Oh King Kong! You gorgeous, sexy, magnificent beast. Your entrance may be the most spectacular thing ever seen on a live stage. Every time you’re on, the audience is yours for the taking, as all around you pale to dull, despite all manner of shiny costume. You are glorious and…
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Global Creatures’ epic theatrical event - King Kong - opened at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre last night with an official gala opening performance and party, attended by some of Australia’s most famous. Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum, Sophie Monk, Bert and Patti Newton, Caroline O’Connor, Geoffrey Rush and Eddie Perfect were among more than 2000 guests at…
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Genesis to Broadway is, musically, a giant step but perhaps too big for such a small venue. Maybe technology let the stars of the show down but did the talented Fem Belling and Tod Strike, obviously well-schooled in voice projection, really need the volume? It would have been so easy, surely,…
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Green Room Award nominee Fem Belling took time out of her rehearsal schedule (literally) to chat with AussieTheatre about the much anticipated return season of Genesis To Broadway. The delightful Fem Belling answers my phone call a little out of breath: “I’ve just walked out of a scene to answer the…
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Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence are quintessential figures of 20th century theatre. Coward — the image of English gentry — acted, wrote, directed and composed; while Lawrence acted, sang and dazzled with a magnetism that made her transfixing on stage. Theirs was a brand of talent in short supply before and…
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Magnormos’s 2011 premiere of Flowerchildren: The Mamas and Papas Story sold out at Theatre Works, got rave reviews (here’s mine) and made it onto favourite and award’s lists. It’s since been developed and has opened its first professional season at The Comedy Theatre. If it doesn’t sell out, get rave reviews and awards,…
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Attention all Melbourne Musical Theatre and Cabaret Performers: Matthew Robinson’s special new workshop is for you. No, really. Acclaimed performer and composer Matthew Robinson has been presenting his successful The Singing Actor workshops for several years all over Australia. Testimonials from each and every masterclass continually affirm Robinson’s ability to…
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When Squabbalogic burst onto the Sydney theatre scene in 2008, it was exactly everything the city needed: an independent company dedicated to boutique musical theatre: the weird and wonderful, the challenging work often neglected by commercial theatre. And they started with Reefer Madness. From there, it’s been a cavalcade of…
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Oh my god Oh my god, you guys I liked Legally Blonde I was so surprised! I really didn’t think it was going to be my kind of show Oh My God! Honesty, no one thought that I was going to like Legally Blonde: The Musical, least of all me – but…
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Hurry! Matthew Robinson’s The Singing Actor Workshop Brisbane has only FIVE slots left — applications close May 17. Last year, composer, performer and 2011 Churchill Fellowship winner Matthew Robinson presented readings of his latest musical Atlantis to an audience of musical theatre luminaries in New York including Stephen Schwartz, Disney Theatrical Productions and…
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