Cy Coleman – it’s not a name on the tip of our tongues, though this month has been a good one for him, with his brilliant Tony Award winning hit City of Angels playing at Melbourne’s Arts Centre, and now a fabulous tribute show with some of our brightest musical theatre stars opening this weekend at Bennett’s Lane Jazz Club.
With only three performances of their show Are You Lonesome Tonight this weekend (Nov 20 – 22, 2015), Coral Drouyn takes a look at SPARC theatre and their impact on the community.
We sometimes forget too easily that some people are side-lined by society, alienated in their own communities. Life has little to offer them, but still they look for a way to belong. Everyone has something to contribute to the Arts, but first they need someone to believe in them.
Our writer Coral Drouyn is a self proclaimed “Music Theatre Tragic” and an outright fangirl where Leading Ladies are concerned. She talked to four of our best, exploring the history of those Divas who bring us the show stopping 11 O’Clock numbers we adore, in preparation for a show that is all about Leading Ladies.
The winner of the 2015 Rob Guest Endowment Award was announced at the Grand Final Concert at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on November 9. Competing against five other outstanding Semi-Finalists with his performance of Goodbye and Memphis Lives in Me, *Daniel Assetta took out the prestigious award after being chosen by an expert panel of judges, which included Kelley Abbey, Peter Casey and Gale Edwards.
With Cy Coleman, Larry Gelbart. David Zippel’s multiple Tony Award winning musical City Of Angels opening at Melbourne’s Art Centre on Thursday, Coral Drouyn managed to catch up with actor and co-Producer Troy Sussman for an enthusiastic chat.
Sydney-based Sport For Jove Theatre Company has announced its its 2016 theatre season.
In December and January, Sport For Jove’s Outdoor Summer Season returns for its 7th year with a double bill of moonlit romance, of men behaving badly and women winning the day, with a swift kick up the backside for a culture that is still discussing the rights and rules of marriage equality centuries after our greatest poets shot Cupid’s arrows right back at him.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new West End version of Cats is now set to prowl stages across Australia. Two of the new cats in the alley, Josh Piterman (Bustopher Jones, Gus and Growltiger) and Holly Meegan (Jennyanydots) spoke to Neil Litchfield during rehearsals.
Cats marks Josh Piterman’s return to the commercial musical theatre stage, after establishing his Melbourne fitness business, PITFIT, in St Kilda.
What came first for Josh, I asked, fitness or performing?
The Producers of GHOST THE MUSICAL have announced that after an exhaustive casting process by Tony Award-winning director Matthew Warchus, a superb cast has been assembled.
