Manly Musical Society (NSW) will present Tony, Drama Desk and Pulitzer Prize winning rock musical RENT (the 9th longest-running musical in Broadway history) at the Star of the Sea Theatre, Manly from May 17 – 25. This iconic show is the society’s 9th since forming in 2009 and President Keith Muir describes it as “the most ambitious yet!”
During May 2013, Stirling Theatre (WA) presents the premiere of a new play by Stirling Players’ resident playwright, Peter Flanigan, which he describes as a comedy-drama with a few current social issues thrown in for good measure.
Is it possible to “get away from it all”? Maybe; maybe not. A Country Retreat, written in 2010, is set in a rural area of the south west of WA and presents real characters in believable situations; a play for our time.
The Regals Musical Society (NSW) is producing the award winning satirical musical Urinetown from May 17 – 25. After premiering Off Broadway in May 2001, the musical transferred to Broadway, where it played for two and a half years, winning three Tony Awards including Best Book and Best Score.
When CLOC Musical Theatre’s World Amateur Premiere of The Phantom of the Opera hits the stage of St Kilda’s National Theatre on Friday May 10, Laura Slavin will appear as Christine Daae.
A doctor by profession, working in a major inner city hospital, Laura has successfully balanced performing with medical school and a busy professional life as a medical registrar since graduation.
What attracted Laura to audition for The Phantom of the Opera?
“Christine has been a dream role for me for as long as I can remember.
The 2012 CAT Awards (Canberra Area Theatre Awards) were presented at a Gala Awards Night on February 16, 2013.
BEST SET DESIGNER FOR A PLAY - Sam Lloyd - Seasons Greetings - Bay Theatre Players, Batemans Bay
BEST SET DESIGNER FOR A MUSICAL - Wendy Glover (concept) and Mal, Donna and Amy Copeland (construction and artistry) - Crazy for You - MoonGlow Productions, Wollongong
Penrith Musical Comedy Company (NSW) presents Eurobeat – Almost Eurovision at the Q Theatre, Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre this May. Fresh of their sold out season of Hairspray last year the company wants their audience to come and laugh out loud at this take-off of Eurovision, ahead of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest mid-May.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is almost as well known for its visual splendour and special effects as for its score.
Sets and costumes combine in this show with voices, performances and plotline to produce an all encompassing piece of theatre that is a joy to all the senses.
Engadine Musical Society will head down the yellow brick road to Sutherland Entertainment Centre from May 15 – 19 for their production of The Wizard of Oz.
Cast members Susie Hoggard, Chiz Watson and Lauren Beatson shared their thoughts on this much-loved classic with Stage Whispers.
The production is quite a family affair for the Hoggards (pictured left): Susie Hoggard is playing Glinda, son Tyler is playing Tinman and daughter Sarah is in the Adult Ensemble.
Phoenix Ensemble is set to take audiences on a wild trip of drugs of debauchery – but it’s all in the name of poking fun at propaganda.
Reefer Madness, playing at Beenleigh’s Pavilion Theatre for five weekends in May and June, is a parody musical inspired by a 1936 ‘educational’ film of the same name. The Phoenix production marks its Queensland premiere.
Has producing hit musicals like Avenue Q,Spelling Bee, The Witches of Eastwick, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweet Charity, Fame! and Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat for over a decade become a bit of yawn for JYM theatre company? This time, they have set themselves the challenge of producing Mel Brooks’ musical about an enormous, hilarious, stage disaster.
