Since last year it has been my ambition to see all the Australian Billy Elliots perform at least once. Unfortunately this resolution is down the tubes cos Nick Twiney has outgrown the role and I didn’t get to see him in the role. However I have seen the other 3 original Billys and this is [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 28, 2008
My Fair Lady (Australian Opera)
Hmmm. Mrs Collette (a BL borrower) was surprised that I was disappointed by this production (she loved it.) Mind you her son is GM of AO so she may be a tad biased.
I guess most of my disappointment cam about because I love musical theatre and am used to seeing My Fair Lady done by [...]
May 25, 2008
Frost/Nixon (MTC)
My favourite MTC so far this season (am seeing Caroline O’Connor in a couple of weeks so it may change).
I vaguely remember Watergate – I’d just started high school when Nixon resigned and didn’t fully realise the impact or what was going on. A few years later the politics class took the train to Melbourne [...]
May 21, 2008
The Boy from Oz. Cloc Musical Theatre
Wow!
I’ve seen some excellent ‘non professional’ theatre companies over the years but Cloc’s production of The Boy from Oz is certainly the best.
OMG.
The Peter Allen role is played, brilliantly, by Jonathan Sebastian. He can sing and he can dance and he interacts with the audience superbly. The night we went the Seussical cast were in [...]
May 18, 2008
Seussical – the musical. Whitehorse Theatre Company
An audience of kids and The Cat in the Hat sets the scene for the Whitehorse production of Seussical. Karl McNamara was great as the Cat, the kids around me were sure he was the real deal.
Shaun Kingma was Horton. Instead of wearing an elephant costume he was wearing baggy grey overalls and a matching [...]
May 17, 2008
Bangarra – Mathinna
I love Stephen Page’s choreography and I love Bangarra Dance Theatre.
Bangarra’s latest work Mathinna tells the story, through dance, of a young Aboriginal woman, Mathinna, who was born on Flinders Island in Bass Strait about 1835. As a child she was taken from her family and sent to live in Hobart Town with the governor of Van [...]
May 9, 2008
How much theatre is too much?
I’ve been looking at my calendar and the stuff I have tickets for over the next couple of weeks.
Scary!
May 16 – Bangarra
May 18 – Seussical
May 20 – Boy from Oz
May 21 – Mo Hayder, Bookgroup (not theatre but still a night out)
May 22 – Genealogy talk
May 23 – Gymnastics (All Around)
May 24 – Frost & [...]
