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Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney Star in The Odd Couple

Shane Jacobson and Todd McKenney are the archetypal odd couple, as different as chalk and cheese, but best mates and constant collaborators. Since they met on the Channel 7 TV series The Real Full Monty several years ago, the friends have worked together on TV in Mates on a Mission and The All New Monty, and on stage in The Rocky Horror Show and Hairspray (as husband and wife).

Bundy to the Big Apple

Coral Drouyn talks to Nelia McNicol, the latest in a long line of Australian performers making their mark in New York.

It’s a long way from Bundaberg Queensland to the heady heights of Broadway, New York - and I am not just measuring the distance.

The Curse of the Music Theatre Actor

Image: Tim Draxl in Into the Woods with Andrew Coshan. Photographer: Christopher Hayles

 

STAGE WHISPERS MAGAZINE: DECEMBER 2023 - FEBRUARY 2024 EDITION OUT NOW!!!

IN THIS EDITION

Hopelessly Devoted to Grease

Australia’s new Danny, Sandy and Miss Lynch

Gaslight – Reignited for National Tour

A classic thriller, reimagined.

The Unstoppable Lucy Maunder

On the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago and her career.

What Happens to Child Stars?

To Self-Test or Not to Self-Test

Les Solomon on the great Self-Test debate.

The Heat is On Miss Saigon

A Broadway classic or a perpetrator of racial stereotypes?

Maxine Mellor Wins 2023 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award

At a function held at the Seaborn Broughton and Walford Foundation (SBW) Christmas Party on November 23, Diana Simmonds, Chair of Trustees, announced that Brisbane playwright, MAXINE MELLOR had won the 2023 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for her play O’Mighty Make-Believe.  It was the unanimous choice of the Trustees after a blind reading of the 2023 entries.

Growing Into Elphaba and Glinda

New generations are seeing the Wonderful World of Oz from a fresh perspective thanks to

The Northern Territory’s Creative Performers Celebrated at the 2023 NT Performing Arts Awards

Image: 2023 NT Performing Arts Awards Judges and Award Winners. Photo Lisa Pelligrino.

Geoffrey Williams reports.

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