On with the show-Showbiz News – Entertainment Industry-Australian Entertainers

THE COUNTDOWN to the 19th Annual Helpmann Awards is on, following the announcement of the 2019 Helpmann 42-category award nominees.
The Helpmann Awards are the premier celebration of Australia’s vibrant live performance industry.
The Awards recognise distinguished achievement and excellence in Australia’s live performance sectors including musicals, contemporary music, comedy, opera and classical music, theatre, ballet, dance and physical theatre, presentations for children and young people, regional touring and cabaret.… Members read the rest!

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SUPPORTING everything the musical theatre arts scene has to offer, the revered BRAVO Cruise Of Performing Arts celebrates its fifth year in 2018 with one of the biggest line-ups yet.… Members read the rest!

Industry to be applauded at Awards night
By SHIRLEY BROUN
AUSTRALIAN performers will be showcased at what has become a much looked forward to night of celebrities and salutations when the industry gets together for the 37th Annual Australian Entertainment `MO' Awards to be held at Bankstown Sports Club, Sydney, on May 28.
Television, radio, club and movie performers, actors and personalities will be among the throng of talented performers expected to attend the glittering event which is held each year to award excellence across a wide range of categories ranging from Best Venue to the Peter Allen Performer of the Year.… Members read the rest!

By SHIRLEY BROUN

AUSTRALIAN showbusiness has lost one of it's most supreme talents with the death of Maestro Tommy Tycho, aged 84, in Sydney this morning - just a week before his 85th birthday. The well respected and much loved pianist, conductor, composer and arranger died of complications associated with pneumonia.

A child prodigy who played piano with the Budapest Philharmonic orchestra at the age of 10, Tommy moved to Australia in 1951 and began to build a new life for himself and Hungarian wife Eve doing what he did best - music.

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Look who's on stage ...

DEBONAIRE Terry Willesee, stunning Rhonda Burchmore and suave Larry Emder share the stage at the Australian Entertainment MO Awards in Sydney in 1992.

TERRY WILLESEE

TERRY was attending the awards just prior to jetting off to the United States to work as a reporter for the American A Current Affair (not related to Nine Network's program of the same name).

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