How do you embrace glorious Bollywood camp while challenging its romantic ideals and gender stereotypes? Beth Keehn chats to creator and choreographer, Drea Lam, about her new show at Brisbane’s Metro Arts – ITEM – which mixes Bollywood dance moves with real voices and stories, stunning visuals, and gorgeous costumes – it’s a love letter to Bollywood, but with a contemporary twist.
Beth Keehn (BK): Drea, how have you made the move from Dance Masala classes to the stage at Metro Arts?
The cast for the Sydney-debut of The Marvellous Elephant Man the Musical at the 2023 Sydney Fringe Festival has been announced. The production plays at the Sydney Spiegeltent, in the Spiegeltent Festival Gardens (Entertainment Quarter at Moore Park) from September 1st to October 1st.
The Broadway and West End sensation has arrived in Australia! See Disney’s iconic Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin and their best friends Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Rabbit, and Owl (oh… and don’t forget Tigger too!) in a beautifully crafted musical stage adaptation featuring stunning life-size puppetry.
Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery, treachery … and All That Jazz … so begins the international multi-award-winning musical, Chicago, returning to Australia in November.
Award-winning music theatre powerhouse Squabbalogic is pleased to announce the full cast for the brand-new, original Australian musical The Dismissal, which will be making its world premiere from 26th August 2023 at Sydney’s Seymour Centre.
The Dismissal is conceived and directed by Jay James-Moody, with a book by Blake Erickson & Jay James-Moody, and music and lyrics by Laura Murphy.
