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Bundy to the Big Apple

Coral Drouyn talks to Nelia McNicol, the latest in a long line of Australian performers making their mark in New York.

It’s a long way from Bundaberg Queensland to the heady heights of Broadway, New York - and I am not just measuring the distance.

The Curse of the Music Theatre Actor

Image: Tim Draxl in Into the Woods with Andrew Coshan. Photographer: Christopher Hayles

 

Tony Award Winning Musical Parade for Sydney

A true story about an unsolved murder that divided a nation, Jason Robert Brown’s Tony Award-winning musical, Parade will play a season in Sydney in May 2024, following the Broadway Revival in 2023, and a season in Melbourne. 

With a book by Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) and a score by Jason Robert Brown (Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years, Bridges of Madison County), Parade is a moving examination of one of the darkest episodes of America's history.

STAGE WHISPERS MAGAZINE: DECEMBER 2023 - FEBRUARY 2024 EDITION OUT NOW!!!

IN THIS EDITION

Hopelessly Devoted to Grease

Australia’s new Danny, Sandy and Miss Lynch

Gaslight – Reignited for National Tour

A classic thriller, reimagined.

The Unstoppable Lucy Maunder

On the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago and her career.

What Happens to Child Stars?

Adelaide Symphony Unwraps Christmas

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Christmas Unwrapped is set to fill the Festival Theatre with Christmas cheer and the sounds of music, song, and laughter.

Guided by conductor Guy Noble, the ASO, soprano Desiree Frahn, Graduate Singers, and Elder Conservatorium Chorale will unwrap the festive spirit as they come together to perform a range of Christmas favourites, beloved classics, and sing along carols.

Guy Noble said that he was excited to return to Adelaide for one of his favourite events of the year.

Adelaide Fringe 2024 Program Launched

Image: Turn The Beat Around. Adelaide Fringe 2022. Photographer: Ian Coker. 

With more than 1,300 shows, the 2024 Adelaide Fringe promises a “kaleidoscope of the talented, the wonderful, and the outright whimsical, set to transform Adelaide into a utopia of discovery and culture across February and March”.

The multi-genre festival amalgamates comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, visual art, music, interactive and more in a melting pot of artistic expression.

To Self-Test or Not to Self-Test

Unpublished

Les Solomon on the great Self-Test debate.

The Heat is On Miss Saigon

A Broadway classic or a perpetrator of racial stereotypes?

Maxine Mellor Wins 2023 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award

At a function held at the Seaborn Broughton and Walford Foundation (SBW) Christmas Party on November 23, Diana Simmonds, Chair of Trustees, announced that Brisbane playwright, MAXINE MELLOR had won the 2023 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for her play O’Mighty Make-Believe.  It was the unanimous choice of the Trustees after a blind reading of the 2023 entries.

Growing Into Elphaba and Glinda

New generations are seeing the Wonderful World of Oz from a fresh perspective thanks to

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