The musical phenomenon CHICAGO has finished its run at Sydney’s Capitol Theatre and has its final stops in Australia – Adelaide and Canberra. The longest-running show now playing on Broadway, this scorching hot masterpiece includes a dazzling score that includes “All That Jazz,” “Cell Block Tango” and “Razzle Dazzle.” Created by the musical theatre talents of John Kander, […]

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Of the many things we know about Elvis, it is the thriving impersonator industry that looms as one of the weirdest and most persistent. Indeed, there is an air of kitsch about the Tupelo born singer that not even Luhrmann glitz can hide. Yet, none of that serves to dampen audience enthusiasm for the hip […]

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Redgum Function Centre, Sydney.22 July 2024. Holroyd Musical and Dramatic Society (HMDS) has opened its annual run of community theatre for the year with a lively production of Oliver!. Based on the Charles Dickens 1838 novel Oliver Twist, the story explores the plight of a young orphan in the midst of Victorian England, a decidedly […]

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Sydney Harbour, Sydney.22 March 2024. Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour opened its 2024 season of West Side Story with an impressive bang this month. With the stunning backdrop of the Sydney Harbour and Opera House, on the water and under the stars, was set the perfect scene for this classic but tragic love story. West […]

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Twenty years since its premiere on Broadway, Wicked the Musical returns to Australia. Based on the novel by Gregory Maguire, and adapted to a musical and then cinema, Wicked the Musical is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, from the perspective of the Glinda the good witch, and Elphelba the bad witch. The current […]

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