An Evening in Concert: with the third-year Musical Theatre students

IN CONCERT

With the third-year Musical Theatre students of Queensland Conservatorium

2-4 MARCH 2023 TONY GOULD GALLERY, QPAC

CRICOS: 00233E | TEQSA: PRV12076

AN EVENING

WELCOME It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to An Evening in Concert, featuring our 3rd year Bachelor of Musical Theatre students.

This concert marks the first of what we plan to be many performances in our new home here at QPAC. Moving the Musical Theatre program from our old home in Woolloongabba to South Bank earlier this year has enhanced the training of our students incredibly. Spending all day in this magnificent building is giving them the fullest of industry experience every day.

There is something very special about swiping into a theatre via Stage Door, it’s like you’re entering a world where magic happens, and where dreams can become reality – Musical Theatre students from the Queensland Conservatorium get to ‘play’, ‘experience’, and ‘enjoy’ that in every class, rehearsal, breaktime, walking the corridors to their next subject, chatting to other performers, creatives and technicians working on other productions – all of which we’re extremely proud to be able to provide our students. Special thanks go to John Kotzas AM, CEO of QPAC, and all his team for helping to make this happen.

The students performing tonight have beaten the challenges of the past two years and come out on top. They’ve fought lockdowns, COVID-19 outbreaks, and floods with a determination that nothing was going to get in the way of their training. I’m proud of each and every one of them, as well as the staff who have been behind

them. The saying ‘The show must go on’ has never been more apt than in recent times.

An Evening in Concert is a celebration of where the students are at this point in their training. They have all challenged themselves with the material they have chosen to perform this evening, and they look forward to sharing these beautiful songs with you.

Thank you to Penny Farrow (director), Megan Shorey (associate director), Heidi Loveland (musical director and pianist), Dr. Melissa Agnew (voice and speech coach) and all the staff and students who have contributed to this performance.

To you, the audience: thank you for your support and generosity, and I look forward to seeing you again at one of our future events.

Together we are creating tomorrow’s artists.

Paul

Professor Paul Sabey Head of Performing Arts Program Director - Bachelor of Musical Theatre This performance runs for 90 mins with no interval

Seize the Day Newsies

Company

Music by Alan Menken & lyrics by Jack Felmain, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland

Maybe It’s Me

Emma Wilby

Just Breathe

Izzi Kratz

Music & lyrics by Georgia Stitt

The Prom

Music by Matthew Sklar & lyrics by Chad Beguelin

Come to a Party Dogfight

William Kasper

Music & lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

There Are Worse Things I Could Do Grease

Taylor Brown

Music & lyrics by Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs

Disneyland Smile

Gemma Dandie

Music by Marvin Hamlisch & lyrics by Howard Ashman

Purpose

Avenue Q Music by & lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx

Michael Jarrett

Part of Your World The Little Mermaid

Isabella Gaskin

Music by Alan Menken & lyrics by Howard Ashman

Let It Go

Frozen the Broadway Musical

Meg Hargraves

Music & lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez

This is the Moment Jekyll & Hyde

Bradley J Oakman

Music by Frank Wildhorn & lyrics by Leslie Bricusse

All the Livelong Day (part 1)

Company

Working! Localized

Music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland

In the Wrong Key

Eliza Vine

My Brilliant Career Music by Mathew Frank & lyrics by Dean Bryant

Tenterfield Saddler

Music & lyrics by Peter Allen

Benjamin Richards

All the Livelong Day (part 2) Working! Localized

Music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland

Company

Breathe

Olivia Ayoub

In The Heights Music by & lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda

I’m Not Afraid of Anything

Sophie Gulloch

Songs For A New World

Music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

In Case You Don’t Live Forever

Oliver Clisdell

It’s Not Gonna Rain

Natasha Dyson

The Epiphany

Charlotte Page

Music & lyrics by Ben Platt, Nate Cyphert & Michael Pollack

Music & lyrics by Michael Bruce

Emma

Music & lyrics by Paul Gordon

Top of the World

Tuck Everlasting: the Musical

Matthew Casamento

Music by Chris Miller & lyrics by Nathan Tysen

And I Breathe

Next Thing You Know Music by Joshua Salzman & lyrics by Ryan Cunningham

Ben Peters

Spring Cleaning Fugitive Songs

Aimee Jones

Music by Chris Miller & lyrics by Nathan Tysen

Calm

Ordinary Days

Juliette Milne

Music & lyrics by Adam Gwon

Birds

Ultimate Storytime

Alexander Tye

Music & lyrics by Thomas Sanders

I Will Run Atlantis

Mackinley Brown

Music & lyrics by Matthew Lee Robinson

Maybe This Time Cabaret

Sophie Montague

Music by John Kander & lyrics by Fred Ebb

We Belong

Company

Music & lyrics by David Eric Lowden & Daniel Navarro, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland

Bachelor of Musical Theatre Class of 2023 Front row (from left): Emma Wilby, Gemma Dandie, Michael Jarrett, Taylor Brown, Aimee Jones, Olivia Ayoub, Meg Hargraves, Sophie Gulloch Middle row: Matthew Casamento, Natasha Dyson, Charlotte Page, Juliette Milne, Sophie Montague, Izzi Kratz, Isabella Gaskin Back row: William Kasper, Oliver Clisdell, Eliza Vine, Ben Peters, Benjamin Richards, Alexander Tye, Mackinley Brown, Bradley J Oakman

PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT 2023 SEASON FESTEN 3rd Year Bachelor of Acting 28 March - 1 April Burke Street Studio Theatre WORKING! LOCALIZED 3rd Year Bachelor of Musical Theatre 27 - 29 April Cremorne Theatre QPAC CRY BABY All Musical Theatre students featuring 3rd Years 3 - 12 August Conservatorium Theatre ORESTEIA 3rd Year Bachelor of Acting 22 - 26 August Burke Street Studio Theatre CLASS OF 2023 ACTING AND MUSICAL THEATRE SHOWCASE 3rd Year students 6 - 7 October Cremorne Theatre QPAC COMMON GROUND - A new Australian Play 2nd Year Bachelor of Acting 26-28 October Burke Street Studio Theatre URINETOWN 2nd Year Bachelor of Musical Theatre 14 - 18 November Burke Street Studio Theatre

TICKETS: queenslandconservatorium.com.au

FOR THE PRODUCTION Producer Professor Paul Sabey

Director Penny Farrow

Musical Director / Show Pianist Heidi Loveland

Associate Director Megan Shorey

Voice and Speech Coach Dr Melissa Agnew

Program Dominique Fegan

FOR THE QUEENSLAND CONSERVATORIUM Director - Professor Bernard Lanskey Deputy Director (Engagement) - Associate Professor Peter Morris Business Manager - Stuart Jones Front of House Manager - Michael Hibbard Technical Team Leader - Cameron Hipwell Technical Officers - Keith Clark, Amy Hauser, Len McPherson

FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT Head of Performing Arts Program Director - Bachelor of Musical Theatre Professor Paul Sabey Program Director - Bachelor of Acting Jacqui Somerville Lecturer in Musical Direction Heidi Loveland Lecturer in Performance (Musical Theatre) Megan Shorey Administration Dominique Fegan, Cathy Healy

QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

PO Box 3567, South Bank, Queensland 4101 T: (07) 3840 7444 W: qpac.com.au Chair Professor Peter Coaldrake AO Deputy Chair Leigh Tabrett PSM Trust Members Julian Myers Georgina Richters Susan Rix AM Murray Saylor Chief Executive: John Kotzas AM

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Queensland Performing Arts Trust is a statutory body of the State of Queensland and is partially funded by the Queensland Government The Honourable Leeanne Enoch MP: Minister for Communities and Housing, Minister for Digital Economy and Minister for the Arts Director-General, Department of Communities and Housing and Digital Economy: Ms Clare O’Connor We pay our respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestors of this land, their spirits and their legacy. The foundations laid by these ancestors – our First Nations Peoples – gives strength, inspiration and courage to current and future generations, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, towards creating a better Queensland.

QPAC warmly thanks our key donors who help us engage broadly across the state and continue enriching lives through performing arts.

Tim Fairfax AC and Gina Fairfax, Dr Lee and Professor Peter Coaldrake AO, Leigh Tabrett PSM, Susan Rix AM, Dr Sally Pitkin AO, Dare Power, Dr Cathryn Mittelheuser AM, Queensland Community Foundation, de Groots Charitable Fund, Sandi Hoskins, Klaus Beckmann, Barbara Snelling, Jill Hutchins, Leigh Wheeler, Frank and Karen Alpert, Alison Iverach, Jenny Morton, John Ryan, Margaret Heggie, Natalie Nelson, Ben Castleton, Helen Astbury, Anthony Wade-Cooper and several donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Patrons are advised that the Performing Arts Centre has EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURES, a FIRE ALARM system and EXIT passageways. In case of an alert, patrons should remain calm, look for the closest EXIT sign in GREEN, listen to and comply with directions given by the inhouse trained attendants and move in an orderly fashion to the open spaces outside the Centre.

Tel: 3735 3224 Email: performing.arts@griffith.edu.au