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Melbourne Season of MJ The Musical Announced

The producers of MJ THE MUSICAL have officially confirmed that the Olivier and four-time Tony Award-winning musical will play in Melbourne at Her Majesty’s Theatre from September 2025.

The Australian premiere season of MJ is the fifth production of the global hit musical since it premiered on Broadway in February 2022. With celebrated runs in London, Germany and across the US, Melbourne audiences are next in line.

Calamity Jane Returns to Sydney

Image: Virginia Gay as Calamity Jane (2025). Photo Credit: Harvey House

Take a rollicking ride through the Wild West as the musical Calamity Jane returns Sydney, playing at the Sydney Opera House in an exclusive season from 14 October – 16 November.  

Complete Sydney Cast For The Book of Mormon

Producers of the Tony®, Olivier®, and Grammy® award-winning production The Book Of Mormon, have announced the final casting for the production which is opening in Sydney in July 2025. 

Musicals in 2025

Image: Michael Paynter and Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar. Photographer: Jeff Busby

A swag of hit Broadway and West End musicals never before seen in Australia will wend their way around the country in 2025, alongside some old favourites to tap the nostalgia buttons.

The post Covid era, along with high interest rates, combined to encourage conservative choices by musical theatre producers. The year ahead is the most innovative in a long time.

 

Karis Oka To Play Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice The Musical

Michael Cassel Group, Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, and Langley Park Productions have announced that the role of Lydia Deetz, the peculiar and quick-witted teenager with a penchant for the afterlife, in BEETLEJUICE will be played by Karis Oka

Cats Returns To Its Original Australian Home After 40 Years

UPDATE: Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has announced that following the previously annouced season at Theatre Royal Sydney from 17 June, CATS would also be playing at Her Majesty’s Theatre Adelaide from September and at Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne from December. Waitlist now to be first in line to buy tickets in Adelaide and Melbourne at www.catsthemusical.com.au

Eddie’s Perfect Beetlejuice

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Imagine starring in the musical you composed the songs for, that made it to Broadway and scored you a Tony nomi

PUSH IT! Undercover Artist Festival 2025 Launch.

Beth Keehn reports

For one week from 22 to 27 September 2025, Undercover Artist Festival (UAF) will take over Queensland Theatre’s (QT’s) stages. Festival Director, Maddie Little, launched her PUSH IT! program with a packed studio of fans and followers at QT’s Diane Cilento Studio on 19 June.

Access all the way: Swinging and Spinning with the Crooners

Tim McCallum (The Wizard of Oz, The Voice, Jesus Christ Superstar) is bringing a new version of his freewheeling, swinging singing show, The Crooners, to the Redland Performing Arts Centre (RPAC) for one night only on 12 June. Beth Keehn caught up with the show’s creator, director and star, and his co-director/producer, Paul Adam (Matilda Awards, IndelArts), to find out more about The Crooners: Swinging and Spinning, and the group’s quest for inclusive casting and accessible theatre.

Casting for The Lovers at QPAC

Casting has been announced for the new production of the Australian pop musical The Lovers by Shake & Stir Theatre Co and Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) in association with Brisbane Festival, for its premiere in QPAC’s Playhouse from 13 September to 5 October 2025.

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