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Gypsy at Hornsby

“I had a dream ....” sings Momma Rose, the quintessential stage mother as she pushes her daughters onto the stage and relentlessly pursues stardom. The story of the musical Gypsy, currently being presented by Hornsby Musical society, followsRose, June and Louise in their trip across the United States during the 1920′s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born. Initially Rose focuses all of her energy on June the younger of the two, but when June tires of Rose’s antics and leaves the act Rose is forced to try and mould the shy Louise into a star.

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Dickens Tale Given Added Christmas Cheer

ARENAarts is putting a different spin on Charles Dickens by adding a few laughs to his classic tale A Christmas Carol.

Adapted by Karen Louise Hebden and directed by Trish Theisinger at the Latvian Centre Theatre, it’s a fun-filled family show full of traditional Dickens characters – but not your usual Scrooge.

This version of A Christmas Carol features innovative performances, quick characterisations, heaps of comedy, dashes of drama and flashes of tragedy.

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Galleon Prescribes Rumours for Laugh Therapy at Its Best

Since 1960 Neil Simon has written an extensive repertoire of plays. Rumours is just one of them, but this farce has particular significance in that it was written as personal therapy in an emotional time for the playwright. Adelaide’s Galleon Theatre Group is staging the play in November and you can bet it’ll be therapy for audiences… in fact, a prescription for laughs. Lesley Reed reports.

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Ashfield’s Best Little Whorehouse in Concord

The Tony Award Winning Musical Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is set to shock and entertain this October with Ashfield Musical Society set to bring a slice of country pie to the Inner West. The country & western musical, which is about to make a revival on Broadway later this year, is a toe-tapping, thigh slapping musical that opens on October 23rd at Concord RSL.

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A Conversation with Harold Pinter for Adelaide

Playwright Harold Pinter asserted, ‘One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.’ These words make a soon to be produced one act play seem very intriguing indeed, because the work is titled A Conversation with Harold Pinter. SA’s Pinter fans can see it as part of new SA theatre company Sealand Theatre’s first season. Lesley Reed reports.

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Anne Frank at Cronulla

For its final production for 2015, Arts Theatre Cronulla presents The Diary of Anne Frank. The adaptation by Wendy Kesselman from the original stage play by Goodrich and Hackett is directed by Neil Moulang.

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Murderously Funny Mystery at Javeenbah

Javeenbah Theatre’s latest play The Game’s Afoot is a hilarious murder mystery full of mayhem and madcap adventure.

The award-winning comedy is written by Ken Ludwig and takes to the stage on November 13th – 28th, 2015, directed by Javeenbah regular Jim Dickson.

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Sondheim's Company Provides Adelaide's Answer to The Bachelor

Musical theatre’s answer to The Bachelor is heading to the Stirling Community Theatre in Adelaide this November, for the first time in 16 years.

On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks, and even a wedding, his “married friends” explain the pro’s and con’s of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious array of interactions.

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WA Premiere of A Man of No Importance

Playlovers and the Irish Theatre Players join forces in November and December 2015 to stage the WA premiere of A Man of No Importance by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty – the same team behind Seussical and the Tony Award-winning Ragtime.

Based on the 1994 film starring Albert Finney, the musical is set in 1964 Dublin and follows bus driver Alfie Byrne, whose heart holds secrets he can’t share with anyone but his imagined confidante Oscar Wilde.

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Cheers meets Red Dwarf meets Rocky Horror in Cult UK Musical

POLISH your disco balls and set your glitter beams to fabulous – the cosmic cabaret Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens blasts off in November and December 2015.

Produced by Blak Yak Theatre in collaboration with Phoenix Theatre, the UK cult musical has been described as Cheers meets Red Dwarf meets Rocky Horror in a galaxy far, far away.

All is not well at Saucy Jack’s space bar, as the evil shadow of a serial killer looms with cabaret acts killed off one by one, stabbed by the heel of a sequinned slingback shoe.

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