Phoenix Ensemble presents Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story over five weekends, opening on 10 August, 2012, and audience members are encouraged to come along dressed in 50s fashion to help set the mood.
In 1959, the man who changed the face of popular music tragically died in a plane crash aged 22. Now,Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story tells the story of the three years in which he became the world’s top recording artist.
Alfred Hitchcock made the movie. John Buchan penned the book. Patrick Barlow wrote the stage play – and in July, the Pavilion Theatre at Castle Hill (NSW) raises the curtain on The 39 Steps.
WITH Australian Idol, The Voice, Australia’s Got Talent, The X Factor and Popstars all producing a variety of winners for more than a decade, is there an over-abundance of reality show singers?
It’s a question explored in the world premiere of Falling To The Top at Playlovers (WA) this August and September, a new musical written by director Tyler Jones and musical director Robert Wood.
Opening on July 27 at Theatre on Chester, Epping (NSW), director, Joy Sweeney, shares her thoughts on and reasons for directing the American classic, The Philadelphia Story.
“The Philadelphia Story has been one of my favourite movies since Bill Collins me introduced it to via The Golden Years of Hollywood somewhere in the 1960s.
ONE of Shakespeare’s great comedies is playing at Roleystone Theatre (WA) from July 20.
Described as a joyous romp, Much Ado About Nothing celebrates brave soldiers returning triumphant from the battlefield – only to find themselves bewildered by love.
Director Paul Treasure said Much Ado About Nothing is one of his favourite Shakespeare plays.
“It always seems very modern,” he said. “The relationship between Beatrice and Benedick is one I have seen many times with people I know and I love it.
Heidelberg Theatre Company will stage Oscar Wilde’s well–loved comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, from July 12 – 28 as part of the company’s 60th anniversary celebrations.
Well over a century since The Importance of Being Earnest was first performed to the London public in 1895, it remains as fresh and sparkling as a glass of fine champagne.
The time honoured tale of boys meets girl, with complications and mistaken identities, is the basis of many musical comedies, among the best of them Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, which Ashfield Musical Society (NSW) presents from July 13th at Concord RSL.
Next at Hunters Hill Theatre (NSW) is Proof by David Auburn, which opens on August 10.
Proof is a poignant drama about love and reconciliation, which unfolds on the back porch of a house in a suburban university town, following the death of Catherine's father. Centered around a groundbreaking mathematical proof, the play explores the question, just how much of her father’s brilliance, and his mental health issues, has Catherine inherited?
SYMT (Sydney Youth Musical Theatre) presents the Tony Award winning 1989 Broadway musical comedy City of Angels (music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, and book by Larry Gelbart), at Hornsby RSL from July 6 to 14, 2012.
City of Angels interweaves two plots and two musical scores against the backdrop of 1940s Hollywood, with all the glamour and seduction of the era showcased by the jazzy score and witty script.