Podcasts about hayes theatre

In this colourful episode, Regina Botros is joined by the talented Alexander Berlage, the award-winning director and lighting designer, to dive into his dazzling new production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown at the Hayes Theatre. How do you take a cult Almodóvar classic and reimagine it for the stage? Alex shares the creative journey behind bringing this bold, emotional, and hilariously chaotic story to life. From navigating the musical's tone to crafting a visual world that captures the spirit of 1980s Madrid, this conversation is a must-listen.

When Cree-Salteaux theatre-maker Margo Kane started trying out for theatre gigs in Canada in the 1970s, there were so few roles for Indigenous actors, she ended up auditioning for the same part more than once. That all changed when she wrote her own one woman show, Moonlodge that became a classic of Canadian theatre. She's in Australia to show her new one-woman show, and reflect on her career.Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was a big international hit for the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar in the 1980s. Now it's a crazy, funny, kitschy musical coming to Sydney's Hayes Theatre. We talk about the impact of the film and how director and performer Alex Berlage and Grace Driscoll are bringing it to life in 2025.New play Thirst, by Barbara Hostalek, is set in a lonely run-down country pub called The Glass Slipper  somewhere in Western Australia. The place is on its last legs. But maybe the new owners can turn it around with a high stakes karaoke night! Actors Leah Pigram, Jarrad Inman and Maitland Schnaars from Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company perform a scene.For our series Back Stage, we meet international set designer Anna Cordingley, who hand draws her designs among many other talents.

In part two of our conversation with director Brittanie Shipway and choreographer Leah Howard, we dive deep into the heart of Once On This Island. From the show's powerful themes of love and sacrifice, to honouring its rich legacy while creating something uniquely their own—Brittanie and Leah share the creative choices shaping this production. Plus, we explore the challenges (and joys!) of staging a dynamic, movement-filled show in the intimate Hayes Theatre. Listen now to go behind the scenes of a bold new vision that celebrates the soul of storytelling. Once On This Island is selling fast—don't wait to grab your tickets! You can follow Leah Howard @rosechocolatebeauty and Brittanie Shipway @brittanie_shipway on instagram!

When Mickey-Jo was recently in New York, he saw PURPOSE, the new play from Branden Jacobs Jenkins.The piece was commissioned by Steppenwolf and is currently being performed at the Hayes Theatre in New York in a production directed by Tony Award winner Phylicia Rashad.Check out Mickey-Jo's full review to find out how he responded to this staggering production, its impactful performances and its provocative conversations...•00:00 | introduction01:50 | overview / synopsis07:50 | continuing themes14:03 | climactic thoughts20:39 | material / creatives•get tickets to see MickeyJoTheatre LIVE at the Phoenix Arts Club:https://phoenixartsclub.com/events/mickeyjotheatre-live/About Mickey-Jo:As one of the leading voices in theatre criticism on a social platform, Mickey-Jo is pioneering a new medium for a dwindling field. His YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MickeyJoTheatre⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is the largest worldwide in terms of dedicated theatre criticism, where he also share features, news and interviews as well as lifestyle content for over 75,000 subscribers. Since establishing himself as a theatre critic he has been able to work internationally. With a viewership that is largely split between the US and the UK he has been fortunate enough to be able to work with PR, Marketing, and Social Media representatives for shows in New York, London, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Toronto, Sao Pãolo, and Paris. He has also twice received accreditation from the world renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His reviews and features have also been published by WhatsOnStage, for whom he was a panelist to help curate nominees for their 2023 and 2024 Awards as well as BroadwayWorldUK, Musicals Magazine and LondonTheatre.co.uk. He has been invited to speak to private tour groups, at the BEAM 2023 new musical theatre conference at Oxford Playhouse, and on a panel of critics at an event for young people considering a career in the arts courtesy of Go Live Theatre Projects. Instagram/TikTok/X: @MickeyJoTheatre

Once On This Island: Meet the Cast + Inside the Audition Room (Part 1) We're back with a bang—and an exclusive! In part one of our two-part chat with director Brittanie Shipway and choreographer Leah Howard, we're thrilled to officially announce the full cast of ‘Once On This Island'. From how they approached casting this reimagined revival to the care and intention behind creating a safe, empowering audition space, Brittanie and Leah take us inside the early vision of this exciting new production. Plus, a quick intro to the magic of the show for anyone new to the island!

In this episode, we dive into the Broadway play PURPOSE by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins at the Hayes Theatre in NYC. We explore the intricate plot, character dynamics, and how the play blends humor and drama. We discuss Phylicia Rashad's direction, standout performances, and the themes of family legacy and personal purpose. Tune in for our take on this must-see play. Follow and connect with all things @HalfHourPodcast on Instagram, and YouTube. Share your thoughts with us on PURPOSE on our podcast cover post on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards. Ryan Gonzalez (Moulin Rouge, In The Heights) performed ‘Ride You', from a new Australian production: Phar Lap the Electro-swing musical (book, music and lyrics by Steven Kramer), which will have its premiere at the Hayes Theatre in 2025. Ryan currently stars in the Australian production of Peter And The Starcatcher that is touring Australia, opening at Sydney's Capitol Theatre from February 2025. I was thrilled to catch up afterwards to chat about characters (Santiago, Usnavi) and career, including his own cabaret show (Hispanic Attack, about Ricky Martin's arch nemesis "Ryan Gonzalez"), with a sneak peak of song ‘Ride You' that Ryan performed on the night! Let Me Entertain You- Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | TikTok | Youtube

It's not often that we get to watch a musical star on the rise. A performer whose passion and talent has enabled them to rise from tentative beginnings to starring in one of the world's most beloved musicals.Here on Streets of Your Town, we've been lucky enough to watch Vidya Makan's singing and writing prowess be recognised over a few short years. We first met her in the pivotal role of Catherine Parr in the juggernaut Australian production of Six, then as the creator, writer and performer in her musical The Lucky Country at Hayes Theatre in Sydney, and now we catch up with her again in one of the most competitive and sought after roles around the world - as Eliza Hamilton in Hamilton.And for those who can't get to Sydney for this run, make sure you watch ABC TV on December 20 at 730pm or the digital broadcast on Iview, to see Vidya's part in A Very Musical Christmas, recorded in Sydney and with all proceeds going to mental health charity Beyond Blue. Her greatest joy is watching her fellow performers shine. Sit back and enjoy our chat on Streets of Your Town, with Vidya Makan.and for more shownotes please go to my substack for this episode at https://soyt.substack.com/p/makan-creamer-mcgrady

*Note: The following podcast was recorded in October, 2023

In this episode, we delve into Broadway's "Job," currently playing at the Hayes Theatre. We share our thoughts on the gripping performances by Tony Award nominee Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemon, and the provocative storyline that kept us on the edge of our seats. Whether you're a theater enthusiast or curious about this daring production, this episode is for you. Follow and connect with all things @HalfHourPodcast on Instagram, and YouTube. And share your thoughts on all of our past episodes.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabbi Bolt and Maverick Newman are both extraordinarily multi-talented performers; They sing, they dance, they act, they even play classical piano in the hilarious parody musical Murder For Two, which is an outrageous blend of music, mayhem, and murder. In this hilarious 90-minute show, two performers play 13 roles – not to mention the piano – in a rip-roaring parody of classic murder mysteries.After twice selling out the Hayes Theatre in Sydney, this show is heading to Parramatta Riverside Theatre on the 9th and 10th of August, before a season in the Fairfax Studio in the Melbourne Arts Centre from the 15th to the 25th.Get your tickets here:https://riversideparramatta.com.au/whats-on/murder-for-two/Or here for the season in Melbourne:https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2024/comedy/murder-for-twoSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-saturday-quiz. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tim Draxl is an actor and singer with a career spanning more than two decades.Most recently he was seen in the SBS anthology television series Erotic Stories, for which he has received an AACTA Nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama series, and the lead role in ABC's four-part musical drama In Our Blood, for which he has received both an AACTA Nomination for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series and TV WEEK Logie Award Nomination for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series.On stage, Tim was most recently seen in Belvoir's Into The Woods as ‘Cinderella's Prince/ Wolf' and in the role of ‘Steve Healy' for the first overseas tour of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill produced by GWB. Other theatre credits include critically acclaimed Only Heaven Knows, Catch Me If You Can and Evie May (all for Hayes Theatre), Torch Song Trilogy (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), Lip Service, Mothers and Sons (Ensemble Theatre), Freeway – The Chet Baker Journey (Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Festival, Brisbane Festival), Nailed (Griffin Theatre Company), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Belvoir), The Sound Of Music (GFO) and She Loves Me (The Production Company).Other television credits include anthology series Summer Love and critically acclaimed The Newsreader both for the ABC, hit series A Place to Call Home as series regular Henry Fox (FOXTEL), the Molly Meldrum telemovie Molly, the critically acclaimed series Serangoon Road, Reef Break, Mrs Biggs, Home & Away, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Crownies, Day One, Tangle, Headland, Supernova, Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure and The Shark Net.Tim's film work includes action film Blacklight alongside Liam Neeson, Guardians of the Tomb, directed by Kimble Rendall, A Few Best Men, Undocumented, Ivory, In My Sleep, Red Canyon, Right Here Right Now, Travelling Light, Swimming Upstream, and Dirty Deeds.He received his first TV WEEK Logie Award Nomination for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series in 2005 for The Shark Net and an ASTRA Award Nomination (later renamed The AACTA Awards) for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Comedy for Supernova (2006). His one man show Tim Draxl in Concert was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Live Music Presentation in 2002 and has received several Sydney Theatre Award nominations for his cabaret and theatre shows winning the award for best cabaret production with Back For Seconds in 2006.He has released four solo albums. ‘Ordinary Miracles' and ‘Insongniac' for Sony Music Australia under the Columbia label, the independently released ‘Tim Draxl Live at the Supper Club' and ‘My Funny Valentine' released through Ambition Entertainment/EMI which reached number 1 on the iTunes jazz charts.Tim can currently be seen on Australian stages playing the role of Jodie Gillis opposite Sarah Brightman's Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. This will be the musical theatre event of the year. Don't miss this strictly limited season at Melbourne's Princess Theatre from May, and at the Sydney Opera House from August, 2024.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Amy Lehpamer is currently starring in the hit pop musical & Juliet as Anne Hathaway.Amy earned nation-wide critical acclaim playing Maria in The Sound of Music, receiving the 2015 Sydney Theatre Award for best Actress in a Musical, as well as Helpmann and Glug award nominations. She was Helpmann nominated in 2017 for her portrayal of pop and soul icon Dusty Springfield in the Australian hit musical Dusty for The Production Company. Amy played lyricist and hit-maker Cynthia Weil in the Australian premiere cast of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and was awarded the 2018 Helpmann for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the role.From 2018-2020, Amy toured Australia, NZ and China as Rosalie Mullins, the uptight school Principal with a Rock 'n Roll soul in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of School of Rock.  She played Mrs Webb in Queensland Theatre's revival of the pulitzer prize winning classic, Our Town and Mrs Walker in the Australian Premiere of The Who's Tommy for the Victorian Opera. Her skill as a violinist and performer were highlighted in her role of Reza in Once for the Gordon Frost Organisation and Melbourne Theatre Company.  This, and her big haired, starry eyed Sherrie in Rock of Ages saw her receive Helpmann nominations. She has twice played Christine Colgate in the musical adaptation of the hit comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in her first ever leading role for Melbourne's The Production Company.Other notable roles for Amy include Tracy Lord in High Society for the Hayes Theatre, the iconic Janet Weiss in Rocky Horror for GFO/ATG. Amy created the title role of Margaret Fulton in the new Australian musical Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert (Theatreworks) and was part of the original cast of Eddie Perfect's Shane Warne - The Musical, as well as the 2014 production for Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Hamer Hall, featuring on the cast recording.Additional theatre credits include: The Threepenny Opera (Malthouse and Victorian Opera); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Songs for a New World (Doorstep Ensemble); Young Phyllis in Follies (The Production Company).Amy is the co-creator and star of the musical comedy webseries Donnatelegrams, produced by the ABC and Screen Australia, and now viewable on YouTube. On screen, Amy also holds credits in prime time television shows: Get Krack!n', Utopia. The Time of Our Lives, Winners and Losers, House Husbands, and the HBO mini-series The Pacific.  She has performed disco classics alongside Kate Ceberano and Paulini with the Adelaide and Queensland Symphony Orchestras. And she's sung The Best of Rodgers and Hammerstein alongside Simon Gleeson with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.  The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Luke Joslin is a graduate of The University of Western Sydney and The Actors College of Theatre and Television, Luke has forged a successful career in both musical theatre and straight drama, as well as being highly sort after as a director.Luke worked as an Actor for 15 years. His extensive credits include the national tour of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong, both for Lunchbox and Jon Nicholls, Brigadoon for Production Company, Machu Picchu for State Theatre Company of South Australia, Pinnochio for Windmill and Sydney Theatre Company, Threepenny Opera for Malthouse and Sydney Theatre Company, 25th Anniversary production of Les Miserables for Michael Cassel and Cameron McIntosh, Annie and Dr Zhivago both for GFO, Avenue Q for Arts Asia, Assassins for Neil Gooding, Dirty Dancing for Jacobsens, Titanic for Seabiscuit and Guys and Dolls for Dennis Smith.In 2009 he won the Helpmann and Greenroom Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Nicky/Trekky in Avenue Q. Luke was also Nominated for a Greenroom Award for Best Male in a Supporting Role in 2018 for Brigadoon.Directorial credits include Annie for Riverside Theatre, Educating Rita for Seymour Centre, Thank You For Being a Friend for Neil Gooding and Matt Henderson, Songs for a New World (Melbourne and Sydney) for Blue Saint and Hayes Theatre, Giggle and Hoot Live show for ABC and Live Nation, In the Heights (Hayes and Sydney Opera House) for Blue Saint and Sydney Opera House in which he was nominated for a Helpmann Award and Sydney Theatre Award for Best Director, Resident Director for Shrek the Musical for GFO, Les Miserables for Packemin Productions and Riverside Theatre, Revival Director – Otello with Opera Australia, Resident Director – Cinderella The Musical for John Frost at XRoads and Opera Australia and Bells are Ringing with Neglected Musicals. Luke also spearheaded the Riverside Theatre Digital Concert series where he conceptualised and directed six shows back to back. Luke most recently was show director for both Jimmy Rees's Not that Kinda Viral Tour and the Swag on the Beat Live Show.He presently helms the exciting new production of Grease which has made its way to Sydney following a triumphant season in Melbourne. And the next stop is Perth. Luke Joslin joined STAGES to reflect on his journey from actor to director; and why Grease is still the word!The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

On today’s program, we’re speaking with Monie Hayes about the Theatre Museum of Repertoire Americana in Mt. Pleasant, and an event its hosting next week.

What's the point? is a common refrain in Susie & Esther's households. They explain the various reasons why. And they're probably even weirder than you think. During the course of the conversation, Susie learns something. Everyday's a school day when chatting to Esther.  They both learn lots while speaking to their first INTERNATIONAL GUEST! Australia-based British casting director, producer and all round marvel, Lisa Campbell Lisa was an actress in an international touring production of 'An Inspector Calls' with the National Theatre when she met her future husband, David Campbell at a party in Sydney. It was love at first sight. Lisa spent just 3 weeks back in the UK after the tour had finished before relocating Down Under to begin her new life. And she hasn't looked back! Lisa explains how saying 'yes' to opportunities she'd never imagined has brought fulfilment and happiness to her life. And what it's like casting a South Korean production of Moulin Rouge over Zoom. Lady Gaga would be impressed. Lisa is funny, fascinating and a force for good within the entertainment industry. It's a treat to listen to her. With comedy sketches and news of the first LTO Live Online on Thursday 30 November, it's a packed episode which is very much to the point.  Links to explore: Hayes Theatre, Sydney Sweet Theatre - great for Christmas pressies! In other news LTO now has a Patreon page which means you can become an LTO Patron. Patrons get a raft of lush stuff including exclusive bonus content and access to exclusive LTO live events online and in-person. The first Patron-only LTO Live Online event is on November 30th and registration is open! Sign up to be an LTO Patron now at: Patreon.com/LimitedTimeOnlyPodcast Susie & Esther are thrilled to be back in your ears. And over on Patreon too! Limited Time Only. A pick-me-up in podcast form. Instagram @limitedtimeonlypodcast Twitter @limitedtimepod Facebook Limited Time Only Podcast Email: limitedtimepodcast@gmail.com   Music by Joel White aka Small Plates Listen to his music on Soundcloud Other sound effects from https://freesound.org

Laura Murphy is an Actor, singer, writer, composer and lyricist. Following her critically acclaimed work; The Lovers (book, music, lyrics) and The Dismissal (music, lyrics) - Laura has written, ZOMBIE! the musical (book, music, lyrics) which will have its world premiere at the Hayes Theatre in March 2024. I am so excited to speak to Laura again and hear more about her exciting new work. Tickets: ZOMBIE! the musical Tickets: The Dismissal Watch performances: ~ "Meaty Parts" from ZOMBIE! the musical, introduced/performed by Laura Murphy, Hayes Theatre 2024 season launch ~ Listen to previous podcast with Laura Murphy (January 2023, the Sydney Theatre Awards) ~ 'I'm A Fairy' Laura Murphy starring as Sparkles The Fairy, from William and Sparkles Magical Tales, Ch9 television ~ About the Dismissal musical and Gough Whitlam's legacy filmed podcast ~ 'Crash Through Or Crash' introduced by Laura Murphy (music, lyrics) from the Sydney Theatre Awards ~ 'Crash Through Or Crash' (full performance) from The Dismissal, performed by Brittanie Shipway, Sydney Theatre Awards ~ 'The Lovers' musical Follow: Laura Murphy Let Me Entertain You- Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | TikTok | Youtube

Jason Langley is an award-winning director (2016 Green Room Award for Direction, Loving Repeating, Vic Theatre Co), with over thirty years of variously experience as actor, director, dramaturg, mentor and teacher- Directs the Australian premiere of the 'Hello Girls' musical;  Hear more of the true story of female telephone operators that helped turn the tide of World War I and their decades-long battle for equality and recognition, paving the way for future generations in the armed forces. Tickets: The Hello Girls Watch performances: ~ "Twenty" from 'The Hello Girls, Hayes Theatre 2024 season launch Follow: Jason Langley Let Me Entertain You- Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | TikTok | Youtube

Katrina Retallick (Come From Away, Anyone Can Whistle) stars as Rona Lisa Peretti in 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' at the Hayes Theatre. I was able to talk to Katrina about her previous roles in theatre, and her character (now a Teacher) in this new production (directed by Dash Kruck) and its impact. Tickets: Hayestheatre.com.au Watch performances: ~ Opening night curtain call Follow: Katrina Retallick Let Me Entertain You- Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | TikTok | Youtube

Listen: Lauren Class Schneider talks to Dana Steingold, starring in “The Cottage” at the Hayes Theatre. “Class Notes” actively covers New York's current theater season on, off, and off-off Broadway. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@broadwayradio.com and include the episode name. The post Class Notes: Dana Steingold from “The Cottage” appeared first on BroadwayRadio.

Today on Streets of Your Town we're revisiting Vidya Makan, who you may remember meeting on this podcast in December 2022 when we featured her as one of the talented performers in the smash hit touring musical Six.  The show broke all attendance records at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre during its 2022 season.  But this Somerville House and Queensland Conservatorium graduate has not left her run there, and has now debuted her own musical written in collaboration with Sonya Suares, at Sydney's Hayes Theatre, again to rave reviews. The Sydney Morning Herald described Vidya as “a gifted storyteller”, and her show The Lucky Country as “remarkable” - where “national myth-making gets a well overdue shake-up”.  We go backstage at the Hayes Theatre on Streets of Your Town to speak to Vidya after yet another standing ovation for The Lucky Country, and find out how this acclaimed Brisbane actor, singer and composer/lyricist came to realise a dream that she could be seen for who she truly is on stage.   Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

David Finnigan outraged the right-wing commentariat with his breakthrough play, Kill Climate Deniers. Now he's back with another play that confronts audiences with the urgent challenge of climate change: Scenes from the Climate Era. But why does climate action remain a niche topic on our mainstages?Also, The Lucky Country is a new Australian musical at the Hayes Theatre which digs into the rich and complex variety of Australian life, and The Australian Ballet is presenting a new double-bill of Australian work under the title Identity. So, how long have Australian identities and Australian stories been featured in mainstream ballet?

David Finnigan outraged the right-wing commentariat with his breakthrough play, Kill Climate Deniers. Now he's back with another play that confronts audiences with the urgent challenge of climate change: Scenes from the Climate Era. But why does climate action remain a niche topic on our mainstages? Also, The Lucky Country is a new Australian musical at the Hayes Theatre which digs into the rich and complex variety of Australian life, and The Australian Ballet is presenting a new double-bill of Australian work under the title Identity. So, how long have Australian identities and Australian stories been featured in mainstream ballet?

Welcome to the next exciting episode of the Theatre Thoughts Podcast, join host Justin Clarke as he sits down with the multi-talented Vidya Makan, composer, lyricist, actor, and singer, for an insightful conversation about her career in theatre and her involvement in the upcoming production, The Lucky Country at Hayes Theatre. Vidya, known for her role as Catherine Parr in SIX: The Musical, takes us behind the scenes of this new Aussie musical that explores themes of identity and belonging. From hilarious all-Aussie characters to heartwarming stories of love and dreams, The Lucky Country is a celebration of what it means to be Australian. During their discussion, Justin and Vidya delve into the writing process of the music for The Lucky Country, as well as the inspirations that shaped the sound of the show. They also explore Vidya's career in theatre, her journey as a lyricist and musician, and the impact of working with Sonya Suares on the production. As the conversation unfolds, Vidya shares her insights on the changes in the theatre industry over the years and how they have influenced her work. She reflects on her favorite productions and what made them special, and reveals what keeps her inspired and motivated as a theatre artist. In addition to their in-depth conversation, Justin and Vidya also tackle some fun and thought-provoking One Minute Theatre Thoughts questions. Discover Vidya's favorite recent production, her go-to karaoke song, the role she's yet to play, and her ideal lineup for an Australian music festival. Don't miss out on this captivating episode featuring Vidya Makan, hosted by Justin Clarke. Tune in to the Theatre Thoughts Podcast to gain exclusive insights into the world of Australian theatre and the vibrant talents shaping the industry. Remember to follow us on Instagram @ttpod_official for updates and exclusive content. Patreon subscribers can enjoy the full episode and join our growing community. And for a sneak peek, check out the preview on our YouTube channel. All links can be found in our Linktree. Book tickets for The Lucky Country here. About Vidya: Vidya is a composer, lyricist, actor and singer - currently obsessed with Hades on Nintendo Switch. Most recently toured as Catherine Parr in SIX: The Musical, a role which she originated in Australia in 2019. She also starred in Merrily We Roll Along with the Hayes, and Papae Ge in the Australian premiere of Once On This Island. Vidya was a proud recipient of Brand X's Live/Work program in 2021, in conjunction with City of Sydney, meaning she is currently living and working on Gadigal country to produce new Australian work.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two directors from this new musical Metropolis - wow - join Regina Botros to talk theatre. Julia Robertson is an actor, director, and musician. She is the current Artistic Director of the award winning devising group, the Little Eggs Collective. Acting credits include Jess and Joe Forever (25A Belvoir, 2019 dir. Shaun Rennie), The Astral Plane (25A Belvoir, 2019 dir. Charlie Garber), The Real Thing (STC, 2019 dir. Simon Phillips), The Oyster (Critical Stages, 2021 dir. Scarlet McGlynn) and Wherever She Wanders (Griffin, 2021 dir. Tessa Leong). Julia also stars in the film Hot Mess (Emerald Productions) that is currently airing on Netflix Aus/NZ and voiced the audiobook Don't Fall by Sophie Smith (Amazon). Julia has studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute (Method Acting Intensive, New York 2017) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Acting Shakespeare Intensive, London 2022).   Zara Stanton is an accomplished Music Director, Composer, Performer, Arranger, Vocal Coach and Music Educator. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where she studied classical voice and music education, and has her A.Mus.A. qualification in both voice and piano. Zara's recent credits as Music Director include Bonnie & Clyde (Joshua Robson Productions) at the Hayes Theatre, Every Musical Ever (One Eyed Man Productions) at Adelaide Cabaret Festival & Wyong Art House, The Deb (Australian Theatre for Young People) and The Boomkak Panto (Belvoir St Theatre). Zara was also Associate Music Director for A Chorus Line (Darlinghurst Theatre Company), playing at the Sydney Opera House and Riverside Theatres.

Justin Smith joins Regina Botros to talk all things theatrical. His life in the theatre and how he's come to be thrilling audiences in the role of the Baker in Into the Woods, with music by mastermind Stephen Sondheim. Justin has starred in numerous stage productions, most recently Hayes Theatre's Dubbo Championship Wrestling and Bangarra's, Wudjang: Not The Past, with some of his other theatre credits including Billy Elliot The Musical, and National Theatre of Parramatta's Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam.

Performing in Six the Musical's Australian tour is the culmination of a lifelong journey for Queensland Conservatorium graduate Vidya Makan, and the realisation of a dream that she could be accepted for her true self on stage. The critically acclaimed Brisbane actor, singer and composer/lyricist has forged her way quickly into the ultra competitive world of musical theatre not only as a performer, but also as a writer, winning awards for two musicals of her own creation now in development, one of which is slated to debut in Sydney's Hayes Theatre in May next year. She stars as Catherine Parr in Six the Musical, and as she tells us on Streets of Your Town, it's a show close to her heart. Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com Watch and listen to Vidya Makan's song I Need You To See Me which she mentions in this interview, on Youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99WPIneNxG0See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emma Ford's passion for drumming began in her high school years and was later accepted as one of only two drummers into the prestigious Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia's leading music University, where she gained her qualifications as a Bachelor of Music (Jazz Performance).She has a breadth of experience across a number of musical genres, including Jazz, Classical, Latin, Pop, Rock and RnB. She has been a member of the all female drumming group ‘Drummer Queens' and has performed at the Australian Ultimate Drummers Weekend, the Cricket World Cup, the Australian National Rugby League Grand Final, National Australia Day Awards at Parliament House and numerous private events.  After graduating University, Emma pursued her passion for musical theatre performing in professional productions in Sydney and Asia. Notably, she performed on drums for productions of ‘In The Heights' at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney, followed by a sell-out season at the Sydney Opera House, as well as touring both nationally and internationally with ‘The Illusionists 1903'.Her talents as a drummer and percussionist have been recognized through various awards in Australia, including the Jann Rutherford Memorial Mentorship Award from the Sydney Improvised Music Association's Women in Jazz program in 2010 and the 2016 winner of the Rob Guest Endowment Theatre Musicians Award. Since moving to New York in July 2018 at the age of 25, she quickly established herself in the Broadway scene and began working on Broadway, subbing on shows including Come From Away, Head Over Heels, Tootsie and Jagged Little Pill. She has also performed numerous gigs, cabarets and gala's alongside talents such as Stephen Schwartz, Ben Vereen, Paul Shaffer, Ariana DeBose, John Cameron Mitchell and has undertaken accompaniment work for Broadway productions including Mean Girls and Magic Mike. Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Broadway Shutdown, Emma returned to Australia in 2020. In this time, she played drums for Pippin, Hamilton and Jagged Little Pill, before coming back to NYC in 2022 to become the drummer for Paradise Square on Broadway.Emma Ford's Website: https://emmaforddrums.comClayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and Newsletter. He has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain't Too Proud.The Broadway Drumming 101 Instagram page: InstagramThe Broadway Drumming 101 YouTube page: YouTubeFor more about Clayton, click HERE Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

Tyran Parke is a Director-Actor-Teacher whose work has garnered much admiration and triumph. As an actor, he has played roles professionally in musicals, contemporary plays, television and Shakespeare. As a teacher, he has worked for the National Institute of Performing Arts, (NIDA), The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) but it is at The Australian Institute of Music (AIM) where he is currently course co-ordinator for the Melbourne campus. Professional Directing credits include the musicals; Rent, Jekyll and Hyde, Lovebites, Cheek to Cheek, King of the World, the plays; Great Expectations, Pool(no water), Thom Pain, Barnum, The Laramie Project, The Opera, The Fairy Queen and many concerts. He has worked at the Hayes Theatre several times both as both an actor and a director when he was the helm of The Goodbye Girl and Anyone Can Whistle for Neglected Musicals, Rob Mills is Surprisingly Good (and national tour) and Stalker- the musical. He has also directed the critically acclaimed ‘Big Fish' in Sydney and ‘Ordinary Days' at Chapel Off Chapel. And productions of Barnum starring Todd McKenney and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest with Lachy Hulme. Tyran has a built a strong reputation for interpreting the work of Stephen Sondheim. These productions include, ‘Assassins', the all-star concert of ‘Follies', and ‘Into the Woods'. He directed the new Australian musical, ‘Crossroads' to great acclaim in Melbourne, the national tours of “From Broadway to La Scala' with Lisa McCune, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, David Hobson and Greta Bradman, and ‘Tapestry' starring Debra Byrne and Vika Bull. In 2023, Tyran directs Jonathan Larsen's tick, tick … BOOM! for seasons in Melbourne and Brisbane. The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Recipient of Best New Podcast at 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages). www.stagespodcast.com.au

With a celebrated career spanning over 25 years, David is one of Australia's most acclaimed leading men. Based in New York City, David is currently starring as the Duke of Monroth in the North American production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical and is delighted to return to Do You Hear the People Sing? after appearing in the show since its inception in Shanghai, Manila, and Taipei. David gained critical acclaim for his portrayal of Chris in Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's new production of Miss Saigon which earned him Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Award nominations for "the year's most truthful and moving stage portrayals" (Sydney Morning Herald). He received a further Helpmann Award nomination for his performance as Fiyero in Wicked. David was awarded a Green Room Award for Best Actor as well as Helpmann and Sydney Theatre Award nominations for his portrayal of Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde and was awarded Theatre People's Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of The Baker in Victorian Opera's production of Into The Woods. In 2018, David was nominated for his fourth Helpmann Award and second Green Room Award for his portrayal of Tick in Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Relocating to New York City in 2014, David received a Connecticut Critics Circle Award nomination for Best Actor for his performance of Dan in Next to Normal and starred as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables which co-starred and was directed by Tony Award winner Terrence Mann. He starred as Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, as Father in Ragtime and originated the role of Max Bronfman in the new, reworked production of Rags with Stephen Schwartz. Other Australian performances include; the dual roles of Adam and Noah in the Australian premiere performance of Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden (Theatre People Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical); Malcolm in The Full Monty; The Beast in Beauty and the Beast; Greg in The Boy From Oz; Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees; John Brookes in Little Women; Prez in The Pajama Game; Perchik in Fiddler On The Roof alongside Topol; John in Andrew Lippa's John & Jen; Oscar in The Wild Party; Orville Wright in Richard Maltby Jnr and David Shire's new musical Take Flight; and Jimmy Smith in the Australian premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie. David originated the role of Bud in the Australian premiere production of the two-man comedy, Gutenberg! - The Musical; created the numerous male roles in the Australian premiere of Breast Wishes; and received a GLUG Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in LOVEBiTES. David began his professional career in the original Australian productions of The Boy From Oz and Mamma Mia and was awarded a MO Award for Best New Talent in 1997. In concert, David toured with Michael Ball on his Australian tour; performed with Lea Salonga in Vietnam; performed with Stephen Schwartz in Stephen Schwartz and Friends; with Andrew Lippa in Lippa and Friends. In 2016, David starred alongside Sutton Foster, Aaron Tveit, Betty Buckley, Joanna Ampil and Helen Dallimore in Defying Gravity - the songs of Stephen Schwartz. David has released two solo albums, 'Til The Night Is Gone and At This Stage. He premiered his solo show, ‘Til The Night Is Gone to sold out audiences at the 2010 Adelaide Cabaret Festival and Newcastle's Civic Theatre and returned to the Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2014 to headline the Australian premiere of Picture Perfect. David's most recent solo show, Time Is a Traveller premiered to a sold out, extended season at the Hayes Theatre and toured nationally to great acclaim, being awarded the Theatre People's Award for Best Male Cabaret in 2014. Do You Hear the People Sing? plays the Hamer Hall, Arts Centre, Melbourne, September 27th and 28th. Then the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, September 30th to October 2nd www.davidharrisofficial.com The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favouri

Hayden Tee is not just a triple threat, he's more of a quadruple one – an actor, singer, make-up artist, and also now a director. He knows a thing or two about musical theatre, having played Javert in Les Misérables in multiple countries, including on the West End, Broadway and on these shores. He's appeared in Matilda, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, and Into the Woods, to name just a few, his cabaret shows have been a hit in New York and in Australia, and he's released three albums. Based in New York, Hayden is in Sydney to direct the musical Jekyll and Hyde, on at the Hayes Theatre from the 29th of July. In this conversation, Hayden talks about his innovative staging of Jekyll and Hyde including his incredible cast, and takes us on his journey into singing and musical theatre with an infectious positivity and "can do" attitude.

Try and count how many red flags there are in this one... I dare ya! If any of the topics discussed is triggering for you, please seek help by visiting Lifeline's website at https://www.lifeline.org.au/ or by calling 13 11 14 Send your Nightmare Fuel to hello@itsalotpodcast.com LINKS Listen Abbie's 'Hot Nights' radio show https://bit.ly/3vDRYDw Listen to The Maintenance Podcast https://apple.co/3GxL4Bi Watch Milo in Bonnie and Clyde at Sydney's Hayes Theatre https://bit.ly/3RbU8lU Watch Milo in FanGirls at the Sydney Opera House https://bit.ly/3bOLhGK CREDITS Host: Abbie Chatfield www.instagram.com/abbiechatfield/ Guest: Milo Hartill https://www.instagram.com/milohartill/ Executive Producer: Lem Zakharia https://www.instagram.com/lemzakharia/ Video Producer: Oscar Gordon https://www.instagram.com/oscargordon/ Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh Find more great podcasts like this at www.listnr.com/ See www.omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We have a Royal Episode of the Theatre Thoughts Podcast for you!  Justin sits down with two of the Queens of SIX the Musical, Vidya Makan and Kala Gare to talk all things SIX. We discuss the score written by TONY AWARD WINNERS Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, as well as the real HERstory behind the Queens portrayed on stage. Vidya and Kala regail us with some hilarious on stage mishaps, inspire us with what makes SIX so special and so loved, and educate us about how women and performers in the entertainment industry can find their voice and inspiration through performing.  To get exclusive video footage of our chat with the Queens, be sure to sign up to the Theatre Thoughts Monthly where you will recieve links straight to your inbox. Follow the link below now. https://linktr.ee/theatrethoughts  Tickets to SIX the Musical can be bought by heading to www.sixthemusical.com/australia Vidya Makan (she/her) is a critically acclaimed actor, singer and composer/lyricist and is extremely excited to be back performing as Catherine Parr in SIX. Through 2021, Vidya played KT/Meg in Merrily We Roll Along (Hayes Theatre) and Papa Ge in Once On This Island (Altitude Theatre). Vidya is currently working in collaboration with Sonya Suares on her original musical The Lucky Country, in conjunction with Hayes Theatre. Vidya is also the inaugural recipient of the NSW Musical Theatre Fellowship with Tasnim Hossain and Jonathan Ware, through which they are writing a new musical about South Asian families in suburban Australia. In 2020, Vidya directed, produced and wrote the Green Room award nominated song “I Need You To See Me”; a call to the entertainment industry for visibility and inclusion of minority voices. Vidya was nominated for Best Performance in a Leading role for her portrayal of Dot/Marie in Sunday In The Park With George (Watch This). Her other credits include Romeo and Juliet (Australian Shakespeare Company), American Idiot (shake and stir), Air Race (Arena Theatre Company), Merrily We Roll Along (Watch This) and Memphis (StageArt). Vidya is a proud graduate of Griffith University's Queensland Conservatorium's Bachelor of Musical Theatre and is proudly represented by Ian White Management. Kala Gare (she/her) is a talented up-and-coming performer whose work encompasses the music, musical theatre and screen industries. Kala was cast as Anne Boleyn in the Australian Premiere of SIX the Musical and is overjoyed to be reprising her role! Kala obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts where she was awarded the Lionel Gell Scholarship for Music Theatre. Her theatre credits include: Sophie De Palma in Terrence McNally's Masterclass; Maureen in Rent; Olivia in Twelfth Night; Anastasia Steele in 50 Shades!; Alice/Ensemble in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Alice in the Steve Martin and Edie Brickell musical Bright Star. Kala is also a classically trained musician with a Diploma in Classical Piano. Her Musical Director credits include: Songs for Swingin' Lovers! and Legally Blonde Junior and she has performed her original music to sell-out audiences in Melbourne. Most recently, Kala was involved in the creative developments of two new Australian works: Orlando the Musical and WAGs. Kala is represented by the team at Mark Gogoll Enterprises and is a proud member of MEAA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, we sit down with rising stars, Zoe Ioannou and Luke Leong-Tay to discuss the new Australian musical Dubbo Championship Wrestling which premieres at the Hayes Theatre in May 2022. Zoe and Luke run us through the massive learning curves they've learned to undertake real wrestling moves on stage, whilst still presenting a rocking Aussie score. We also feature one of our first games on the podcast! See how many wrestler names you can guess correctly. Who will win? Zoe or Luke? Zoe is a graduate from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, with a Diploma of Musical Theatre. Zoe made her professional debut at a young age playing the role of Pepper in GFO's production of Annie. Luke (He/him) is a Chinese Australian actor, musician and writer from Perth currently represented by Morrissey Management. After studying a Bachelors of Musical Theatre at WAAPA, Luke is passionate about creating new, Australian theatre. There's not a spare seat in the Dubbo Dome. Ozzy the Aussie Battler flicks his cape and steps into the ring, and the crowd go troppo. This is Dubbo Championship Wrestling, the hilarious new Aussie rock musical that will change everything you thought you knew about professional wrestling, regional Australia, and musical theatre itself. Rose, a young woman from Dub-Vegas with wrestling in her blood, has long ago turned her back on the family business and Dubbo's stifling small-town ways. When circumstance brings her back to her hometown on the eve of Dubbomania, the biggest wrestling tournament of the year, Rose is drawn into a monumental battle over family and identity, featuring capes, choreography, and some of the most colourful characters you'll ever meet. The violence, the joy, the costumes, the thumbtacks. Will there be blood? We bloody hope so. Dubbo Championship Wrestling, written by rising stars Daniel and James Cullen and directed by smackdown champion Sheridan Harbridge, has been developed through Hayes Creative Development. Content Warning: Dubbo Championship Wrestling proudly makes FULL use of our filthy national lingo. Language may offend others! TICKETS: Tickets and information can be booked for either the Hayes Theatre or Riverside Parramatta through the links below. Hayes - https://hayestheatre.com.au/event/dubbo-championship-wrestling-2/ Riverside - https://riversideparramatta.com.au/show/dubbo-championship-wrestling/ SIGN UP TO THE THEATRE THOUGHTS NEWSLETTER TODAY! Get your own copy of our monthly newsletter to recieve the latest news, reviews and exclusive giveaways only for newsletter subscribers. All you have to do is follow the link below or head to our website. It's that simple! SIGN UP HERE Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theatrethoughtsaus or on Tik Tok @theatre_thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dale Burridge is one of Australia's most successful concert and corporate entertainers having starred in numerous musicals, concerts and corporate events all over the world.He first tread the boards professionally back in the 1980's as ‘Rolf' in Britain's renowned West End Production of The Sound of Music.Dale returned to Australia in 1989, to create the role of Alan Courtney in Seven Little Australians and then featured in the 1989 production of Anything Goes with Geraldine Turner. Dale had long association with Les Miserables before joining the cast in the role of Raoul, opposite Marina Prior, in the original Australian production of The Phantom of the Opera. He played the role for two years and the following season, appeared as young Scrooge, opposite Keith Michell in the 1994 premier Australian production of Scrooge – the Musical.At this time Dale began performing in numerous concert performances throughout Australia and with Marina Prior at the Sydney Opera House. Engagements at the Melbourne Concert Hall included An Evening with Fred and Ginger with Rhonda Burchmore, From Brigadoon to Broadway with the Australian Pops Orchestra and the 1994 Morning Melodies Christmas concert.Dale has made constant appearances on Australia's various television variety shows, and was a regular performer on Bert Newton's Good Morning Australia. Dale has also performed as the featured artist on the QE2 cruise liner, performing for their international guests.Dale returned to his role in the The Phantom of the Opera before embarking on the International 1996 tour of Les Miserables in the role of the student leader, Enjorlas.Dale has been guest performer at major launches, conventions, and special events all over Australia and Asia. In 1997 he was the guest performer at the Darling Harbour Christmas Concert and Australia Day Concert. He has appeared as the guest artist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra in A Night In Tuscany, with the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in a special Gershwin Concert series with Maestro Tommy Tycho, and on a Wiggles film.After an absence of more than two decades, Dale Burridge has returned to the stage with a funny, moving, heart felt exploration of the highs and lows of a life spent on, and off, the boards, launching his up close and personal cabaret ‘At the Crossroads' in his hometown of Melbourne.Having spent the last twenty years focusing his energies on expanding his hugely successful bespoke entertainment production company, Dale felt the seductive pull to return to the intimate cabaret form; firstly in a show titled ‘Back On The Boards'. He is now delighted to be returning to Sydney with his new show 'At the Crossroads', an exploration of the many twists and turns of a life in the theatre, appearing at The Hayes Theatre in April.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Whooshkaa, Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Recipient of Best New Podcast at 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

AMY ZHANGSocials: @amyzhanggggAmy is a Chinese-Australian movement artist that specialises in performance, movement direction and choreography. Her work spans across live performance, film, tv and digital art. Her artistic movement practise is grounded in Chinese ways of knowing and storytelling through experimenting with the intersections of street style foundations and contemporary frameworks. Amy has exhibited works with various artists and organisations across Australia including Performance Space, The Hayes Theatre, Brisbane Festival, First Draft, Belvoir St Theatre, Supercell Festival, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Critical Path and Diversity Arts. Amy was also an artist in residence at the City of Sydney Live/Work residency in 2019-2020.Commercially, Amy has performed in, choreographed and movement directed campaigns for, but not limited to, recognisable names like Rita Ora, Cartier, Nike, Google, Calvin Klein and Beats by Dre.Credits aside, Amy reckons anyone can dance and hopes to convince as many people of this as she can.In this conversation, we dived into the following:- Indulging in different creative outlets as a child.- ‘Cool Asian Mum' project.- Exploring the creative process.- Simple steps to get dance work you'd like to receive.- Rock up in real life vs social media presence.- Saying yes to experiences that sound exciting and fun.- Becoming obsessed with the things you enjoy.Logo: @lawrencetandesignsAnimation: @cold_tea_artAnimation track: melaniac. - we're just some motherf***ing kids

Regina Botros talks with director Bernadette Fam and her show Chewing Gum dreams on at the Old Fitz theatre. Bernadette Fam is a multidisciplinary artist working across Dramaturge, Directing, Writing and Creative Producing. Her recent directing credits include: directing the Young Artist Ensemble for Q Theatre and assistant director for Young Frankenstein (Hayes Theatre), and Lady Tabouli (National Theatre of Parramatta/Sydney Festival). Bernadette is a past Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellow, current Creative Producer of Green Door Theatre Company and Critical Stages Touring and Artist in Residence at PYT, Fairfield.

Darlinghurst Theatre Company recently unveiled a new two-pronged leadership team with current Co-Artistic Director Amylia Harris promoted as sole Artistic Director and founding CEO Glenn Terry taking on the newly created role of Executive Director. This restructuring is accompanied by Terry's announcement that he plans to retire in early 2022.For Glenn Terry, this has been a long time coming, and the culmination of many years spent searching for the right person to whom he could entrust his legacy – someone who understands that social inclusion is part of the Darlo DNA.Inclusion has been a hallmark of Glenn Terry's work, since the 1992 establishment of Darlo Drama, an acting school for adults of all ages and from all walks of life. The following year he presented an all-female staging of Waiting for Godot, before founding Milk Crate Theatre, which is celebrating 21 years of theatre making specifically by and with people who have lived experience of homelessness, mental health issues and disability.In 2005 Terry established Critical Stages Touring to deliver outstanding independent productions to every corner of the nation, and in 2009, after many years of lobbying for a larger space, the City of Sydney invited Terry to collaborate on the design and construction of the 200-seat Eternity Playhouse, which became the home of Darlinghurst Theatre Company in 2013. The company's former home, which Terry had also fitted out at the Reginald Murphy Hall in Potts Point, now houses the Hayes Theatre.Few people can claim to have given a city two brand new theatres and founded four unique performing arts organisations that continue to thrive. Glenn Terry has done just that. With all these achievements behind him, Terry is confident he can finally hand over the artistic reigns to a new Artistic Director and begin the process of transitioning out of the company he's spent the last thirty years building.The Stages podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify, Whooshkaa and where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

With over 230 episodes in the STAGES archive, it's time to revisit conversations featured in previous seasons. STAGES spotlights such episodes, in case you missed them first time ‘round - or so you can simply savour a second listen. Either way, you'll be accessing precious oral histories from the people who were there, on and around our stages.Kate Gaul has established herself as a distinctive and inventive director, with directing credits including plays, opera, physical theatre, devised works, and classics for theatre companies and schools in Australia. She is Artistic Director of Siren Theatre Company where her passion is for text-based drama which challenges artists and audiences to have bold imaginative experiences.She has been a considerable force in playmaking in Australia over the past 25 years. Directing premiere productions and new Australian works. Her directing folio has covered a broad repertoire of stories – The Laramie Project, The Trouble with Harry, Svetlana in Slingbacks, The Ham Funeral, Run Rabbit Run, The Moors and Good With Maps, to touch on a few.A champion of the work of Irish playwright Enda Walsh, she has directed productions of his plays Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom and Misterman – this last play receiving extensive glowing accolades and huge success at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival.Opera credits include Castor + Pollux (Pinchgut), Eight Songs for a Mad King (Verbruggen Ensemble), The Cunning Little Vixen (Sydney Chamber Opera), Hansel and Gretel (Pacific Opera), Il Matrimonio Segreto, English Eccentrics, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Cendrillon (Sydney Conservatorium), Dialogues of the Carmelites, Die Fledermaus (WAPPA). For Opera Australia, Kate was the assistant director of Rigoletto (Opera Australia) Aida, Opera Australia's Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour and revival director for the schools' production By the Light of the Moon, and OZ Opera production of Carmen, 2007.Kate directed a gender-bending H.M.S Pinafore for Hayes Theatre and its NSW tour in 2020.During the pandemic Kate has been a saviour in lockdown, regularly recommending a vast repertoire of world theatre that periodically played online. She has her finger on the pulse of exhilarating theatre and those who make it. If it's a must-see, Kate will urge us to see it.Kate Gaul is a vital artist and one whose productions never fail to impress, to engage and to prompt discussion.sirentheatreco.comThe Stages podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify, Whooshkaa and where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

The charming Russell Cheek joins Regina to talk through his life to the stage, the key to improvisation, where his inner clown lives and the remarkable teachings of Le Coq - and so much much more. Russell has a BA Hons, University of Sydney, (German) and also studied French After graduating theatre-school, the École Jacques Lecoq, Paris - Russell performed with companies in Italy and Germany. He created DOUBLE TAKE co. in Paris, playing one season there, touring Holland, and then to the Sydney and the Adelaide Festivals in Australia. He became a core member of the great musical-theatrical band The CASTANET CLUB, enjoying ten years national and international acclaim -  (incl. “THE CASTANET CLUB – a movie you can dance to” (directed by Neil Armfield.) He led a creative lab, then created and guest-directed CIRCUS OZ's 2003-5 world-touring show. He performed in three Sydney Theatre Company productions: “The GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR”, (Dir Neil Armfield,) “TARTUFFE”, (Dir Barrie Kosky,) and   “A MONTH in the COUNTRY”. He appears in the films YOUNG EINSTEIN and RECKLESS KELLY. Russell was a regular “Brains Trust” panelist on ABC TV's “EINSTEIN FACTOR”, 2004-2009. In 2014 – he devise-directed “Clockfire Theatre Company's ‘A HUNGER SUITE', in Istanbul and then Sydney. In 2015 he appeared in The Hayes Theatre production of HIGH SOCIETY as Seth Lord with Amy Lehpamer, Virginia Gay, Bobby Fox and Bert Labonte. He completed initial season of his one-man show in August 2016 at the 505 theatre in Sydney: “WHO AM I….?” Directed by Steve (The Sandman) Abbott. “WHO AM I…?” was invited to the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, in March 2017. It then played seasons at The Street Theatre, Canberra, and Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. 2018 – “WHO AM I…?” played seasons in Newcastle, Albury-Wodonga and toured country Victoria. 2020 pre-covid played in Coramba, Coffs Harbour.  

Amy Campbell is one of Australia's most accomplished dance talents with a career spanning all areas of the entertainment industry. Her extensive list of choreographic credits include Once (Darlinghurst Theatre Co), In The Heights (Blue Saint Productions in association with The Hayes Theatre), the Australian premiere of Violet, the national tour of HAIR (Sydney Opera House and Peace Productions), An Act Of God (Darlinghurst Theatre Co), Spring Awakening (ATYP), the original Australian work Guilty Pleasures (Blue Saint Productions) and Oklahoma for The Production Company.Amy's theatre credits include dance captain and role cover in the Australian tour of Dirty Dancing, Fame The Musical, Saturday Night Fever, Xanadu, the world premiere of King Kong Live on Stage, principal dancer in Opera Australia's Carmen and the Resident Choreographer of The Bodyguard Musical Australia.She was also the Choreographer/Movement Director and Assistant Director on The Sydney Symphony Orchestra's productions of Funny Girl, Porgy and Bess and Candide.Amy has performed domestically and internationally, dancing alongside Kylie Minogue, Flo Rida, Redfoo, Tina Arena, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Sam Sparro and Sam and The Womp. She has choreographed on Dance Academy, The X Factor and ABC's Giggle and Hoot.Last year Amy choreographed Velvet Rewired and was revival choreographer for Carmen (Opera Australia). She has twice prepared to make her directorial debut originating a brand new Australian production of A Chorus Line with The Darlinghurst Theatre Company. But as with much of live theatre and the work of production houses around the country, Covid is determined to pause this essential expression.The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify and Whooshkaa. Also where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every week day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of almost 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul. sign up now and join us every Thursday night for a virtual happy hour. Now on to today's show notes This week is Stand Up with Pete Dominick LITE.  I am on vacation with my family this week for the first time since the Summer of 2019 but I will be still be posting new content every day. Today's guest is one of my oldest and closest friend's who also just happens to be is one of Australia's most popular entertainers. David Campbell is a multi-platinum selling recording artist, Campbell has featured on TV, starred in theatre and cabaret, recorded three Top Ten albums, and sold out concert tours from coast to coast. He has a unique legacy as not just one of Australia's leading musical theatre stars, but also one of the few local performers to have achieved similar success in New York. Born and raised in Adelaide, David was drawn to the performing arts - initially as an actor. He was performing at the STC and Sydney Opera House by the age of 22, and in 1997 starred in a major revival of Les Miserables in Sydney. Shortly after this, Campbell moved to New York, where his downtown cabaret show attracted major crowds. Due to what Time Out New York described as “the biggest buzz since Barbra Streisand”, Campbell moved his show to the iconic cabaret room Rainbow & Stars, becoming the youngest performer ever to headline the venue. With this success as a launch pad, Campbell was soon in demand from Broadway's most prestigious writers and directors. Stephen Sondheim cast him in the New York premiere of his musical Saturday Night, and he played leading roles in shows like Babes In Arms (at the Lincoln Center), and South Pacific. In 2001, at the height of his New York success, Campbell was tempted back to Australia by the role of a lifetime - ‘the wild one' Johnny O'Keefe, in the musical phenomenon Shout! He toured Australia in the show for over a year, and became a household name as a result. Campbell went on to star in Australian productions of classic musicals like Carousel and Company, new works at the MTC and STC, and even in Pirates of Penzance for Opera Australia. Along the way, he picked up a Helpmann Award for Best Actor, for his 2005 role in Sunset Boulevard. Campbell established himself quickly as one of the country's biggest-selling recording artists. His albums The Swing Sessions (2006), The Swing Sessions 2(2007), and Good Lovin' (2008) all hit the Top Ten and achieved platinum sales. He has also mounted no fewer than five sell-out concert tours - for which he has received a further two Helpmann Awards. In 2009, his live concert DVD Good Lovin' Live hit number one on the ARIA chart. David's album success included David Campbell On Broadway and the release of the album was complimented by the specially commissioned television documentary David Campbell On Broadway, produced by Luckiest Productions. A mixture of Broadway history, exclusive interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage of the album recording, the documentary was broadcast on the STVDIO Channel on Foxtel. Regularly performing in the USA as a headlining artist at G'Day LA, Campbell has also acted as MC and headlined at G'Day NY on several occasions. In recent years Campbell's position in the Australian entertainment industry expanded with his appointment as Artistic Director of the Adelaide Cabaret Festival (the largest cabaret festival in the world), and the success of Luckiest Productions, the production company he runs with his wife, Lisa. Luckiest Productions now produces national tours and live theatre at the new Hayes Theatre in Potts Point.  The first production at the Hayes Theatre, Sweet Charity, recently enjoyed a sell out season, critical acclaim and 8 x Helpmann Award Nominations. A highly sought after master of ceremonies, David has hosted many events for numerous corporate and charitable organisations.  He has recently been appointed as an Ambassador for the Starlight Foundation and regularly supports Dr Charlie Teo's Cure For Life Foundation at numerous events nationally. David also co-hosted the 2013 Carols By Candlelight telecast for the Nine Network with Lisa Wilkinson. Campbell is a founding member of Independent Music Theatre, the group of producers behind the Hayes Theatre Co., a venue in Potts Point devoted to musicals and cabaret.  It opened in January 2014 and has quickly established itself as a venue of productions of exceptional quality - winning a recent poll as Australia's favourite theatre. Currently, David is a regular weekend announcer on Smooth FM for the DMG Network, is the co-host of Today Extra for the Nine Network in Australia and was recently nominated for Most Popular New Talent at the 2013 Logie Awards.   Campbell returned to the studio last year to record a brand new album, David Campbell sings John Bucchino. The album was released on 13 June in conjunction with a tour throughout the month. Get his new album "The Saturday Sessions"  David has also written and published 2 children's books. 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David Hooley is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. His theatre credits include Spamalot (Her Majesty's Theatre Melbourne), Fiddler On The Roof (Aus/NZ tour), Richard III (Sherrif's Court Theatre Glasgow), The Bends (Traverse Theatre Edinburgh), As You Like it (Shakespeare Globe Aus) and The View Upstairs and Aspects Of Love at the Hayes Theatre.David has been a photographer for over a decade; beginning as a theatre photographer in Hong Kong, and then branching into other facets of photography such as promotional and portraiture. Having lived and photographed in Hong Kong, Glasgow, London and New York, David now calls Australia home. This diverse background has contributed to his unique style of photography, ironically based in simplicity.In the theatre industry, he has worked with many of Sydney's production companies including Squabbalogic, Sugary Rum Productions, Neil Gooding Productions, the Actors Benevolent Fund, Hayes Theatre Co. and The Gordon Frost Organisation.His work has been published in multiple online publications including ItNews, Stage Whispers, Sydney Arts Guide, Timeout, USA Today, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph.David is a regular contributor to aussietheatre.com, writing articles and photographing mainstage theatrical productions for them.The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify and Whooshkaa. Also where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

Mitchell Butel became interested in theatre as a child after seeing the musical Song and Dance and later The Little Shop of Horrors. He attended the University of New South Wales and studied for a degree in Arts/Law, majoring in Theatre Studies. He was destined for a career telling stories and has contributed markedly as a creative, on and off the stage, around Australia.With an extensive career in theatre, film and television, Butel is one of Australia's most prolific acting talents. From Shakespeare, Moliere, Williamson and O'Neill to musicals such as Avenue Q, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Mikado, to AFI-nominated feature film and TV performances, he has excelled.Butel's writing credits include Excellent Adventure and Killing Time and he wrote additional material for Meow Meow's Little Match Girl, Belvoir Street Theatre's production of The Government Inspector and Opera Australia's production of The Mikado.His directing credits include Violet at the Hayes Theatre, Spring Awakening for Australian Theatre For Young People, Porgy and Bess, Funny Girl and The Bernstein Songbook for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and Candide for the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs.Butel co-directed An Act of God for the Darlinghurst Theatre Company and directed the Australian premiere of Jordan Harrison's play, Marjorie Prime. Productions of Mary Rachel Brown's Dead Cat Bounce for Griffin Theatre and Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori's Caroline Or Change for the Hayes Theatre have followed.In 2019 he was appointed Artistic Director of the State Theatre Company South Australia, launching his first program in 2020. His extensive experience as a versatile creative have equipped him well as he has steered the company through the challenges of the past year. Mitchell is passionate about his craft and making theatre. He is a super conversationalist and a delight to welcome to the STAGES podcast.The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify and Whooshkaa. Also where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

Actor and musical theatre star Mia Morrissey talks with Australian theatre, film & TV royalty Ursula Yovich about the complicated process of grief and how you can harness it in your writing process and performances. Mia Morrissey is a film, TV and theatre actor whose credits include Bat Eyes (by Killing Ground director Damien Power), In Your Dreams (Channel 7), The Voices Project: Out Of Place (ATYP), The Voice (Channel 7, picked by Ricky Martin), Molly (Channel 7), Harrow (ABC), Alice in Slasherland (The Old Fitz theatre), Home and Away (Channel 7), RENT (Sydney Opera House) and produced and performed in her cabaret Anything You Can Do which brought together female performers to play roles originally written for men. Mia also signed on as an associate producer of Chips and Gravy's Screen Australia funded musical comedy series, She Becomes Her and received funding from The Hayes Theatre to complete her original musical In Loving Memory. Ursula Yovich is a singer, song-writer, actor, playwright and story teller. She grew up in Australian's Northern Territory, in Darwin and Maningrida. As an actor Ursula has worked for all of Australia's leading theatre companies, her performances and writing have been recognised with numerous awards and nominations, most recently four Helpmann Awards 2019 and four Green Room Awards 2020 for the rock musical, Barbara and The Camp Dogs, which she co-wrote with Alana Valentine.

(Originally aired in July 2021) Dean Bryant is a multi-award winning theatre director and writer. He has a string of directorial credits, including (with the Melbourne Theatre Company, where he was associate director from 2016 thru 2019): The Lady in the Van and An Ideal Husband; for Opera Australia Anything Goes; and for the Hayes he directed Assassins, as well as their debut production Sweet Charity, for which he won the Helpmann award for 'Best Director of a Musical', and to top it all off, he's the worldwide Associate Director of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. His creativity doesn't stop with direction, as he's the co-writer of the musical version of Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career, as well as many others. He's currently in Sydney directing Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along, which will be back at the Hayes Theatre at the conclusion of the present lockdown.

Elise is most well known for originating the role of Miss Honey in the Australian production of the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda for which she won the 2016 Helpmann Award and the 2015 Sydney Theatre Award, and was nominated for the 2016 Green Room Award for her portrayal of Miss Honey. After over 650 shows and two years in the role, Elise left Matilda in Perth with her final performance on Sunday March 19th 2017. She is also featured in the Channel Seven miniseries Peter Allen – Not The Boy Next Door, playing Peter's sister Lynne Woolnough. Not The Boy Next Door won 7 AACTA's at the 2015 AACTA Awards including Best Miniseries, was nominated for Best Drama at the 2016 Logie Awards and was nominated for Best Television Drama at the 2016 Monte Carlo Television and Film Festival. A graduate of NIDA, Elise's theatrical credits include: Cathy in The Last Five Years (Ensemble Theatre), Ado Annie in Oklahoma and Meg Brockie in Brigadoon (The Production Company), Lucille Ball in the critically acclaimed one woman show Everybody Loves Lucy (Luckiest Productions) for which she was nominated in the 2015 Sydney Theatre Awards. Ali in the 10th Anniversary Australian Tour of MAMMA MIA! (Littlestar); Janet McGregor in the Australian tour of South Pacific (Opera Australia/Gordon Frost Organisation); The World Premier/Australian Tour of Doctor Zhivago (Gordon Frost Organisation); Fruma Sarah in the Australian Tour of Fiddler on the Roof (TML Enterprises); Cordelia in Falsettos (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); Florinda in Into The Woods (Victorian Arts Opera); Little Women (Kookaburra Australian National Theatre Company); My Fair Lady (Opera Australia); Camelot (The Production Company); Side By Side By Sondheim (Enda Markey Presents). Elise is about to appear as Mary Flynn in a strictly limited season of the Stephen Sondheim classic Merrily We Roll Along at the Hayes Theatre.

Sheridan Harbridge is a director, actor and author of plays and musical works. She authored the acclaimed musical Songs For the Fallen, which won Best Musical and Best Actress at The New York Music Theatre Festival 2015, and a Green Room award for Best Artist. This brilliant show has toured the major Australian and New Zealand arts festivals.Sheridan co-wrote and directed the musical bloodbath Nosferatutu (or Bleeding at the Ballet), for Griffin Independent and Glenn Street Theatres. She co-wrote and directed Reg: The Reg Livermore Retrospective for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. And she has directed The Blueberry Play, a Griffin Award finalist and The Sentimental Bloke for the Neglected Musicals series at The Hayes Theatre.Alongside creating her own work she has forged a career as an actor/writer having been part of the workshopping cast, dramaturgy, and premieres of many new Australian works such as the musicals Muriel's Wedding, Dream Lover, Melba, The Detective's Handbook, and the plays North By Northwest, The Speechmaker, The Sugar House, The Dog/The Cat, Prima Facie, Kill Climate Deniers and Jump For Jordan.As an actress, the NIDA graduate has appeared on the stages of all the major Australian companies, most recently to acclaim for her work in Prima Facie for Griffin Theatre, and Calamity Jane and Stop Girl for Belvoir Theatre.She soon returns to the stage with a return season of Suzie Miller's Prima Facie. This phenomenal work will play at The Seymour Centre from 23 June to 10 July. Later in the year she is at the helm of a new Australian musical with her direction of Dubbo Championship Wrestling to be staged at The Hayes.She is contagiously vivacious, hugely talented, ultra-insightful and terrific fun. She is, Sheridan Harbridge.The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Whooshkaa and Spotify. And from where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

Alex is one of Australia's most versatile leading men. At 24 Alex landed the role of Raoul in London's West End production of The Phantom of the Opera (Cameron Mackintosh), following which he returned to Australia to play Robert the blindfolded, roller-skating, tap-dancing groom in the acclaimed Melbourne Theatre Company production of The Drowsy Chaperone. Alex received a Helpmann Award for his performance as Billy Crocker in Anything Goes (John Frost and Opera Australia) in 2015. Other nominations include the Sydney Theatre Awards for the role of Sid in An Officer and a Gentleman (GFO) and a Green Room Award nomination for Older Patrick in Mame (The Production Company). Alex's stage credits include Simon Stride in Jekyll & Hyde - 25th Anniversary Concert (Concertworks); Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (GFO); Aaron in Curtains (TPC); Carl in Ghost the Musical (Ambassador/GWB/Red Live); Greg in The Boy From Oz (TPC); Brad in The Rocky Horror Show (TML); Joe Kennedy Jr and Jerry in Grey Gardens (TPC); Dr. Fine/Dr. Madden in Next To Normal (Doorstep Arts at Hayes Theatre); and Lancelot in Camelot (TPC). On screen Alex has appeared in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (ABC), Rush (Network Ten) and Winners and Losers (Seven Network). Alex's debut album Easy To Love celebrates Broadway's favourite composers, featuring duets with Caroline O'Connor, Lucy Maunder and Claire Lyon – available on iTunes and Spotify. ​ Alex is a proud graduate of The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

British playwright Mark Ravenhill made a huge splash in the mid-90s with his first play, Shopping and F***ing. He's since become one of the most produced writers in the UK. His recent play The Cane is on now at Melbourne's Red Stitch. Also, what does it take for an Australian to make it on Broadway? We ask Carmel Dean, a composer and musical director who spent 20 years working on huge shows. And we pay tribute to the architect Viv Fraser, designer of some of Sydney's most iconic venues.

British playwright Mark Ravenhill made a huge splash in the mid-90s with his first play, Shopping and F***ing. He's since become one of the most produced writers in the UK. His recent play The Cane is on now at Melbourne's Red Stitch. Also, what does it take for an Australian to make it on Broadway? We ask Carmel Dean, a composer and musical director who spent 20 years working on huge shows. And we pay tribute to the architect Viv Fraser, designer of some of Sydney's most iconic venues.

British playwright Mark Ravenhill made a huge splash in the mid-90s with his first play, Shopping and F***ing. He's since become one of the most produced writers in the UK. His recent play The Cane is on now at Melbourne's Red Stitch.Also, what does it take for an Australian to make it on Broadway? We ask Carmel Dean, a composer and musical director who spent 20 years working on huge shows. And we pay tribute to the architect Viv Fraser, designer of some of Sydney's most iconic venues.

(Originally aired in April 2021) Richard Carroll is a Sydney based director, writer and producer. One of the co-founders of the Hayes Theatre, his 2017 production of Calamity Jane won him a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production of an Independent Musical, and a nomination as Best Director. His directing and producing credits also include Monty Python's Spamalot, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Sweet Charity, Mame, and Meet Me in St Louis. In 2019, his season of Once at the Darlinghurst Theatre Company was a sold out success, and is now making a return to Darlinghurst's Eternity Playhouse from the 8th of June before embarking on a national tour.

Oliver Twist is a comedian with a very challenging past — he was born in Rwanda as the country was being torn apart by civil war. Now he's an Australian and he's telling his story in a one-man show called Jali at Sydney's Griffin Theatre. Also, Australian composer Carmel Dean writes songs for history-makers in Well-Behaved Women, and playwright Anchuli Felicia King discusses how the Royal Shakespeare Company's digital productions are changing how we perceive theatrical space.

Oliver Twist is a comedian with a very challenging past — he was born in Rwanda as the country was being torn apart by civil war. Now he's an Australian and he's telling his story in a one-man show called Jali at Sydney's Griffin Theatre.Also, Australian composer Carmel Dean writes songs for history-makers in Well-Behaved Women, and playwright Anchuli Felicia King discusses how the Royal Shakespeare Company's digital productions are changing how we perceive theatrical space.

Oliver Twist is a comedian with a very challenging past — he was born in Rwanda as the country was being torn apart by civil war. Now he's an Australian and he's telling his story in a one-man show called Jali at Sydney's Griffin Theatre. Also, Australian composer Carmel Dean writes songs for history-makers in Well-Behaved Women, and playwright Anchuli Felicia King discusses how the Royal Shakespeare Company's digital productions are changing how we perceive theatrical space.

Oliver Twist is a comedian with a very challenging past — he was born in Rwanda as the country was being torn apart by civil war. Now he's an Australian and he's telling his story in a one-man show called Jali at Sydney's Griffin Theatre. Also, Australian composer Carmel Dean writes songs for history-makers in Well-Behaved Women, and playwright Anchuli Felicia King discusses how the Royal Shakespeare Company's digital productions are changing how we perceive theatrical space.

(Originally aired in February 2021) Alexander Berlage is an award-winning theatre director and lighting designer. His production of American Psycho won 9 Sydney Theatre Awards, including Best Direction of a Musical, an award he had also won the previous year. Alexander joined Simon Moore to talk about his creative process and his work, including his upcoming production of Young Frankenstein at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney.

Lyndell Pond speaks with renowned Producer and Publicist, Michelle Guthrie about her fascinating career in the Australian theatre business. We talk about her innovative Neglected Musicals initiative as well her work with Hayes Theatre and countless other key industry heavyweights. The ACMN podcast is proudly supported by Stellar Entertainment – www.stellargroup.com Michelle Guthrie Contact Details: Email - michelle@mgmpublicity.com.au Web Addresses - michelleguthriecommunications.com.au, hayestheatre.com.au, neglectedmusicals.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 2 here we go!! To kick things off this year, we are so excited to be sharing with you our three way chat with actors Sara Reed, Stefanie Caccamo and Emily Havea! Perth was lucky enough to have it's theatre doors open in 2020, with Black Swan Theatre Company rounding out the year with a wonderfully joyous and thought provoking reimagining of Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma (Directed by Richard Carroll), with these three badass ladies at the helm. A little bit about these women: Hailing originally from Eagle Lake, Texas, Sara is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a BA in Music Theatre. Her credits include City Homicide (Seven Network), Knowing, (with Nicholas Cage), the Australian tour of Little Britain Live, Billy Elliot, Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins, and prior to attending WAAPA, Sara played Bielke in Fiddler on the Roof, opposite Anthony Warlow. In 2019, Sara played the roles of Marta in Company and dance soloist Frug Girl in Sweet Charity. Sara has most recently been part of Oklahoma! For Black Swan Theatre Company. Emily is a Sydney based actor, singer and dancer. A 2014 NIDA acting grad, Emily has worked across theatre, music, film and TV. Theatre credits include 'Julius Caesar' (Calphurnia/Octavius) Bell Shakespeare Co; 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (Hermia), Bell Shakespeare; 'BU21' (Thalissa) Old 505, Outhouse Theatre Co; 'Dogfght', Hayes Theatre; 'Sing To Me', Apocalypse Theatre and 'Brown Skin Girl' with Blackbirds for Griffin Theatre Batch Festival and the WITS Festival Fatale. Emily trained full time with Danceworld Studios in 2011 and teaches and performs regularly with Retrosweat, the 80ties aerobic workout. Her TV credits include season 6 'Wentworth' (Mon Alston) Fremantle Media/Showcase and 'Growing Up Gracefully', ABC. Film credits include 'Stem' (Nurse Henderson) with Goalpost Pictures and web series; 'Resting Pitch Face' (Olivia), Google/ Grumpy Sailor Productions. In 2020 Emily was cast as the world first female Curly in Okalhoma! At Black Swan Theatre. Stefanie Caccamo is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts (WAAPA) and her credits include Dead Man Walking the Opera, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Applause, Once, HAIR: The Musical 50th Anniversary Tour, Irene, and most recently, Laurie in Oklahoma! In this episode we talk about all things Oklahoma, self esteem and body image, creative boundaries, and the impact of telling your truth as an artist. If you would like to find out more about these woman, you can follow them each on instagram @texas_gold, @thetheatrejew and @stefcaccamo. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode and open up discussion with you on our instagram @companypod, and our facebook Company Podcast. Please leave us a rate and review, and let us know what you'd love to hear in our upcoming episodes at companymediaoz@gmail.com Hosted and Created by Giorgia Kennedy and Tiana Catalano Edited and Produced by David Duketis Music by David Duketis Graphic Design by David Duketis

Hello! Thanks for tuning in to episode 11! This is a very special episode, because this time on the pod we embarked on our first three way conversation! Jarrod Draper, Lyndon Watts and Shannen Alyce Quan are all phenomenal artists in their own rights, and have been incredible leaders of change within the Australian musical theatre industry this year. A few months ago we were lucky enough to have all three zoom in and chat to us and our fellow WAAPA colleagues about what it means to be an ally through the BIPOC movement within the arts industry, and learned so much through this chat, so we knew it was important to have them on the podcast to relay what we heard to our listeners! A bio for our three wonderful guests below...: A proud Wiradjuri man, Jarrod is the first Indigenous graduate from the prestigious Music Theatre course at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Born and raised in Orange, country NSW, Jarrod earned a full scholarship to the Regional Conservatorium to study Music Theatre and Classical Voice, which saw him perform both nationally and internationally for several years. During his time at WAAPA, Jarrod played roles such as ‘Sam' in Lord of the Flies, ‘Black Fox' in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, ‘Louise's Soldier (pas de deux dancer)' in Carousel and most notably, ‘George' in Sunday In The Park With George, for which he was voted Male Performer of the Year by Perth Theatre Reviews. Jarrod could most recently be seen on stage in The Hayes Theatre Company's sold out production of Catch Me If You Can. Lyndon is a 2014 graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA). After graduating from WAAPA, he was cast in the national Australian tour of Sweet Charity, originally staged at the Hayes Theatre. In 2015 Lyndon toured Australia in Anything Goes before going on to perform the role of Beautiful Girl Production Tenor in the Australian national tour and the international Tokyo production of Singin' in the Rain. Lyndon has performed throughout Australia in the ensemble of Disney's Aladdin where he also covered and performed the role of Jafar. Most recently, Lyndon started in the role of Bernardo in the internationally touring company of West Side Story. Shannen Alyce Quan graduated from WAAPA in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts (Music Theatre). She recently worked for Norwegian Cruise Lines playing Cynthia in Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical. Prior to this she was a part of the 10th Anniversary Tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical as a Swing and cover Cynthia. Other theatre credits include Natalie Goodman in Next to Normal (Black Swan State Theatre Company), Shirley in Boat People (Theatre451), Wendla in Spring Awakening (CPCA), The Disappeared/The Soul in Torment in Tejas Verdes (Theatre451). She has been lucky enough to work on several new Australian musicals including playing Kelly in The Gathering (Vic Theatre Company), Seela in Post: A New Musical (Something Blue Productions), and Maia in Matthew Robinson's Atlantis. Most recently, Shannen was a swing for the national tour of Six: The musical. In this episode we spoke about our hilarious onstage mishaps, how Lyndon, Jarrod and Shannen have been moved to use their voices for change within the industry, and what it means to hold space for both joy and pain in your artistry. We really enjoyed this episode and the open, generous and fun energy Lyndon, Jarrod and Shannen bring, and we know you'll love hearing what he has to say! You can find Lyndon, Jarrod and Shannen on Instagram as @lyndoncollinswatts, @jarrod_draper and @shannenalycequan. If you liked this ep, please leave a rate and review wherever you listened to this podcast, and come and follow us on Instagram and Facebook @companypod. We'd love to hear your thoughts! Hosted and Created by Giorgia Kennedy and Tiana Catalano Produced and Edited by David Duketis Media by Deirdre Khoo (deedledumdesigns) Music by David Duketis

Welcome to this companion episode celebrating the magnificent Nancye Hayes.In part 1 we learned of a determination through childhood to emulate the great stars of the MGM musicals who figured prominently in her early cinema attendance. And then onto a career developing her talents in a succession of J.C. Williamson musicals, before eventually landing the leading role of Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity; helping to cement the knowledge that Australian performers certainly had what it took to lead a company and tell stories in imported musicals.The accolades came thick and fast, leading Nancye to great acclaim and on to a career that has seen her conquer all genres and theatrical roles; on and off the stage. She has contributed dynamically to the industry in creative roles as Director, Choreographer and Mentor. Her vast repertoire of plays and musicals has given us dynamic performances in Sweeney Todd, Nine, Showboat, Pippin, The Importance of Being Earnest, Same Time Next Year, Steel Magnolias and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks.Nancye Hayes is one of our great elders and her vast warmth and contribution to the Arts in Australia have made her a much loved Teacher, Leader and Actor.

Tina Harris. Tina is a Canadian born multi-instrumentalist with a diversity of talents as performer, composer and musical director. With beginnings in community arts, she has been bandleader, teacher, composer, arranger and all-round boss for many styles of ensemble, including big bands, cabaret, latin, funk and a cappella.  Theatre musical direction credits include the recent 2019 Australian Tour of Hair the Musical, Helpmann Award winner, Smoke and Mirrors, featuring iOTA, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Tina was also musical Director for Hear Me Roar at The Sydney Opera House arranging for and leading an 8 piece all female band and 6 celebrated Australian divas in honouring the great female singer/composers of our time. As well as having played bass or guitar/keys for many Hayes Theatre musical productions including In The Heights, Sweet Charity, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors, Rent, High Fidelity, Tina also leads several of her own music projects like Tijuana Taxi  as well as her formidable 12 piece salsa orchestra, El Orqueston and Afro Cuban Trio, Oriente Tres. Episode recorded 06/11/2019 in Bondi, NSW Australia. Episode Music. Intro: : "Taste of Honey" - Tina Harris & Tijuana Taxi Outro: "The Ballad of the Booty Call" - Tina Harris (all instruments and vocals) Tina Harris - https://www.facebook.com/tina.harris.5249349 Tijuana Taxi - https://www.facebook.com/Tijuana-Taxi-1621198284810711/ Oriente Tres - https://www.facebook.com/orientetres/ El Orqueston - https://www.facebook.com/ElOrqueston/ Hair The Musical - https://www.facebook.com/HairTheMusicalAU/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to securely donate to The Gig Life Podcast. Your support is very much appreciated. Thank you.   https://www.thegiglifepodcast.com https://www.facebook.com/thegiglifepodcast/ https://www.instagram.com/thegiglifepodcast/?hl=en https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5KahER1yXZQP3rh1mhSUqX?si=0O1lB7TJTaKfuD34xm7B7w Email: thegiglifepodcast@gmail.com #thegiglifepodcast  #thegiglife

Sound has been used to evoke emotion, reflect mood and underscore action in the arts since time began. The contribution of the Sound Designer in the theatre, provides a further dimension in which to elicit the world of the play.Nate Edmondson is an international, multi-award winning composer, sound designer and occasional musical director. His work crosses all mediums - film, television, radio, advertising and stage.Originally from Western Australia, Nate grew up amongst the remote red dirt and spinifex of the Pilbara region, before moving to Perth. There he trained as both a classical and jazz trombonist, in addition to fronting several local bands as a multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter and arranger.Nate is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he trained under the mentorship of some of Australia’s finest musicians and sound designers.He has worked extensively in the theatre and live events industries; his detailed sound designs and music scores can be heard on stages around the world.In 2015, Nate’s sound design work made international headlines when a social media campaign petitioning pop star, Taylor Swift, for the use of one of her hits for the Belvoir production of Seventeen, was successful, with Swift personally granting approval via Twitter, in an unprecedented move.He creates designs in intimate spaces and large auditoriums; all with enormous detail providing audiences with a powerful aural hypnosis that transports them directly to the world of the play.He is a passionate advocate for the artistry of sound design and how it extends our theatre experience. He is also incredibly fascinating and eloquent detailing how the youngest of all production disciplines evolved.Nate Edmondson’s next sound design can be heard in Kate Gaul's production of HMS Pinafore, playing The Hayes Theatre from November 8th to December 14th.The Stages podcast is available in iTunes, Spotify and Whooshkaa.

I just got back from the US after a holiday with the family. I was going through my emails and I saw one that was entitled ‘Love the Podcast’. It was from Blake Erickson. It’s always nice to get positive feedback for the things that you’re doing and there was only one thing to do upon receiving this email – which was to get Blake on the show! The great thing about Blake is that he brings a wonderful mix of community theatre experience and professional theatre experience. It gave us the chance to discuss the Top 5 Australian Cast Recordings as well as community theatre, professional theatre and theatre in Australia. About Blake… Blake has worked throughout Australia, Asia, Britain, and the United States as a writer, actor, and singer. He studied drama and musical theatre at the University of Sydney & The Actor’s Connection New York. In early 2019 Blake co-wrote the new Australian musical The Dismissal, which premiered at the Seymour Centre. Prior to this he appeared in the international tour of Cameron Mackintosh's Les Misérables. For his performance in the title role of the one-man show Pearls Before Swine: An Evening With Orson Welles (Neil Gooding Prod.), Blake won Best Actor at the inaugural Sydney Fringe Festival Awards. Other credits include: CRY-BABY, High Fidelity, Melba, and his acclaimed cabaret Hold Me Closer Logies Dancer (all at Sydney’s Hayes Theatre); Mamma Mia!, the Australia & New Zealand tour of Madiba, Of Thee I Sing at the Sydney Opera House, Grey Gardens, and Sondheim on Sondheim for Squabbalogic. Blake’s Top 5 Jesus Christ Superstar (1992) Muriel’s Wedding (2019) Man of La Mancha (2015 – Squabbalogic) Smoke and Mirrors (2010) Pirates of Penzance (1995) Honourable Mentions Miracle City (The Hayes) Priscilla Queen of the Dessert FANTASTIX BITS IN THE INTERVIEW The apprenticeship nature of community theatre Are professional performers embarrassed by their community theatre roots? Exactly how much can you learn from community theatre? Does going pro take the fun out of theatre? Do you know your ‘Why?’ Mr Erickson is very eloquent. The meaning of rubric or zeitgeist can be found in our show notes? How Aussie casts and crew put their own unique spin on musical recordings Show of hands. Who else can trace back their love of G&S to the 1995 Aussie recording of Pirates? After the success of the Greatest Showman, will we see the return of Smoke and Mirrors? Can we smell a 10-year rerun for 2020? We know that symmetry will appeal to Blake! You can still buy a copy of #3! See the show notes below All those Aussie firsts rockets a ‘terrible’ musical into the runners up place #1 was always going to be #1 – it went into the Top 40 Charts Some tongue in cheek basic geography for our American listeners Daddy versus Papa Bear – get it right, Paul! Border control alert for the first Shrek rehearsal A gentle reminder that Warlow’s career was made on Australian stages The cheers and boos of a memorial service AND a musical! Stand by for a fast five question change from comfort food to a death row meal! SHOW NOTES Man of La Mancha  Shrek the Musical  Rubric & Zeitgeist  The Dismissal Love Fantastix? Support the show! Be like Blake and drop us a line.  You could be our next guest! Join the conversation in our Fantastix Cast & Crew Community Group on Facebook Follow our Facebook Page Leave a rating or review in iTunes Keep listening: Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe via Spotify Subscribe via Stitcher

Prolific American musical theatre composer Frank Wildhorn in conversation about his long career and the man who defined his Jekyll and Hyde: Anthony Warlow.

Prolific American musical theatre composer Frank Wildhorn in conversation about his long career and the man who defined his Jekyll and Hyde: Anthony Warlow.

The award-winning autobiographical musical Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) has its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre, director Adena Jacobs and performer Jane Montgomery Griffiths discuss tackling Shakespeare's grisly Titus Andronicus, the viability of digital publisher Australian Plays is under threat after losing Australia Council organisational funding, and MALAPROP Theatre from Ireland bring their hit comedy about human-robot relationships, LOVE+, to Australia.

The award-winning autobiographical musical Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) has its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre, director Adena Jacobs and performer Jane Montgomery Griffiths discuss tackling Shakespeare's grisly Titus Andronicus, the viability of digital publisher Australian Plays is under threat after losing Australia Council organisational funding, and MALAPROP Theatre from Ireland bring their hit comedy about human-robot relationships, LOVE+, to Australia.

Born and bred in Adelaide, it would seem today’s guest on STAGES was born to dance! Dance classes lead to competitive dance ... work in musical theatre and then to his success as one of the country’s most versatile choreographers.Cameron Mitchell has acted as personal choreographer for musical theatre star, Caroline O’Connor; provided the steps to child entertainers Hi5. And he has choreographed for an impressive list that includes Kelly Rowland, Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Sony Music, Warner Music and Festival records. With each dance he creates a unique language tailored specifically for the artist in focus.As a performer he has appeared regularly in commercial musical theatre – HOT SHOE SHUFFLE, CHICAGO, OLIVER, WEST SIDE STORY, MY FAIR LADY and SPAMALOT.His passion for musical theatre has seen him extend his role to that of a much in demand choreographer, creating dance to support the storytelling and shape the world of a variety of projects - MACK AND MABEL, CALAMITY JANE, BIG FISH and CRY-BABY are just a few.Cameron has also fostered the training of many young performers, previously serving as Artistic Director of Sydney’s Brent Street Studios – guiding young dancers to be versatile and to embrace a range of styles.This year he makes his directorial debut at the Hayes Theatre with the musical CATCH ME IFYOU CAN ....Well .... I caught Cameron and here’s our insightful conversation.

This week, a showdown between Congress and the Trump Administration over the refusal of Attorney General William Barr to testify before the House Judiciary Committee spurred further conversation about a “constitutional crisis.” In recent years, there has been a non-stop national debate about how the Constitution handles potential abuses of Presidential power and the relationship among the three branches of government. The Constitution is also the unlikely subject of a new play, on Broadway: “What the Constitution Means to Me,” written and performed by Heidi Schreck. Dorothy Wickenden visits Schreck backstage, at the Hayes Theatre, on Broadway, to discuss what the Constitution does and does not say about the basic rights of Americans.

Amy Campbell is one of Australia’s most accomplished dance talents with a career spanning all areas of the entertainment industry. Her extensive list of credits as one of the country’s top choreographers include the Australian Premiere of the critically acclaimed Violet, for which she won the Broadway World Australia award for her work, ATYP’s sell out season of Spring Awakening, Side Show and Hispanic Attack for the Hayes Theatre (for which she was also the co-creator), the original Australian work Guilty Pleasures for Blue Saint Productions, Wicked for Packemin Productions, Dance Academy, The X Factor, ABC’s Giggle and Hoot and most recently Amy was assistant director on Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Porgy and Bess. Her clients include ABC, Commonwealth Bank, the Sci-Fi Channel and Deutsche Bank. She was assistant to award winning choreographer Kelley Abbey on Miracle City, Xanadu The Musical, Channel 10′s I Will Survive and Natalie Bassingthwaighte’s live performances and music video of All We Have. Amy’s theatre credits include dance captain and role cover in the Australian tour of Dirty Dancing, Fame The Musical, Saturday Night Fever, the world premiere of King Kong Live on Stage ,principal dancer in Opera Australia’s Carmen and most recently the Resident Choreographer of The Bodyguard Musical Australia. She has appeared in commercials for Sony, Vodafone, Coca Cola, Video Ezy, Sci-Fi Channel, Kmart and was an ambassador for Lorna Jane’s Active Living Campaign. Her other television credits include Everybody Dance Now, placing in the Top 3 on So You Think You Can Dance Australia Season 2, as well as appearing on The X Factor, The Nickelodeon Awards, TV Week Logie Awards, Australia’s Next Top Model, Australia’s Got Talent and The Biggest Loser. You can follow Amy on: insta: @missamycampbell web: https://missamycampbell.com/

Stream episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com (mobile friendly) Cabaret Presented by: David M Hawkins WILLKOMMEN, BIENVENUE, WELCOME! CABARET's famed 'Kit Kat Klub' is returning to Melbourne for 4 weeks only from 27 April! David M. Hawkins presents a new Australian revival of one of the world’s most loved musicals and a certified smash hit that transports audiences back to 1930’s Weimar Berlin, where sexual freedom and self-expression are set against the backdrop of a changing society in the wake of Hitler’s rise to power. Fresh from a sold-out season at the Hayes Theatre, the stellar Australian cast includes: five-time Helpmann award winning performer Paul Capsis as the flamboyant Master of Ceremonies (Emcee), leading lady Chelsea Gibb in her dream role as the beguiling Sally Bowles, and the brilliant Kate Fitzpatrick as Fräulein Schneider. For more and ticket details: https://www.cometothecabaret.com.au/ Subscribe to the Theatre First podcast at all good podcatcher apps including Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Stitcher, Pocketcasts, audioBoom etc. #theatre #reviews #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of the Equity Foundation’s In Conversation series, performers are given the opportunity to attend an intimate question and answer session with leading performers, producers, directors, writers and other members of the industry Mitchell Butel Mitchell is a triple Helpmann Award winning actor and singer. His theatre credits include The Government Inspector, Angels in America, Strange Interlude, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, The Laramie Project, A View from the Bridge, Dead Heart (Belvoir), Romeo and Juliet, The Grenade, Summer Rain, The Republic of Myopia, Harbour, Tartuffe, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Café Latte Kid, Summer of the Aliens, Six Degrees of Separation (STC), Tomfoolery, Urinetown, Piaf (MTC), Boeing-Boeing (Dainty), Stones in his Pockets, The Venetian Twins (QTC), Emerald City (Griffin), Laugher on the 23rd Floor (Ensemble), Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl, Woyzeck (Malthouse), Othello (Bell) and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love (STCSA). Music theatre credits include South Pacific, Orpheus in the Underworld, The Mikado (Opera Australia), Assassins (Silo) Avenue Q (AAP), The Producers, Sugar, Little Me, Hair (Production Company), Grease, Little Shop of Horrors (DAE), Man of La Mancha and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (GFO) opposite Geoffrey Rush. Film/TV credits include Holding the Man, Hiding, The Broken Shore, Mr & Mrs Murder, Bordertown, Wildside, Grass Roots, Rake, The Bank, Two Hands, Dark City and AFI-nominated performances in Strange Fits of Passion and Gettin’ Square. Mitchell has appeared in three solo cabaret shows, Excellent Adventure, Now for the Weather and Killing Time (which is available on iTunes and just completed a sellout season at the Hayes Theatre). Mitchell received Helpmann Awards for The Venetian Twins, Avenue Q and The Mikado and Green Room Awards for Piaf and Hair. Proud member of Actors Equity since 1988 and a member of the National Performers Committee since 2007. He is also a Board member of Belvoir St Theatre. Tony Sheldon Tony Sheldon made his Broadway debut starring in PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT at the Palace Theater. He played the role of Bernadette for more than 1750 performances in Australia, New Zealand, London, Toronto and New York, winning the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut as well as nominations for the TONY Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Drama League Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award as Best Actor in a Musical. He was honored with his own caricature at Sardi’s restaurant in Times Square. For his performance in PRISCILLA he won the Toronto Theatre Critics Award and the DORA Award as Best Actor in a Musical in Toronto. In Australia he won the Sydney Critics Award, the Green Room Award, the Glugs Award and the Aussietheatre.com Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as the MO Award as Musical Theatre Performer of the Year. He was also nominated for the Australian Dance Award and the Helpmann Award. In London he was nominated for the Olivier Award and the What’s On Stage Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Since his arrival in the USA, Tony has appeared as Horace Vandergelder in HELLO, DOLLY! at the historic Goodspeed Opera House, King Pellinore in CAMELOT for Theatre Under The Stars in Houston and in the films CARRY ME HOME with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and BUTTERFLIES OF BILL BAKER with Will Chase. He was featured on the tv series JOAN & MELISSA: JOAN KNOWS BEST and performed on THE VIEW, ROSIE! and THE NBC TODAY SHOW. In Australia, Tony won the 2005 Helpmann Award, the Sydney Critics Award, the Mo Award and the Glugs Award for his performance as Roger de Bris in THE PRODUCERS. He was also nominated for a Helpmann and a Green Room Award for his work in THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK in 2003. Tony played the lead role of Lawrence Jameson in the Australian premiere of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, to rave reviews. Media Super is the principal sponsor of the Equity Foundation.