Belvoir has unveiled the ten mainstage productions that will make up its 2023 Season - from a Sondheim musical to a best-selling book adaptation, climate issues to exuberant comedy, and more - while shining the light on some incredible Australian artistic talents.
Bell Shakespeare has announced its 2023 season, with three new productions touring throughout the country. To mark 2023 as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the company will stage new contemporary retellings of plays from the Folio, Macbeth and Twelfth Night, the latter featuring all new music by Sarah Blasko.
Science teacher and amateur theatre ‘champion’ Lachlan O’Brien saved a performance of The Phantom of the Opera on Sydney Harbour by taking on a lead role during a medical emergency, then won the right to pop the big question on stage. David Spicer reports.
The international touring production of Madagascar - The Musicalheads into Melbourne and Perth after it opens in Sydney in December.
Adapted from the DreamWorks animated motion movie, this family musical has performed to sold-out audiences across the UK and New Zealand. It is brought to life by imaginative and colourful sets, world-class puppets, action-packed adventure and new songs that will inspire everyone to “move it move it” in the aisles!
After 13 years at the helm of the national opera company, Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini AM has announced his final season for Opera Australia, a year-long celebration of some of the world’s finest singers and musical talent with performances in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
The high-octane rock musical We Will Rock You, featuring Queen’s greatest hits, including “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, “I Want to Break Free”, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”, “Somebody To Love”, “Under Pressure”, “A Kind of Magic” and more is set to tour Australia in an all-new arena production across the country in 2023.
Disney Theatrical Productions Australia will present a new production of Beauty and the Beast, which will have its premiere Australian season in Sydney from June 2023 at the Capitol Theatre.
Ahead of the opening of the musical Hairspray, Coral Drouyn and David Spicer took the opportunity to speak to the three leading ladies, Velma, Tracy … and Edna.
First up,Rhonda Burchmore (Velma) and Carmel Rodrigues (Tracy) talk Stiff Hair and Bouffants in a No Super-holds barred chat with Coral.
They say if you remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there. Well I was there and I remember it all – Beatniks, Beatles, Beehives, Back-combing - and hairspray.
