Community Theatre

Manly “cain't say no” to Oklahoma!

Manly Musical Society will stage the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Oklahoma! from May 18.

Oklahoma! is one of the first of what were called the American ‘book musicals’ where the music, lyrics and dance were genuinely integrated into, and added to the telling or a real, dramatic story. The show includes such classics as ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’, ‘Surrey with a Fringe on Top’, and the cheeky ‘I’m Jest a Girl who Cain’t Say No’.

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Sweet Charity for Coffs Harbour

When Coffs Harbour Musical Comedy Company (NSW) presents Sweet Charity, from May 5, 2012, Cath Beynon will return in the title role which she previously played for the company a decade ago.

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Minefields and Miniskirts for Fremantle

Nearly 1000 Australian women had a part in the Vietnam War as entertainers, journalists, volunteers and nurses. The one thing they have in common is that their lives were changed forever by Vietnam. For many of them it was the most vital and alive they have ever felt. Their story is told in Minefields and Miniskirts, presented by Harbour Theatre Fremantle (WA) from May 18, 2012.

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MEET SWEET CHARITY!

The Regals Musical Society (Sydney, NSW) will present Sweet Charity for one week only from May 15th – 19th at St George Auditorium, Kogarah.

Since the unplanned closure of the Rockdale Town Hall, the Regals Musical Society has found a new home in the St George Bank Auditorium, on Montgomery Street Kogarah and this May they will be performing the Broadway classic Sweet Charity.

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Glenbrook Players Stage The Elephant Man

Glenbrook Players (Blue Mountains, NSW) will present the stage adaptation of The Elephant Man from May 4, 2012 at the Glenbrook Community Theatre.

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Light-hearted Triple Bill for Phoenix

WHAT happens you take a popular Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, add a satirical play about theatre management, then throw in a classic comedy skit?

The answer is a “potpourri of music and comedy” at Phoenix Theatre (WA), from May 11, directed by Barry Page with musical direction from Michael Vertigan.

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial By Jury is only 43 minutes so Page decided to add the short play How To Make Your Theatre Pay and the skit Dinner For One to complete the evening.

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SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD GOES NORTH

** Rockdale Musical Society today (May 8, 2012) announced that - due to forces beyond its control - it has had to cancel its planned 'touring' return season of Songs for a New World. **

Following a successful season in Sydney’s south, Rockdale Musical Society’s production Songs for a New World travels to Chatswood’s Zenith Theatre in May.

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Perve: Centenary Theatre Group Stage Australian Premiere

Centenary Theatre Group at Chelmer in Brisbane’s Western Suburbs will produce the Australian Premiere of Perve by Stacey Gregg, opening on May 5.

Perve premiered at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in May 2011, and Centenary is the first theatre company outside of the Abbey to perform the play.

Perve is an irreverent and unsettling play that interrogates paranoia, ambiguity and innocence in our highly sexualized world.

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JYM Theatre Celebrates 10 Years with Avenue Q

JYM Theatre Co. celebrates its 10th anniversary with the Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q at the Phoenix Theatre, Elwood (Vic) from May 5 to 19, 2012.

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Classic North England Comedy for Playlovers

TAKE a family from Lancashire in the north of England in 1880. Add their boot shop business, employees, customers and friends. Throw in a few parallels to Cinderella and King Lear.

What do you get? Classic comedy Hobson’s Choice, at Playlovers (WA) from April 27.

Written by Harold Brighouse, the title comes from the expression “Hobson's choice”, meaning no choice at all.

The play has been adapted for film several times, as well as the Broadway musical Walking Happy.

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