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Musicals

  • Posted on March 25, 2023March 26, 2023

Not Finished With You Yet! (Musical) – Theatre Review

Not Finished With You Yet! is certainly a unique premise. Written and composed by Dick Gross AM,…

  • Posted on March 12, 2023March 12, 2023

American Idiot (Musical) – Theatre Review

Green Day’s seventh studio album, ‘American Idiot’ is known for being a successful punk rock opera concept…

  • Posted on March 10, 2023March 21, 2023

& Juliet (Musical) – Theatre Review

Max Martin. You may not be familiar with his name, but you will be with his music….

  • Posted on February 27, 2023February 27, 2023

Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical (Encore Melbourne Season) – Theatre Review

One of the biggest film trends in to 90s was retelling ‘classic’ films and plays but with…

  • Posted on February 8, 2023February 8, 2023

Tick, Tick… BOOM! – Theatre Review

“Tick, tick… BOOM!”That’s the internal sound of Jon’s anxiety with the pressure to achieve all his wildest…

  • Posted on February 4, 2023February 5, 2023

Mary Poppins (Melbourne 2023) – Theatre Review

The winds have changed and Mary Poppins has made her long-awaited return to Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre….

  • Posted on January 6, 2023January 6, 2023

Madagascar: The Musical – Theatre Review

Madagascar first came onto the scene via its initial animated film in 2005. There was a lot…

  • Posted on January 1, 2023January 3, 2023

Hairspray (Adelaide Season) – Theatre Review

Hairspray, with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, with a book…

  • Posted on November 27, 2022January 8, 2023

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Theatre Review

Andrew Lloyd Webber is a renown and celebrated composer of musical theatre. One of his first musical…

  • Posted on November 6, 2022November 7, 2022

Stranger Sings! The Parody Musical – Theatre Review

Parody is never an easy genre to get right. There has been many a time over the…

  • Posted on November 5, 2022November 6, 2022

Titanic The Musical: In Concert – Theatre Review

Titanic. A name that is instantly recognisable. Not only is it arguably the most famous ship of…

  • Posted on November 5, 2022November 5, 2022

Phantom of the Opera (Musical) – Theatre Review

In all honesty, I never thought I’d have the opportunity to see Phantom of the Opera again….

  • Posted on October 29, 2022October 31, 2022

Urinetown (Musical) – Theatre Review

Nominated for 9 Tony Awards and winning three of them for Best Book, Best Original Score, and…

  • Posted on September 15, 2022September 15, 2022

Disney’s Freaky Friday: The Musical – Theatre Review

The idea of body swapping isn’t something new. But it is a tale that has always been…

  • Posted on September 10, 2022September 11, 2022

Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical (Adelaide Season) – Theatre Review

For many my age, the 90s were hugely influential to who I have become today, influenced by…

  • Posted on September 2, 2022September 3, 2022

Come From Away, Melbourne (2022) – Theatre Review

Sometimes emotions around theatre are an interesting thing. Twice I had tried to see Come From Away…

  • Posted on August 17, 2022August 17, 2022

Hairspray (Musical) – Theatre Review

Initially in 1988, we saw the original Hairspray film starring John Waters make some significant noise. In…

  • Posted on August 1, 2022August 2, 2022

FANGIRLS (Sydney Opera House) – Theatre Review

Back in early 2021, I saw a little-known production titled FANGIRLS at the Playhouse Theatre, Arts Centre…

  • Posted on July 15, 2022July 17, 2022

9 to 5: The Musical – Theatre Review

Initially released back in 1980, 9 to 5 is a comedy film starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda…

  • Posted on July 7, 2022

Passing Strange (Musical) – Theatre Review

Passing Strange is a bold and brave musical that was quite the strange experience. Hosted at the…

  • Posted on June 25, 2022June 25, 2022

Melbourne Theatre Company’s Come Rain or Come Shine (Musical) – Theatre Review

Love. Whether it be for a love of music, friendship love, family love, or unrequited love, like…

  • Posted on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022

SIX (Musical) – Theatre Review

Whether we’re history buffs or not, we’ve all heard of Henry VIII (pronounced ‘Henry the 8th’) in…

  • Posted on May 29, 2022May 30, 2022

Frozen the Musical (Adelaide Season) – Theatre Review

Back in 2013, the film Frozen took the world by storm, with kids falling in love with…

  • Posted on May 28, 2022June 4, 2022

Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical – Theatre Review

Adapted from the 1782 French novel ‘Les Liaisons dangereuses’ or its English title ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, the 1999…

  • Posted on May 27, 2022May 30, 2022

Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Theatre Review

There are many versions of Cinderella scattered through time via various forms of media, whether it be…

  • Posted on May 21, 2022May 22, 2022

Driftwood the Musical – Theatre Review

There are many harrowing stories that families have about war. How they managed to escape, the family…

  • Posted on May 5, 2022

Girl From The North Country – Theatre Review

There is no denying that Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. I’ve…

  • Posted on March 23, 2022March 24, 2022

An American In Paris – Theatre Review

I want to take you back to the 1950s where the legend that is Gene Kelly is…

  • Posted on February 12, 2022February 12, 2022

Melbourne Theatre Company: Fun Home – Theatre Review

Adapted from the graphic-memoir by cartoonist Alison Bechdel titled ‘Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic’, Fun Home is…

  • Posted on January 23, 2022January 23, 2022

Into the Woods – Theatre Review

It is undeniable that the late great Stephen Sondheim is one of the best musical composers and…

  • Posted on January 17, 2022February 16, 2022

Jagged Little Pill – Theatre Review

I remember growing up being a huge fan of Alanis Morissette for her naturally beautiful charm, as…

  • Posted on July 15, 2021November 23, 2021

Frozen – Theatre Review

It’s hard to believe that Disney’s Frozen phenomenon started 8 years ago. Since then, we’ve had two…

  • Posted on April 30, 2021November 23, 2021

FANGIRLS – Theatre Review

I am a ‘fan girl’. When watching Yve Blake’s original Australian musical FANGIRLS, I was incredibly triggered….

  • Posted on April 12, 2021April 11, 2022

Impromptunes: The Completely Improvised Musical (Melbourne International Comedy Festival) – Comedy Review

For lovers of musical theatre and comedy, meet Impromptunes: The Completely Improvised Musical from Australia’s leading team…

  • Posted on March 21, 2021March 21, 2021

Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts – Theatre Review

It has been a long time between curtains for live theatre in Melbourne. So, when I was…

  • Posted on January 29, 2021September 3, 2022

Come From Away, Melbourne (2021) – Theatre Review

Ten months after COVID shut the doors on live theatre in Melbourne, the incredible musical Come From…

  • Posted on July 3, 2020November 23, 2021

Hamilton – Film Review

I remember being obsessed with Hamilton long before the cultural phenomenon won the Tony Award for Best…

  • Posted on February 29, 2020November 23, 2021

Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne, February 29, 2020 – Live Review

It is phenomenal, the number of lives that have been impacted by Hayao Miyazaki’s work, but Miyazaki’s…

  • Posted on February 24, 2020November 23, 2021

Billy Elliot the Musical – Theatre Review

Originally when Billy Elliot opened in Australia over 10 years ago, I regretfully missed seeing it. So,…

  • Posted on February 21, 2020October 5, 2020

Shrek the Musical – Theatre Review

The much-anticipated Broadway smash hit Shrek the Musical finally opened in Melbourne this week to a packed…

  • Posted on December 20, 2019November 23, 2021

Chicago – Theatre Review

17 years ago, I fell in love with Chicago via the silver screen when Renée Zellweger and…

  • Posted on November 24, 2019November 23, 2021

Melbourne Theatre Company: Kiss of the Spider Woman – Theatre Review

Admittedly, I did not know much about Kiss of the Spider Woman apart from it being a…

  • Posted on October 28, 2019October 5, 2020

Bright Star – Theatre Review

Written and composed by Edie Brickell and legendary comedian Steve Martin comes, Bright Star. A double-barreled emotional…

  • Posted on October 8, 2019November 23, 2021

Hans Zimmer at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, October 7, 2019 – Live Review

Chances are, if you love your movies, you would have heard of Hans Zimmer and his incredible…

  • Posted on September 19, 2019October 5, 2020

The Beautiful Game – Theatre Review

Showing at Prahran’s Chapel off Chapel and from the producers that brought us Blood Brothers, comes musical…

  • Posted on September 7, 2019February 25, 2023

The Little Mermaid in Concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – Live Review

When it comes to symphonies, the first conductor and symphony orchestra I was ever exposed to was…

  • Posted on August 30, 2019October 5, 2020

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Theatre Review

The wonderful wacky world of Willy Wonka has wondered its way into Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre with…

  • Posted on July 20, 2019September 3, 2022

Come From Away, Melbourne (2019) – Theatre Review

I have a confession to make. While I was aware of the terrorism in New York that…

  • Posted on June 30, 2019October 5, 2020

The Book of Mormon, Adelaide – Theatre Review

Now I’m not one of the biggest musical fans, but even I know that The Book of…

  • Posted on June 28, 2019November 23, 2021

Victorian Opera’s A Little Night Music – Theatre Review

Although I am familiar with many of Sondheim’s works such as Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd and…

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