Year: 2012

  Sydney Theatre presents 20 GOLDEN GREATS with Bob Downe at the Sydney Theatre. 20 GOLDEN GREATS with Bob Downe is great. The twenty golden greats are songs from the past, the ’80’s. Bob Downe is Australia’s clown Prince of Polyester. He has been for 25 years. 25 YEARS. Who knew? It seems a huge cross section of the Australian public, based on my observation of the crowd I was in, last Saturday matinee, knew. That’s who. For whatever reasons, and I won’t begin to go into them, I didn’t know. Oh My God! such a wasted life I have…

  Performance Space presents COMPUTER BOY, created and performed by Blood Policy and Aphids, at Carriageworks. As part of the Dimension Crossing season from Performance Space at Carriageworks, COMPUTER BOY was shown briefly, in late May. The other works in this season were the highly accomplished ENTRANCE and COPPER PROMISES. COMPUTER BOY devised and presented by Martyn Coutts, Sam Routledge and Willow S. Weiland seems, in comparison, a work still, tentatively, in progress. A puppet boy, (life size and connected to a ‘hooded’ puppeteer) street dressed, his own hoodie and all, has a computer screen where the rest of us…

  Neglected Musicals presents SHE LOVES ME, Book by Joe Masteroff, Music by Jerry Bock. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick at the Darlinghurst Theatre, Kings Cross. This is my second visit to the Neglected Musicals presentations. ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, performed in March was my first (check out my response). SHE LOVES ME is a gem of a show. Sheldon Harnick, lyricist; Music by Jerry Bock. Harnick and Bock. These artists for a dozen years, that stretched over the sixties produced seven Broadway shows: THE BODY BEAUTIFUL (1958), FIORELLO! (1959), TENDERLOIN (1960), SHE LOVES ME (1963), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1964),…

Photo by Brian Geach Sharleen Cooper Cohen, John Frost, Martin L. Cohen M. D., Howard Hirsch, Fiona Horman, David Ian, David Mirvish, Power Arts, Seol and Company, Chun-Soo Shin, Judy Stewart, and Michael Watt present AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN – The Musical, in association with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, based on the movie written by Douglas Day Stewart at the Sydney Lyric Star Theatre. AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN – The Musical, was given its World Premiere Performance at the Lyric Star Theatre the 18th May, 2012. Book by Douglas Day Stewart and Sharleen Cooper Cohen.…

  Carriageworks presents A RETURN TO THE TREES. A new work by Strings Attached in Bay 20, Carriageworks. A RETURN TO THE TREES devised and performed by the company Strings Attached is a new work supported by Carriageworks as part of their commitment to supporting emerging practice from NSW companies. Strings Attached is a group of artists whose common aim is to create and perform innovative physical theatre that challenges and transforms their audiences by reflecting upon the mystery of human nature. [HMMMM!?] The company was formed in 2007, incorporating contemporary dance, physical theatre, aerial acrobatics, contraptions and multimedia to…

  MOVING PEOPLE, a production from Westside Publications, in association with the Sydney Writer’s Festival. Produced by BYDS (Bankstown Youth Development Service) at the Bankstown Arts Centre. Sometimes they come here from a war-torn country. Other times they come here from Newtown. Sometimes it’s to start a family. Other times it’s to start a fight. Sometimes they leave us for a day on the beach. Other times they leave us for another place they call home. Sometimes they come back. Sometimes they don’t. These stories are about moving in and out. These stories are moving. MOVING PEOPLE was a program…