WICKED, the international Broadway musical blockbuster, returns to the Australasian region later this year as part of its 10th Anniversary Year, playing Auckland for the first time at The Civic Theatre from September 17, 2013, and returning to its original Australian home at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne, from May, 2014 for a strictly limited season, followed by an Australian tour.
Noted operatic soprano Helen Noonan, about to play notorious Soprano Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir at Melbourne’s Chapel off Chapel, speaks to Coral Drouyn.
Julie Andrews, one of the most beloved stage and screen performers of all time, will visit Australia in May this year for the first time ever, Producers John Frost and Phil Bathols today (February 9, 2013) announced. She will appear on stage in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne.
An Evening with Julie Andrews takes audiences on a journey through the life and career of one of the world’s most popular icons.
A Sydney theatre appreciation society –The Glugs - held its annual awards night this week (Feb 4, 2013), giving its highest awards to Independent theatre companies and well known theatre personalities Penny Cook, Stuart Maunder and Moya O’Sullivan.
The Glugs Club has been meeting since 1966 and the annual awards night is a spiffing affair, complete with high tea in the posh dining room of the NSW Masonic Club.
Theatre aficionados turn up for a ham sandwich and to pat the year's best on the back.
UPDATE: Strictly Ballroom The Musical now to open in March 2014 - link to more details
Global Creatures today (February 8, 2013) officially confirmed the news we reported here earlier this week, that STRICTLY BALLROOM, the company's stage version of the much-loved 1992 Australian film, will move its opening date at the Sydney Lyric to early 2014.
Funny and poignant, Harvey Fierstein’s intensely personal collection of three plays chronicles a Jewish New York drag-queen’s quest for love, respect and a life of which he can be proud. From a failed affair with a reluctant lover, to a burgeoning relationship with a young fashion model, Arnold Beckoff’s greatest torment in life remains his turbulent relationship with his mother.
What is the future of live theatre? Doomsayers will tell you there is no future, and perhaps the early closing of several mainstage productions, and even theatre companies themselves, last year would add weight to that argument. But there are always entrepreneurial cock-eyed optimists willing to buck the trend and put themselves on the line and we, as theatregoers, are all the better for it.
There’s a child inside all of us, no matter how grown up we may pretend to be. One can only wonder how Ian Fleming, creator of the great James Bond, found his inner child to write Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – one of the world’s best loved children’s stories and films. Now it’s a musical and, after a successful run in Sydney, it has its official opening tomorrow night (Saturday February 2nd) in Melbourne at the theatre we lovingly call “The Maj”.
