Community Theatre

New Zealand’s Musical Theatre Consortium has announced that Mamma Mia! will be the next musical where community / amateur Musical Theatre companies across the country will combine resources to create the sets, costumes and other resources which will be used to mount a series of top notch productions over a two year period, beginning with Auckland Music Theatre’s premiere season in March 2014 at the magnificent Civic Theatre.

Following the success of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Sydney University Musical Theatre Ensemble (MUSE) will stage two contrasting productions, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Company as part of their Repertory season at the King Street Theatre, Newtown.

Trish Carr, director of MLOC’s big the musical, was determined to recreate the Big Piano, which is played by the user’s feet tapping the keys to make music, best known for its appearance in the 1988 comedy Big, starring Tom Hanks.

This Walking Piano is a synthesizer, invented in 1976 by Pennsylvania, PA kinetic artist and inventor Remo Saraceni, merging dance, music and play

Melville Theatre (WA) is bringing the curtain up on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night from June 21, 2013.

Director Jeffrey Watkins says people either treated the play as a dark drama or dark comedy – but he had never seen it that way.

“Every time I read Twelfth Night, I always find it full of incredible humour, tensions, drama and fun,” the self-confessed lover of Shakespeare said.

“I have never found it dark and thought this would be an opportunity to investigate this approach of finding the fun in the play.”