSW) will stage Dan Goggin’s off-Broadway hit Nunsense from Aug 31st at Bexley RSL.

Some musicals are performed to provide the audience with fond moments of happiness, joy and an all round good night out. But in 2012 Melbourne company Burwood Student Theatre Company (BuST Co.) have chosen present theatre-goers with a challenging musical with such powerful themes as love, loss, death, and greed.

BuST Co’s producer Alexandra Cole told Stage Whispers that the company has chosen a musical that is on many a performer’s ‘must-do-this-show’ list and comes with a fair whack of expectations.

Engadine Musical Society’s production of classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music, from August 17, marks the return to the EMS stage after a six-year break of Kerrie Hartin in the role of the Mother Superior.

Kerrie was just nine years old when she first saw the movie of The Sound of Music. It added to her growing love of all things Rodgers and Hammerstein who remain, to this day, her favourite composers of musical theatre.