The 24 Hour Musical Project

Australia’s only 24 Hour Musical Project returns to re-launch the 2020 show that Covid19 lockdowns forced into cancellation. On October 2nd & 3rd The Project will bring together a bunch of talented (and possibly slightly crazy) theatre makers to learn, rehearse and perform an all-singing, all-dancing musical in just one day. Profits and fundraising benefit the Actors’ & Entertainers’ Benevolent Fund QLD.  

Participants have known they were cast since March 2020, but have no idea what role or even what musical they will perform until it is announced at 6pm on Saturday 2nd October 2021. The Project goes into rehearsal that very minute and the show must go on at 6pm Sunday 3rd October.

In 2020, The Project was ready-to-roll and held auditions on the last weekend before Brisbane was sent into its first lockdown. The team felt, despite the uncertainty in the air that weekend, the auditions lifted the spirits of everyone involved. The production, like so many others, was postponed, and now seventeen months later we are ready to go!  

2021’s April production of Starlight Express marked a high point for The Project and this one promises to be just as exciting.  

Producer of The Project, Miranda Selwood, says this project is the first of its kind in Australia. “The idea had been stirring in my mind for years before we finally took on the challenge.  

“This Project is sustained by the people who are crazy enough to give it a try and especially by those who keep coming back. It’s all about community; our community. We spend one weekend working together toward a common goal and we create something amazing.”  

“We proved it works and now we set new challenges each year as The Project grows bigger and better. Numbers of auditionees have more than tripled since our first year and we do our best to include as many people as we can in The Project. We are quickly outgrowing our venue and I look forward to the day we move into QPAC with the biggest production ever produced in only 24 hours! To have The Project in the state’s premier venue, with the support of a 1000-strong audience would be an exciting achievement, and undeniable proof of the strength and unity of our local creative community here in Queensland.  

THE IMPORTANT STUFF:

• Sponsorship and advertising opportunities available.

• Show dates: Performance 6pm Sunday 3 October

• Tickets: $39 (Book online: www.24hmp.com or directly: https://www.trybooking.com/BTUWW)

• Venue: St John's Anglican College Performing Arts Centre
College Avenue, Forest Lake QLD 4078

• The Actors’ and Entertainers’ Benevolent Fund QLD (www.abfqld.com.au)