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On with the show UPDATE, August 2013
From the Editor's Desk
ON behalf of On With the Show Entertainment and Shirley Broun, I would like to thank you all for supporting our website www.onwiththeshow.com.au . It really means so very much.
The good news is that the website is growing rapidly and achieving some great results, with visitors from around the world and from a wide range of areas within the performing arts and entertainment industries.… Members read the rest!

REVIEW: Greg & Laura Doolan, Rob Rosenlund
Venue: Tweed Heads Bowls Club
June 29, 2013

By Shirley Broun

TRIBUTE shows are a major part of the live performance arena these days and when a friend invited me to join her to see the `Olivia Newton John Story’ at Tweed Heads Bowls Club on the Queensland Gold Coast last night (June 29, 2013) I thought `why not’ - it ticks all my boxes (I love Olivia Newton John, I love live shows and I was really in the mood to be entertained).… Members read the rest!

On With the Show Entertainment
For a decade, Award-winning National Entertainment Magazine Variety Today was published to provide a voice for Australia’s Entertainment Industry. Many entertainers were actively involved in its publication.
On With the Show Entertainment continues this tradition but in a way that incorporates the modern love-affair with stage, screen and the showbiz world in general.
On with the Show Entertainment is led by Shirley Broun, Founding Editor/Publisher of Variety Today.… Members read the rest!

An Australian legend takes his final bow

On With the Show's

Flashback to Variety Today 1992

and its Gold Coast Media award-winning tribute to Peter Allen

THERE is no denying Peter Allen was the ultimate showman. His untimely death on June 18, 1992 from cancer at the early age of 48 shocked the world and left his Australian entertainment industry peers stunned.

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G'day Hollywood
By columnist Jenifer Green
On With the Show's
Flashback to Variety Today 1992

WHEN Shirley asked me to write a column from Los Angeles, I was delighted and thrilled that perhaps my side of the entertainment scene could shed some positive light and help people in our industry which has had such a downslide in the past few years.

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Thanks `Hoges'
On With the Show's
Flashback to Variety Today 1994

CONGRATULATIONS to Paul Hogan (and the many Australian shareholders) on the success of his latest film, Lightning Jack. I, for one, have been a fan of Paul's since seeing him in his first television appearance on New Faces - that must be one or two years ago now. Only kidding!

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VARIETY Today and 150 dedicated supporters saw the new year off in fine spirits as they joined together at top Gold Coast venue, Paradise Country, to celebrate the publication's Second Birthday.

It was a night which brought together entertainment industry members from all areas - performers, managers, agents, media, their families, friends and supporters - and one which highlighted a tremendous kinship and warmth among all attendees.

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Stars gather for Gold Coast awards
On With the Show's
Flashback to Variety Today 1994

THIS year's Gold Coast Music Awards proudly presented by Gold Coast Music promises to be a star gazer's delight.

Scheduled to appear at this year's event are former `Laugh-in' star Chelsea Brown, Venetta Field from John Farnham band, Hey Hey It's Saturday's Shane Bourne, Queensland Entertainer of the Year Greg Doolan, country music legends Reg Lindsay and John McSweeney, Syd `Cookie' Heylen from À Country Practice', Vic Rooney from E Street, Variety Today's Shirley Broun and many more.

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On With the Show's
Flashback to Gold Coast Sun, Nov 27, 1991

THE art of Rolf Harris, which normally commands five figure fees, will be available to the general public for just $3 early in the new year.

Mr Harris has designed the cover of Variety Today, a Gold Coast national magazine, which celebrates its first birthday on January 4.

"Rolf spent several hours doing drawings for the cover during last week's visit to the Coast," said Shirley Broun, Variety Today's publisher and managing editor.

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A great day for the OZ Variety Industry
From website of Pearson & Harvey

We've just received the word that a long-awaited website is up and running. Shirley Broun, former publisher/editor of the 'VARIETY TODAY' magazine (and one of the best friends the Australian Variety Industry has ever had) has launched her new website. Check out www.onwiththeshow.com.au to see some great 'blasts from the past' and great news stories about our business.

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