Acting students uncovered hidden elements in a musical score, while bringing a new Canadian musical to life on stage and in a live cast album recording.
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The muses must spend the whole evening on costume changes, appearing in a series of fabulous frocks, each more spectacular than the last.
In this re-launch, the score, direction and choreography are almost identical to what we saw back in 1985. And the choreography remains the heart and soul.
The second act of Sondheim’s musical denies the emotional release of song – without which his characters are confronted, confronting and exposed.
Broadway fans love a good meme – and with Death Becomes Her they have a truly viral hit.
The legendary composer behind hits like Bye Bye Birdie, Applause and Annie has died at 96.
Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown, now playing in Sydney, is a modern retelling of the story of lovers Orpheus and Eurydice.
Defying Gravity is about the power of choosing and forging your own path, with or without help.
Freedom and feminism take the stage in the Melbourne Theatre Company’s musical revival of My Brilliant Career.
The theatre was turned into a lecture hall in 2006 due to space constraints at the university. As it reopens its doors, decades’ worth of memories come flooding in.
Four talented performers tell the stories of a number of iconic women from history in Belvoir St Theatre’s latest production.
Van Badham and Richard Wise have created a stunning two-hander about an ultimate first-date disaster, and finding connection despite differences.
The theatre, dance and music works at this year’s festival have helped fulfil a three-pronged vision from some two decades ago.
There is a stark contrast in box office figures between musical films that market themselves as ‘musicals’ and those that don’t.
This new comedic musical is not just a dramatisation of the events of 1975, it is also an attempt to understand our maddening political culture.
There is a great track record of musical theatre tackling political material. Bloom seems too afraid of its own subject material to truly tackle the issues.
I’m happy again: A pandemic-induced move to virtual music theatre presents a paradigm shift for the genre, yet reveals surprising benefits in facilitating new access to music in community.
The nine shows include two 2022 Tony Award nominees – and three more Broadway productions are set to open in coming months.
Although a Grammy win for a TikTok musical was a first, musical theatre has always circulated through networks of media, popular culture and fandom.
First staged in 2008, Shane Warne: The Musical is an overwhelmingly faithful rendering of Warne’s life, staging both his triumphs and his downfalls.
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Lecturer in Musical Theatre, Griffith University
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Popular Music/Director of Black Studies, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in Creative and Performing Arts, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of Drama and Film Education, Anglia Ruskin University
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Associate Professor in Voice, Opera and Stagecraft, Director Music Theatre, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
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Head of Music and Media and Associate Professor in Music; School of Arts, Humanities and Creative Industries, University of Surrey
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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Research Affiliate, Monash University
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
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Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland