Violet

Is a musical from tony Award-winning compser, Jeanne Tesori with a libretto by Brian Crawley. Featuring show-stopping anthems ranging from gospel to soul to bluegrass, it follows a truly original young woman who on her quest across America (from North Carolina to Oklahoma) for devine intervention from a very different kind of dalvatio. If Chekov, Lena Durham and Aretha Franklin conspired to write amusical this would be it.
Season: March 3 - 10. 2016.

Singin' in the Rain

Set in 1927 it tells the story of the first Hollywood musical, when the silver screen found its voice and left silent movies - and some of its stars-behind. Don Lockwood is a silent movie star with everything he could want - fame, adulation and a well-publicicised 'romance' with his co-star Lina Lamont. /but Hollywood is about to change forever. There is rumour in the studio of a new kind of film, where the actors actually talk ... and sing...and dance. Can Don and the uniquely voiced Lina make the trasition and will chorus girl Kathy Seldon fulfil her dream of stardo and capture Don's heart on the way?

This spectacular production is based on the iconic 1952 MGM movie of the same name starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. It is packed full of charm, romance, comedy and Tinseltown glamour of the much-loved movie and features all the songs from the MGM score including Good Morning, Make ‘em Laugh, Moses supposes and the classic Singin’ in the Rain.
With the help of 12,000 litres of recycled water, the audience can enjoy one of the most famous dance scenes live on stage, with some leaving the theatre a little  wetter than when they arrived.
To achieve this unforgettable scene the production uses over 800 metres of flexible pipe work, a 9000kg water tank and a water system that creates a downpour from above as well as flooding from below the stage, in total ‘raining’ over 12,000 litres of recycled water per performance.

Seaso: from May 7. 2016. Tuesday 7pm. Wednesday 2pm & 7.30pm. Thursday & Friday 7.30pm Saturday 2.pm & 7.30 pm Sunday 3pm.

Kinky Boots

Based on the Miramax film starring Joel Edgerton and inspired by true events, Kinky Boots takes you from a shoe factory in Northern England to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father's expectations and continue the family business. Looking tosave the factory, Charlie turns to a fabously fashionable new trend - cabaret star Lo;a - who gives him an outrageous idea that could change both their lives.
Season: TBA

Follies in Concert

Follies is set at a teunion of the soon to be demolished Weismann Theatre, once the home of the Weismann Follies. Before the wrecking ball demolishes the fated building to make way for a parking lot; the former stars of the follies gather to relive their past experiences, renew old friendships.. and lie about themselves a little.
Originally produced on Broadway in 18971, directed by Harold Prince, Follies was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, winning seven including Best Score.
Season: May 24 -25. 2016.

Matilda the Musical

is based on the novel by best-selling author Roald Dahl. I is the story of an extraordinary girl who armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind dares to take a sand and change her own destiny.
Matilda the Musical was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and played to sold-out audiences at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon for twelvew weeks from November 2010 to January 2011. It transferred to London's West End on tuesday Octobe 25, 2011 where it opend to rave reviews.
Seasonopens Marcj 22. 2016.

The Book of Morman

The Book of Mormon is a religious satire musical with book, lyrics, and music by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone.[1] Best known for creating the animated comedy South Park, Parker and Stone co-created the music with Lopez, a co-composer/co-lyricist of Avenue Q and Frozen. The Book of Mormon follows two Mormon missionaries as they attempt to share their scriptures with the inhabitants of a remote Ugandan village. The earnest young men are challenged by the disinterest of the locals, who are occupied by more pressing troubles such as AIDS, famine, and oppression from a warlord.
Season opens January 18. 2017

 

 

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Wicked

The untold story of the Witches of Oz tells the story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two very different girls who meet in the land of Oz and become best of friends, share extraordinary adventures that test their friendship to the limit and ultimately become Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
Season: May 6 - 13. 2016 at 8pm. Sunday May 8 & 15 at 2pm

 

 

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Legally Blonde

Follow Elle Woods as she packs up her chihushus Bruiser, trading the social whirl of Californian campus life for harvard Law School to win back her man, Warner. Witht the help of her new found friends Paulette and Emmett, Elle realises that staying true to yourself never goes out of style.
Season: May 6 - 21. 2016

HMS Pinafure

A story of the crew of the HMS Pinafore and the dailor who loved the Captain's daughter but because of his low status this cannot be so. But!
Add the evil sailor, a Porstmouth Bumboat woman, the Lord of the Admiralty and his sisters, cousins and aunts lead to an interesting production.

Season: Wednesday June 1 & Sunday June 5, 2016 Veneu: Hawthorn Arts Centre 360- Burwood Road Hawthorn.

Season: Friday June 3 at 8pm 2016 Venue: Bunyip Hall Main Street Bunyip.

Season: Juhe 11, 2016 at 8pm. Venue: Dunolly town Hall Broadway Dunolly.

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2016 Season

We Will Rock You

Since 2002 over 15 million theatregoers in 17 countries have been thrilled by the awe-inspiring production which is based on the songs of Qween with a book by Ben Elton. Elton fashioned this hilariously futurist comedy around more than 24 of Qween's biggest songs including We Are teChampions, Radio Ga Ga, Under Pressure, Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Blues, The Dust and of course We Will Rock You.
|We Will Rock You reflects the scale and spectacle that marked Queen's live performances and earned the band its pinnacle position in rock history.
Season opens April 30, 2016

Singin' in the Rain

Set in 1927 it tells the story of the first Hollywood musical, when the silver screen found its voice and left silent movies - and some of its stars-behind. Don Lockwood is a silent movie star with everything he could want - fame, adulation and a well-publicicised 'romance' with his co-star Lina Lamont. /but Hollywood is about to change forever. There is rumour in the studio of a new kind of film, where the actors actually talk ... and sing...and dance. Can Don and the uniquely voiced Lina make the trasition and will chorus girl Kathy Seldon fulfil her dream of stardo and capture Don's heart on the way?

This spectacular production is based on the iconic 1952 MGM movie of the same name starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. It is packed full of charm, romance, comedy and Tinseltown glamour of the much-loved movie and features all the songs from the MGM score including Good Morning, Make ‘em Laugh, Moses supposes and the classic Singin’ in the Rain.
With the help of 12,000 litres of recycled water, the audience can enjoy one of the most famous dance scenes live on stage, with some leaving the theatre a little  wetter than when they arrived.
To achieve this unforgettable scene the production uses over 800 metres of flexible pipe work, a 9000kg water tank and a water system that creates a downpour from above as well as flooding from below the stage, in total ‘raining’ over 12,000 litres of recycled water per performance.

Season opens Thursday July 7. 2016

Dream Lover the Bobby Darin Musical

A story about the legendary American singer, actor and musician - will hold its World Premiere in Sydney in 2016.
Dream Lover the Bobby Darin Musical is expected to attract more than 29,000 cisitors to Sydney and inject around $7.1 million in visitor expenditure, helping the NSW Government achieve its goal of doubling overnight visitor expenditure by 2020, Mr Ayres said.
Sesason opens September 2016 for a 10 week run.

Fiddller on the Roof

As one of the world's most loved musicals, Fiddler on the Roof has captured the hearts and imagination of audiences around the world for over 50 years with its humour, warmth and honesty. The story follows the heart-warming journey of a family that has its traditional life turned upside down as the modern world starts to impact on life in their idyllic village. Striving to maintain traditions like the fiddler on the roof, this classic tale is a celebration of life, love, family and ultimately a story of hope.
Seat in Anetvka a small village in Ukraine where both the Cossack and Jewish populations are under the thumb of the invading Czars. Fiddler on the Roof tells the story of milkman Tevye and his attempts to preserve his family's traditions in a changing world. One of Tevye's five daughters, Tzeitel, wants to marry a poor tailor instead of a middle-aged butcher her father has chosen for her in the tradition of arranged marrigaes. The story follows Tevye as he attempts to hold onto his familoy values despite sweeping social change.
For this Australian production Anthony Warlow is returning home to take the role of Tevye.
Anthony has said " It has been a quiet passion of mine to one day play the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to bring this covented role to life in a sensational new production."
Season opens March 24, 2016.

My Fair Lady

The story of flowergirl Eliza Doolittle who became the student of Professor Higgins and the result.

On March 15, 1956 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway something extraordinary happened that would change the course of music theatre history forever: it was called My Fair Lady
After out-of-town tryouts in New Haven and Philadelphua, Lerner and Lowe's remarkable tellinhg of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion premiered in New York and redefined the form of musical theatre. It was in fact the birth of "event theatre" as we know it today. My Fair Lady was a success like no other show. It won six Tony Awards ran for six years on Broadway, replica productions opened in London's Drury Lane Theatre in 1858 and in Melbourne;s famous Her Majesty's Theatre in January 1959, So successful was the production in Australia that concurrent companies were formed in Sydney and in Melbourne to attempt to keep up with the public's insatiable demend for tickets.

Playing the role of Eliza Doolittlein New York was a young Julie Andrews, it was only her second role on Broadway and the role that would define her career and help catapult her to international stardom.
Now in the 60th anniversary year of the Broadway premiere and in the 60th birthday year of Opera Australia the company has teaned again with John Frost to recreate that sensational 1956 production with none other than Dame Julie Andrews at the helm as director. Ms Andrews joins with the Tony-Award winning choreographer Christopher Gatelli (South Pacific 2012 - 2013) and associates of designers Cecil Beaton and Oliver Smith to pass the remarkable story of Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgis to the next generation of music theatre lovers.

Season opens August 30, 2016 for a strictly limited season.

 

Cats

Based on T. S. Elliot's Old Possum's book of Practical Cats, the show is set amongst a larger-than-life junkyard playground and is alive with our favourite feline characters including Rum Tum Tigger, Mr Mistoffelees, Macavity, Jennyanydots, Old Deuteronomy, Grizabella and Skimbleshanks.
The Jellicoe Cats come out to play one special night of the year - the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they telll their stories for the amusement of Ols Seuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellico life.
Seaso opens January 29. 2016.

 

Singin' in the Rain

Set in 1927 it tells the story of the first Hollywood musical, when the silver screen found its voice and left silent movies - and some of its stars-behind. Don Lockwood is a silent movie star with everything he could want - fame, adulation and a well-publicicised 'romance' with his co-star Lina Lamont. /but Hollywood is about to change forever. There is rumour in the studio of a new kind of film, where the actors actually talk ... and sing...and dance. Can Don and the uniquely voiced Lina make the trasition and will chorus girl Kathy Seldon fulfil her dream of stardo and capture Don's heart on the way?

This spectacular production is based on the iconic 1952 MGM movie of the same name starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. It is packed full of charm, romance, comedy and Tinseltown glamour of the much-loved movie and features all the songs from the MGM score including Good Morning, Make ‘em Laugh, Moses supposes and the classic Singin’ in the Rain.
With the help of 12,000 litres of recycled water, the audience can enjoy one of the most famous dance scenes live on stage, with some leaving the theatre a little  wetter than when they arrived.
To achieve this unforgettable scene the production uses over 800 metres of flexible pipe work, a 9000kg water tank and a water system that creates a downpour from above as well as flooding from below the stage, in total ‘raining’ over 12,000 litres of recycled water per performance.

Season opens Thursday September 22. 2016.

 

 

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Ghost the Musical

After successful international success including London's Wes End and Broadway Ghost the Musical comes to australia for the very first time.
Set in modern day New York City, Ghost the Musica is a timeless fantasy about the power of love. Walking back to their apartment one night after a romantic dinner. Sam and Molly are mugged, leaving Sam dead on a dark street. Sam is trapped as a ghost between this world and the next and unable to save Molly whom he learns is in grave danger.
Witht the help od Oda Mae, a phony storefront psychic, Dam tries to communicate with Molly in the hopes of saving and proecting her.
Season opens May 27. 2016