Reviews

Moonlight and Magnolias is another triumph from the Pymble Players.

The Art Deco set is sleek and stylish with the attention to detail that regular theatre audiences have come to expect from Joy Sweeney.  The black walls extend seamlessly into the hall, giving the audience the illusion that they too are sitting in David O. Selznick's office.  

Simply Brill describes it perfectly. Amelia Ryan, Michael Griffiths and Michaela Burger are excellent examples of world’s best cabaret performers in this lamentably short season of this world and Australian premiere show, showcasing some of the women (and men) who shaped 1960s rock’n’roll.

It’s December 31st 1939 and we are at the Club Corona in Kings Cross watching the last act before midnight and the dawn of the naughty forties.

It’s a great premise which largely delivers in 30 Something. Musical maestro Phil Scott has taken 30s and 40s songs from the pens of Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and added work from contemporary artists including Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga and Coolio.

Australia’s world-renowned pianist Andrea Lam has been based in New York for two decades. But she is back in Australia and has been enlisted by Musica Viva for the first time. A self-confessed keen collaborator, Andrea performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in an unusual classical and jazz fusion concert with the award-winning Paul Grabowsky. Allegedly, the Variations were written by Bach for fellow composer and harpsichordist JG Goldberg to play for his sponsor, Count Kaiserling, during the Count’s bouts of insomnia.