Community Theatre

Miranda Musical Society (NSW) presents Pippin from June 15-24 at Sutherland Memorial School of Arts. 

The winner of five Tony Awards in 1973, and playing 1944 Broadway performances, Pippin has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked).

Graham Ford recently finished a season of Brigadoon at St Gabriel’s Theatre Group Reservoir (Victoria), which he describes as a unique experience.

St Gabriel’s is real community theatre. Associated with the Catholic Church in Reservoir, it has been going for 44 years and they do only one production a year. Auditions are the last Sunday in August and they rehearse religiously every Sunday evening until the production at the end of November. There was one intensive weekend as well.

In Waverley Lugar Brae Players (Bondi Junction, NSW) May 2012 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, staged in this, the company's 53rd year, both of the lead players are carrying on a family tradition of performing with the company.

Soprano Chloe Anne McKenzie plays Mabel.

In the late 1960s John and Margaret McKenzie came from New Zealand and became part of the Players. Both John and Margaret performed leading roles in a number of productions and Margaret later became the Musical Director.

The next production from STAG (Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group) is Scrubbers, by Melbourne playwright and composer Cenarth Fox, at the Strathmore Community Hall from May 31 to June 9, 2012.