Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

Sometimes when you go to the theatre, and there's a standing ovation, you feel as though the audience was just being polite. There's a legendary performer on stage, and they've done a good show, and so some hard core fans in the front row will jump to their feet, and through peer pressure, often reluctantly the rest of the audience will follow suit. That wasn't the case tonight at the Sydney premiere of "Driving Miss Daisy". I only have vague memory of the movie from about twenty years ago. … [Read more...]

What I Did For Love

A Chorus Line at Sydney's Capitol Theatre

It's twenty-four hours later and I've still got the song stuck in my head............. Even though I've known the song, "What I Did For Love" since childhood, I've never previously connected it with the musical, "A Chorus Line". For me, it was always a torch song about love and all of that stuff. I'd never realised the "love" in the song was the love of "dance". A colleague - who has worked professionally as a singer - told me today she once auditioned for a role performing "What I Did … [Read more...]

Bernadette Robinson

Still from video uploaded to Youtube by SongsForNobodies

"Why are there so many people here?", one of my friends asked. "It's simple", I said, "Summer has finally arrived in Sydney". We were desperately looking for a table at Opera Bar at the Sydney Opera House, where we had tickets to see Bernadette Robinson. Our table of four was lucky enough to score a table early enough so we could enjoy a bottle of wine and some nibbles. You've got to have a seating strategy at Opera Bar on Thursday nights, I've concluded, especially when the weather is so … [Read more...]

Temperamental Sydney

The Temperamentals at Sydney's New Theatre

I left the house reasonably early today, and didn't get home until about ten-thirty tonight. When I left the house, it was fine and sunny and I was wearing shorts, thongs and a polo-shirt; and when I arrived home, I was still wearing shorts, thongs and a polo-shirt, but Sydney was in the midst of a torrential rain storm. We don't cope well with rain storms in Sydney, do we? And this was a particularly heavy, tropical-style rain storm, with thunder and lightning. There was one moment, tonight, … [Read more...]

Hat’s Off 2012

Flyer for Hat's Off 2012

We had a brilliant night at Hat's Off, the annual "Smörgåsbord" of Australan musical theatre at the Seymour Centre. Amongst the highlights for us both were: * Two English Gents - two blokes in bowler hats and suits (who later stripped off to Union Jack boxer shorts, and to reveal quite remarkable bodies) who performed some amazing acrobatic acts. See video below. * Jack Chambers - the young boy from Australian Idol (or whatever) who performed a tribute to Whitney Houston. * … [Read more...]

Explicit Material

William Zappa in Explicit Material

When you go to the theatre on a Friday night, at the end of a busy week, you can sometimes struggle to keep your eyes from closing and your mind wandering. You're tired, the play isn't maybe all that interesting, and there's something about the environment of a theatre which can make you a little sleepy. I certainly didn't feel that way when I went to see "Explicit Material" at The Ensemble Theatre in Sydney last night. Au contraire, I was on the edge of my seat, actively involved, and never … [Read more...]

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