The Wicked cast's one night only concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, on May 17, 2010 at Sydney's Capitol Theatre, raised over $90,000, and still counting, for the ANZ Trustees Foundation: Rob Guest Endowment. The funds were raised through ticket sales, an auction and donations.
Musical Theatre Companies in New Zealand kicked up their heels at a fancy dress ball in Auckland on Saturday night to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the organization.
Helping to celebrate were newly installed Music Theatre New Zealand Life Member John Antony and Music Theatre pioneer Len Spier (pictured with the cake in our Facebook album).
The Arts Centre, Melbourne, in conjunction with the Australia Council, is launching a national two year $300,000 Music Theatre Development Program that aims to discover Australia’s next musical theatre hit. The program will provide financial and artistic support for up to five new music theatre performances to be developed to workshop stage and showcased at the Arts Centre in January 2011.
David Spicer spoke to Sydney Opera House Chief Executive Richard Evans about the looming crisis that is confronting the Sydney Opera House for the March / April edition of Stage Whispers.
With new Lloyd Webber musical Love Never Dies opening in the West End, we take this opportunity to put Doug Mayo's article from the January / February edition of Stage Whispers online.
Tonight (March 8) Sydney radio personality Alan Jones touted Ben Hur – The Stadium Spectacular as the biggest theatrical event ever seen in Australia.
Ben Hur – The Stadium Spectacular, beginning a world tour, will perform exclusively at Sydney’s ANZ Stadium for two nights only on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 October.
This is a Sydney exclusive performance. There will be no other performances in Australasia.
American Director / Choreographer Joey McKneeley and his exciting young Australian cast are in the final week of rehearsals for West Side Story, which begins its Australian tour on July 1 at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre, Star City.
And Stage Whispers subscribers are in the running to win tickets in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.
