Love Changes Everything for Rosa

Love Changes Everything for Rosa

Busy musical theatre performer, Rosa McCarty (pictured with co-star Adam Rafferty) is becoming one of Melbourne’s most accomplished and well-known leading ladies in the Melbourne theatre scene. She is currently preparing to star in her fourth consecutive show in the last twelve months, this time as the aptly named Rose in CLOC Musical Theatre’s upcoming production of Aspects of Love.

Originally from Adelaide, Rosa moved to Melbourne in 2008, and since then, has worked steadily with a number of Melbourne’s leading theatre companies in a variety of principal roles. “I have been very fortunate that some wonderful opportunities have come along to play several larger than life characters,” says Rosa, a medical scientist by day.  That is an understatement, as just in the last year, she has played the title roles in Kiss of the Spiderwoman and Dusty!, and last year, she played the lead role of Aldonza in CLOC’s production of Man of La Mancha.

Her role as Rose reunites her with both her director and leading man from that production, and brings her back to a company she loves to work with.  “After my last show, I thought I would take a break, as I had done three big roles in a row,” says Rosa, “but then the opportunity to work with CLOC again in such an elegant and classy production, and to sing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s gorgeous melodies, in a show that is rarely produced, was too much of a temptation to pass up!” Not only that, but unlike her last CLOC production, where she wore just one outfit and wig for the entire show, this time Rosa has 25 costumes and almost as manywig changes from an era of high fashion and exquisite style. 

Aspects of Love tells a tale of passion, love, betrayal and loss over three generations of one family, spanning twenty years across post war France and Italy, and how, as its most famous song says, love changes everything.  With book and music by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart, whose names are associated with some of the most loved and successful musicals of all time (including Phantom of the Opera and its sequel currently playing in Melbourne Love Never Dies, Sunset Boulevard, Evita, Cats, Song and Dance), Aspects of Love promises a night of beautiful music, lush melodies and gorgeous love songs.

CLOC has assembled a superb cast and a multi-award winning production team to give Melbourne audiences a unique opportunity  to see one of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lesser known and rarely produced musicals, but one of which Lord Webber himself has said “Out of all the shows I have written, this show will stand the test of time.”

Aspects of Love runs from Friday September 23-Saturday October 8 at the National Theatre, St. Kilda. Tickets are available online at www.cloc.org.au or call 1300 362 547.

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