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Time for the Stage Manager to go shopping ...

It’s not often that a Stage Manager is confronted with a props list which includes “quiche” and “vibrating dildo”. Most prop-buying expeditions are a dull experience: a bunch of plastic flowers, some ginger ale to pass for on-stage booze, maybe the exotica of an old newspaper. Frequently, the Stage Manager will ask the cast to donate some of their unwanted stuff. Such requests have been met with a cautious silence and the odd nervous giggle during rehearsals for My Romantic History.

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Church Stages Jesus Christ Superstar

Encourage Church, Romsey (Vic.) is presenting the Andrew Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar from October 12 – 27, 2012 and Russel Servis, newsletter editor nearby theatre company Mount Players, caught the final dress rehearsal of Michael and Susan Soleri’s production. Russel reports:

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Fab Nobs Wide Awake With The Drowsy Chaperone

Another intimate musical is taking shape at the Fab Factory in the Melbourne suburb of Bayswater. Coral Drouyn writes:

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Cait is Sweet Charity

When Queensland Musical Theatre presents Sweet Charity (Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me Now, The Rhythm of Life) at the Schonell Theatre, University of Queensland, from 31 October to 4 November, 2012, Cait Gregor will play the title role of eternal optimist Charity Hope Valentine.

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Cuckoo’s Nest for Perth Season

Confronting, unsettling, thought-provoking and heart-wrenching, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is the next production from Phoenix Theatre (WA), opening on November 8.

Adapted from the popular Ken Kesey novel for stage by Dale Wasserman in 1963, it explores institutionalised mental health patients, invasive medical proceduresand the delicate nature of the human psyche.

Most famously, it was made into a multiple Academy Award-winning film with Jack Nicholson in 1975 – although the film was based on the novel, not the play.

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World Premiere of Political Thriller for Chatswood

Was the Australian Government involved in the death of 15,000 innocent people? Robert Cockburn’s The Hotel Hibiscus, an Australian political thriller, which has its World Premiere at Chatswood’s Zenith Theatre (NSW) from October 19, questions Australia's complicity and silence in war crimes carried out just 20 years ago.

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Dickens Link for Oliver at Pine Rivers

The Pine Rivers Musical Association (PRIMA), Is a young and rapidly expanding theatrical group formed relatively recently in the Pine Rivers area (Brisbane), presents Oliver! from October 19 – 27.

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Gold Coast Calendar Girls Go All The Way

The director and cast of Gold Coast Little Theatre’s production of Calendar Girls, which opens in November, have gone all the way, even getting their gear off for their own ‘nude’ calendar.

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DUSTY for Chatswood Stage

One of pop music’s greatest Divas will be celebrated Chatswood’s Zenith Theatre in November when Chatswood Musical Society (NSW) presents DUSTY: The Original Pop Diva, a musical about the life and music of Dusty Springfield.

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Playlovers Get Their Skates on for Kander and Ebb Premiere.

THE Australian premiere of a musical written by the team behind Chicago and Cabaret opens in Perth on November 9, 2012.

Written by Kander and Ebb and directed by Alida Chaney at Playlovers, The Rink is set in a rundown 1970s rollerskating rink on the US east coast.

It’s a story of forgiveness between a mother and daughter – played by Chita Rivera and Liza Minnelli in the original Broadway production – as they try to find a way of letting go of the past to move into the future.

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