RIVERSIDE THEATRES AND THE HARBOUR AGENCY PRESENT Melinda Does DDOORRIIS A TRIBUTE TO DORIS DAY MUSIC SUNDAY 6 MARCH AT 4PM with Family Tree, APRA Song of the Year for the CREDITS song Real People and Female Vocalist of the Year in 2003 for The Story of My Life. WRITTEN BY MELINDA SCHNEIDER AND DAVID MITCHELL 2008 brought with it an exciting new phase in Melinda’s career, with the launch of her own independent record label, Be Music. The label’s MUSICIANS first release was Melinda’s fifth studio album MELINDA SCHNEIDER Be Yourself in July 2008, which earned her a SINGER second ARIA nomination for Best Country Album. MICHAEL HARDING Melinda was awarded her 6th Country Music PIANO Australia Awards Golden Guitar for “Vocal PETER TOOHEY Collaboration of The Year” in January 2009 for BASS her heart-warming duet Still Here with Paul DOUG GALLACHER Kelly. Melinda’s songs have also been recorded DRUMS by artists as diverse as John Farnham, Billy Thorpe, Jimmy Little, Olivia Newton-John, BIOGRAPHIES Ricky Skaggs and Paul Kelly. As 2010 unfolded, the career dimensions of Melinda Schneider broadened dramatically. She dazzled with her dexterity on television’s Dancing With the Stars, and put her country MELINDA music recording career on pause for a moment to indulge a passion for Doris Day that goes back SCHNEIDER decades. This passion resulted in the release Writer and Singer of her shimmering tribute album Melinda Does For well over a decade now Melinda Schneider Doris - A Tribute To Doris Day, which debuted at has been a leading light of the ‘new-breed’ of #1 on the ARIA Jazz and Blues chart, remaining Australian singer and songwriters in Australia there for a total of 9 weeks. and the United States. Melinda then starred in her brand new stage In a career which began with a stage debut show DORIS, Doris Day – So Much More Than at the age of 3, (appearing with her mother, The Girl Next Door. Co-written by Melinda and the legendary Mary Schneider) she has kept David Mitchell (of Dusty and Shout fame), this her family tradition alive by becoming one of musical tribute to Melinda’s idol, could very Australia’s most sublime singers and popular well be the universal story of women, set to the live performers. But it is through her assured music of the 40s, 50s and 60s. and accomplished song writing that she has Hot on the heels of sell out seasons at really discovered her true voice. Brisbane’s Twelfth Night Theatre and the With 10 albums under her belt, she has earned Adelaide Cabaret Festival and two huge two Gold records and won numerous awards, weeks at Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, including six Country Music Australia Awards DORIS opened at The Lyric Theatre, Sydney in Golden Guitars – including 2008 Top Selling November 2011 to rave reviews, followed by a Album for Stronger, 2005 Album of the Year sell-out reprise performance at the prestigious Sydney Opera House Concert Hall in April 2012. Meanwhile, in October 2011, Melinda also released her ninth album Life Begins At 40 – The Ultimate Melinda Schneider Collection. The double CD release marked her recent milestone birthday and celebrated over three decades of Melinda’s successful recording career. More recently, Melinda has entered another wonderful phase of her life with the birth in August 2012 of her beautiful boy Sullivan. In November 2014, long-time friends Melinda and Beccy Cole collaborated in the #1 Australian Country album Great Women of Country and the Songs That Made Them, a hugely successful twenty-two song heartfelt homage to the songs, the songwriters and the singers who have shaped them.

MERCHANDISE Purchase some Melinda Schneider merchandise in the Foyer after the show.

CD’S DORIS - $25 Wish You Were Here EP - $15 My Oxygen - $20 Happy Tears - $20 Family Tree - $20 Stronger - $25 Be Yourself - $25 Live at Tamworth - $25 Great Women of Country - $30 Life Begins at 40 (2 CD’s) - $35

DVD The Story So Far - $25

OTHER ITEMS Stubby Coolers - $10 Photos - $1 Tea Towels - $10 RIVERSIDE THEATRES OUR PARTNERS DIRECTOR ROBERT LOVE PRINCIPAL PARTNER BUSINESS MANAGER (GOVERNMENT) PAMELA THORNTON MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER JONATHAN LLEWELLYN PARTNER (GOVERNMENT) OPERATIONS MANAGER LINDA TAYLOR PROGRAM MANAGER MICHELLE KOTEVSKI MAJOR PARTNER EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, NATIONAL THEATRE OF PARRAMATTA JOANNE KEE PARTNER (HOTEL)

LOVER COME BACK See Doris Day back up on the big screen in the classic movie, Lover Come Back at Riverside. Jerry (Rock Hudson) is a slick adman who uses women and booze to woo his clients. His tactics draw the ire of Carol (Doris Day), an executive at a rival agency, who reports him to the Ad Council. SCREENING MONDAY 21 MARCH AT 10:30AM All tickets include tea and biscuits (Served from 10am – 10:30am)