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Alex Rathgeber
Alex Rathgeber (born 17 November 1982) is an Australian actor and singer, perhaps best known for his Helpmann Award-winning performance as Billy Crocker in Anything Goes. More recently he appeared as the Tin Man in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revival of The Wizard of Oz. In the United Kingdom, Rathgeber played the role of Raoul in 21st Anniversary cast of The Phantom of the Opera in the West End. He is openly gay. Early life Alexander Wilson Rathgeber was born in Horsham, Victoria and raised on a farm by real estate agent father, David, and primary school teacher and real estate agent mother, Katherine. He has two older siblings, Olivia and Nicholas. At 15-years-old, Rathgeber commenced as a boarder at Xavier College in Melbourne, where he became Vice-Captain of the School in his final year. Training Immediately following his year 12, Rathgeber was admitted into the world-renowned Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). Graduating in 2003 with a Bachelor of Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Kendall
Kate Kendall (born 27 July 1973) is an Australian actress and director. She played Angie Piper in the long-running Nine Network Australian drama '' Stingers'' from 1998 to 2004. Kendall has appeared in television series '' The Librarians'' (2007), '' Rush'' (2010) and ''Conspiracy 365''. She joined the cast of television soap opera ''Neighbours'' in 2013 as Lauren Turner. After leaving the role in 2017, Kendall became a director, and later producer, on the serial. Career Kendall studied at the Centre for Performing Arts (CPA) (now the Adelaide College of the Arts) in Adelaide. There she was taught by her father, David Kendall, who then headed the acting course. Small parts in television shows such as ''Home and Away'' and ''Neighbours'' led to a guest role as Rosie Burgess in ''Blue Heelers'' in 1997. Her major television role has been as Angie Piper in '' Stingers'', which role she played for 192 episodes from 1998 to 2004. Kendall played a minor role as Lisa in the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiddler On The Roof
''Fiddler on the Roof'' is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on ''Tevye and his Daughters'' (or ''Tevye the Dairyman'') and other tales by Sholem Aleichem. The story centers on Tevye, a milkman in the village of Anatevka, who attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon his family's lives. He must cope with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters who wish to marry for love; their choices of husbands are successively less palatable for Tevye. An edict of the tsar eventually evicts the Jews from their village. The original Broadway production of the show, which opened in 1964, had the first musical theatre run in history to surpass 3,000 performances. ''Fiddler'' held the record for the longest-running Broadway musical for almost 10 years until '' Grease'' surpassed its run. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Hannaford
Esther Hannaford is an Australian singer and actor who has performed major roles in musical theatre in Australia. Her roles include Penny Pingleton in the original Australian cast of ''Hairspray'', for which she received a Helpmann Award, Ann Darrow in ''King Kong'', and Carole King in ''Beautiful''. Early life Hannaford grew up in Camberwell in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Her parents were a stay-at-home mother who later had her own clothing label and an electrician father who was a former SAS officer. She is the third of five children. She took dance lessons from the age of five. As a child, she performed in the 1993 Melbourne season of '' Scrooge'', and also appeared on television talent show ''New Faces'' dancing with three of her siblings to a medley of " Glory of Love" and "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)". Growing up, Hannaford's interest was in contemporary dance, and she did not pursue singing seriously until after high school. She deferred a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhonda Burchmore
Rhonda Suzanne Burchmore OAM (born 15 May 1960) is an Australian entertainer. Career Burchmore appeared as Kate in the 1982 film, '' The Pirate Movie''. Burchmore gave her first Australian theatre performance in the 1988 production of '' Sugar Babies'' opposite Garry McDonald and Broadway performer Eddie Bracken. Later that year, she had a role in the West End production of ''Sugar Babies'' opposite Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller. Whilst in the U.K, Burchmore was cast in the revival of ''Stop the World – I Want to Get Off'' as well as a role in ''Hot Shoe Shuffle''. In 1997, Burchmore opened Melbourne's Crown Casino starring in ''Red Hot & Rhonda''. Burchmore had a role of Nadine Hale in Tommy Tune's stage version of Irving Berlin's '' Easter Parade'', slated for Broadway but eventually the project stalled. Burchmore later appeared in another show, Stephen Sondheim's ''Into the Woods'' with the Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC). Burchmore released her first album in 1998, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mame (musical)
''Mame'' is a musical with the book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee Robert Edwin Lee (October 15, 1918 – July 8, 1994) was an American playwright and lyricist. With his writing partner, Jerome Lawrence, Lee worked for Armed Forces Radio during World War II; Lawrence and Lee became the most prolific writing pa ... and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. Originally titled ''My Best Girl'', it is based on the 1955 novel ''Auntie Mame'' by Patrick Dennis and the 1956 Broadway play by Lawrence and Lee. A period piece set in New York City and spanning the Great Depression and World War II, it focuses on eccentric Bohemianism, bohemian Mame Dennis, whose famous motto is "Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death." Her fabulous life with her wealthy friends is interrupted when the young son of her late brother arrives to live with her. They cope with the Depression in a series of adventures. In 1958, a film titled ''Auntie Mame (film), Auntie M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramin Karimloo
Ramin Karimloo ( fa, رامین کریملو; ; born September 19, 1978) is a Canadian actor, singer and composer recognized for his work in London's West End and Broadway theatre. He has played the leading male roles in both of the West End's longest running musicals: the Phantom and Raoul in ''The Phantom of the Opera'', as well as Jean Valjean, Enjolras, and Marius Pontmercy in ''Les Misérables''. He also originated the roles of Gleb in ''Anastasia'' and the Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's '' Love Never Dies'', which continues the story of ''Phantom''. He's also known to many ''Phantom'' fans for playing the role of the Phantom during '' The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Performance at the Royal Albert Hall'', which was shown live in movie theaters around the world in October 2011, appearing opposite Sierra Boggess and Hadley Fraser as Christine Daaé and Raoul de Chagny, respectively. He made his Broadway debut as Jean Valjean in the 2014 Broadway revival of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sideshow Alley (musical)
''Sideshow Alley'' is an Australian musical by Paul Keelan and Gary Young. Set amongst the 'misfits', 'outcasts' and 'curiosities' of a 1950s Outback travelling show, ''Sideshow Alley'' tells the story of Rita, an Italian fortune-teller, Billy, a rugged tent boxer, and Alec, a charismatic drifter, intertwined in a love triangle filled with secrets and lies. It concerns themes of unbridled love and the discovery of identity in a world of prejudice. Development Young and Keelan's ''Sideshow Alley'' received the inaugural Pratt Prize for Music Theatre in 2002. The prize included a workshop production, staged at Melbourne's Chapel Off Chapel in August 2003 directed by Gale Edwards with a cast including Tamsin Carroll, Greg Stone and Robyn Arthur. Melbourne's Playbox Theatre Company announced a full-scale production for its 2004 season but this was later cancelled when Playbox could not secure a co-producer. Production history The original Australian production of ''Sideshow Alley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvie Paladino
Silvie Paladino (born 18 August 1971) is an Australian singer. She began singing at the age of nine, learning at an inner-Melbourne music school, and from an early age won several major singing competitions, including the Italian Song Festival and the grand final of Channel Ten's ''Young Talent Time''. Career During 1989, Paladino was offered the role of Eponine in ''Les Misérables'' as an eighteen-year-old. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the 1991 Melbourne Green Room Award for her performance. Paladino continued performing the role for a further twelve months touring Australia and New Zealand to critical acclaim. She received the same recognition in 1992 when she accepted an invitation to perform the role of Eponine on the West End in the London production of ''Les Misérables''. In 1997, Paladino was invited to return to London where she performed the role of Fantine in ''Les Misérables'' for two years. Paladino's other Australasian credits include the rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Olsen (actor)
Dennis Hans Olsen AM (born 28 February 1938) is an Australian singer, actor, director and pianist. His performances include opera, musical theatre, cabaret, radio, television and film. He is best known as an exponent of "patter" roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and his performances of Noël Coward songs. At first trained as a pianist, Olsen soon switched to acting, beginning his career with Australian theatre companies in the 1960s. After success with Opera Australia, Olsen briefly joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in England. He returned to Australia in 1971, playing in theatre as well as Gilbert and Sullivan over the next four decades. Early life and career Olsen was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and is of Danish descent. He originally trained for a professional career as a pianist. He decided to become an actor and attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, graduating in 1962.Stone, David"Dennis Olsen" Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Madden Gray
Melissa Madden Gray, stage name Meow Meow, is an Australian-born actress, dancer and cabaret performer who tours internationally. Gray has been particularly active in the UK where she appeared in ''La Clique'' at the Roundhouse (venue), Roundhouse and created the role of the ''Maîtresse'' in the West End theatre, West End musical adaptation of ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg#Stage adaptation, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' at the Gielgud Theatre. In 2010 Meow Meow was awarded the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Prize. In January 2011 she premiered "Meow Meow in Concert" for three nights at the Apollo Theatre on London's West End. She was named Helpmann Award for Best Cabaret Performer, Best Cabaret Performer at the 2012 Helpmann Awards for her show, ''Little Match Girl''. She debuted "An Audience with Meow Meow" at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California as part of their Fall 2014 season. Training As an undergraduate, Gray studied at the University of Melbourne where she was a reside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Retallick
Katrina Retallick is an Australian actress possibly best known for appearing on the sketch comedy, television series, '' Comedy Inc.'' between 2003 and 2006. Career In 2001, Retallick had also been active in voice over work including campaigns for Racing Australia, Laubman and Pank Optometry and Vodafone Message Bank. Since returning to Australia her television credits include Backberner and CNNNN for the ABC and four series of ''Comedy Inc''. for the Nine Network. She also played the lead role of Nell in the Seabiscuit productions stage show of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical '' South Pacific'' in Sydney in 2004. Retallick completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney and appeared in over 15 shows with the dramatic society (SUDS). This was followed by studies at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Film work has included working as an in-studio reader for the animated film, ''Flushed Away'' with Hugh Jackman and Miriam Margolyes for DreamW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camelot (musical)
''Camelot'' is a 1960 musical by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music). It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from T. H. White's 1958 novel ''The Once and Future King''. The original production, directed by Moss Hart with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang, ran on Broadway for 873 performances, winning four Tony Awards. It starred Richard Burton as Arthur, Julie Andrews as Guinevere, and Robert Goulet as Lancelot. It spawned several revivals, foreign productions, and the 1967 Warner Bros. film ''Camelot''. The musical has become associated with the Kennedy Administration, which is sometimes called the "Camelot Era," due to an interview with Jackie Kennedy in which she compared her husband's presidency to King Arthur's reign, specifically mentioning his fondness for the musical and particularly the closing lyrics which end the song "Camelot" and also form the ending of the musical itself. Background In 1959, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
