Scarlett O’Hara at the Crimson Parrot

I love Caroline O’Connor. She can sing and dance and act.
In her latest outing for MTC O’Connor plays Scarlett O’Hara a 36 year old waitress at a restaurant called the Crimson Parrot.
Written by David Williamson the play revolves around O’Connor’s character Scarlett. Scarlett loves with her mother, is boyfriendless and spends all her time off [...]

Luck be a lady tonight

Back in August 06 I blogged briefly about the London version of Guys and Dolls starring Patrick Swayze as Nathan Detroit.
This time around it is the Australian version starring Lisa McCune (Sarah Brown), Marina Prior (Miss Adelaide), Ian Stenlake (Sky Masterson), & Garry McDonald (Nathan Detroit).
McCune sounded like she may have been recovering from an [...]

Jerome Robbins – Australian Ballet

Jerome Robbins is probably best remembered as the choreographer of West Side Story but he was also a very successful choreographer of classical ballets.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of Robbins’ death the AB put together a program of 4 Robbins ballets.
The first The cage is danced in arachnid inspired costumes (borrowed from the Birmingham Ballet) [...]