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Call Girl The Musical
''Call Girl the Musical'' is a musical conceived by Australian TV comedian and writer Tracy Harvey and Doug MacLeod, with musical arrangements from Jack Howard and direction from Bryce Ives. Background In 2004, Tracy Harvey started writing a sitcom about a customer contact centre. Script editor Doug MacLeod suggested that the material would make a good musical. The show had a preview season in October 2008 at the Phoenix Theatre in Elwood directed by Bryce Ives and choreographed by Dave Harford. The preview season starred Alan Fletcher from the Australian TV soap opera ''Neighbours'', with cameo (voice) appearances from Steve Vizard and Australian TV legend Bert Newton. After the preview season, the show was developed and a new season began in April 2009 at Chapel off Chapel, South Yarra. The 2009 season again featured Tracy Harvey as Jean Brown, with Jeremy Kewley replacing Alan Fletcher as male lead Frank McGee, and featured new voice-overs from Derek Guille Derek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Harvey
Tracy Harvey is a comedian, TV presenter, actor and writer from Melbourne, Australia. Biography Harvey appeared in 'Movement' a web series, ''The Comedy Company'', ''The Gillies Report'', ''The Big Gig'', '' Hey Hey It's Saturday'' ''Smallest Room in the House'', ''Bert Newton Midday Show'', ''The Pack of Women'', ''COPP This!'', ''Waterfront'' (a miniseries), ''Dead Gorgeous'' and TVC's for Sussan, Myer and Pfizer. Harvey was a weekly co-host on the Derek Guille program on 774 ABC Melbourne. Harvey was a member of the alternative comedy breakfast panel radio show Punter to Punter with Trevor Marmalade and Dr Turf. The show was aired on 3XY and 3RRR on Saturday mornings after the Coodabeen Champions The Coodabeen Champions'' (often referred to as "The Coodabeens") are an Australian comedy team with radio programs broadcast on the ACE Radio Network in Melbourne on 1377AM 3MP and sell as across regional Victoria and Southern New South Wales. ... during the 1980s. Harve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug MacLeod (TV Writer)
Doug MacLeod (13 October 1959 – 22 November 2021) was an Australian writer of books, television and theatre. Television MacLeod was a working writer for ABC Radio's comedy department in the 1980s, before spending two years as head writer of Network Ten's ''The Comedy Company''. He was a writer on the sketch comedy programs ''Fast Forward'' and '' Full Frontal''. He was the script editor of ''Kath & Kim'' while the series aired on the ABC. As a break from sketch comedy he co-wrote five episodes of ''SeaChange'' with Andrew Knight. He co-wrote the animated children's series '' Dogstar'' which won him the inaugural John Hinde prize for science fiction in 2008. He also worked on series two in 2011 with co-writer Philip Dalkin. In 2008 MacLeod won the Fred Parsons Award for Contribution to Australian Comedy at the Australian Writers' Guild Awards. Theatre MacLeod was the writer of '' Call Girl the Musical'', with Tracy Harvey which performed two seasons in Melbourne. With John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryce Ives
Bryce Ives (born 11 November 1983, in Ballarat) is Artistic Director of Theatre Works in St.Kilda, Artistic Director of the Fairfax Festival in the Murray Mallee region of North West Victoria, and Co-Artistic Director of the Present Tense Ensemble alongside long-term collaborator Nathan Gilkes. In 2019, Ives joined Laureate International Universities as the Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications for Torrens University Australia and the Media Design School in NZ. Ives has made a significant contribution to youth generated media in Australia, as a former Executive Producer of the ABC Radio project Heywire and former General Manager and President of the Student Youth Network in Melbourne. Ives facilitates the annual ABC Radio Heywire Regional Youth Summit in Canberra, in 2018 he facilitated his eleventh Heywire Regional Youth Summit. Ives is a previous Director of the Arts Academy Ballarat and the Gippsland Centre of Art & Design, the creative art schools Federation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister newspaper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.321 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first edition appeared on 17 October 1854. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In Australia
This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia. National In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965. Daily newspapers * ''The Australian'' (broadsheet) * ''The Australian Financial Review'' * ''The Guardian Australia'' (online) Weekly newspapers * ''The Saturday Paper'' * ''Green Left'' * ''The Weekly Times'' Bi-weekly and monthly newspapers * ''Koori Mail'', bi-weekly * '' Nichigo Press'' national edition, monthly, Japanese * ''The Life News'' national edition, fortnightly, English New South Wales Sydney and regional newspapers There are many newspapers published in the State of New South Wales, serving both the capital, Sydney and the regions. Some newspapers are defunct; some have been renamed; some have been amalgamated. The two main Sydney newspapers are ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', which was founded in 1831 when the state was still a colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Fletcher (actor)
Alan Fletcher (born 30 March 1957) is an Australian actor of stage, television and film and musician. Fletcher is best known for TV soap opera ''Neighbours'', as Karl Kennedy. His on-screen wife is played by Jackie Woodburne, who coincidentally had previously played his sister in TV procedural drama ''Cop Shop''. Having appeared in the series since 1994, Fletcher is the third longest serving actor in an Australian television serial, after ''Home and Away'' actors Ray Meagher and Lynne McGranger. Career Fletcher was born in Perth, Western Australia, and attended Wesley College in Perth. His first major role was in the police drama ''Cop Shop'' from 1982 until production ceased the following year. Prior to this, he appeared in a few episodes of the US series ''The Love Boat'' (1981) and various Australian feature films, TV movies, and miniseries including ''Fran'' and ''Mercy Mission''. He briefly acted in ''Neighbours'' in 1987 as Greg Cooper, a run-down, dishonest boxer wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighbours
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons and Daughters.'' Although successful in Melbourne, ''Neighbours'' underperformed in the Sydney market and was cancelled by Seven four months after it began airing. It was immediately commissioned by rival Network Ten for a second production season, which began screening on 20 January 1986. ''Neighbours'' went on to become the longest-running drama series in Australian television history. In 2005, it was inducted into the Logie Hall of Fame. The storylines concern the lives of the people who live and work in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The series centres on the residents of Ramsay Street, a cul-de-sac, and its neighbouring area, the Lassiters complex, which includes a bar, hotel, café, police station, lawy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Vizard
Stephen William Vizard AM (born 6 March 1956) is an Australian television and radio presenter, producer, writer, lawyer and businessman. He is an adjunct professor at Monash University and University of Adelaide. Vizard has written for and produced various Logie and AFI award-winning television shows – from ''Fast Forward'' to Kangaroo Palace; he has hosted his own five night a week national tonight show, ''Tonight Live With Steve Vizard'' for which he was three times nominated for and won a Gold Logie in 1991. He has broadcast on the Austereo, Fairfax and Macquarie radio networks and in 2011 was nominated for best Talkback Presenter in Australia; he has written several books ranging on topics ranging from humour to Australia's population policy; and has written works for theatre including ''The Last Man Standing'', the Melbourne Theatre Company's commemorative Gallipoli production in 2015. Vizard founded one of Australia's largest independent Production houses, Artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Newton
Albert Watson Newton (23 July 1938 – 30 October 2021) was an Australian media personality. He was a Logie Hall of Fame inductee, quadruple Gold Logie award-winning entertainer and radio, theatre and television personality and presenter. Newton hosted the Logie Awards ceremony on 19 occasions. Newton was known for his collaborations opposite Graham Kennedy and subsequently Don Lane on their respective variety shows as well as appearances with his wife, singer Patti Newton. Their two children are actor Matthew Newton and TV personality Lauren Newton. Newton started his career in radio broadcasting, primarily as an announcer before becoming a star and fixture of Australian television since its inception in 1956, and was considered both an industry pioneer, icon and one of the longest-serving television performers in the world. Newton was known for his association with both the Nine Network and Ten Network on numerous variety shows including ''In Melbourne Tonight'', ''N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and New South Wales South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid paper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' and the afternoon broadsheet paper '' The Herald''. It was first pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapel Off Chapel
Chapel Off Chapel is a theatre venue in Prahran, Melbourne. Located near Chapel Street and opened in 1995, the venue consists of the 255-seat Chapel Theatre, the 150-seat Chapel Loft and a visual arts gallery. Chapel Off Chapel is particularly associated with independent music theatre and cabaret. It has hosted independent productions of musicals, many as Australian premieres, including ''Dogfight'', ''tick, tick... BOOM!'', ''Violet'', ''The Color Purple'', ''Thrill Me'', ''John & Jen'', '' Avenue Q'', ''In the Heights'', ''Loving Repeating'', '' Blood Brothers'', '' Hair'', ''It's Only Life!'', ''Gutenberg! The Musical!'', ''Zanna, Don't!'', ''Is There Life After High School?'', ''Bat Boy'', ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'', ''The Last 5 Years'', '' Hello Again'', ''Songs for a New World'', ''Kooky Tunes'', ''And The World Goes Round'', ''Putting It Together'', ''Lucky Stiff'' and ''Closer Than Ever''. Australian musicals performed at Chapel Off Chapel include ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
