Victoria

Amateur Repertory Company
Babirra Music Theatre
Cardinia Performing Arts Company
Catchment Players
CLOC Musical Theatre
Comedy Theatre
Croydon Parish Players
Dandenong Musical Theatre
Diamond Valley Singers
Gilbert & Sullivan
Her Majesty's
MLOC
Mountain District Musical Society
Mornington Peninsula Theatre
National Theatre
Nova Musical Theatre
Princess Theatre
Production Company
Regent Theatre
Rod Laver Arena
Savoy Opera Company
Slams
The Palms at Crown
Theatreworks
The Theatre
Windmill Theatre Company
Whitehorse Musical Theatre


New South Wales

Lyric Theatre-Star City

The Capitol Theatre

Queensland

ACER Arena
Lyric Theatre

Tasmania West Australia
Queens Park Theatre
Australian Capital Territory

 

 

Comedy Theatre
Bookings: 132 849

Menopause the Musical

.Season opens August 17.

 

Her Majesty's
Bookings: Ticketek 1300 795 012

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Princess Theatre

Hairspray

Jack Chambers, Trevor Ashley, Jaz Flowers, Grant ProJack Chambers Trevor Ashley, Jaz Flowers Grant Pro

Monday June 28 saw the launch and announcement of the latest musical to come to Melbourne HAIRSPRAY.
The producers, Paul Dainty and Joel Pearlman together with Director David Atkins and Chorographer Jason Coleman said that they were delighted to announce the nine Australian principal cast members who will star in this entertaining musical.
Starring in the lead role of the girl with big dreams and big hair, Tracy Turnblad is newcomer Jaz Flowers Growing up in Gippsland, studying and completing her Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre at Ballarat University is looking forward to her first lead role.
Tracy’s doting Mum, Edna, will be played by Trevor Ashley, a performer often described as the busiest man in Australian show-business.
 Playing the role of the heart throb of The Corny Collins Show Link Larkin is Jack Chambers. Jack earned a place in Australian entertainment history when he was crowned the first So You Think You Can Dance winner in 2008.
Accomplished and well-known actor Grant Pro recently seen in the MTC production of The Drowsy Chaperone will perform as Tracy’s adoring father Wilbur Turnblad.
The glamorous role of Velma Von Tussle will be performed by Marney McQueen remembered best for her role as Marion in the Australian production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert – The Musical.
Corny Collins, the outrageously dashing host of the local TV dance show is to be played by Scott Irwin a well known leading man of the Australian stage.
The Queen of Baltimore is radio DJ, Motormouth Maybelle and she will be played by Cle Morgan.
Tracy’s best friend Penny Pingleton will be played by Green Room Award winner Esther Hannaford and streetwise and spunky Little Inez will be performed by Nancy Denis.
Hairspray first opened on Broadway on July 18, 2002 and played for six and a half years until January 2009. It is basically a fun musical and winner of 30 major awards including Tony Award for best Musical (2003), Tony Award for Best Original Score (2003), Olivier Award for Best New Musical (2008) and a Grammy Award for Best Show Album (2002).
Opening in Melbourne at the Princess Theatre on Saturday October 2 .2010. Rehearsals commence in August but tickets are on sale NOW!
Call Ticketek: 1300 795 012 or book on www.ticketek.com.au

 

It is 1962 - the ‘50s are out and change is in the air. Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion, to DANCE! She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, “The Corny Collins Show” and, overnight, is transformed from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. But can a plus-size trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the program’s reigning princess, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a television show without denting her ‘do? Only in HAIRSPRAY! Welcome to the ‘60s!
Season opens in October with tickets going on sale in May.

 

 

 

 

The Production Company

Bookings: 1300 136 166

 

 

Tuesday March 9 saw the launch of The Production Company’s 2010 season.
The launch was opened by Jeanne Pratt the Chairman of The Production Company who said “I am delighted to invite you subscribe to The Production Company. Three brilliant musicals are in this new season with all performances to be staged in the magnificent State Theatre at the Victorian Arts Centre.”
Opening the season for six performances only is Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I.
Terence O’Connell directs this new staging and Musical Director, Peter Casey, Australia’s Rodger & Hammerstein specialist conducts.
This production will star Juan Jackson (John in Miss Saigon) as The King.
Chelsea Gibb (Roxie in Chicago) as Anna and Silie Paladino (Donna in Mamma Mia) as Lady Thiang with Adrian Li Donni and Emily Xiao Wang as the young lovers LunTha and Tuptim.
The King and I opens on July 14 running to July 18.

The second production is The Boy from Oz.
This is the dazzling, funny and touching story of the great Australian entertainer Peter Allen, from his humble beginnings to his meteoric rise to fame as an international star.
The Boy from Oz includes many of hiss best loved hits : Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on Stage, Everything Old is New Again, Tenterfield Saddler, I Honestly Love You, I Still Call Australia Home, Don’t Cry Out Loud and of course I Go to Rio.
Australia’s favourite song and dance man and the star of the original Boy from Oz Tod McKenney makes his Production Company debut as Peter Allen. Amanda Harrison 9Elphaba the Green Witch in Wicked) will be Liza Minnelli and David Harris (Chris in Miss Saigon) will play the role of Greg with Robyn Arthur (Mother in Crazy for You) as Marion Woolnough.
The Boy from Oz opens August 18 and runs until August 22.

The third and last production for 2010 is Sugar the musical version of Some Like it Hot.
The story of Joe and Jerry, two musicians in the prohibition era who unwittingly witness a gang slaying. To stay alive, they are forced to disguise themselves as women and play in an all female orchestra! They become Daphne and Josephine and embark on a tour with Sweet Sue and her band, the Society Syncopators.
Memorable numbers include Penniless Bums, That Beauty That Drives Men Mad, We Could be Close, Doin’ it for Sugar, What Do You Give, Beautiful Through and Through and November Song.
Starring Mitchell Butel (Noble in Little Me) and Matt Hetherington (Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.) as the cross dressing musicians Jerry and Joe and Christie Whelan (Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone) as the bombshell Sugar Kane. Adrian Cook, Artistic Director of the State Theatre S.A. directs this production.
Six performances only opening September 29 and running to October 3.

 

The Palms at Crown
Bookings: 132 849

 

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Theatreworks

The Theatre

National Theatre

Regent Theatre
Bookings 136 100

Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins is a rare singing talent, the Welsh born artist has released seven studio albums selling in excess of 4 million copies world wide. Katherine's unique take on classical opera fused with pop elements has enabled her to crossover from the classical charts to the top of the pop charts around the world.
The elegant performer brings a maturity beyond her years to the stage. Since her debut in 2004 Katherine has performed with such greats as Placido Domingo and Andrea Bocelli. She performed sold out shows in Australia in 2008 where audiences were captivated by this young beautiful and enchanting singer and returned in 2009 on a promotional visit.
A pecial guest on the tour will be young Australian opera star Mark Vincent. Since exploding onto Australia's musical radar in 2009 Markj has proved tp be an inspiring talent and remarkable singer. His firstr album My Dream - Mio Visione debuted at No 2 on the ARIA charts ans reached Platinum sales.
Season: Thursday October 28.

 

Rod Laver Arena
Bookings: 1300 555 593

 

 

Amateur Repertory Company
Bookings: 0435 062 087

 

Aspect Theatre
Bookings: www.aspecttheatre.com

 

BABIRRA MUSIC THEATRE
Bookings: 61 3 9262 6555

 

Kismet

Like a tale spun by Scheherazade, this exotic Arabian fantasy follows the remarkable and repeated chages of fortune that engulf a poor poet. I t all happens in one incredible day when Kismet (Fate) takes a hand in the lives and loves of the poet Haji, his daughter Marsinah, the young Caliph of Baghdad and Laiume the vampy wife of the evil Wazir.
Season: May 28 - June 5.

 

Sweet Charity

Charity Hope Valentine is a young dance hall hostess with not much more thah her shoulder bag and a heart tattooed on her arm.
Charity believes that without love. life has no purpose. But how does such a person survive in a world that is cynical and opportunistic? Despite the odds being stacked against her, Charity is unique because she beleives in love - and that's why we need her!

Season: October 8 - 16.

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Cardinia Performing Arts Company
Cardinia Performing Arts Company

 

Catchment Players
Bookings: 0437 228 246
online http://catchmentplayers.org.au

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CLOC Musical Theatre
Bookings: 1300 382 547
& online www.cloc.org.au www.cloc.org.au

Man of La Mancha

tells the classic tale of Don Quixote as brought to life by its author Miguel de Cervantes, who is imprisoned and awaiting trial during the Spanish Inquisition.
Join Don Quixote and his loyal squire Sancho Panza as they fight windmills, mirrors, gypsies, skeptics - and a shaving basin - in their quest to save damsels, right wrongs and challenge injustices, "the impossible dream".
Season: September 17 - October 2. Venue: National Theatre St. Kilda.

 

Croydon Parish Players
Bookings: 61 3 9725 5903

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DANDENONG THEATRE
Bookings: 61 3 9771 6666

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Diamond Valley Singers
Bookings: 03 9439 7843
PO BOX 93,
Diamond Creek
3089

 

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Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria
Bookings: 61 3 9905 1111

MLOC
Bookings: 9570 4052 & 9568 7783

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Mornington Peninsula Theatre Company
Bookings: 61 3 5977 525

 

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Mountain District Musical Society
Bookings:61 3 9879 2933

 

 

NOVA THEATRE
Bookings: 1300 305 771
www.novamusictheatre.com.au

Little Women

As LITTLE WOMEN opens, we see JO MARCH enacting her OPERATIC TRAGEDY for PROFESSOR BHAER, her neighbor in Mrs. Kirk’s New York boarding house. Her "blood and guts" saga is clearly not to his taste. He suggests she is capable of more refined writing. After he leaves, Jo ponders whether her writing was BETTER years before, back home in Concord, Massachusetts.

Reminiscing on those days, we venture back to the March family attic of two years previous. Jo is rehearsing her siblings in her new Christmas play. Each sister is trying to find something to be happy about that Christmas; it is difficult with their father away at war, and no money for gifts or a Christmas tree. Jo promises they will no longer want for anything once she is a successful writer, and they will all realize OUR FINEST DREAMS. As Jo runs off to fulfill one of those dreams, MARMEE comes home with a letter from their father. As she tries to do so herself, she reflects on how her life is HERE ALONE.

Season: May 7 - 22.

 

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SAVOY OPERA COMPANY
Bookings:61 3 9905 1111

PATIENCE

A chorus of swooning maidens pine for Reginald Bunthorne. and then Archibald Grosvenor, both drooping aesthetic poets. They follow the everywhere. Both poets, however, are attracted to Patience, a lowly milkmaid. The swaggering 35th Dragoon Guards find the maidens, their former fiancées, thoroughly aesthetic, with eyes only for the poet. Bunthorne reveals that his aestheticism is a pretence, caused by a "morbid ;ove of admiration" . All is ultimately resolved with typically Gilbertian wit, but who will be Bunthorne's bride?

Season: October Saturday 16 1t 8pm. Friday October 22 at 8pm Saturday October 23 at 2pm & 8pm. Venue: Alexander Theatre

Slams Musical Theatre
Bookings: 61 3 9727 1850

 

 

Windmill Theatre Company
Bookings: 1300 887 624.

WHITEHORSE MUSICAL THEATRE

Bookings: 03 9262 6555


Rent

Set ih the Bohemian district of New York's East Village, this Pulitzer Prize winning rock opera tells a tale of artists, musicians and writers struggling to cope with life, love and the difficulties of living with HIV/AIDS in the 1990s
Season: October 7 - 17.

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Enmore Theatre Sydney
Bookings: Ticketek 132 849

Acer Arena
Bookings: 132 849

 

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Lyric Theatre-Star CityLyric Theatre Star City
Bookings: Ticketmaster 1300 795 267

Cats

Boasting a cast and crew of 53 including a live band, Cats is returning to reconnect all with its favourite characters - Rum Tum Tugger, Mr Mistoffles, Jennyanydots, Old Deuteronomy, Grizabella and Skimbleshanks.
Based on the book of poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. Cats tells the imaginative tale of a tribe of Jellicle Cats as they gather together for the annual Jellicle Ball, and one by one tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, who must choose one of the Cats to journey to the Heaviside Layer to be 'reborn' into a new life.
Season opens May 18.

 

Capitol Theatre
Bookings: 1300 723 038

Capitol Theatre

State Theatre
Bookinmgs: 136 100

Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins is a rare singing talent, the Welsh born artist has released seven studio albums selling in excess of 4 million copies world wide. Katherine's unique take on classical opera fused with pop elements has enabled her to crossover from the classical charts to the top of the pop charts around the world.
The elegant performer brings a maturity beyond her years to the stage. Since her debut in 2004 Katherine has performed with such greats as Placido Domingo and Andrea Bocelli. She performed sold out shows in Australia in 2008 where audiences were captivated by this young beautiful and enchanting singer and returned in 2009 on a promotional visit.
A pecial guest on the tour will be young Australian opera star Mark Vincent. Since exploding onto Australia's musical radar in 2009 Markj has proved tp be an inspiring talent and remarkable singer. His first album My Dream - Mio Visione debuted at No 2 on the ARIA charts ans reached Platinum sales.
Season: Saturday October 23

 

The Players Theatre - Port Macquarie
Bookings: www.playerstheatre.org.au

 

Savoy Arts Company - Bundanoon
Bookings: 61 2 9411 7088

 

 

 

Lyric Theatre QPAC
Bookings: 16 246

 

Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Bookings: 1300 555 593

 

Adelaide Entertainment Centre
132 649

Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins

Katherine Jenkins is a rare singing talent, the Welsh born artist has released seven studio albums selling in excess of 4 million copies world wide. Katherine's unique take on classical opera fused with pop elements has enabled her to crossover from the classical charts to the top of the pop charts around the world.
The elegant performer brings a maturity beyond her years to the stage. Since her debut in 2004 Katherine has performed with such greats as Placido Domingo and Andrea Bocelli. She performed sold out shows in Australia in 2008 where audiences were captivated by this young beautiful and enchanting singer and returned in 2009 on a promotional visit.
A pecial guest on the tour will be young Australian opera star Mark Vincent. Since exploding onto Australia's musical radar in 2009 Markj has proved tp be an inspiring talent and remarkable singer. His firstr album My Dream - Mio Visione debuted at No 2 on the ARIA charts ans reached Platinum sales.
Season: Tuesday October 26. Bookings: 132 649

 

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Queens Park Theatre
Bookings: 9956 6672

 

 

 

Burswood Theatre
Bookings: Ticketek: 1300 795 012

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