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Producer John Frost today (June 7, 2012) announced Michael Cormick and Bert Newton will join the cast of the sell-out Australian tour of Annie. Michael Cormick will take the role of Daddy Warbucks on August 7 when Anthony Warlow heads to New York to play the same role in the new production of Annie on Broadway. Bert Newton will replace Alan Jones as President Roosevelt from July 24 when Alan heads to London to broadcast at the Olympic Games.

Broadway legend Ben Vereen visits Australia during June 2012 in his solo show Steppin’ Out, playing at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, then in Sydney and Melbourne. He spoke to Coral Drouyn.

“I never set out to be a star. I just wanted to be working. When I arrived in Hollywood I saw all the familiar faces, people I’d seen on the screen, famous people, all waiting in the social security line and I thought…I have to think of this as a job; a job I love doing, but one I get paid for. I have to earn a living.”

The current revival of Annie has more stars that you can poke a telescope at. But Julie Goodwin, who plays Grace Farrell – the secretary to Daddy Warbucks (Anthony Warlow), more than holds her own. She’s only appeared in three musicals and one opera to date, but already she’s a rising star. Neil Litchfield reports.

The Australian producers of stage musical The Addams Family, Rodney Rigby, Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt, Five CentProductions and Elephant Eye Theatrical, have announced auditions for the role of Pugsley in the stage musical which opens at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre in March 2013 (rehearsals begin in January 2013).

Auditionees must be young males, born between January 29, 2000 and January 29, 2003, to play a 12 year old. They must be less than 150cm tall, must reside no more than 90 minutes’ drive from Sydney CBD (Capitol Theatre).