Community Theatre

Everyone wants a little bit of FAME!

Imagine yourself standing centre stage, a single spot light, a silent crowd of thousands. You sing a heart squeezing, wicked, poignant song and the crowd leaps to their feet. This is the dream so many young children and adults have. This is FAME.

More than just a word to describe the filthy rich, FAME is the yearning to be heard, seen and accomplished on stage and in the creative world. Whether it’s dancing, acting, singing as an amateur or professional, every creative pursues a fleeting minute of FAME.

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Disco Meets Classic Soapies in Soundsations

Life is a song worth singing in Soundsations - headed for Brisbane in May / June 2014.

The show fast forwards through 795 episodes of glamour, passion, romance, comedy and mayhem involving the dysfunctional Von Maestro family who talk and sing in popular song titles.

Major and his family own a musical empire Soundsations. His evil identical brother Bass plans to copy pieces of a platinum record used to unlock Soundsations’ valuable song catalogue.

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FOOTLOOSE DANCES INTO ROCKDALE

The Regals Musical Society celebrate their return to Rockdale Town Hall with Footloose, the classic tale of teenage repression, rebellion and victory made famous in the hit 1984 movie starring Kevin Bacon, now celebrating its 30th anniversary, in their production of the stage musical version of Footloose.

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Painting Brighton Theatre Company RED

Brighton Theatre Company’s second play for the 2014 season RED plays from Wednesday, May 21st until Saturday, June 7th (Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays)

Written by John Logan and directed by Vicki Smith, RED is a drama set in late 1950s New York.

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Superstar in Sydney’s South

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock musical extravaganza Jesus Christ Superstar is Engadine Musical Society’s May 2014 production at Sutherland Entertainment Centre, following recent successes including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz and Peter Pan.

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Rotorua HAIR Makes Musical Love NOT War

Tickets for the Rotorua Musical Theatre’s first production of 2014, HAIR, are selling fast!

Director Richard Marshall says “We have so far sold over 50% of all tickets. With opening night this coming Friday anyone thinking about buying tickets needs to book their tickets now, to avoid missing this psychedelic production”.

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Can't Pay? Won't Pay!

Campbelltown Theatre Group presents Dario Fo’s Can't Pay? Won't Pay! From May 16 to 31, 2014.

Do you find anything amusing about grocery shopping? Well, after Can't Pay, Won't Pay no shopping trip will never be the same again as two couples and battle against supermarket prices. Civil disobedience has never been funnier and leads to riotous outcomes. You’ll remember and giggle about this comedy each time you reach for that tin of beans.

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Singing Legend Julie Anthony launches Strathfield's Phantom

Julie Anthony AM OBE will launch Strathfield Musical Society's The Phantom of the Opera at a gala evening on 31 May 2014 at Club Five Dock.

The launch event titled “Masquerade” is the official opening of ticket sales for Strathfield's October production of The Phantom of the Opera and gives attendees the first opportunity to buy premium tickets for the show. Strathfield Musical Society is one of only a few amateur societies in Sydney to secure the rights to this exciting production.

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Witches Abroad Premieres in Maryborough as Company Celebrates 65 Years

Maryborough Players (Qld), will celebrate their 65th Anniversary in 2014 by staging the World Premiere of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Witches Abroad, adapted by Ian 'Renoir' Rennie, at the Brolga Theatre, Maryborough from June 4 – 7, and by holding a special Anniversary Dinner on June 21.

Robert Haigh from Maryborough Players said the theatre group was honoured to stage the world premiere of the adaption of Witches Abroad, which “ironically contains some parallels with the Maryborough of old”.

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Phoenix Theatre Brings Cosi to Perth

Louis Nowra’s popular Australian play Cosi is being staged at Phoenix Theatre in Hamilton Hill (Perth, WA), during May 2014.

It follows fresh-faced university graduate Lewis, who is contracted to put on a play at the local asylum with some of its patients – but he feels out of his depth directing them in the opera Cosi fan tutte.

Through working with the patients, Lewis eventually discovers a new side of himself which allows him to become emotionally involved and to value love.

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