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Post by Buff on Mar 17, 2010 13:02:36 GMT 11
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Post by Buff on Mar 17, 2010 13:03:17 GMT 11
The King and I
The King of Siam wants to bring Western culture to his country and engages Anna Leonowens, an attractive English school teacher, to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. Anna and her young son come to the Royal Palace in Bangkok and there begins a unique and moving love story. Cultures and hearts collide as the King defends his traditions while Anna tries to bring change to his family and his world. A unique and moving love story unfolds.
Richard Rodger’s dazzling score for The King and I includes some of the most famous and popular songs he ever wrote:
I Whistle a Happy Tune, Hello Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, We Kiss in a Shadow, Something Wonderful and Shall We Dance?
Terence O’Connell directs this new staging with Musical Director Peter Casey, Australia’s Rodgers and Hammerstein specialist.
Starring Juan Jackson ( John in Miss Saigon) as The King, Chelsea Gibb (Roxie in Chicago) as Anna and Silvie Paladino ( Donna in Mamma Mia!) as Lady Thiang, with Adrian Li Donni and Emily Xiao Wang as the young lovers Lun Tha and Tuptim. This Broadway classic features a cast to thrill all lovers of musical theatre.
14-18 July
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Post by Buff on Mar 17, 2010 13:03:52 GMT 11
Boz from Oz
Nancye Hayes directs a new spectacular concert version of The Boy From Oz, the musical created to celebrate the life and work of the legendary Peter Allen. John Foreman is Musical Director.
This is the dazzling, funny and touching story of the great Australian entertainer Peter Allen, from his humble beginnings to his meteoric rise to fame as an international star. Singing in country pubs from age 11, Peter Allen survived family tragedy to become a local TV star at age 16. Discovered by Judy Garland, he married her daughter Liza Minnelli and went on to become a beloved performer and an Oscar-winning songwriter.
The Boy From Oz includes many of his best loved hits: Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on Stage, Everything Old is New Again, Tenterfield Saddler, I Honestly Love You, I Still Call Australia Home, Don’t Cry Out Loud and the show stopping I Go To Rio.
Australia’s favourite song and dance man and the star of the original Boy From Oz, Todd McKenney makes his Production Company debut as Peter Allen. Amanda Harrison (Elphaba, the Green Witch in Wicked) will be Liza Minnelli and David Harris (Chris in Miss Saigon) will play the role of Greg with Robyn Arthur (Mother in Crazy For You) as Marion Woolnough.
18-22 August
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Post by Buff on Mar 17, 2010 13:04:48 GMT 11
Sugar
Based on the film, Some Like It Hot, Sugar is the story of Joe and Jerry, two musicians in the prohibition era who unwittingly witness a gang slaying. To stay alive, they are forced to disguise themselves as women and play in an all female orchestra! They become Daphne and Josephine and embark on a tour with Sweet Sue and her band, the Society Syncopators. Trouble comes in spades when Joe (Josephine) falls for the sexy songstress, Sugar Kane and Daphne (Jerry) is pursued for marriage by a many times married millionaire. Outrageously funny, Sugar is musical comedy at its best.
Memorable musical numbers include Penniless Bums, The Beauty That Drives Men Mad, We Could Be Close, Doin’ It for Sugar, What Do You Give (To a Man Who Has Everything?), Beautiful Through and Through and November Song.
Starring Mitchell Butel (Noble in Little Me) and Matt Hetherington (Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) as the cross-dressing musicians Jerry and Joe, and
Christie Whelan (Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone) as the bombshell, Sugar Kane.
29 September - 3 October
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Post by Buff on Aug 11, 2010 10:02:34 GMT 11
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