When Coffs Harbour Musical Comedy Company (NSW) presents Sweet Charity, from May 5, 2012, Cath Beynon will return in the title role which she previously played for the company a decade ago.
Nearly 1000 Australian women had a part in the Vietnam War as entertainers, journalists, volunteers and nurses. The one thing they have in common is that their lives were changed forever by Vietnam. For many of them it was the most vital and alive they have ever felt. Their story is told in Minefields and Miniskirts, presented by Harbour Theatre Fremantle (WA) from May 18, 2012.
The Regals Musical Society (Sydney, NSW) will present Sweet Charity for one week only from May 15th – 19th at St George Auditorium, Kogarah.
Since the unplanned closure of the Rockdale Town Hall, the Regals Musical Society has found a new home in the St George Bank Auditorium, on Montgomery Street Kogarah and this May they will be performing the Broadway classic Sweet Charity.
WHAT happens you take a popular Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, add a satirical play about theatre management, then throw in a classic comedy skit?
The answer is a “potpourri of music and comedy” at Phoenix Theatre (WA), from May 11, directed by Barry Page with musical direction from Michael Vertigan.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial By Jury is only 43 minutes so Page decided to add the short play How To Make Your Theatre Pay and the skit Dinner For One to complete the evening.
** Rockdale Musical Society today (May 8, 2012) announced that - due to forces beyond its control - it has had to cancel its planned 'touring' return season of Songs for a New World. **
Following a successful season in Sydney’s south, Rockdale Musical Society’s production Songs for a New World travels to Chatswood’s Zenith Theatre in May.
JYM Theatre Co. celebrates its 10th anniversary with the Tony Award winning musical Avenue Q at the Phoenix Theatre, Elwood (Vic) from May 5 to 19, 2012.
TAKE a family from Lancashire in the north of England in 1880. Add their boot shop business, employees, customers and friends. Throw in a few parallels to Cinderella and King Lear.
What do you get? Classic comedy Hobson’s Choice, at Playlovers (WA) from April 27.
Written by Harold Brighouse, the title comes from the expression “Hobson's choice”, meaning no choice at all.
The play has been adapted for film several times, as well as the Broadway musical Walking Happy.
PRIMA (Pine Rivers Musical Association) in Brisbane’s north are staging Jesus Christ Superstar during April 2012, close on the heels of Easter, the story of which the Rock Opera reinterprets.
How do thirty-five Pine Rivers residents find a way to commit a man to death?
PRIMA director Melissa Beilby explains what she said to her Jesus Christ Superstar cast.