The Production Company 2017 Season

Jeanne Pratt AC, Chairman of The Production Company, has announced her Company’s 2017 season, starring Marina Prior, Rob Mills, Rohan Browne, Nancye Hayes, Grant Piro, Elise McCann, Alinta Chidzey, Zoy Frangos & Genevieve Kingsford.

Jeanne Prattsaid,“Our new season at Arts Centre Melbourne is guaranteed to thrill. Australia’s leading lady of musical theatre, Marina Prior stars as Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar brings together a cast that includes Rob Mills, Alinta Chidzey and Zoy Frangos. And our final musical stars Rohan Browne and Genevieve Kingsford in Lerner and Loewe’s romantic love story, Brigadoon. In 2017 we are adding a brand new matinee series on a Tuesday. We love being able to offer something new to audiences while keeping our prices as competitive as possible. Big names, great shows, and the best prices.” 

Hello, Dolly! opens in Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse Theatre on May 27 for a season of 19 performances.

Dolly Levi, the widowed matchmaker from Yonkers, New York has an idea for the perfect match – the tight-fisted, local merchant Horace Vandergelder and herself!

Dolly has been played by a bevy of stars from Carol Channing to Bette Midler. Now Marina Prior takes on the title role. Marina’s real-life husband Grant Piro, who last starred with Marina in The Production Company’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, returns to play Horace Vandergelder.

The score by Jerry Herman includes Hello, Dolly!, Put On Your Sunday Clothes and It Only Takes a Moment.

Helpmann Award winning director Gary Young (Georgy Girl, Singin’ in the Rain) returns to The Production Company with Vanessa Scammell as musical director.

Marina Prior said “I’m so excited to be back at The Production Company taking on the classic comic role of Dolly Levi. It’s been a dream of mine to do this iconic show, and right now I feel ready for the challenge. I’m also delighted to be reunited with Gary Young - we were both original cast members of Les Misérables - I have great admiration for him and his work, and it’s wonderful to be working with him again after all this time.

“And to play opposite such an accomplished and brilliant comic actor as Grant Piro - in the role of Horace Vandergelder - is of course, the icing on the cake. And it helps being in love with him too…

“I cannot wait!”

Jesus Christ Superstar opens in Arts Centre Melbourne’s State Theatre on July 29 for a season of 11 performances.

One of the earliest works by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the score includes Jesus Christ Superstar, Heaven On Their Minds, What’s the Buzz?, Mary Magdalene’s Everything’s Alright and I Don’t Know How to Love Him.

This, the greatest story ever told, is based on the last week of Jesus’s life; the plot highlights the political and personal struggles between Jesus and Judas.

Gale Edwardsis directing. She directed Jesus Christ Superstar in London’s West End and on Broadway. And in 2000, Gale won an Emmy Award for the televised version of her production. Rob Mills (Ghost, Wicked) joins The Production Company for the first time in the title role of Jesus. Helpmann Award winner Alinta Chidzey (Curtains, Show Boat) is Mary Magdalene and Zoy Frangos (Les Misérables, South Pacific) is making his TPC debut as Judas.


Brigadoon opens in Arts Centre Melbourne’s State Theatre on October 28 for a season of 11 performances.

Brigadoon is the story of two young American tourists lost in the Highlands of Scotland, who stumble upon a mysterious village called Brigadoon. Tommy (Rohan Browne), one of the tourists, meets and falls in love with Fiona (Genevieve Kingsford), a feisty young woman. But Tommy discovers that magically, Brigadoon only appears for one day every one hundred years.

Lerner and Loewe, who created Gigi, My Fair Lady andCamelot, created a score for Brigadoonincluding Almost Like Being In Love, I’ll Go Home With Bonnie Jean andThe Heather on The Hill. Genevieve Kingsford (Light in the Piazza), makes her debut with The Production Company in the role of Fiona, and Rohan Browne (Nice Work, Singin' in The Rain) plays Tommy, the role made famous by Gene Kelly. Nancye Hayes stars as Brigadoon’s matriarch, Mrs Forsythe. Helpmann Award winner Elise McCann (Miss Honey in Matilda) plays Meg Brockie. Director Jason Langley and Musical Director Michael Tyack, who created Dusty last year, return for Brigadoon.

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