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Musical theatre trip of a lifetime SIX young Mornington Peninsula performers are getting ready for the musical theatre experience of a lifetime. Aussie All-Stars members Leikny Middleton, Baylin Carradine, Chloe Mason, Tamika Buckby, Miki Looker and Zac Krause will be part of a 41-strong musical troupe touring the United States over three weeks in January. The six performers will join Junior Theatre Celebration Australia, in partnership with Music Theatre International Australasia and youth performing arts tour provider Travel Gang, for the US tour. They will head first to New York for a performance piece as part of Madagascar Jr: A Musical Adventure. There, they will attend Broadway acting workshops and see shows, such as Frozen and King Kong, while exploring the sights of the Big Apple. They will then join 6500 performers in Atlanta at the massive Junior Theatre Festival to workshop with some of the best musical theatre producers, directors, musical directors, composers and performers to work on their choreography, vocal, acting and stage presence. They will perform their Madagascar: A Musical Adventure Jr production for adjudication, watch some new musicals and receive advice from celebrity guests who, in previous years, have included the likes of Pasek and Paul, songwriters of The Greatest Showman. After the festival, they will head to Los Angeles and tour Universal Stu-
Trading trash for treasure
Beached in Madagascar?: Well, no, it’s actually Mornington, but Aussie All-Stars performers Tamika Buckley, Miki Looker, Zac Krause, Chloe Mason, Leikny Middleton and Baylin Carradine can perform in any location. Picture: Yanni
dios, Hollywood and Santa Monica, before visiting the “Happiest Place on Earth” – Disneyland – while going behind the scenes to join in the Disney Performing Arts program. “Many of these young people’s lives will be changed forever and they will be inspired to make their dreams come true,” Junior Theatre Celebration Australia producer Daniel Stoddart said. “Often it seems like a big cold world, but by taking Austral-
ian students to the musical theatre capital of the world we hope to inspire them to realise that their dreams are achievable.” The Aussie All-Stars program is being run by youth performance tour company Travel Gang. The students come from a range of schools and performing arts academies and go through an audition process before being offered places in the troupe. “The six young performers are get-
ting the best opportunities possible to learn, grow and feel inspired in a field they are all extremely passionate in,” publicist Michelle Robertson said. “Now it is just a matter of learning the lines, choreography and songs of Madagascar Jr over the next few weeks before they show Broadway what the best of Australian musical theatre young talent is capable of.” Stephen Taylor
PARTICIPANTS in the Rye Seaside Scavenge beach cleaning festival can turn rubbish into currency. The annual scavenge has a no waste, no money policy, so if participants want to buy coffee, beer, clothes or food they must pick up 100 grams of rubbish for one token. Sacha Guggenheimer, one of the organisers, said there would also be by live bands, up-cycling workshops, guest speakers, as well as a market of community and NGO stalls raising awareness of conservation, wilderness and wildlife protection, as well as community volunteer opportunities. “Local businesses have donated a variety of prizes, from dolphins swims with Polperro, to bathing passes at the Peninsula Hot Springs. More prizes can be won if you enter the peoples’ choice recycled litter sculpture competition, just bring your art work down on the day to enter,” Ms Guggenheimer said. Over three hours and along two kilometres of beach and foreshore in January 2018, the “scavengers” picked up more than 770 kilograms of rubbish, including 10,000 cigarette butts. The data was entered into the Australian Marine Debris Database, which is publicly accessible and was compiled into a report to present to the Mornington Peninsula Shire to help improve litter mitigation strategies.
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