Post by nadine on Jul 10, 2004 23:40:59 GMT 11
Redoing my articles section on my site at the moment - and mixing it into the pictures section....
From today's Sunday Herald Sun - Melbourne people should be happy with the strong possibility of her moving down there - bloody Sydney theatre! Anyway, enjoy!
I was wondering if anyone out there who got it, can scan the picture that accompanied the article for me please?
Tamsin Carroll lands the role that inspired her teenage years, writes CATHERINE LAMBERT
OYSTER Bay, on Long Island in New York, may be a long way from Studley Park Rd, Kew.
But Tamsin Carroll glows with New York heiress style, wearing designer gilt silk satin in one of the stately Raheen guest rooms.
As Tracy Lord, the role played so distinctly by Grace Kelly in High Society, Carroll, 25, is a natural sophisticate.
This may be a long way from her role as Sheila in Hair or further still from Nancy in Oliver!, but it is the role she has wanted to play since she was a teenager influenced by actor father Peter Carroll.
"I grew up with the film of High Society and have been longing for the show to be produced so I could be in it, so it's great that it has finally come around,'' Carroll said.
"You have everything with this role. Tracy's a strong, glamorous woman, but all the while she's vulnerable, so it's great when she gets to let her guard down.''
The show and film are based on the play The Philadelphia Story and filled with some of Cole Porter's greatest songs. It is characterised by fine champagne, yachts and luxurious beauty, and coloured by musical and media reprobates.
Tracy Lord is a society princess about to marry the appropriate but dull George Kittredge. When her maligned first husband, Dexter, reappears on the eve of her wedding, along with two reporters from gossip magazine Spy, Tracy's loyalties and decisions are disrupted.
"Tracy is extremely glamorous and has a charm that attracts people, but she is also perceived by a lot of people to be cold, but that's just because her standards appear to be very high,'' she said.
"It's only when she is caught out that the walls come down and she shows that she needs to be loved like everyone else. She has been very hurt by her father's indiscretions, which gives her an extra dimension.
"It's a wonderfully stylistic show . . . it's that style that we don't have a lot of these days because there is no individuality. There seems to be a distinct formula that is too predictable.''
Carroll is based in Sydney, but said she felt sure she would move to Melbourne, sensing more of a home and feeling encouraged by the strong theatre community.
She has a natural inclination for musical theatre, winning Greenroom, Mo and Helpmann Awards for Oliver! last year.
She is a strong, mature actor with a fine and distinguished singing voice.
"There is something special about the production values of musicals that I really like and it's a very different, emotive, form of story-telling,'' she said.
"You can really get people to feel intensely through music, which is very special. But musicals are very tough. Doing eight shows a week, you have to become an athlete of your own voice and body because the easier you can make it look, the better it is for audiences.''
High Society. Wednesday to Saturday. State Theatre, The Arts Centre. Bookings: 1300 136 166.
From today's Sunday Herald Sun - Melbourne people should be happy with the strong possibility of her moving down there - bloody Sydney theatre! Anyway, enjoy!
I was wondering if anyone out there who got it, can scan the picture that accompanied the article for me please?
Tamsin Carroll lands the role that inspired her teenage years, writes CATHERINE LAMBERT
OYSTER Bay, on Long Island in New York, may be a long way from Studley Park Rd, Kew.
But Tamsin Carroll glows with New York heiress style, wearing designer gilt silk satin in one of the stately Raheen guest rooms.
As Tracy Lord, the role played so distinctly by Grace Kelly in High Society, Carroll, 25, is a natural sophisticate.
This may be a long way from her role as Sheila in Hair or further still from Nancy in Oliver!, but it is the role she has wanted to play since she was a teenager influenced by actor father Peter Carroll.
"I grew up with the film of High Society and have been longing for the show to be produced so I could be in it, so it's great that it has finally come around,'' Carroll said.
"You have everything with this role. Tracy's a strong, glamorous woman, but all the while she's vulnerable, so it's great when she gets to let her guard down.''
The show and film are based on the play The Philadelphia Story and filled with some of Cole Porter's greatest songs. It is characterised by fine champagne, yachts and luxurious beauty, and coloured by musical and media reprobates.
Tracy Lord is a society princess about to marry the appropriate but dull George Kittredge. When her maligned first husband, Dexter, reappears on the eve of her wedding, along with two reporters from gossip magazine Spy, Tracy's loyalties and decisions are disrupted.
"Tracy is extremely glamorous and has a charm that attracts people, but she is also perceived by a lot of people to be cold, but that's just because her standards appear to be very high,'' she said.
"It's only when she is caught out that the walls come down and she shows that she needs to be loved like everyone else. She has been very hurt by her father's indiscretions, which gives her an extra dimension.
"It's a wonderfully stylistic show . . . it's that style that we don't have a lot of these days because there is no individuality. There seems to be a distinct formula that is too predictable.''
Carroll is based in Sydney, but said she felt sure she would move to Melbourne, sensing more of a home and feeling encouraged by the strong theatre community.
She has a natural inclination for musical theatre, winning Greenroom, Mo and Helpmann Awards for Oliver! last year.
She is a strong, mature actor with a fine and distinguished singing voice.
"There is something special about the production values of musicals that I really like and it's a very different, emotive, form of story-telling,'' she said.
"You can really get people to feel intensely through music, which is very special. But musicals are very tough. Doing eight shows a week, you have to become an athlete of your own voice and body because the easier you can make it look, the better it is for audiences.''
High Society. Wednesday to Saturday. State Theatre, The Arts Centre. Bookings: 1300 136 166.
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