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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).

Steve Bastoni interviewed by Aaron Ware.

In its time Pentridge Prison held some of Australia’s most notorious criminals. From Ned Kelly to Chopper Read, the bluestone walls carry the weight of these dark moments of many sociopaths who once dwelled behind its bars since its opening in 1851.