Loosely based around Shakespeare’s greatest plays and built around songs made famous by Elvis Presley, All Shook Up takes place in 1955, in a square little town somewhere in America. One girl’s dream and a surprise visit from a mysterious leather-jacketed, guitar-playing, motorcycle-riding stud help a small town to discover the magic of romance and the power of rock and roll.
“Come every member of our clan - living, dead and undecided and let us celebrate what is to be an Addams.”
Miranda Musical Theatre Company in Sydney’s south is ghoulishly delighted to present its debut production of The Addams Family: A New Musical, this June 9-18th at the Sutherland Arts Theatre.
MLOC Productions Inc presents Fiddler on the Roof as their first feature musical following pandemic lockdowns that saw Melbourne theatre come to a halt.
First established as the Mordialloc Philharmonic Society in 1945, MLOC operated as a choral society until the 1970s when they rebranded as Mordialloc Musical Society. The society then began staging full musical comedy productions in 1961 with Brigadoon.
Following their production of Tony Award winning musical Green Day’sAmerican Idiot, new musical theatre companyTheatricalis presenting their new production ofThe Wizar
Arts Theatre Cronulla’s second production for 2023 is The Appleton Ladies’ Potato Race, directed by Kathy Petrakis. Inspired by true events, this Australian comedy is an effervescent, hilarious and big-hearted tale about women taking action and showing the world that there’s more than one way to win a race.
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of SA presents A Chorus Line by Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood Jr and Nicholas Dante, the show that changed the course of musical theatre. Rejecting traditional sets, costumes and big stars, the show introduces gritty psychological realism to musicals. For many years the longest running musical on Broadway, it is a peep backstage into the cutthroat world of musical theatre and its effect on the people that did what they did for love.
Big musicals productions in the top end are about as rare as sightings of an albino crocodile. The local production company Superstar Productions – run by the community choir The Darwin Chorale – tries to get one staged every two to three years. Geoffrey Williams speaks to Annette Gore the production manager for the upcoming July performances of Evita.