David Spicer attended the new Australian Musicals One Day In September and My Brilliant Career over two days. He writes that both demonstrate the benefit of long periods of development.
How rare to be able to watch two completely original Australian musicals in one city on a weekend. One is already a hit, and another is a hit in the making.
Producer John Frost for Crossroads Live has revealed the talented children who will play Annie and the orphans in the upcoming Sydney season of the ever-popular Broadway musical Annie, as well as the adult cast who will perform alongside them. The new Australian production plays at the Capitol Theatre from 25 March, before moving to Melbourne’s Princess Theatre from July.
The Olivier Award winner of Best New Musical will have Its Australian Premiere at the Sydney Lyric in September 2025
Producers John Frost, Colin Ingram and the creators of the original film trilogy, Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, have announced that Sydney will host the Australian premiere of Back To The Future: The Musical, opening at the Sydney Lyric in September 2025.
Over $200,000 in Grants to the performing arts were announced on 21 November 2024, to a packed audience of theatre practitioners and supporters by Peter Lowry AM, President of the Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation in the Seaborn Library, Neutral Bay, the Foundation's headquarters.
The winners of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for 2024 were announced at the annual Seaborn, Broughton and Walford Foundation Christmas Party on November 21. The joint winners this year are Ballkids by Melbourne playwright Olivia Satchell and Into The Light by Ian Roberts and Alex Broun. The two winning plays will each receive $20,000.
Opera Australia has announced that pop star and champion swimmer Cody Simpson return to the stage in 2025, making his Australian musical theatre debut alongside an all-star cast in a brand-new production of the award-winning Broadway musical Guys & Dolls at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour from 21 March to 20 April.
Principal casting for the new Broadway musical BOOP!The Musical has been announced and tickets are on sale today, with Australian Ainsley Melham to star as Dwayne.
“I'm just a Broadway Baby. Walking off my tired feet. Pounding Forty-Second Street to be in a show.” – ‘Broadway Baby’, Follies
Victorian Opera stages an all-star cast production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Tony-Award-winning musical Follies at the Palais Theatre, St Kilda from 1 – 6 February 2025.
