Queensland Conservatorium Musical Theatre 2016

2016 season

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We are delighted to welcome you to the Musical Theatre 2016 season presented

by Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Queensland Conservatorium presents more than 250 events throughout the year across our main campus in the heart of Brisbane’s South Bank, at the Burke Street Studios in Woolloongabba and on our Gold Coast campus.

Musical Theatre at Queensland Conservatorium has a reputation as a provider of quality productions that are coupled with high level learning outcomes for our students.

As we embark on a new year, the Musical Theatre department welcomes you with enthusiasm and excitement to some of the most spectacular performances produced by its students. As you browse through this year’s Season Book, we hope you’ll be inspired by a number of events across our students’ jampacked program.

The events this year include staged productions of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Our Country’s Good and The Secret Garden; workshop productions of Sweet Charity, Con2TheCabaret and The Life;

Information is correct at time of printing.

singing concerts (in-house at our theatre in Woolloongabba, Brisbane City Hall and St John’s Cathedral), an evening of song and dance, acting scenes, a Winter audition workshop, summer school and two interstate tours.

At the end of the year we will farewell our third year students as they present their final Showcase Our Turn! This is a wonderful opportunity for us to introduce these talented young professionals interstate in Melbourne and Sydney, as well as at home in Brisbane.

If you require further information about the productions, audition workshop, summer school, the students or the course, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We look forward to welcoming you to our performances and events throughout the year, and to sharing our passion for musical theatre.

Professor Scott Harrison Director – Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University Associate Professor Paul Sabey Bachelor of Musical Theatre Program Director – Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University

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march

3RD YEAR STUDENTS Join us for an evening of song from these talented students.

DATES

Thursday 17 March, 7.30pm Friday 18 March, 7.30pm Saturday 19 March, 7.30pm

TICKETS

$15 Adults $8 Concessions

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au

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april

elegies for angels, punks and raging queens brisbane season Book and Lyrics by BILL RUSSELL Music by JANET HOOD

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH INC. www.origintheatrical.com.au

3RD YEAR STUDENTS

Told with love, honesty and humour, it’s a tribute to those we lost to the AIDS epidemic and those who’ve been left behind.

Reminiscent of the Memorial Quilt that inspired it, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a patchwork of personal stories in song and free verse.

Wednesday 27 April, 7.30pm Thursday 28 April, 7.30pm Friday 29 April, 7.30pm Saturday 30 April, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Director: Penny Farrow Musical Director: Heidi Loveland Choreographer: Helena Moore

DATES

This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

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may

elegies for angels, punks and raging queens melbourne season Book and Lyrics by BILL RUSSELL Music by JANET HOOD

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH INC. www.origintheatrical.com.au

3RD YEAR STUDENTS

Told with love, honesty and humour, it’s a tribute to those we lost to the AIDS epidemic and those who’ve been left behind.

Reminiscent of the Memorial Quilt that inspired it, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a patchwork of personal stories in song and free verse.

DATES

Director: Penny Farrow Musical Director: Heidi Loveland Choreographer: Helena Moore

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Wednesday 11 May, 7.30pm Thursday 12 May, 7.30pm Friday 13 May, 7.30pm Saturday 14 May, 7.30pm This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au

sweet charity Book by NEIL SIMON Music by CY COLEMAN Lyrics by DOROTHY FIELDS Based on an original screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano Produced for the Broadway stage by: Fryer, Carr and Harris Conceived, Staged and Choreographed by Bob Fosse “Sweet Charity” is presented by permission of ORiGiN™ Theatrical On behalf of Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. 2ND YEAR STUDENTS

Director: Lewis Jones Musical Director: Dominic Woodhead Choreographer: Helena Moore Step inside the Fandango Ballroom and join the taxi dancers and their customers as they get caught up in Charity Hope Valentine’s chaotic search for love.

An absolutely classic night of musical theatre with some of Broadway’s best-known

numbers, including ‘Big Spender’, ‘If They Could See Me Now’ and ‘The Rhythm of Life’.

DATES

Saturday 14 May, 7.30pm Monday 16 May, 7.30pm Tuesday 17 May, 7.30pm Wednesday 18 May, 7.30pm Thursday 19 May, 7.30pm Friday 20 May, 7.30pm Saturday 21 May, 2.30pm & 7.30pm This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

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elegies for angels, punks and raging queens sydney season Book and Lyrics by BILL RUSSELL Music by JANET HOOD

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH INC. www.origintheatrical.com.au

3RD YEAR STUDENTS

Told with love, honesty and humour, it’s a tribute to those we lost to the AIDS epidemic and those who’ve been left behind.

Reminiscent of the Memorial Quilt that inspired it, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a patchwork of personal stories in song and free verse.

DATES

Richard Wherrett Studio Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

This production contains adult themes and strong language.

Please visit conevents.com.au

Director: Penny Farrow Musical Director: Heidi Loveland Choreographer: Helena Moore

Friday 27 May, 7.30pm Saturday 28 May, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

BOOKINGS

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con2thecabaret 2ND YEAR STUDENTS Director: Megan Shorey Musical Director: Dominic Woodhead

Second year Musical Theatre students present a blend of traditional, contemporary and never-before heard arrangements of some of the world’s most evocative and treasured songs.

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DATES

Friday 10 June, 7.30pm Saturday 11 June, 7.30pm Tuesday 14 June, 7.30pm Wednesday 15 June, 7.30pm Thursday 16 June, 7.30pm Friday 17 June, 7.30pm Saturday 18 June 2.30pm & 7.30pm This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

it’s us now!

1ST YEAR STUDENTS

Producer and Musical Director: Paul Sabey Choreographer: John Clarke Featuring the fresh faces in the Musical Theatre department, our enthusiastic group of first year students take you on a journey through the everchanging musical theatre landscape.

DATES

Friday 24 June, 7.30pm Saturday 25 June, 2.30pm & 7.30pm This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

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audition workshop This week-long audition workshop is for performers in years 11, 12 and beyond who want to develop auditioning skills in musical theatre.

Participants will work with our expert musical theatre staff in intensive group-lessons and learn the essentials of auditioning processes, etiquette and material selection. Participants will learn a simple dance routine, take part in mock auditions and hear from industry professionals about their own audition experiences.

A fundamental experience for those preparing for a career in musical theatre.

DATES

Monday 4 July – Friday 8 July

COURSE FEES

$530

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

TO APPLY

Please visit griffith.edu.au/musical-theatre-workshops 10

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august

our country’s good “Our Country’s Good” by Timberlake Wertenbaker; based on the novel The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally An Amateur Production

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. 3RD YEAR STUDENTS Director: Kate Wilson

In the hell-hole that was Botany Bay in winter 1789 and on the occasion of the King’s Birthday the convicts, under the direction of a young Lieutenant of Marines, produced Farquhar’s sparkling comedy The Recruiting Officer. It became the first play ever performed in what would become Australia.

Through the workings of art, the jailed and the jailers receive an emancipation of sorts and relief from the unendurable when hope triumphs over despair.

From London’s Royal Court, Our Country’s Good, based on Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, has become one of the most popular and enduring plays in the modern repertoire. It recently enjoyed a revival at the National Theatre in London.

DATES

Friday 12 August, 7.30pm Saturday 13 August, 7.30pm Thursday 18 August, 7.30pm Friday 19 August, 7.30pm Saturday 20 August, 2.30pm & 7.30pm

This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

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the secret garden Music by LUCY SIMON Book and Lyrics by MARSHA NORMAN Based of the novel by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH INC. 3RD YEAR STUDENTS Director: Ian Good Conductor: Peter Morris Musical Director: Heidi Loveland

Based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett, then developed as a musical by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, which played on Broadway for over 700 performances and was nominated for seven Tony Awards, going on to win three, including Best Book of a Musical.

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Set in Victorian England it tells the magical story of Mary Lennox and her journey from The British Raj to Yorkshire and how she grows and blossoms as she and her new friends bring life to her very own Secret Garden. It has a host of wonderful songs including the multi-recorded ‘In Lily’s Eyes’.

DATES

Thursday 18 August, 7.30pm Friday 19 August, 7.30pm Saturday 20 August, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tuesday 23 August, 7.30pm Wednesday 24 August, 7.30pm

Thursday 25 August, 7.30pm Friday 26 August, 7.30pm

TICKETS

$40 Adults $33 Concessions $15 Students and Groups

VENUE

Conservatorium Theatre Queensland Conservatorium, South Bank

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

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september

singing concert 2ND YEAR STUDENTS Join us for an evening of song from these talented students.

DATES

Thursday 8 September, 7.30pm Friday 9 September, 7.30pm Saturday 10 September, 7.30pm

TICKETS

$15 Adults $8 Concessions

Brisbane Festival and Brisbane City Hall present

a musical

theatre concert ALL STUDENTS

Musical Director: Paul Sabey Around 95 Queensland Conservatorium Musical Theatre students perform in this lively and entertaining hour of selections from the most evocative and treasured songs from the musical theatre repertoire.

DATES

Tuesday 13 September, 12noon

VENUE

VENUE

Brisbane City Hall King George Square, 64 Adelaide Street, Brisbane

BOOKINGS

Free admission at the door

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au

Principal Partner

Brisbane Festival is an initiative of the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council

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september

singing auditions concert for 2017 3RD YEAR STUDENTS Join us for an evening of song from these talented students.

DATES

Wednesday 21 September, 7.30pm Thursday 22 September, 7.30pm Friday 23 September, 7.30pm

TICKETS

$15 Adults $8 Concessions

Auditions for the 2017 Bachelor of Musical Theatre program will take place during the week of Monday 26 September.

To apply for a place in 2017 visit: griffith.edu.au/music-audition for more information about auditions

DATE

w/c 26 September

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au

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october

our turn! brisbane showcase 3RD YEAR STUDENTS

Producer: Paul Sabey Creative Direction: Paul Sabey, Megan Shorey & Kate Wilson Pianist: Heidi Loveland A delicious taste of some of the industry’s most rich and moving repertoire in vignettes of song, dance and scene, has been superbly crafted to create this talent-packed one hour show.

Putting the spotlight firmly on the graduating class of 2016, this is pure talent – uncovered!

DATES

Tuesday 18 October, 7.30pm Wednesday 19 October, 7.30pm Thursday 20 October, 7.30pm Friday 21 October, 7.30pm Saturday 22 October, 2.30pm & 7.30pm This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

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november

the life Book by DAVID NEWMAN, IRA GASMAN AND CY COLEMAN Music by CY COLEMAN

Lyrics by IRA GASMAN

Dance and Vocal arrangments by CY COLEMAN

Based on an original idea by IRA GASMAN

Original Broadway Production Produced by ROGER BERLIND, MARTIN RICHARDS, CY COLEMAN and SAM CROTHERS “The Life” is presented by permission of ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. 2ND YEAR STUDENTS

Director: Sue Rider Musical Director: Dominic Woodhead Choreographer: Helena Moore Earthy, gritty, sassy, out there.

Award-winning musical The Life drills down into the pulsating underbelly of New York’s Times Square in the 1980s, where hookers, hustlers and runaways work the streets, each with their own dream and story.

DATES

Tuesday 1 November, 7.30pm Wednesday 2 November, 7.30pm Thursday 3 November, 7.30pm Friday 4 November, 7.30pm Saturday 5 November, 2.30pm & 7.30pm This production contains adult themes and strong language.

TICKETS

$33 Adults $21.50 Concessions $11.50 Students and Groups

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

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november

our turn! melbourne showcase 3RD YEAR STUDENTS

Thursday 3 November, 7.30pm

A delicious taste of some of the industry’s most rich and moving repertoire in vignettes of song, dance and scene, has been superbly crafted to create this talent-packed one hour show.

This production contains adult themes and strong language.

Putting the spotlight firmly on the graduating class of 2016, this is pure talent – uncovered!

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DATES

Producer: Paul Sabey Creative Direction: Paul Sabey, Megan Shorey & Kate Wilson Pianist: Heidi Loveland

Friday 4 November, 7.30pm Saturday 5 November, 7.30pm

INDUSTRY ONLY PERFORMANCE

Friday 4 November, 3.00pm (Please contact the Musical Theatre Department for invitations)

TICKETS

$25 Adults

VENUE

Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street, Prahran

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au

november

our turn! sydney showcase 3RD YEAR STUDENTS

DATES

Producer: Paul Sabey Creative Direction: Paul Sabey, Megan Shorey & Kate Wilson Pianist: Heidi Loveland

Monday 7 November, 7.30pm

A delicious taste of some of the industry’s most rich and moving repertoire in vignettes of song, dance and scene, has been superbly crafted to create this talent-packed one hour show.

INDUSTRY ONLY PERFORMANCE

Putting the spotlight firmly on the graduating class of 2016, this is pure talent – uncovered!

This production contains adult themes and strong language.

Tuesday 8 November, 1.00pm (Please contact the Musical Theatre Department for invitations)

TICKETS

$25 Adults

VENUE

Richard Wherrett Studio Roslyn Packer Theatre 22 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au

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november

november /december

a collection

celebrating a

of grimm tales

Adapted from the Brothers Grimm by Carol Ann Duffy, dramatized by Tim Supple

BY ARRANGEMENT WITH ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL, ON BEHALF OF SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. 1 YEAR STUDENTS’ ST

Director: Lewis Jones

This will be an evening of joyous and enchanting theatre that will breathe new life into these iconic fables.

DATES

Monday 14 November, 7.30pm Tuesday 15 November, 7.30pm Wednesday 16 November, 7.30pm Thursday 17 November, 7.30pm

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

All students, in partnership with St John’s Cathedral Producer: Paul Sabey Musical Theatre Department staff and students celebrate Christmas through music and drama in the stunning surrounds of St John’s Cathedral.

DATES

Wednesday 30 November, 7.30pm Thursday 1 December, 7.30pm

TICKETS

$30 Adults $20 Concessions

VENUE

TICKETS

St John’s Cathedral 373 Ann Street, Brisbane

VENUE

Please visit conevents.com.au or qtix 136 246.

$15 Adults $8 Concessions Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

BOOKINGS

Please visit conevents.com.au

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musical christmas

BOOKINGS

january

musical theatre summer school 2017

AGES 13 AND ABOVE If you have a passion for musical theatre, why not come and join us for an amazing week of singing, dancing, acting and performance?

During the 6-day course, students will work with some of the country’s top musical theatre specialists in both class and rehearsal for the end-of-week public showing.

DATES

Sunday 15 January – Friday 20 January 2017 Friday 20 January Public showing of the work produced over the week

COURSE FEES

$560

VENUE

Burke Street Studio Theatre 8 Burke Street, Woolloongabba

TO APPLY

Please visit griffith.edu.au/musical-theatreworkshops

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT Musical Theatre Department 07 3735 3224 musical.theatre@griffith.edu.au griffith.edu.au/musicaltheatre conevents.com.au