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Musicals
Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, now Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Never on a Sunday
Actor-turned-director Blazey Best shines a light on how things have changed for women with the late 70s classic Tell Me On a Sunday.
- by Ali Gripper
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★★★★½
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Colins Friels and Kerry Armstrong are astonishing in this new play
Our reviewer give their verdict on acts all over town from the Rocky Horror Show, Grease, classical offerings and latest STC production.
- by John Shand and Peter McCallum
‘An inspiration’: Sydney’s newest Sandy pays tribute to Olivia Newton-John
Grease, the musical Olivia Newton-John made famous, opens for the first time in over a decade at the Capitol Theatre.
- by Helen Pitt
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‘A dream come true’: New Eliza ready to Burn in Hamilton’s Australian return
Some fresh faces will join the cast of the massively popular show when it makes its return to the stage later this year.
- by Helen Pitt
Wicked’s extravagance is a sight to behold in this return to Oz
After nine years, the fanfare and pomp of Broadway blockbuster Wicked is back in Melbourne.
- by Sonia Nair
★★
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Frothy, syrupy and plastic: Clever story can’t save & Juliet from samey songs
The cumulative effect of Max Martin’s songs is excruciating.
- by John Shand
His music has changed the world but who is the man behind Wicked?
As the cast prepares for the Melbourne run, composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz wishes his record-breaking show was not quite so timely.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Marry me, Juliet? Yeah nah, this is not that kind of musical
All it took was a knock to the head for Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read to reimagine the story of Shakespeare’s teenage heroine.
- by Louise Rugendyke