REHEARSALS have begun at Opera Australia’s Sydney headquarters, and the countdown is on to the much anticipated Australian premiere of the Tony® Award-winning Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.
The cast of Cinderella in rehearsal. Photo by David Hooley
One of the most beautiful and beloved musicals of all time. Cinderella will open at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre from 20 May, with seasons at QPAC, Brisbane from 5 August and the Sydney Lyric Theatre from 23 October.… Members read the rest!
THE Tony® Award-winning Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella will play at Melbourne’s Regent Theatre from 20 May next year, and at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from 23 October.
Lyndon Terracini for Opera Australia and John Frost for Crossroads said that leading the cast of this lavish production will be Shubshri Kandiah (Aladdin, Fangirls) as Ella (Cinderella); Ainsley Melham (Merrily We Roll Along, Aladdin) as Prince Topher; Silvie Paladino (Mamma Mia!, Les Misérables) as Marie, the Fairy Godmother; Tina Bursill (TV’s Doctor Doctor, Wentworth) as Madame, Ella’s stepmother, and Todd McKenney (The Boy From Oz, Shrek) as the Lord Chancellor, Sebastian.… Members read the rest!
CLASSIC MUSICAL ATTRACTS BIG TURNOUT
TICKETS for the Tony® Award-winning Broadway production of one of the most beautiful musicals of all time, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, will go on sale this week on Friday 30 April, 2021.
The contemporary retelling of this beloved story will have its Australian Premiere in Sydney at the Capitol Theatre from 16 November.
Auditions for the 26-strong cast begin next week, and Opera Australia and The Gordon Frost Organisation have received almost 1500 submissions.… Members read the rest!
Beauty and the Beast takes Melbourne by Storm
On With the Show's
Flashback to 1996
By SHIRLEY BROUN
HAVING clocked more than 300 performances in the Premiere Melbourne production of Disney's Beauty and the Beast already, Bert Newton is revelling in the enchantment his role brings to the stage of the Princess Theatre.
Bert plays the stuffy head butler, Cogsworth, who has been transformed into a clock, while his master - the prince - lives life as the `beast' (played by Michael Cormick).… Members read the rest!
April 29, 2022
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