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Singer Paulini facing bribery charges

Paulini Curuenavuli  has appeared in court.

Australian singer Paulini Curuenavuli is facing charges of bribery and is due to appear in a Sydney court midway through her run in the musical The Bodyguard.

Natural woman

Beautiful role: Esther Hannaford plays Carole King in the Australian version of the hit Broadway musical.

Esther Hannaford digs deep to play one of the legends of pop in a musical devoted to a life in music.

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.