Community Theatre

New Musical Promises Behind The Scenes Drama

CURTAIN call is drawing near for all-new musical When The Lights Go Down, the latest home-grown production at Phoenix Theatre (WA) from Dark Psychic Productions, opening on October 26, 2013

Written and directed by resident Kathleen Uhlmann (from East Fremantle), When The Lights Go Down explores what happens behind-the-scenes with humour and bedazzled drama.

The show will feature a cast of more than 25 performers from across Perth and a live band, with an intimate cabaret setting delivering a Las Vegas Supper Club atmosphere.

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The Club Extends Footy Fever into November at Galleon

The September 2013 AFL Grand Final might be behind us, but with its production of David Williamson’s classic and extremely funny satire The Club, Adelaide’s Galleon Theatre Group are giving audiences a chance to experience Aussie Rules footy fever for a few weeks longer.

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Rob Guest Future Prospect Winner in New Musical at Genesian Theatre

Rising talent Ben Bennett, recently announced as the winner of the Rob Guest Endowment Showbiz International Future Prospect Award for 2013, also seen on ‘The Voice’ in 2012, is to headline a brand new musical, The Star Child, opening at Sydney’s Genesian Theatre in November 2013.

The Star Child is based on a short story by Oscar Wilde and was written by Sydney lyricist Roger Gimblett and Melbourne composer Nicholas Edwards when they were both working in London for West End theatre company Stoll Moss Theatres.

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The Producers at MLOC

Rehearsals are well under way for MLOC's production of Mel Brooks Musical The Producers, being presented from November 8 -16, 2013 at the Phoenix Theatre, Elwood (Vic).

With a book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, and music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, The Producers musical, based on a 1967 movie written by Mel Brooks, became a Broadway hit, running for 2,502 performances, and winning a record-breaking 12 Tony Awards, followed by a new musical movie in 2005 featuring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick and Urma Thurman.

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Berlin, 1930, in Newcastle

Step back in time to a world where the seeds of World War 2 were being sown, with Newcastle Theatre Company’s October production of I Am a Camera.

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HOLY DAY

Following hard on the heels of their acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Adelaide’s University of Adelaide Theatre Guild is challenging audiences once again, this time with its October production of Andrew Bovell’s chilling mystery of fear and survival, Holy Day.

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Adrift in Macao, in Coolum

In October 2013 Coolum Theatre Players (Qld) present Adrift in Macao, a 2007 musical parody of film noir movies, originally produced Off-Broadway at the Primary Stages Theatre Company. With a book and lyrics by Christopher Durang, the show’s Drama Desk nominated score was composed by Peter Melnick, a grandson of Richard Rodgers.

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Jack Climbs That Panto Beanstalk Again in Bexley

Just in time for the September school holidays, St George Theatre Company presents a pantomime version of the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk, is filled with songs, melodrama, a dancing cow, and in true Panto style lots of audience interaction is promised.

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LUCK THE MUSICAL

The Top of The Torrens Theatre Group (SA) is clearly ready to take risks in producing Mark Waldrop’s fractured fairytale, Luck The Musical.

The November 2013 production, thought by Director David Evans to be the first time the musical has been staged in Australia, poses a massive logistics task. Based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, the musical was originally written for a ‘Broadway- style’ theatre, one with all the appropriate equipment that can be found in a major live theatre venue.

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Neil Simon Pulitzer Winner at Limelight

Limelight Theatre (WA) opens a window into the past from September 26, with Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Lost in Yonkers, a coming-of-age tale about a dysfunctional German-Jewish family in World War II.

Set in Yonkers, New York, two young boys are left with their tyrannical grandmother while their father goes away to earn money to pay a loan shark.

Their mentally-challenged Aunt Bella also lives in the house and is delighted her nephews have come to stay – meanwhile, their Uncle Louie collects dirty money for The Mob.

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