The 37-strong company of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is counting down towards the first preview of at the Sydney Opera House on 19 August, 2002.
Preparations continue as the talented company wait for the curtain to rise – and the chandelier to drop - on this historic premiere Sydney season of one of the most successful and celebrated musicals of all time, in one of the world’s most iconic buildings.
TEG DAINTY, Stage Entertainment and Tali Pelman, in association with Tina Turner have announced that the Tina – The Tina Turner Musical is coming to Theatre Royal Sydney, Australia in May 2023.
Bell Shakespeare has announced the full cast of the upcoming production and world premiere of The Lovers, a pop musical written by young Australian writer and composer Laura Murphy reimagining Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an original score.
The producers of the original Tony Award winning Broadway production of Hairspray have announced that the production, which is soon to premiere at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, will be touring to Adelaide and Sydney from late 2022.
Director Jack O’Brien (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and Choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Kinky Boots), lead the original Broadway creative team to present the big hair and big-hearted musical Hairspray in Australia as originally intended.
Acclaimed Welsh actor and producer Michael Sheen (The Twilight Saga, Frost/Nixon, The Queen, Tron: Legacy, Masters of Sex, Good Omens, Amadeus) will star as Salieri in a new production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony and Academy Award®-winning masterpiece Amadeus. Portraying the artistic rivalry of two great classical composers – Salieri and Mozart – the show is the first event to be announced as part of the Opera House’s year-long 50th anniversary celebrations, supported by the NSW Gover
Tim Lawson in association with Michael Harrison and The Really Useful Group have announced that Euan Fistrovic Doidge will star as Joseph, and Paulini as The Narrator, in the new production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
A landmark Australian production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert opens in Queensland this month. Coral Drouyn talks to the creative forces driving the new production which will preview at Star Casino, Gold Coast from 16th July and open on July 21st.
In December 2021, Stephen House’s The Ajoona Guest House took off at The Bakehouse Theatre in Adelaide. Stage Whispers reviewed it, and we praised the production. “A compelling hour in the theatre… see this master storyteller in his element.” We asked Stephen about where the show goes now, as we hear it is about to travel.
Stage Whispers: The response to The Ajoona Guest House has been incredibly positive. What do you think this is due to?
