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Evie May (musical)
''Evie May'' is an Australian musical by Hugo Chiarella (book and lyrics) and Naomi Livingston (music and lyrics). Set in 1966 on the evening of the last Tivoli performance in Sydney, the show follows veteran variety star Evie May as she recalls the events that lead her from obscurity in regional Western Australia to the Australian variety circuit - and the many sacrifices made to get there. Productions Chiarella and Livingston began collaborating on the show while they were touring in the Australian cast of ''Les Miserables''. In 2016, the show was picked up for development by New Musicals Australia and secured a season at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney in 2018 with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts. The original Australian production of ''Evie May'' opened at the Hayes Theatre on the 12th of October 2018. The show was directed by Kate Champion, with musical direction and orchestration by Steven Kreamer, musical supervision by Max Lambert, design by Anna Gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Chiarella
Hugo Chiarella is an Australian writer and actor best known for his work in musical theatre. Chiarella grew up in Sydney, Australia and trained in musical theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts. Writing DreamSong While at university at the VCA, Chiarella began collaborating with fellow student, Robert Tripolino, on the musical ''DreamSong''. He wrote the book and lyrics and Tripolino composed the music. ''DreamSong'' is a musical satire about an evangelical megachurch that stage the second coming of Christ and market him as a Christian pop star. Meanwhile, the actual second coming of Christ occurs. The VCA agreed to support the development of the musical and staged a full production in 2011 directed by Michael Gurr. The show was selected as part of the Carnegie 19 New Music Theatre programme at Arts Centre Melbourne, where the show went through an workshop followed by a four night showcase featuring John O'May, Sheridan Harbridge, Nick Christo, Sam Ludeman, Stefanie Jones, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Harrison
Amanda Harrison is an Australian actress and singer, known for her roles in ''Wicked'' (Elphaba), ''We Will Rock You'' ("Meat" understudy in the UK, and “Oz" understudy in Australia), and for originating the role of Paula Pokrifki in the world premiere of ''An Officer and a Gentleman''. She has performed in cabaret several times, including her current production Up Close and Reasonably Personal which she is expected to perform at Melbourne Cabaret Festival in June 2014 and recently David Harris, Michael Ball, Lea Salonga and Marie Zamora for Enda Markey Presents ''Do You Hear The People Sing'' at Shanghai Grand Theatre. She voiced characters for Get Ace an animation series released in January 2014. She appeared with Mig Ayesa, Michael Falzon and Carly Thomas-Smith for three performances of The Music of Queen - Rock and Symphonic Spectacular. The concert series began on 7 February 2014, at Sydney Opera House supported by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra before three perfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Musicals
Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19 * one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short story ''God's Dice'' * ''Eighteen'' (film), a 2005 Canadian dramatic feature film * 18 (British Board of Film Classification), a film rating in the United Kingdom, also used in Ireland by the Irish Film Classification Office * 18 (''Dragon Ball''), a character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise * "Eighteen", a 2006 episode of the animated television series ''12 oz. Mouse'' Music Albums * ''18'' (Moby album), 2002 * ''18'' (Nana Kitade album), 2005 * '' 18...'', 2009 debut album by G.E.M. Songs * "18" (5 Seconds of Summer song), from their 2014 eponymous debut album * "18" (One Direction song), from their 2014 studio album ''Four'' * "18", by Anarbor from their 2013 studio album '' Burnout'' * "I'm Eighteen", by Alice Cooper commonly r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
APRA AMCOS
APRA AMCOS consists of Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS), both copyright management organisations or copyright collectives which jointly represent over 100,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in Australia and New Zealand. The two organisations work together to license public performances and administer performance, communication and reproduction rights on behalf of their members, who are creators of musical works, aiming to ensure fair payments to members and to defend their rights under the '' Australian Copyright Act (1968)''. APRA, which formed in 1926, represents songwriters, composers, and music publishers, providing businesses with a range of licences to use copyrighted music. This covers music that is communicated or performed publicly including on radio, television, online, live gigs in pubs and clubs etc. APRA distributes the royalties from these licence fees back to their compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Theatre Awards
The Sydney Theatre Awards are annual awards to recognise the strength, quality and diversity of professional theatre in Sydney, Australia. They were established in 2005 by a group of major Sydney theatre critics. The awards recognise mainstage and independent plays and musicals. Selected award recipients 2021 The 2021 awards were announced on 31 January 2022. *Best Mainstage Production: ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' ( Sydney Theatre Company) *Best Independent Production: ''Symphonie Fantastique'' (Little Eggs Collective in association with KXT) *Best Direction of a Mainstage Production: Kip Williams ( ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'') *Best Direction of an Independent Production: Tasnim Hossain (''Yellow Face'') *Best Performance in a Leading Role in a Mainstage Production: Eryn Jean Norvill (''The Picture of Dorian Gray'') *Best Performance in a Leading Role in an Independent Production: Shan-Ree Tan (''Yellow Face'') *Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Mainstage Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Simmonds
Diana Simmonds (born 1953) is an Australian journalist and arts critic, currently the editor and proprietor of Stagenoise.com. Simmonds was born in London, England in 1953 and moved with her family to Kenya. She returned to London in 1977 and wrote for various magazines including Time Out and was a founder member of the cooperative City Limits. In 1985 she moved to Sydney, Australia and wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, The Australian and the Sunday Telegraph, where she was the arts editor. In 2008 she was appointed editor of Sydney Alumni Magazine, for the University of Sydney. She has also written several novels and non-fiction books, including one on Princess Diana and one on Doris Day, and continues to write as a freelance journalist from time to time. In 2006 she co-founded the Sydney Theatre Reviewers and began working with brothers Damian and Tim Madden to create Stagenoise, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Draxl
Tim Draxl (born 8 October 1981) is an Australian actor and singer, known for his role as Doctor Henry Fox in ''A Place to Call Home''. Early life Draxl was born in Sydney and grew up in Jindabyne where his family was in the ski industry. He also spent winters in Austria. He attended high school at the McDonald College of Performing Arts. Draxl is openly gay. Career Draxl's film roles include ''Swimming Upstream'' (2003), ''In My Sleep'' (2010) and ''A Few Best Men'' (2011). He was nominated for a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor in 2004 for the ABC miniseries ''The Shark Net''. Other television roles include in '' Supernova'', ''Tangle'', ''Serangoon Road'', ''Mrs Biggs'', '' Molly'' and ''A Place to Call Home''. Draxl has been referred to as "easily our ustralia'sbest cabaret artist" His performance ''Tim Draxl in Concert'' was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Live Music Presentation in 2002. Filmography Films TV Discography Albums Awards Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keegan Joyce
Keegan Joyce (born 25 August 1989) is an Australian actor and singer. Early life Joyce attended The King's School from 2002 until his graduation in 2007. He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2014. Career Joyce began his professional career when he portrayed the eponymous character in ''Cameron Mackintosh's'' production of '' Oliver!''. He was the longest serving actor to play Oliver in the musical production of ''Oliver!'' touring Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore. In 2006, Joyce joined the cast of the Australian production of ''Titanic: A New Musical''. He also appeared in the 2006 film ''Superman Returns'' as a boy with a camera. In 2009, Joyce played the character Starkey in the '' Doctor Who'' spin-off series '' K9''. He portrayed the role of Andrej in the 2014-2015 Australian season of the musical Once. In 2010, Joyce played Finnegan "Fuzz" Greene in Australian television series '' Rake''. His character, teenage son of the series' protagonist "Cleav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Lambert
Max Lambert (born 1955) is an Australian composer and musical director. Biography Born in 1955 in Sydney, he studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Lambert composed the musicals ''Darlinghurst Nights'' and ''Miracle City'', both first produced by the Sydney Theatre Company. With Iva Davies, he composed ''Berlin'' for the Sydney Dance Company in 1995. He was the musical director for the original production of ''The Boy from Oz'', for which he received the inaugural Helpmann Award The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. The annual awards recognise achievements in the disciplines of musical th ... for Best Musical Direction in 2001. He was the musical director for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and worked on the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lambert, Max Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayes Theatre
The Hayes Theatre is a 111-seat theatre specialising in music theatre and cabaret in Potts Point, Sydney, Australia. It is named after the Australian performer Nancye Hayes. Hayes Theatre Co was established at the former Darlinghurst Theatre after the Darlinghurst Theatre Company moved to the nearby Eternity Playhouse. Its first production, a revival of ''Sweet Charity'', opened in January 2014. The production transferred to the Sydney Opera House and a national tour, and was nominated for and received multiple Helpmann Awards. The Hayes Theatre Co has gone on to secure a reputation nationally and internationally for its bold work and award-winning performances. Notable performers who have performed at the Hayes include Nancye Hayes, Caroline O'Connor, David Campbell, Verity Hunt-Ballard, Simon Burke, Mitchel Butel, Emma Matthews, Genevieve Lemon, Rowan Witt, Virginia Gay, Tim Draxl, Hellen Dallimore, Bobby Fox, Seann Miley Moore, Trevor AshleyMarika Aubrey [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Champion
Kate Champion is an Australian choreographer and artistic director. Biography Champion is the incoming artistic director of Black Swan State Theatre Company. She was the founding artistic director/CEO of Force Majeure (2002–2015), an influential dance theatre company based in Sydney. Champion has worked in theatre, dance, film, circus, opera and musical theatre with arts companies and institutes including Belvoir, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Performing Lines, The English National Opera, Opera Australia, The Hayes Theatre, Ensemble, NIDA, NICA and National Theatre of Parramatta. Champion choreographed the original stage version of Dirty Dancing (Australia, UK, US, Europe). She has created and performed two critically acclaimed solo shows, Face Value and About Face. As artistic director of Force Majeure, Kate co-devised and directed ''Same, Same But Different, Already Elsewhere, Tenebrae, The Age I’m In, Not in a Million Years'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia Council For The Arts
The Australia Council for the Arts, commonly known as the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announced in 1967 as the Australian Council for the Arts, with the first members appointed the following year. It was made a statutory corporation by the passage of the ''Australia Council Act 1975''. The organisation has included several boards within its structure over the years, including more than one incarnation of a Visual Arts Board (VAB), in the 1970s–80s and in the early 2000s. History Prime Minister Harold Holt announced the establishment of a national arts council in November 1967, modelled on similar bodies in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. It was one of his last major policy announcements prior to his death the following month. In June 1968, Holt's successor John Gorton announced the first ten members of the council, which was init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |