by Michael Coghlan | Jan 1, 2017 | Live Music, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Sat 31 Dec. Dusty Springfield was born into a strict Catholic family as Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien. She was considered a plump and plain redhead with enough musical talent to accompany her older brother at family show and tells. Mary,...
by Bobby Goudie | Dec 4, 2016 | Dance, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Sat 3 Dec. The 1952 MGM film Singin’ In The Rain is considered one of Hollywood’s greatest screen musicals, featuring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen. More than 30 years later it was adapted for the stage and opened on...
by Catherine Blanch | Nov 23, 2016 | Interviews, Musical Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. Singin’ In The Rain (the movie) is a 1950s musical comedy choreographed and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor and Kelly himself. Based in Hollywood in the late 1920s, Singin’ In The Rain is a...
by Rosie van Heerde | Aug 13, 2016 | Family Entertainment, Musical Theatre, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Fri 12 Aug The Sound Of Music has always been a polariser in terms of musicals – either you can handle the syrupy sentimentality or you can’t. Those that can, however, were well rewarded last night by a beautifully designed production that showcased...
by Catherine Blanch | Aug 3, 2016 | Family Entertainment, Interviews, Musical Theatre
by Catherine Blanch. Inspired by the actual von Trapp family and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, The Sound Of Music movie is the timeless and endearing story of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven children and the fun-loving governess who...
