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Big Fish

Photograph by Kate Williams RPG Productions in association with Hayes Theatre Company presents, BIG FISH – 12 Chairs Version: Book by John August, based on the novel by Daniel Wallace and The Columbia Motion Picture written by John August. Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa. At the Hayes Theatre, Greenknowe Ave, Darlinghurst. 18 April – 14 May. This version of the Broadway musical, BIG FISH is called the 12 Chair Version. The original production had, for instance, a cast of something like 45 performers. This version has only 12. It is an authenticated and approved version. At the performance I…

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Love Bites

  Wooden Horse Productions Proudly Presents LOVE BITES. Music by Peter Rutherford. Lyrics by James Millar. At the Hayes Theatre, Potts Point. September 10 – October 6. LOVE BITES, is an Australian musical that was first presented at the Seymour Centre in 2009. Music by Peter Rutherford with Lyrics by James Millar. It is, generally, a light weight song cycle with the double entendre title being justified in the course of the show: Love can bite both ways. The four performers: Kirby Burgess, Tyran Parke, Adele Parkinson and Shaun Rennie, create and sing an array of characters in the first…

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She Loves Me

  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),…

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