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New Muriel's Wedding star named

Natural dag: Muriel's Wedding, The Musical star Maggie McKenna.

Sydney Theatre Company has announced that Maggie McKenna will take the lead role for its upcoming production, Muriel's Wedding The Musical, the stage version of the much-loved 1994 film starring Toni Collette.

Sydney's gay history worth singing about

Hayden Tee, Ben Hall and Tim Draxl in Hayes Theatre Co's revival of <i>Only Heaven Knows</i>.

When Alex Harding's boy-meets-boy musical romance Only Heaven Knows premiered at the Stables Theatre in Kings Cross in May 1988, Sydney's gay community was in the grip of the AIDS crisis. Now it is being revived in a new age of conservatism.

The Bodyguard stalker an internet troll

Paulini takes her first acting role as singing superstar Rachel Marron.

Whitney Houston's pre-internet blockbuster film The Bodyguard now feels dated. The musical about to open in Sydney has updated it to include social media stalking.

Still shakin' her groove thing

<b>Marcia Hines in Velvet: </b> dazzling.

 Marcia Hines plays a super-sequinned kind of fairy godmother in Velvet and you can't help but thinking if your life was transported into some kind of disco underworld there'd be no better woman to have at your side.