16th - 25th June
​HEATHERS
SUTHERLAND MEMORIAL SCHOOL OF ARTS

80s cult comedy explodes on stage!

Misfit Veronica Sawyer has forever longed to be popular. Now that she's caught the attention of the shoulder-padded, scrunchy-wearing queens of Westerberg High: Heather, Heather & Heather; she's on a collision course with fame, shoulder pads, big hair, and homicide. Just who will Veronica have to extinguish to rise above the student body?

Written by Laurence O'Keefe (Legally Blonde: The Musical) & Kevin Murphy (Desperate Housewives). This wickedly funny musical is based on the cult 80s flick with Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.

It's going to be SO. VERY.

"Sassy, sexy and oh so smart. Heathers deserves to run with the popular crowd" - Time Out, New York
"Ingenious, naughty and very funny. Heathers still cliques." - New York Post
"A rowdy, guilty pleasure." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Books, Music & Lyrics by Kevin Murphy & Laurence O’Keefe
Based on the film written by Daniel Waters
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.
Warning: HEATHERS THE MUSICAL contains strong language, dark issues, adult themes and acted violence. Please use discretion when booking tickets for children.

Heathers is a black comedy and exists to combat its own subject matter.
More details on the content within the show (including spoilers) can be found at this hyperlink
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Meg Day
Musical Director : Joshua Ransom​
Choreographer: Tracey Blankenship
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CAST
Veronica Sawyer Emma Taviani
Jason Dean (J.D.) Daniel Cullen
Heather Chandler Tanya Boyle
Heather McNamara Jess Farrell
Heather Duke Steph Josifovski
Martha Dunnstock Elle Zattera

Ram Sweeney Daniel O'Connell
Kurt Kelly Jay Cullen
​Ram’s Dad/Veronica's Dad Brad Facey
Ms Flemming/Veronica’s Mum Michele Lansdown
​Kurt’s Dad / Big Bud Dean Garth Saville
#MMSHeathers

10th - 19th August
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS RETURN TOUR SEASON!
RIVERSIDE THEATRE, PARRAMATTA AUG 10-13 FIVE PERFORMANCES
MITTAGONG PLAYHOUSE, MITTAGONG AUG 17-19 FOUR PERFORMANCES

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

Miranda Musical Society is incredibly fortunate to be touring their critically acclaimed 2016 production of Jacques Brel to Parramatta and Mittagong this year.
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The sardonic, wise and intensely emotive songs of this influential Belgian composer and performer still ring in the air, thanks to this show that introduced Brel to many American listeners in 1968, a decade before his untimely death at age 49.

Brel was part of the French-language art-song movement that reached its peak of international popularity in the 1950s and ’60s, led by such revered performers as Edith Piaf, Charles Aznavour and Yves Montand.Brel too was beloved in his adopted home of Paris, and around the globe. But the riveting performer and prolific songwriter was an individualist, whose ouevre ranges from the rhapsodically romantic to the caustically political.

A born storyteller, his odes are often compressed mini-dramas and often mused in a world-weary but uncynical fashion on the rapture and agony of love. But he also addresses the madness and waste of war — both world wars, and the French and U.S. military wars in Vietnam. Brel’s fever-grade ballads about love’s vagaries, have been widely covered by artists from Judy Collins and Frank Sinatra to David Bowie.

"A banquet of Brel is a spread so rich, it could clog the arteries with raw emotion"

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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Geraldine Turner  
Musical Director: Mark Cranston Reid

#MMSJaquesBrelReturn

13th - 17th September
HELLO, DOLLY!
SUTHERLAND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE

Dolly is coming home to the Sutherland Entertainment Centre!

The year is 1890 and Mrs. "Dolly" Levi is an eccentric widow bringing love, life and chaos to everyone she meets, making a vocation out of meddling in the affairs of others (for a reasonable fee). She sets her sights on match-making Horace Vandergelder, the well known half-a-millionaire of Yonkers New York. Money, as Dolly's late husband Ephraim said, is like manure. It’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.

From store clerks, to artists and wailing nieces, Dolly Levi rounds up the unhappy citizens of Yonkers sending them all to New York in their best Sunday clothes for a life changing adventure they will never forget! 

This will be the third time Miranda Musical Society presents this classic match making musical, winner of 10 Tony Award and holding a record breaking number of Broadway performances in its inaugural run. With such beloved classics as Put On Your Sunday Clothes, Ribbons Down My Back, Before The Parade Passes By, It Only Takes A Moment and of course the titular Hello, Dolly! This is the event of 2017 not to miss.


PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Diane Wilson
Musical Director: Dean Turner
Choreographer: Edward Rooke

CAST
Dolly Levi Michele Lansdown
Horace Vandergelder Christopher Hamilton
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Cornelius Hackl Michael Johnson
Barnaby Tucker Jack Paterson
Irene Molloy Louise Jaques
Minnie Fay Skye Roberts


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​Ermengarde Bernice Keen
Ambrose Kemper Tim Wotherspoon
Ernestina Money Anne-Marie Fanning
Judge John Morrison
Rudolf Reisenweber Wayne Thomas
#MMSHelloDolly
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