Community Theatre

With a cast smaller than many before, MUSE (Sydney University Musical Theatre Ensemble) will be staging it’s next main stage show, Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, in March 2015 at the Seymour Centre. Jordan Shea reports.

The MUSE production of A Little Night Music, directed by Alexander Andrews, musically directed by Conrad Hamill and produced by Rose McClelland, differs greatly from previous shows staged by the society, with many intimate moments, themes and multi-layered characters.

When Miranda Musical Society presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel at Sutherland Entertainment Centre, Daisy Cousens will take on the plum role of Carrie Pipperidge, and classic showtune, ‘Mr Snow’. She speaks to Stage Whispers about the role, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and the influence of her dad, musical theatre star Peter Cousens.

Stage Whispers:  What was your first experience of Carousel? Is it one of those shows that left a mark? Or more of a peripheral gem?

Director Cheryl Butler writes in the program for Rabbit Hole at Arts Theatre Cronulla that ‘beautiful’ may seem like the wrong word to describe this amazing play, but stresses there is beauty in the sadness of Rabbit Hole. Recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and nominated for several Tony awards, Rabbit Hole examines the disconnect that grief can cause.

One of Broadway’s all-time favourites comes to Sydney’s south in March when Miranda Musical Society presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel at Sutherland Entertainment Centre.

Named in 1999 by Time magazine as the finest musical of the 20th century, Carousel has played thousands of Broadway and West End performances including famous recent revivals; has won more than 40 major awards and has spawned screen adaptations featuring such stars as Shirley Jones and Robert Goulet.