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The rights holder David Spicer enjoyed watching his fifteenth (or thereabouts) different production of the musical by Queen and Ben Elton.

I almost auditioned for the role of Buddy – the aging rocker in the musical who has one solo – and my daughter who attended the tight and energetic performance by the North Shore Theatre Company was so relieved I chose not to.

Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria brings you comedy, tragedy, parody and romance in A Festival of WS Gilbert Plays presented at The Malvern Theatre with five shows between 21 and 24 November.

While Gilbert and Sullivan’s ever fresh comic operas have been continuously performed around the world for 150 years, like much of Sullivan’s non-operatic music, Gilbert’s plays have languished.

Photographer: Dan Binger

Preview audiences have been thoroughly entertained by the new production at Arts Theatre Cronulla, The 39 Steps, a parody play adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock. The play shares the plot and characters with the film, and there are entertaining Hitchcock references throughout. However, as Director Cheryl Butler notes in the program, “if you think you’re going to see Alfred Hitchcock’s 39 Steps, oops!” 

Almost a decade after the world premiere of Strictly Ballroom the Musical, Hills Musical Theatre Company (HMTC) will once again bring the beloved characters and story to life from 8 to 16 November in Baulkham Hills, Sydney.

Strictly Ballroom the movie played a defining role in 1990s Australian subculture. In the HMTC production of Strictly Ballroom the Musical, Director Gloria Dodds is honouring the much-loved story and characters.