Reviews

Boeing Boeing has a long history! It was a hit in its native France in 1960. The English adaptation opened in London in 1962 and ran for seven years! And despite some misgivings concerning inferences about American society, the 1965 movie starring Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis did well overseas. By 1991 the play was listed in the Guinness Book of records as the most performed French play in the world. Multiple revivals over the past 20 years have also done well, some winning awards.

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice famously composed the music and wrote the lyrics to their early blockbusters Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and Evita before forging incredible careers separately.

In the beautiful Civic Theatre, 100 members of a community choir, an orchestra of more than 30, local performers and dancers joined professionals Marina Prior, Silvie Paladino, Chloé Zuel and Joshua Robson to pay homage to the duo.

Gaslight has become such an iconic text that the term has now entered into our cultural psyche and vocabulary to describe a form of manipulative abuse often practiced on women.  The perfidious strategy of controlling someone by distorting reality so that they question their own judgement is, in this play, driven by greed. Bella (Geraldine Hakewill) is newly married to Jack (Toby Schmitz) and they have taken a beautiful home in London where Elizabeth (Kate Fitzpatrick) and Nancy (Courtney Cavallaro) are at their service.

Returning to the stage with two brand new stories, Candy Matson and Johnny Dollar are up against new foes dastardlier than before. Performing as if recording a 1950s radio play, Benjamin Maio Mackay has once again revived old-time radio detective Matson in a story with an Egyptian twist, and Dollar, who comes up against a force much bigger than one person.