Community Theatre

Double, double toil and trouble … Andy, Danny and Lisa are rehearsing the witches’ scene from Macbeth for English. They find themselves transported from their suburban kitchen onto the opening battle scene in Macbeth after daring each other to drink a disgusting potion they had concocted. Andy, Danny and Lisa take on all the characters of Macbeth surprising each other as they slip from their 21st century way of talking into Shakespearian dialogue.

ELABORATE disguises, tap-dancing sailors and good old-fashioned blackmail are proof that anything goes when it comes to stage musicals.

The Cole Porter favourite Anything Goes sails into Limelight Theatre (WA) during November and December 2014, directed and choreographed by Terry Pirlo, with its all-singing, all-dancing tale aboard the ocean liner SS American.

Billy Crocker, played by Pirlo, is a stowaway in love with heiress Hope Harcourt – but she is engaged to Lord Evelyn Oakleigh.

A FAMILY pantomime version of The Wizard of Oz lands at South Perth’s Old Mill Theatre in late November and December 2014.

In this version from Limelight Scripts UK, Dorothy and Toto are joined by Aunt Em as they travel to Emerald City to gain the wizard’s help to return to Kansas.

On the way, they are joined by Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion and Tin Man – and Elvis Presley, who has been touring Oz and can’t find his way home.

Blue Mountains Musical Society open their new production of Cats on November 5, promising to present the show in a whole new way to audiences. Based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, and with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, CATS won seven 1983 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Lighting and Best Costumes.