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
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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. 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" PRODUCTION TEAM Director: Geraldine Turner Musical Director: Mark Cranston Reid #MMSJaquesBrelReturn
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13th - 17th September
HELLO, DOLLY!
SUTHERLAND ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
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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. Book by Michael Stewart Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman Based on the play “The Matchmaker” by Thornton Wilder “Hello, Dolly!” is presented by permission of ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc. PRODUCTION TEAM Director: Diane Wilson Musical Director: Dean Turner Choreographer: Edward Rooke
#MMSHelloDolly
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March 2018
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