The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Magazine Volume 13 Number 4 August/September 1989

DOUG ANTHONY ALLSTARS LEGENDS OF ROCK TOUR that's no way to treat an audience Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, GOOGIE WITHERS Chuck Berry, JOHN McCALLUM Col Joye .. Australian in The Cocktail Hour Tour

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Sydney (02) 698 1688 Also offices in ROCK'N'ROLL LEGENDS Melbourne (03) 612 2777 3 ] erry Lee, Little Richard, Chuck Berry Live in Oz! Brisbane (07) 221 9528 Adelaid e (08) 231 8256 DOUG ANTHONY ALLSTARS Perth (09) 321 4953 6 Prolifically funny and currently ubiquitous ~ PatTon Her Majesty The Queen INTRODUCING FRONT ROW President 8 The entertainment booking service for jet setters Sir Ian Potter Chairman Mr Andrew Briger, A.M. FRONT ROW GUIDE Deputy Chairman 9 Exclusive national entertainment diary Mr Frank M. Hooke Chief Executive Mr Adam Salzer, DAM. AUSTRALIAN ORCHESTRA Directors 33 Tokyo tour for The Trust's 'freelance' Symfonietta Mrs Jessica Danes, Mr David A. Mortimer, Dr Toby Manford Mr Brian Larking, Lady Potter, A.D. Dr Rodney Seaborn, D.B.E., NANCYE HAYES Mr Leonard Teale, 34 The typing pool's loss is theatre's gain Mr Lloyd Waddy, R.W., Q.C., Mr Timothy Yates Finance Director & Corporate Secretary GOOGIE WITHERS and JOHN Mr William Cottam 36 MCCALLUM .... in The Cocktail Hour

The Board also acknowledges the generous suPPOrt of LADY POTTERLY'S CHATTER The Australian Government Photos, photos and more photos through the P erfonning Arts and Literature 38 Board of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's Arts Funding and Advisory Body, and the Department of Foreign Affairs ARTS CLUB LAUNCHED State Governments: 40 Exclusive facilities for Trust members now opening New South Wales (through the Ministry for ,he Arts) Western Australia 1------(through the W.A. Department for [he Am) T R U S T MAN AGE MEN T The following Corporations and Foundations: Adam Salzer, O.A.M. Chief Executive Australian Airlines William Cottam Finance Director BP Australia Wendy Blacklock Australian Content Director II Commonwealth Bank of Australia Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation Les ley AII en Mngr Aust. Business Support for the Arts Holden's Motor Company Warwick Ross Australian Orchestral Enterprises Ian Potter Foundation Carol-Lee Aquiline Theatre Of The Deaf Artistic Director Qantas Airways Ltd Rosalind Richards Theatre Of The Deaf Administrator Royal Antidiluvian Order Of Buffaloes FRONT David Goodwin Elizabethan Symfonietta Adminstrator The Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation COVER: Kim Lofthouse Halftix Manager Sidney Myer Foundation Col Jqye, shown Wayne Kellett Props & Electrics Manager Showtravel Tours here fronting the Michael James Costume Hire Manager Smorgon Family Charitable Foundation Jqyboys, wiU join the Legends Of Anna Mlynek Spe cia I Pro i ec t s Thomas Nationwide Rock tour. Patricia Bennett Accountant Vnilever Australia Ltd Story page 3. Carol Martin Membe rship Secretary Honeyselt Printing Group Michael Harrington Assistant to Chief Executive Triumph-Adler Ga iI·1e Jang NSW Manage r Grace Removals (a division of Brambles) Charmaine Hart Victoria Manager ~ Helen Rayson·Hili Queensland Manager © 1989 Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Charmaine Moldrich South Australia Manager I PubUshed on behill{ o{Th, Trust by Roughedg, Pt) Lul Penny Sutherland Western Australia Manager

2 Hail, Hail Rock'n'Roll!

Chuck Berry. "saw Maybelline in a Coup d'Ville"

T'S HARD TO IMAG­ brows the wrong way in the pres­ the innocent to follow them down INE AN ART FORM ence of adults was deemed rebel­ the primrose path to degradation. I JUST THREE AND A lious behaviour, these primal wild­ Well it seemed like that from HALF DECADES OLD HAV­ men rocked the established order one side of the fence. ING ITS OWN MYTHOLOGY, with antics and attitude that quite From the other, younger, side, but rock'n'roll is more . ~ teeped in literally terrified an older genera­ the descent into the maelstrom large legends, half-truths and tion still trying to come to grips was nowhere near as daunting. handed-down anecdotes than your with post-war life. Rock music and culture was more average ancient civilization. They raved and ranted in exciting than words could express, The founding fathers of rock incomprehensible tongues, although screaming brought it a were truly larger than life - in an swiveled their bodies with almost little closer. age when even raising your eye- obscene abandon, and encouraged It was an audacious adrenalin

3 ride. A pure physical surge that made you believe your feet had taken leave of the rest of your body. Reaction was involuntary; it had something to do with deep natural urges that our parents tried to pretend didn't exist ... did we want to go blind?! Well we didn't. And neither did those hugely charismatic rock icons who helped us cast off the inhibitions of our parents. Some of them, like Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Johnny Burnette, Gene Vincent, Bill Haley and Ritchie Valens gave their lives to the cause, while the rambunctious likes ofUttle Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Bo Didley, Fats Domino and Carl Perkins have kept the fame alive into the late '80s. Rock'n'Roll is not a cloak that can be worn at will. It is a total lifestyle that alters forever those who assume it. Everly Brothers • ". • • only trouble is • • • gee whiz • • • " Rock heroes are never meek, and rarely completely sane. They embody the raw rebelliousness of the music they purvey. Around them, an aura of marvellous mythology builds, which is so entertaining that it doesn't always have to be true. There are tantalising tales that will live for­ ever, like some perverse book of Grimms or Aesop. All of them, inevitably, centre around rampant egos. And easily the best concerns the billing of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis on an early Alan Freed rock'n'roll extravaganza at the Brooklyn Paramount. Both stars had current hits and both wanted to close the show. In the end, the nod went to Chuck, and Jerry Lee was far from impressed. During his set, he pulled out all stops, hurling his piano stool across the stage, stalking across the keys and emitting a series of blood-curdling roars. During the final song he poured lighter fluid Uttle Richard· "a wop bop a.lu.bop, a lop bam boom" over the piano, tossed a match on

4 it, and stormed off into the wings, Rachlin: "The Everly Brothers Stadium, Madison Square Garden muttering loudly: "I'd like to see sang about love, always love, and and Toronto Stadium (these some sunnufabitch follow that!" always with ingenuous passion and events became feature films). Nobody ever found it easy to conviction. Now, as men in their late fifties follow Jerry Lee. "They never hungered after sex and early sixties, they accept only Biographer Jim Miller described and never sought revenge. Instead major showcase engagements. his voice as "The very incarnation they were dreamers, seeking not One such occasion is the of nonchalant lust. the ideal woman but the ideal September Once More With "On stage he was a picture of relationship. And it was in their Feeling tour of Australia. piety dissolved, pounding the wonderful harmonies, which glis­ This once-in-a-lifetime event piano, scrambling over the instru­ tened with such delicacy and will be the first and last time that ment's lid - there, commanding moved with such buoyancy, that Australians will be able to witness the summit like King Kong with they found the perfect metaphor such an extraordinary array of leg­ curly locks, assaulting culture and for that relationship." endary rock talent. mocking the well-coiffured mane It was in the early '70s that the As to who closes the show? ... of a Southern aristocrat. kings of rock'n'roll began coming Well ... We'll just have to wait "Hauteur incarnate, Jerry Lee together for huge revival concerts. and see. was a talented Puck who knew he These giants, and others deceased, by Glenn A. Baker was talented. And his flamboyant pitted themselves against each antics conveyed a class resent­ other on stage at Wembley Photographs from The Glenn A. Baker Archives ment that any self-avowed out­ sider could grasp immediately." Jerry Lee Lewis - "Too much love drives a man insane" Jerry Lee's only serious rival in the primal passion stakes was Little Richard, the Georgia Peach, bedecked in a baggy suit with ele­ phant trousers, with his hair combed into a monstrous foun­ tain-like plume. Observer N ik Cohn once wrote: "He'd scream and scream. He had a freak voice - tireless, hysterical, completely indestruc­ tible. And he never in his life, sang lower than an enraged bull­ like roar. Every phrase he'd embroider with squeals, rasps, and siren whoops. His stamina and drive were limitless." By comparison, Chuck Berry - the grandaddy of rock'n'roll - was restrained and tasteful. He was rock poet laureate, turning out amazing machine gun lyrics which so perfectly captured the essence of life in the '50s, and touched a nerve with everyone who grew up in the years before the Beatles. He provided a vivid articula­ tion of 'goin' to school, hangin' out, cruising about an<;l generally goofing off'. Indeed, his music was supreme­ ly evocative, as was that of rock's original innocent romantics, The Everly Brothers. In the words of Rolling Stone magazine writer Kit 5 That's no way to treat an audience. · · the Doug Anthony AIlstar in control

ack before the Individually known as Paul Entertainment Centre McDermott, Richard Fidler and Bloomed large on Tim Ferguson, the Doug Anthony Sydney's skyline, Hollywood star Allstars (DAAS) are simply tak­ Jerry Lewis came and performed ing advantage of human nature - stand-up comedy. It was a time the nervous hesitance, the when international cabaret acts unquestioning gullibility and the played places like the Chevron, innate quality to act like a lem­ and when Lewis's reputation as a ming - traits well documented comedian was no laughing matter. throughout history. Indeed, these motor-mouthed Allstar - silenced During one of his shows, an behavioural absurdities have at as the crowd scream "crucify him!" audience member at a stage-side times, been exploited by certain The crowd seemed encouraged by table, leaned back in his chair, his political leaders and major retail­ the forlorn sight of 11m, arms ous­ elbow propped up against the ers. Now, thanks to DAAS, the tretched, ready to have his hands stage in order to gain a more powers of mass manipulation are nailed to a cross in a familiar pose direct view of the performer. With being brought to bear on innocent - which he somehow ended up in - a startled look of recognition, theatre-goers and naive punters in during a musical skit on Jesus Lewis looked down and asked sin­ search of a good time. Christ Superstar. cerely, "Pardon me, but don't I The voluntary incineration of That's not to say that the know you? You're in show business carbon-based credit is not the laughs are all on the audience - aren't you?" ... A nervous "No" only legacy of the Allstars' visits there are outrageously funny in response and Lewis fired back to Edinburgh. Audience members sketches and exhibitions of con­ with "No? You're not in showbiz? perched atop cubicles, swinging summate musicanship from this Well then get your arm off the on toilet doors in ladies' rest trio of comic hooligans. But if you goddamn stage!" rooms have eagerly waited on the like heckling, arriving late, or A similarly charitable attitude unexpected from the three powdering your nose during their is meted out to audiences by the Canberrans in conrtrol. British performance, the Allstars will prolifically funny and currently punks and skinheads have looted make your little interruption all ubiquitous Doug Anthony the local Sainsbury's store at the the more memorable. Allstars. insistence of the Allstars - the ABC TV has seen fit to expose Take Scotland's Edinburgh most successful of the shoplifters the Allstars to audiences around Festival a couple of years ago for taking home the spoils as a Australia who may have otherwise example. The Allstars had their reward. dismissed the comedy trio as possi­ audience throwing credit cards of The fact that this happened in bly a bunch of Young Liberals or all descriptions into the flames of the UK is not really relevant. some such. But those who have a raging bonfire fueled by old stage Right here in Australia, I've seen only seen them onThe Big Gig, props. While the words 'disposable DAAS audiences leave their seats have only seen that side of the income' took on a new contorted to go outside and give enthusiastic Allstars that doesn't upset the meaning, the laugh was on the directions to the passing Captain loungeroom furniture. Experience audience and another triumph of Cook harbour cruiser about where the Doug Anthony Allstars live wills had been won by act from it could go. On another occasion, and you'll notice the difference.·:· the A.C.T. I've seen 11m - the overly verbose by Peter Ching

6 Doug Anthony Allstars • Tim Ferguson, Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler

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J ' " good balance, but there won't be Inspired by the life of a working too many dry eyes in the house. woman in country Victoria. PRINCESS THEATRE LA MAMA Spring St, Melbourne 205 Faraday St Carlton Opens November '89 Aug 23-Sep 3 Mon-Sat & Sat Mat Wed-Sun, 8.30pm $45 until Jan 1, then $49 ARTS CARD $6 ANYTHING GOES ~ $9 Director: Philip Cusack Bookings La Mama 3476142 Stars: Geraldine Turner So successful is Cole Porter's THE CHOCOLATE FROG Anything Goes the return season is '~" "'~I/ / THE OLD FAMILIAR JUICE now booking. Enjoy those fabulous , ~ by Jim McNeill hits "I Get a Kick Out of You" _. 1' (m~ "You're the Top" "Anything Goes"! THEATRE Director: Frank Gallacher STATE THEATRE VA.C. Stars: Robert Essex, Kevin Harrington Opens Jan 2 ANGEL OF THE GRAVEYARD and Douglas Hedge The Chocolate Frog is a "dog"-a Mon-Sat, 8pm by Ray Mooney prisoner who has ratted on his Wed & Sat mat 2pm Melbourne Writers Theatre Company mates. Two older prisoners ironical­ ARTS CARD $ 36.90 Mon-Fri & mats Director: Kate Cherry ly turn their cell into a courtroom $39.90 Drama set in a psychiatric ward. ~ to place a younger newcomer on CARLTON COURTHOUSE trial for collusion with the police. BAD BOY JOHNNIE AND THE 349 Drummond St Carlton The Old Familiar Juice is the PROPHETS OF DOOM Sep 9-30, 8pm intoxicating prison brew that helps by Daniel Abinieri ARTS CARD $7 an experienced, dominant inmate Stars: Daniel Abinieri, Wendy Stapleton, ~ $12 seduce a newcomer while an old lag, Brian Mannix Bookings Dover Bookshop 347 7868 a philosophical father-figure tries to A brand new rock musical from or 3472562 protect the young man's innocence. Daniel Abinieri who starred in the THE CHURCH THEATRE fabulous Rocky Horror Show. Watch BANQUET 500 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn for details of special Trust Night. by Andrea Lemon Oct 16-Dec 2 COMEDY THEATRE Handspan Theatre ARTS CARD $22.50 Exhibition St, Melbourne Director: Andrea Lemon ~ $26.80 Opens Sep 16 After their sensational success Ring The Trust price information with Four Little Girls, Handspan Theatre goes on to weave its visual COME DOG COME NIGHT theatre magic around our percep­ LES MISERABLES by Bernard-Marie Koltes tions of another people - those of by Alain Boublil with composer Anthill Theatre the third world. Powerful, visually Claude-Michel Schonberg after the novel Director: Marc Adam arresting and relevant. by Victor Hugo Stars John Heywood, Natalie Bate ST MARTINS YOUTH THEATRE is a play Director: Trevor Nunn Come Dog Come Night St Martins Lane, South Yarra that looks at neo-colonialism based Stars Normie Rowe Aug 10-Sep 1 in a fictitious country in Africa. It Described by Newsweek as "the Tue-Fri , mats Sat-Sun tells about encounters of different musical of the century", this block­ ~ $16,90 cultures. buster, based on Victor Hugo's ANTHILL THEATRE novel about the political and social Bookings 650 1977 decline of France before the 199 Napier St, Sth Melb Revolution is a classy and moving BRIDAL SUIT Jul 26-Aug 20 production with very impressive Written and Performed by ARTS CARD $13 staging and singing. A touch of Kenneth Mcleod ~' $16 comic relief lightens the tension for Director: Norman Price Bookings 699 3253

ARTS CARD (03) 612 2777 • (03) 612 2716 THE DEATH OF PETER PAN HEART FOR THE FUTURE PLAYHOUSE by Barry Lowe by Janis Baloclis Victorian Arts Centre La Mama Company Melbourne Theatre Company St Kilda Rd, Melbourne Directar: Rob Chuter Directar: Roger Hodgman Jul13-Sep 2 Stars : John Paisley Stars: Alan Fletcher, Jan Friedl, mat Wed Aug 9 The Death Of Peter Pan is about Helen Tripp and Nicki Wendt ARTS CARD $22.50 the life of J .M. Barrie, author of Half-way through an "ultra­ ~ $26.80 Peter Pan. marathon" and a clear day in the LA MAMA lead, Helen disappears into the THE MAIDS 205 Faraday St Carlton desert. She is replaced by the televi­ by Jean Genet Aug 2-20 sion network covering the event, Anthill Theatre Company Wed-Sun, 8.30pm with a look-alike actress who goes Directar: Suzanne Chaundy ARTS CARD $6 on to win the race. While Helen The maids idolise,loathe and struggles to put her life in some knd adore Madame, taking it in tum to ~ $9 of perspective, the look-alike con­ play the part of the young and beau­ Bookings La Mama 3476142 tinues to play the role of Helen in a tiful mistress. In keeping with the soap-opera and becomes a mega­ artificiality of appearance, the DREAMS IN AN star. female characters are performed by EMPTY CITY PLAYHOUSE V.A.C. male actors .. . roles are played by by Stephen Sewell Oct 17-Nov 4 characters already playing other Melbourne Theatre Company ARTS CARD $22.50 roles. Directar: Simon Phillips ~ $26.80 ANTHILL THEATRE Stars Frank Gallacher, Celia de Burgh 199 Napier St South Melbourne is a Dreams In An Empty City HERE UNDER HEAVEN Opens Oct 11 powerful and exciting study of a by Mona Brand ARTS CARD $13 society at breaking point. Set in the Melbourne Writers Theatre ~ $16 cut throat Sydney business world, it Set in Queensland at the time of Bookings Anthi1l699 3253 combines the force of a medieval the fall of Singapore, this Australian morality play with the style and country drama deals with race rela­ PASTRANA intricacy of a Raymond Chandler tions. Written in 1948 and featured -by Peter Narthwood and Allan McFadden thriller. An epic tale of love and at the South Street Festival, it also Pastrana is a work of music the­ innocence in a world of calculated ran for 10 years in East Germany. atre based on the life of Julia brutality. Pastrana, a performing freak of the CARLTON COURTHOUSE PLAYHOUSE 19th Century. She rose from a 349 Drummond St Carlton Victorian Arts Centre Mexican peasant background to Aug 23-Sep 2, 8pm St Kilda Rd, Melbourne stardom on the European stage. ARTS CARD $7 Aug 3-Sep 2, THE CHURCH THEATRE ~ $12 mat Wed Aug 30 500 Burwood Rd Hawthorn Bookings Dover Bookshop 347 7868 ARTS CARD $22.50 Aug 2-26 or3472563 ~ $26.80 Mon-Sat, 8pm ARTS CARD $8 MACBETH FARMYARD ~ $15 by William Shakespeare by Franz Xavier Kroetz Bookings Church Theatre 8191818 Melbourne Theatre Company Spoleto Fringe Company Directar: Simon Phillips Directar: Ariette Taylor PROBERT ENGAGEMENT Stars Frank Gallacher, Celia de Burgh LA MAMA Written , Directed and Performed by A profound study of the tragic Peter Freund, Verity Higgins and Rob 205 Faraday St Carlton consequences of unshackled ambi­ Sep 6-24 tion. Macbeth offers some of the Lyon Wed-Sun, 8.3Opm greatest dramatic poetry ever writ­ LA MAMA ARTS CARD $6 ten illuminating the pathos and pas­ 205 Faraday St Carlton ~ $9 sions of this story of murder, Aug 24-Sep 3 Bookings La Mama 3476142 witchcraft power and revenge. Thurs-Sat

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$25.40 (B res) Director: Stuart Maunder Conductor : Richard DivalI ~ $33 (Ares) Designer: James Ridewood Stars Anthony Roden $26 (B res) Conductor: Richard DivalI A medieval legend of passion and Set in the elegant Parisian demi­ redemption, Tannhauser is a knight FROM THE NEW WORLDS monde of the 1850s, this is the story who is seduced by the beauty of SHOSTAKOVICH of Alfredo, a young man who falls Venus. In his quest for redemption, Symphony No 1 desperately in love with Violetta, a he makes a tortuous pilgrimage to SZYMANOWSKI notorious courtesan. Verdi's sumptu­ Rome and is saved only by the self­ ous melodies bring this popular sacrifice of the saintly Elisabeth. Violin Concerto No 1 romantic tragedy vividly to life. Wagner's impassioned score will KILAR Krzesany Aug 15, 23, 25 , highlight the magnificent voices of Symphonic Poem mat Aug 12 the VSO Chorus, particularly in the Conductor: Witold Rowicki famous Pilgrim's Chorus. Violin: Michael Dauth LA BOHEME Nov 11, 14, 17,20,22,30 Dec 2 Aug: Sat 16 at 8pm PUCCINI Director: John Copley THE BARBER OF SEVILLE TIPPEIT The Midsummer Marriage: Conductor: John Hopkins/Richard DivalI ROSSINI Ritual Dances La Boheme portrays the uproari­ Director: Stuart Maunder BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915 ous and precarious existence of four Designer: Roger Barratt RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3 young Bohemians: Schaunard (a Stars Roger Howell, Miriam Gormley Conductor: Vernon Handly musician), Marcello (a painter), Christopher Bogg Soprano : Rosamund I!ling Colline (a philosopher) and Roger Howell, whose remarkable Oct: Sat 7 at 8pm Rudolfo (a poet). This brilliantly comic talents have made him a conceived production by leading great favourite with VSO audiences, UK director John Copley, poignant­ Brenton BROADSTOCK New Work particularly since he sang Mozart's ly contrasts Rudolfo's love affair PROKOFIEV Figaro in 1987, returns as Rossini's with Mimi, and the stormy relation­ Piano Concerto No 3 scheming barber. Another drawcard ship between Marcello and the MARTINU The Frescos Of Piero Delio. is renowned Italian conductor vivacious Musetta. A limited num­ Claudio Scimone, a major recording Francesca ber of ticJRichard Cottrell LONGFORD CINEMA VERDI Designer: Kenneth Rowell SCANDAL

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.~ I ",', ., EVITA by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber Director: Tom Guerra Choreographer: Richard Stafford Stars: Stephanie Lawrence, Glen Sharrock, David Weatherley, Anita Combe, Philip Wilson It's toured 16 countries, won countless awards and been wildly 42NDSTREET applauded by over 20 million peo­ Helen Montagu Productions pare you for it" - Bob Evans, ple. Now the Queen of musicals Director: Mark Bramble Sydney Morning Herald. reigns again in a spectacular state­ Choreographer: Karin Baker "High gloss, high energy infec­ of-the-art production. Stars: Nancye Hayes, Barry Quin, Toni tiously happy show" The Age. STATE THEATRE Lamond HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE 49 Market St "You should' walk to the ends of Quay St, Haymarket Sydney the earth to see 42nd Street" - John Mats Wed & Sat From July 18 Laws. ARTS CARD $40 Mon-Thu, Mon - Sat8pm "Nothing you will read can pre- ~ $44 Wed & Sat mat ARTS CARD $34.90 Bookings 692 9955 ARTS CARD $23 ~ $39.90 ~ $25

SEVEN UTILE AUSTRALIANS THE BEST OF FRIENDS by Peter Yeldham, John Palmer by Hugh Whitemore Music : David Reeves, Lyrics John Palmer Directors: Ken Boucherllohn Krummel ':.' ~"~I'/ Director: John O'May _.•. 1 ~~§1~ Stars : Patricia Kennedy , John Krummel , Choreography: Pamela French Alan Edwards Stars John O'May, Edwina Cox, THEATRE From the author of Breaking The Judy Glen Code, this play takes us back to days First the book, then the televi­ ALL MY SONS when life was simpler and appreciat­ sion series and now the musical. by Arthur Miller ed all the more for it. It celebrates Share the trials and triumphs of the Sydney Theatre Company the true and endearing friendship Woolcott family - brash, forthright Director: Gale Edwards between a Benedictine nun; an and as enchanting as Old Sydney Stars : John Stanton, Carole Skinner, abess; the great debunker, George Town. Based on Ethel Turner's won­ Heather Mitchell Bernard Shaw; and the agnostic Sir deful classic written in 1894. A classic American tale first per­ Sydney Cockerell. FOOTBRIDGE THEATRE formed in 1947, All My Sons is both NORTHSIDE THEATRE COMPANY Parramatta Rd, Camperdown a warning and a rebuke to the self­ 2 Marian St, Killara Opens Sept 16 centredness of the late 1980s. Closes Sep 9 Nightly at 8pm WHARF THEATRE Tue-Sat 8.15pm, Previews from Sep 9 Pier 4, Hickson Road Sat-Sun 5pm, Wed llam ARTS CARD $36.50 Aug 15-Sep 23 ARTS CARD $21 Tue-Thu ~ $39.50 Mon-Sat, mats Wed, Sat ~ $23, $26 Fri-Sat

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BLACK COCKATOOS Stars : Googie Withers , John McCallum Belvoir St, Surry Hills by Michelle Harrison Hilarious comedy is in store as a Closes Aug 2 ~ Director: Ned Manning playwright returns to his family's ARTS CARD $18 Stars : Jimmy Little, John Blair, house bringing with him a new ~ $22.50 Helen Mutkins , Deborah Kennedy script. To produce his new work, he A white, urban runaway discov­ only needs the permission of his A DOLL'S HOUSE ers hope and love when she finds parents and sister, but it's them the by Henrik Ibsen herself in a rural Aboriginal com­ play is about. Cocktail Hour show­ New translation: May-Brit Akerholt munity. A love story which depends cases two of Australia's great theatre Director: Gale Edwards on understanding and respect stars, Googie Withers and John The heady world of A Doll's between black and white McCallum. House is poisoned by "prejudice, Australians. THE PLAYHOUSE narrowmindedness, delusion, depen­ BELVOIR ST.OOWNSTAIRS Sydney Opera House dence and by groundless belief in Belvoir St Surry Hills. Opens Oct 4 authority" - Ibsen Aug 3 - 27 Tue - Sat Mon-Sat, mats Wed & Sat BELVOIR ST THEATRE Sun mat. ARTS CARD Mon-Fri $27.90 Belvoir St, Surry Hills ARTS CARD $15 ~ Man-Sat $29.90 Sept 26-0ct 29 ~ $17 Tue-Fri, mats Sat-Sun DAYLIGHT SAVING ARTS CARD $18 CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRLS by Nick Enright ~ $22.50 by Casey Kurtti Ensemble Productions Les Currie Presentations Director: Peter Kingston FOOTSTEPS TO THE MOON by arrangement with Q Theatre Stars : Sandy Gore, Linden Wilkinson by Paul Prescott Director: Richard Lawton Sunset over Pittwater, on the last Nepean Graduate Theatre Co . Stars: Leanne Bundy , Anne Davies, night before the clocks go back. Director: Malcolm Keith -Juliette Knight, Gdile Le Clevo This terrific romantic comedy is Stars : John Simpson , Annie Finsterer, A joyful dig at schoolgirl about second chances in life and Regina Mrowka catholocism, as four young women love. Smash hit of the Edinburgh look back on their convent school ENSEMBLE THEATRE Festival. A new drama revealing the years. The pleasures and frustrations 78 McDougall St, Milsons Point truth behind a world delicately bal­ of growing up are delightfully por­ Sep 14- Nov 5 anced between reality and dreams. trayed in this moving account of Tue-Sat, mats Thu BAY ST THEATRE adolescent discipline and growth. ARTS CARD $19 (Tue-Thu) 73-79 Bay St, Broadway "Not just for Catholics and not $21 (Fri-Sat) Aug 2-Sep 16 just for girls, it's for everybody" - $19 (Sat-Sun 5pm) Tue-Sat Daily Mirror. ~ $23,$21,$17 ARTS CARD $16 "Dynamic and delightful" - The ~ $19 Australian. DIARY OFA MADMAN YORK THEATRE by Nikolai Gogol FOREIGN MATTER Seymour Centre Director: Neil Armfield by Liudmilla Petrushelleskaya, Diana Cm City Rd and Cleveland St, Stars Geoffrey Rush , Lydia Miller Raznovitch and Maria Irene Fornes Darlington A savage and funny satiric por­ Director: Ros Horin Aug 24-Sep 23 trait of 19th century Russian A series of one-act plays by Mon-Sat, mats Wed and Sat bureaucracy. Diary Of A Madman women playwrights from various ARTS CARD $21.90 Man-11m, Sat mat catalogues the feelings and mental countries. From Russia, Love by ~ $23 .90 drive of the character Poproshin as Liudmilla Petrusheveskaya, exam­ Bookings 692 3511 he rises from mediocrity to tragic ines the effect of contemporary triumph as King Ferdinand of Spain Soviet social conditions on the rela­ COCKTAIL HOUR in a mental asylum. tionships between the sexes. by A.R. Gurney BELVOIR ST THEATRE Personal Belongings by Argentinian

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cartoonist Diana Raznovitch, is an couturier Christopher Essex. $28.90 absurdist comic fantasy about a GLEN ST THEATRE LETTICE AND LOVAGE prima donna actress lost in a railway Glen St, Frenchs Forest by Peter Shaffer luggage room. The Obie Award Closes Aug 12 Sydney Theatre Company winner, Foreign Matter, by Cuban Tue-Fri 8pm, Sat 8.30pm Director: Richard CottreU writer Maria Irene Fornes explores mats Wed Ipm, Sat-Sun 5pm Ruth Cracknell stars as the fabu­ the relationship between the sexes, ARTS CARD $20.90 except Sat, Sun lous Lettice Doufett - tourist guide power and politics. $n90 Tue-Fri, extraordinaire to the dullest stately BELVOIR ST.DOWNSTAIRS $26.90 Fri-Sat home in Britain. Belvoir St Surry Hills DRAMA THEATRE Sept 7 - Oct 1 HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES Sydney Opera House Tue - Sat 8.15pm, Sat-Sun 5.15pm by Alan Ayckboum Aug 30-0ct 28 ARTS CARD $14 Forest Theatre Company Mon-Sat, 8pm ~ $16 Director: Peter Williams Mats Wed Ipm, Sat 2pm Take six Ayckbourn characters, ARTS CARD $26 HAROLD IN ITALY stir in an equal number of freshly ~ $28 by Justin Fleming picked ripe actors, add spice, cook Sydney Theatre Company to perfectly timed direction and ROAD Director: Richard Wherrett then relish How The Other Half by Jim Cartwright Choreographer: Kai Tai Chan Loves . - a fast, furious and intelli­ Ensemble Productions Stars : J9hn O'May gent side-splitter. Director: Sandra Bates A collaboration between Sydney GLEN ST THEATRE Stars : Mike Allen, Gillian AxteU, Ruth Theatre Company and the One Glen St, Frenchs Forest Caro, Kate Raison Extra Dance Company with the Oct 12-Nov 18 Road is the sharp, sunny, sad, music based on Berlioz' Harold In Tue-Fri 8pm, Sat 8.30pm angry antidote to Coronation Street Italy under the direction of Max mats Wed, Sat, Sun - a night in the company of a whole Lambert. ARTS CARD $20.90 (Mon-Thu) gallery of Road dwellers - young, old, DRAMA THEATRE ~ $23.90 middle aged, despairing, hopeful, Sydney Opera House the loved, the unloved. Our guide is Jul22 - Aug 19 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING Scullery, a likely lad with a taste for Mon ~ Sat , mats Wed and Sat EARNEST booze and casual sex, and his finger ARTS CARD . $27 (Mon-Thu) by Oscar Wilde on the pulse of the Road. ~ $29 Duet Productions ENSEMBLE THEATRE Bookings 250 1777 Director: Lou Stein 78 McDougall St, Milsons Point Stars: Dr. Evadne Hinge , Ju127- Sep 10 HAY FEVER Dame Hilda Bracket, James Bean Tue-Sat, mat Sat, Sun 5pm by Noel Coward The Sydney season marks the ARTS CARD $19 Tue-Thu Forest Theatre Company end of a sell-out tour that drew rave $21 Sat-Fri 8pm Director: Peter Williams reviews. Oscar Wilde's classic draw­ $19 mats Designer: Diedre Burges ing room comedy of manners is the $23,$21,$17 Stars : Carol Raye , Faye Donaldson , perfect vehicle for the wicked wit of Mark Lee , Anna Lee Hinge and Bracket. Set design, RICORD! Noel Coward's comic evocation lighting and costumes are matched by The Company of English eccentricity and flamboy­ by splendid performances from the Doppio Teatro ant disregard for the mundane, entire cast. Director: Teresa Crea infect the Bliss household with a PLAYHOUSE Sydney Opera House Stars : Josie Compos to-Eberhard , Lucia romantic fever .. The Bliss family is July 26 - Sept 9 Mastrantone, Antonietta MorgiUo amazing, but then so are their Mon - Fri 8pm, Sat 8.30pm The Trust's Australian Content guests. The comedy is set in 1925, mats Wed 2pm & Sat 5pm Department presents Adelaide's and costumes of the period are by ARTS CARD $26.90 Mon-Fri Doppio Teatro in a rich, poignant,

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~ (02) 698 1432 , SYDNEY TOWN HALL Sea and Prosperous Voyage An enchanting evening of tradi­ George St, Sydney SCHUBERT - Mass in A flat, D678 tional Korean dance and music from Sat Aug 5, 6.30pm BRAHMS - Symphony No 1 court and folk life expressed ARTS CARD $17 '/'\, $14 'B' in C minor Op 68 through the artistry of a 40 member ~ $20 '/'\, $16 'B' Rowena Cowley (soprano) ensemble. Anne Fisch (alto) CONCERT HALL THE SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA David Hamilton (tenor) Sydney Opera House THE CLASSICAL CHAPEL William Moxley (baritone) Sat Sep 30, 8pm Conductor: John Grundy Conductor: John Grundy For discount information, Concert Number 8 in the Sydney The Sydney Opera House Trust phone The Trust on 6981688 Philharmonia Subscription Series and the Sydney Youth Orchestra brings to life the theatrical glory of Association present the third in ONE EXTRA COMPANY church music by the two masters of their 1989 season in the Opera OTHELLO the Classical era, Mozart and House with conductor John Music: Giuseppe Verdi Haydn. Grundy. Director/Choreographer: Kai Tai Chan CONCERT HALL CONCERT HALL Featuring Miki Oikawa, Chrissie Parott, Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House Narelle Proctor, Kim Walker Aug 12, 8pm Sep 17 3pm A camivale season - the story of ARTS CARD $22 '/'\, $18 'B' ARTS CARD $11.50 a modern day Othello - an ~ $25 '/'\, $21 'B' ~ $13.50 Aboriginal in an Italian suit. Bookings Opera House 250 7777 BELVOIR ST THEATRE SYDNEY PHILHARMONIA Belvoir St, Surry Hills CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA THE RAAF BIG BANDS! Sep 2-17 Conductor: Evelino Pido RAAF Association Tue-Sun Lisa Gasteen (sop .) , Bernadette Cullen Compere: Ronald Dowd A.O ARTS CARD $19 (contralto), Tom Edmonds (tenor), Stars: Fiona Maconaghie (soprano, Grant Dickson (bass). GarrickJones (baritone) SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY Four of Sydney's leading soloists, The big band sound from popular CAFE the 150 voices of the Sydney operettas to jazz with 90 musicians by Paul Mercurio and Kim Walker Philharmonia and the Philharmonic on stage.Show tunes from Cats, Cafe is a behind-the-froth study Orchestra under conductor Evelino Phantom Of The Opera and West of cafe society, the colourful charac­ Pido, combine to present a range of Side Story are featured along with ters who sip coffee and Perrier choral, vocal and orchestral expres­ Gilbert & Sullivan, Noel Coward cheek-to-cheek in the cafes of sivity. Features the hymn to the and Cole Porter melodies. Sydney's grotty but gloriOUS Mother of Christ by Rossini and CONCERT HALL Darlinghurst. A mix of serious Puccini's delightful setting of the Sydney Opera House dance and satirical cabaret. Mass. Sep 15 8pm THE WHARF STUDIO CONCERT HALL HALL ARTS CARD $22 $18 $10 Pier 4, Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay Sydney Opera House ~ $25 $20$12 Jul28-Sep 2 Sep 22 Nightly 7.30pm. Thu-Sat 9.15pm Fri 8pm Arts Card $22 ARTS CARD $22 '1'\ $18 'B' ~ $24 ~ $25'/'\, $21 'B'

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AFTER DINNER by Arulrew Bovell Harvest Theatre Company Director: Garry Fry Stars : Victoria Nicolls After Dinner is a light adults-only comedy about publand Australia. Who gets together with whom after dinner - South Australian premiere. TOP SILK TOURING by David Williamson the human heart. Sept 16-0ct 21, 8pm Director: Graham Blurulell PLAYHOUSE FESTIVAL CENTRE Mat Sep 30, 2pm Australia's sharpest and funni­ King William Rd Adelaide Bookings 231 1483 est playwright turns to the legal Aug 1-12 GULLS profession in an unforgettable the­ Mon-Fri, 8pm, Sat 5pm by Robert Hewitt atrical experience. A play about Mats Wed llam power, compassion and the capac­ Harvest Theatre Company ARTS CARD $23 .00 ity of the ego to play havoc with Director: Garry Fry $26.50 A moving piece about the rela­ tionship between a brain-damaged between one generation and the North Terrace Adelaide middle-aged man and his sister, pre­ next. Aug 1-19, 8pm sented regionally by South SPACE THEATRE ARTS CARD discount available. Australia's leading touring theatre Adelaide Festival Centre Bookings and information 224 0107 company. King William Rd Adelaide PORT PIRIE/ Aug 12-Sept 9 SHIRLEY VALENTINE PORT AUGUSTA/WHYALLA/ Tue-Sat,8pm, by Willy Russell PORTLINCOLN/RENMARK/ Mat Sat 19 2pm Sydney Theatre Company MOUNT GAMBIER ARTS CARD $20.00 Director: George Ogilvie Tour starts Aug 1 ~ $24.50 Stars: Julie Hamilton 2 mats per week Shirley Valentine was the smash ARTS CARD $13.90 ROAD hit of London's West End. Sydney ~ $15.90 by Jim Cartwright Morning Herald theatre critic Harry Bookings 231 1483 Red Shed Company Kippax wrote: "I recommend it Director: Tim Maddock unreservedly ... As for the art of LOST WEEKEND Red Shed is considered one of that excellent actress 1ulie by John Romeril Adelaide's most exciting new pro­ Hamilton in a performance of State Theatre Company fessional theatre companies. A blended strength, warmth and deli­ Director: John Gaden potent mixture of poetry and punk, cacy, 1 can best pay tribute by pro­ An exciting new play by one of tragedy and black humour, Road claiming my complete, unquestion­ Australia's leading playwrights, focusses on poverty and its conse­ ing joyful surrender. From the 10hn Romeril. Lost Weekend is a wry quences. author of Educating Rita. and perceptive look at the split WETPAK THEATRE PLAYHOUSE FESTIVAL CENTRE between town and country and Living Arts Centre King William Rd Adelaide

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Sept 2·23 THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET Edmonds ( tenor) , Robert Dawe (bass), Tue-Sat,8pm ONEGIN (III ACTS) Adelaide University Choral Society, The Mats Wed 13, llam, Sat 9, 2pm Director: Maina Gielgwl Graduate Singers. ARTS CARD $20.00 Set in 19th Century Russia, this FESTIVAL THEATRE ~ $24.50 balletic masterpiece is one of the Adelaide Festival Centre TOP SILK most popular full-length produc­ King William Rd Adelaide see panel tions in the company's repertoire. Aug 11.12, 8pm PLAYHOUSE FESTIVAL CENTRE Magnificent orchestration of ARTS CARD $21 A Reserve $16 B King William Rd Adelaide Tchaikovsky's music by Kurt-Heinz Reserve $11 C Reserve Aug 1·12 Stolze. ~ $26 A Reserve $20 Mon-Fri, 8pm, Sat 5pm Choreographer: John Cranko B Reserve $15 Mats Wed llam Music: Tchaikovsky C Reserve ARTS CARD $23.00 FESTIVAL THEATRE ~ $26.50 Adelaide Festival Centre King William Rd Adelaide ABC MASTER SERIES 7 Sept 26·30 SCHUBERT - Symphony No 8 ARTS CARD $36 A Reserve 'Unfinished' ~ $39 A Reserve MOZART - Piano Concerto $29 B Reserve in E Flat K482 RAVEL - Piano Concerto for Left Hand DE FALLA - Three Comerwed Hat - Suites 1 and 2. Australian Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Evelino Pido THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET Piano : Michele Campanella LASYLPHIDE (II ACTS) FESTIVAL THEATRE Music: Hernwn Lovenskjold Adelaide Festival Centre Director: Maina Gielgwl King William Rd Adelaide Choreography: Antoine Bournonville, ABC FAMILY CONCERT 4 Aug 25.26, 8pm reproduced by Erik Bruhn FAIRYTALES AND FANTASIES ARTS CARD $21 A Reserve $16 First created by August Adelaide Symphony Orchestra B Reserve $11 Boumonville, Scottish folk lore, a Conductor: James Ferguson C Reserve flirtatious Sylphide and a scheming Dance Arts Ballet artists ~ $26 A Reserve $20 witch are the ingredients of this FESTIVAL THEATRE B Reserve $ 15 story of young, poetic love. Adelaide Festival Centre C Reserve. TRANSFIGURED NIGHT King William Rd Adelaide Music : Schoenberg Sept 15, 7pm Choreography: Jiri Kylian ARTS CARD $15 ABC MASTER SERIES 8 Schoenberg's intense music is the Children $5 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra canvas for the thought provoking Conductor: Jorge Mester and exhilarating artistic direction of Bookings Bass 213 4777 VioUn: Jane Peters Nederlands Dans Theater's choreog­ FESTIVAL THEATRE rapher Jiri Kylian. A masterpiece of ABC MASTER SERIES 6 Adelaide Festival Centre psychological insight and drama. POULENC - Gloria King William Rd Adelaide FESTIVAL THEATRE BEETHOVEN - Symphony No 9 Sep 1.2, 8pm Adelaide Festival Centre. Choral ARTS CARD $21 A Reserve $16 B King William Rd Adelaide Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Reserve $11 C Reserve Sept 19·23, 8pm Sat 23 2pm Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite ~ $26 A Reserve $20 ARTS CARD $36 A Reserve Vocalists: EUzabeth Campbell (mezzo B Reserve $15 ~ $39 A Reserve sop .) ~ Gillian Sullivan (sop .), Thomas C Reserve

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M.f ,~ ~ -' . CLANNAD Bronislav Huberman, who, in One of Britain's top international Europe's troubled '30s, persuaded ensembles, Clannad first reached some of Central Europe's finest international prominence creating Jewish musicians to emigrate to the music for Harry's Game. A mix­ Palestine. The new orchestra's first ture of contemporary and tradition­ concert took place in Tel Aviv on al Irish music, using a variety of December 26 1936, under the baton styles and instruments. Not to be of the legendary Arturo Toscanini. CENTRE missed. Since that time, the Israel Kingston Ave Richmond FESTIVAL THEATRE Philharmonic Orchestra has made Sep 8, Spm Adelaide Festival Centre more than one hundered major ARTS CARD $31 King William Rd Adelaide recordings and the list of its guest ~ $31 Aug 17 conductors and soloists reads like a Bookings Bass 213 4777 ARTS CARD $33.90 "Who's Who" of music. ~ $33.90 FESTIVAL THEATRE THE SEEKERS Bookings Bass 213 4777 Adelaide Festival Centre Australia's folk-pop legends of King William Rd Adelaide the '60s have reformed with Julie ISRAEL PHILARMONIC Aug 19, 8pm Anthony replacing original singer ORCHESTRA ARTS CARD $60 A Reserve $50 Judith Durham. For all ages. Conductor: Zubin Mehta B Reserve FESTIVAL THEATRE SCHUBERT - Rosamunde Overture ~ $69 A Reserve $59 Adelaide Festival Centre SCHOENBERG - Transfigured Night B Reserve. King William Rd Adelaide SCUBERT - Symphony No 9 in C Aug 18, 8.15pm The Israel Philharmonic was MIKE AND THE MECHANICS ARTS CARD $22.90 founded by Polish violinist Led by Mike Rutherford, found- ~ $25.90

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SYDNEY SYMPHONY LYON OPERA BALLET THE ABBEY THEATRE ORCHESTRA 'CINDERELLA' 'SHADOW OF A GUNMAN' with Stuart Chandler, performing: the March 13, 8pm March 3, 2pm camplete Rood 'Daphnis and Chloe' ARTS CARD $39 March 6, Spm (Vienna Singverein Chorus); Liszt ~ $45 ARTS CARD $31 'Totentanz' (with]ean-Yves Thibaudet); $35 world premiere of Carl Yine's MIXED BILL ~ Symphony No.3. byWilliam Forsythe and Mats Ek March 5 8pm March 17, 2pm • Discount bookings ARTS CARD $36 ARTS CARD $32 must be completed by ~ $39 $36 FRIDAY OCTOBER 6, 1989

ARTS CARD (08) 231 8256 ..(08) 231 8302 CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRLS by Casey Kurtti Director: Richard Lawton Stars: Leanne Bundy, Anne Davies, Juliette Knight If you recall the struggle to survive through school, then this touching comedy is a must. It's a play about four young women looking back on their convent CATS school years in the early '60s ... Here's your chance to be Cheshire proverbial. singing, dancing and laughing along pampered in true feline style. LYRIC THEATRE QPAC with Leonard Cohen, Diana Ross Greeted at the door with Sept 4-Nov 4 and the Supremes, The Adams chocolates, you're sure to enjoy Man-Sat Family and I Love Lucy. the show and even the interval ARTS CARD $46.45 Fri & Sat eve. TWELfTH NIGHT COMPLEX accompanied by complimentary $43.30 Mon - Thu & mat 4 Cintra Rd Bowen Hills Brisbane champagne. Before you know it ~ $47.00 Mon-Thu Opens July 26 you'll be grinning like the $50.50 Fri & Sat eve. Tues-Sat,8pm Mats Wed llam, Sat-Sun 5pm ~ $15 World premiere of a new play by ARTS CARD $ 21.90 Bookings TN! 891 5155 leading playwright John Romeril, ~ $23.90 author of The Floating World. Here Bookings Twelfth Night 252 5122 THE HARP IN THE SOUTH his compassionate and perceptive by Ruth Park and Leslie Rees THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS writing looks at a rift which started Brisbane Arts Theatre by Ron Blair in 1975 and continues to polarise Director: Fred Wessley TN! Theatre Co. country and city. Two couples, all Poignant and dramatic saga of Director: Rick Billinghurst victims of the bewildering '80s, the Darcy family living in post-war Stars: Errol O'Neil search for their roots, their poverty in the slums of Surry Hills, Errol O'Neil plays the cane­ traditions and principles in a play Sydney. wielding, chalk-throwing teacher in that breaks with convention in ways BRISBANE ARTS THEATRE this memorable one-person show that are stylistically exciting and 210 Petrie Tee Brisbane which skilfully uses the audience as dramatically gripping. Aug 18-Sept 16 class members. O'Neil's theatre CREMORNE THEATRE QPAC Wed-Sat involvement spans wfltmg, Aug 28-Sept 26 ARTS CARD $10 directing and acting. He has toured Tues,6pm Wed-Fri 7.30pm, Sat 8pm ~ $12 Australia with the Popular Theatre Mats Wed 10.30 am, Sat 5pm Bookings at venue 369 2344 Group and has worked with RQTC, ARTS CARD $22.40 the State Theatre Company of S.A. LOST WEEKEND ~ $24.00 and TN! by John Romeril Aug 30-Sept 16 Royal Queensland Theatre Company MARCEL MARCEAU Wed-Sat 6.30pm Stars: Jennifer Blocksidge , Possibly, your last opportunity to ARTS CARD $10 David Clendinning see mime master Marceau perform

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~ " . in this country. "He is the greatest deciding that life hasn't been all it's Conductor: Vladimir Kamirski pantomimist since Chaplin ... the cracked up to be. Stars: Glenys Fowles, Margaret Russell, funniest comedian in the world." TWELFTH NIGHT THEATRE Hans Gregory Ashbaker. New York Times 4 Cintra Rd Bowen Hills Brisbane Magaret Russell sings the role of " .. dominating figure of the Opens Aug 30 Carmen, the bewitching gypsy girl world theatre." The London Times Mon-Sat, 8pm, mat Sat 2pm in Bizet's operatic masterpiece with LYRIC THEATRE QPAC ARTS CARD $19.90 Man - Thu only Hans Gregory Ashbaker as the Phone The Trust for pricing ~ $25 .90 Man - Sat impulsive young corporal of the information on 221 9528 Bookings at venue 252 5122 or dragoons, Don Jose and Geoffrey Ticketworld phone-charge 223 0444 Chard as Escamillo the Toreador. ONE FOR THE ROAD LYRIC THEATRE QPAC by Willy Russell THE TAMING OF THE SHREW Aug 14-26, 7.30pm, Mon 21 6pm Following the successes of by William Shakespeare Mat Sat 19 l.30pm Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, Royal Queensland Theatre Company ARTS CARD $48 Willy Russell has penned another Director: Aubrey Mellor ~ $50 comedy. One For The Road is set in Stars: Victoria Longley, Anthony Phelan Bookings QAPC 846 4444 the north of England with our mid­ Almost 400 years old, life hero tom between the security Shakespeare's battle of the sexes is JORGE BOLET of married life on a planned housing still the one play which is Michael Edgley is once again estate, and dreams of back-packing guaranteed to provoke an argument treating us with the sublime piano freedom. between men and women. Is the playing of Jorge Bolet. TWELFTH NIGHT COMPLEX taming of Kate a 'happy ending' as " ... one of the most fabulous 4 Cintra Rd Bowen Hills Brisbane. was traditionally seen for 300 years, living pianists." Le Figaro Opens Nov 8 or an 'honourable settlement' as " ... a prince among pianists." Tues-Sat,8pm 20th-century academics now Los Angeles Times Mats Wed llam, Sat-Sun 5pm defend? Or is it, as feminists can CONCERT HALL QPAC ARTS CARD $21.90 claim, the most terrifyingly true Oct 3 ~ $23.90 picture of male domination over a For discount information call The Trust Bookings Twelfth Night 252 5122 female individual? on 2219528 SUNCORP THEATRE SHIRLEY VALENTINE Turbot St Brisbane QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY by Willy Russell Aug 15-Sept 2 ORCHESTRA Michael Edgley International! The Hole Tues, 6pm, Wed-Fri 7.30pm, Sat 8pm Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert In The Wall Theatre Company Mats Wed 10.30am,Sat 5pm With Mezzo-Soprano lard van Nees Director: Raymond Omedei Wed & Sat mat MENDELSSOHN - Midsummer Stars : Amanda Muggleton ARTS CARD $22.40 Night's Dream A tour de force for one of ~ $24.00 BERLIOZ - Les Nuits d' Ete Australia's favourite actresses, DEBUSSY - Prelude a L'apres-midi d'un Amanda Muggleton , who made the faune role her own during a sell-out Pre-concert talk by Phillipa season in Perth. British playwright, Roylance at 7.15 pm Willy Russell, whose fame was CONCERT HALL QPAC launched by the film success of Aug 5, 8pm Educating Rita, offers here, the ARTS CARD $24 delightful, devastatingly original ~ $20.50 Liverpudlian housewife that Rita Bookings QPAC 846 4444 would have become if not for her CARMEN education. The play is a lovingly by Georges BIZET QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY crafted portrait of Shirley's life and Lyric Opera Of Queensland ORCHESTRA what she intends to make of it after Director: lohn Milson Conductor: Evelina Pido

ARTS CARD (07) 221 9528 ..(07) 221 7762 Piano : Michele Campanella SCHUBERT: Symphony No 8 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2 Two tickets for BROADSTOCK: Toward The Shining Light the price of one! RAVEL: Bolero Yes! Australia's premier SOUTH AUSTRALIA Pre-concert talk by Stephen arts support organisation, WEDNESDAY, 6 or The Australian THURSDAY, Cronin at 7.15 pm. Elizabethan Theatre Trust 7 SEPTEMBER - CONCERT HALL QPAC would like to introduce PLAYHOUSE FESTIVAL new members to the CENTRE, KING Sept 2, 8pm fabulous range of WILLIAM RD, ADELAIDE. entertainment benefits ARTS CARD $24.00 The Sydney Theatre available. Company presents ~ $20.50 So from now until SHIRLEY VALENTINE September The Trust is by Willy Russell, the author Bookings QAPC 221 9528 offering new members a of Educating Rita. limited number of double Your chance to preview the ticket 'buy one, get one Adelaide season in its first free' packages to selected week - for the cost of the QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY performances around cab fare from the airport! ORCHESTRA Australia. That's right! book one seat for the $ value of show for 2! $49 ... a saving of$24.50! evening of your choice and we'll give you a second Conductor: Vernon Handley ticket free! Our seat numbers are limited so our WESTERN AUSTRALIA Violin: Jane Peters offer can only extend to two seats per applicant. MONDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER - W.A. Choose from these outstanding entertainment e~ents. THEATRE COMPANY, PLAYHOUSE Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture THEATRE, 3 PIER STREET, PERTH. Walton: Violin Concerto NSW MAJOR BARBARA, the classic but timeless SUNDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER - 5PM­ comedy by George Bernard Shaw, is a contest Brahms: Symphony No 4 NORTHSIDE THEATRE COMPANY, between the idealist and the perfectionist. MARIAN STREET, KILLARA. $ value of show for 2! $38 .. . a saving of$19! Pre-concert talk by Peter World premiere season of Alex Buzo's new play - Roennfeldt at 7.15.pm. SHELLCOVE ROAD. Our special offer also VICTORIA includes supper after the show and a chance to TUESDAY TO THURSDAY, 5.14 CONCERT HALL QPAC meet cast members. SEPTEMBER - THE LAST LAUGH, 64 Sept 27, 8pm $ value of supper and show for 2! $64 ... a saving SMITH STREET, COLLINGWOOD. of$32! Talk about Laugh! Enjoy the best of Melbourne's ARTS CARD $24.00 stand-up comedians in a two hour giggle with QUEENSLAND CON MARASCO'S NIGHTMARE ON ~ $20.50 FRIDAY, 1 SEPTEMBER-6.30PM­ SMITH ST. Bookings QAPC 221 9528 T.N. THEATRE COMPANY, $ value of show for 2! $64 ... a saving of$32! 8 ANNERLEY ROAD, WooLLooNGABBA. Don't delay, your new world of arts and Ron Blair's THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS, entertainment could start today! Simply complete stars Errol O'Neil, as the cane wielding, chalk and return the enclosed coupon to: throwing teacher. Chat with the star over ROGER WOODWARD The Trust, National Office savouries after the show. PO Box 73, Chippendale NSW 2008 'BY REQUEST' $ value of show for 2! $36 ... a saving of$18! ... For his 1989 Brisbane concert and that's a lot of bananas in Queensland! But do it today to avoid disappointment! appearances, Roger Woodward has The T~s~ N;ti~n~ offi~e~PO -&x-73, Chl';.;~.w~ NSW 200s ------X decided to take his music from the Yes please! I want to join The Trust to take advantage of the special two tickets for the price of one large concert hall to the intimacy of offer and attend: o Shellcove Road o Shirley Valentine o Con Marascos Nightmare on Smith St the delightful Twelfth Night o The Christian Brothers D Major Barbara Theatre. His 'By Request' concert on ______at pm. is, as he describes it • "Something I would like o 1 year's membership @ $40 D 2 year's membership @ $78 Mynameis ______light. From Strauss' Arabesque sur des themes de Strauss through My address is ______Debussy's Claire de Lune to The My phone is (B) ______(H) ______

Warsaw Concerto with Scott Joplin I enclose a cheque for $ ______as total payment for membership and for good measure!" special offer tickets or charge my D Bankcard Visa Mastercard TWELFTH NIGHT COMPLEX o o 4 Cintra Rd Bowen Hills Brisbane Aug 25-26, 8pm Expiry date Signature ______ARTS CARD $44.50 o I am also interested in life membership and details of the tax deductibility. Please send me information and The Trust's Passport to the Arts. ~ $47.50 Bookings Twelfth Night 252 5122

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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by Gilbert and Sullivan WAITING FOR GODOT G and S Society of W.A. by Samuel Beckett Director: Kevin Roach Hole In The Wall Theatre Company Music: Ian Westrip Director: Raymond Omodei A traditional interpretation of an Those universal Frenchmen, all-time favourite. This is the eighth Vladimir and Estragon have now production of Pirates by this compa­ been waiting for Godot for 36 , ny since 1953, so they're past mas­ years. A jewel in the crown of ters and tickets will sell quickly. absurdist theatre, this play contin­ HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE ues to grow in stature, fascination Hay St, Perth and popularity. Sep 21-30 HOLE IN THE WALL THEATRE ARTS CARD $20.90 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco Aug 15-Sep 9 ~ $24.90 Mon-Sat, 8pm THE DAY IT ALL ENDED ARTS CARD $18 by Tom Hungerford ~ $20 W.A. Theatre Company Director: John Saunders Director: Pippa Williamson Stars: Josephine Mitchell (A Country season follows the production's tour Practice) of Czechoslovakia. A play for our times as well as A play about a group of young SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE Shaw's. Barbara is a high-spirited people holidaying at Scarborough Short St, Fremantle idealist, who has reacted against her Beach. As dawn approaches, so too, Aug 5 & 12 background by JOining the does the declaration of World War Sat 2pm and 7pm Salvation Army to serve God and II. ARTS CARD $8, $6 the poor. Her father is a fabulously Based on the acclaimed Western ~ $8,$6 wealthy manufacturer of arma­ ments. He accepts his daughter's Australian book Stories From GREEN SALAD Suburban Road. Deck Chair Theatre Inc. challenge to a spiritual combat, to see which of them can convert the PLAYHOUSE THEATRE Director: Phil Thompson other. Witty, challenging and enter­ 3 Pier St, Perth An alternative cabaret - hot Aug 5-Sept 2 music, high hilarity as the ecology taining. PLAYHOUSE THEATRE ARTS CARD $14 collapses and houses tum green! 3 Pier St, Perth ~ $19 FLY BY NIGHT CLUB Sep 23-0ct 14 Holdsworth St, Fremantle Mon -Sat, 8pm THE EMPEROR'S NIGHTINGALE Aug 31-Sep 23 ARTS CARD $14 by Hans Christian Anderson Phone The Trust office ~ $19 Spare Parts Puppet Theatre on 321 4953 for prices Director: Peter Wilson Last opportunities to catch this MAJOR BARBARA THE MONKEY KING delightful puppet performance of a by George Bernard Shaw by Mary Hutchison and Peter Wilson classic story. This short Fremantle W.A. Theatre Company Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

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J. I Director: Peter Wilson Tue-SatSpm This production is being per­ Mats Aug 5, Aug 12, 2pm formed in the style of the ancient ARTS CARD $13 Monkey King legends of China. It ~ $16 traces the history of the Chinese in Australia and involves a lot of acro­ W.A. ACADEMY batics, puppetry and action. OF PERFORMING ARTS SPARE PARTS PUPPET THEATRE ARMS AND THE MAN Short St, Fremantle by George Bernard Shaw THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET Oct 3-14 Aug 16-20 Mon-Fri 10.30am THE HIRED MAN ONEGIN Wed & Sat 2pm Music: Howard Goodall Choreographer: John Cranko ARTS CARD $S, $6 Australian premiere of this piece One of the most compelling full­ ~ $S,$6 of musical theatre based on Melville length works in the company's Bragg's novel of Cumbrian rural and repertoire. It moves with Cranko's THE SECRET HOUSE industrial working life. choreography and Pushkin's poem by Noel Hodda Aug 15-20 (The Hired Man) from the charm of the countrySide Hole In The Wall Theatre Company] Aug 16-20 (Arms And The Man) to the opulence of 19th Century Director: Jenny McNae Tue-Sat Bpm, Sun 6pm Russian aristocracy. This remarkable and compelling W.A.ACADEMY HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE new play (by young Sydney actor OF PERFORMING ARTS 825 Hay St, Perth Noel Hodda) with its power and 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley Sep 7-14 impact as a family drama has been ARTS CARD $7 present Trust member­ ARTS CARD $36 (A res) $31 (B res) compared to Edward Albee's Who's ship card at box office ~ $40,$34 Afraid Of Virginia Woolf and Eugene ~ $10 O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into W.A ACADEMY OF Night. WOGS OUT OF WORK PERFORMING ARTS HOLE IN THE WALL THEATRE by Giannopolous and others NEW HORIZONS 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco Director: Simon Palomares A program of new original works Sep 26-0ct 21 Boisterous good humour, satire choreographed by the students. Mon-Sat, Spm and crudity as migrants and their WA.ACADEMY ARTS CARD $IS families look at multiculturalism OF PERFORMING ARTS ~ $20 and their adopted country. Wogs 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley Out Of Work comes to Perth after Aug 30-Sep 3 SEPARATION two years of sell-out seasons in Wed-Sat Spm, Sat 2pm, Sun 6pm by Tom Kempinski Melbourne and Sydney. ARTS CARD $7 present Trust member­ SWY Theatre Company "Spellbinding . . . a tidal wave of ship card at box office Directors : Alan Becher and Ingle Knight laughter" - Sydney Morning Herald. ~ $10 Stars: Alan Becher, Alex Jones REGAL THEATRE In Separation, Kempinski explores 474 Hay St, Subiaco his own experience of a breakdown Jul27-Aug 19 with devastating wit . . . a love story Tue-Fri S.lSpm stripped of unflattering romanti­ Sat 7pm, lOpm,Sun Spm cism. "It has renewed my faith in ~ $22 living theatre" (critic David Britton). The third of Swy's highly acclaimed series of British plays. SWYTHEATRE 65 Murray St,Perth JuI 26-Aug 12

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ARTS CARD No discount THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXON ~ $65 (A res) $58 (B res) by Leos Janacek W.A. CONSERVATORIUM LA BOHEME OF MUSIC by Giacomo Puccini Director: John Milson W.A. Opera Company Music: Richard Gill Musical Director: Gerald Krug W.A. ACADEMY OF CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, Stars: Deborah Riedel, John Pickering, PERFORMING ARTS CAMBRIDGE Lyndon Terracini 2 Bradford St, Mount Lawley MusicaViva An unforgettable portrayal of Sep 27-0ct 1 Director: Stephen Cleobury student life in the Latin Quarter of Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm Paris where laughter, love and the Spine-tingling music from one of ARTS CARD $7 present Trust member­ the chief glories of the English joy of living hides a tragedy of mis­ ship card at box office ery, sickness and death. choral tradition. Sixteen boy trebles ~ $10 HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE and 14 undergraduates will sing major works from five centuries of 825 Hay St, Perth Aug 16, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30, Sep 2 choral music. PERTH CONCERT HALL ARTS CARD $37 (A res) $39 (A res) St George's Terrace, Perth $49 VIP No discount Sep 13 ARTS CARD $35.20 LEEUWIN ESTATE CONCERT ~ $40 Stars: Kiri Te Kanawa , James Galway Music: W.A. Symphony Orchestra Concession vouchers are avail­ ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC Limited seats available for a able from The Trust office. $7.50 for ORCHESTRA totally delicious, weekend of indul­ Hoyts and Greater Union and $6 Conductor: Zubin Mehta gence at the Karri Valley Resort for Windsor, New Oxford and FYI. One of the world's finest orches­ with entertainment from two of the Vouchers are open-dated and will be tras and Israel's foremost cultural world's best. Weekend includes a exchanged for tickets at the cinema. ambassador. The concert features creative picnic in the forest and a Restrictions apply Saturday Schubert's Symphony No 9 in C wine-tasting at Margaret River and evenings at Hoyts and Greater Major The Great (Aug 16) and of course ... the concert. Union, and on Friday and Saturday Bruckner's Symphony No 7 in E KARRI VALLEY RESORT/ evenings at IT!. Watch for Bagdad Major (Aug 17) LEEUWIN ESTATE Cafe, a zany endearing film by Percy PERTH CONCERT HALL Pembenon/Margaret River Adlon, and the award winning St George's Terrace Jan 19-21 (concert Jan 20) Pelle The Conqueror (both at the Aug 16-17 ARTS CARD $275 per person Windsor).

Sydney - Wednesday, September 13 August 4. finishing in Adelaide on BOOK NOW! Melbourne - Monday, September IS August 17. DIANA ROSS-"Workin' Overtime" AND. the long~awai[ed rerum of the Seats filling fast The Concert in (he Round. One of the BEE GEES in November. for these concerts. most acclaimed and loved performers of ••• PLEASE CONTACT YOUR her time. STATE TRUST OFFICE FOR Concert dates: FULL DETAILS & DISCOUNTS. TRANSVISION VAMP­ Melbourne - October, 19 & 20 NThe Velveteen Tour" Brisbane - Monday, October 23 T ransvision Vamp go back [0 the roots of Sydney- October 26,27 & 28 why music was good in the firs[ place. Horden Pavilion on Friday II August­ THE LEGENDS OF ROCK­ And al", for the jazz buffs - ACKER IOpm till dawn! ... special offer (or "Once More With Feeling" BILK & KENNY BALL. Commencing Trust Rocker> - $3 I! Starring JERRY LEE LEWIS, CHUCK in Oarwinon September IS , wirh farewell au,.,. S",,, lOUr dares, BERRY, THE EVERLY BROTHERS, in Perth on October 14. Brisbane - July 27,28,29 MARY WILSON & THESUPREMES Melbourne-July 3 1, August I and Australia's COLJOYE. Other concertS (or your diary­ Adelaide - August 14 Concer, da!l" CLANNAD - Ireland's first family of Penh - August 16·19 incl. Brisbane - Monday. September II song. Tour kicks off in Canberra on

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Tokyo Aida trip

for tal~nted Australian 'freelance' orchestra

AKING OPERA TO the aggressive spirit shown by an Dreams of bringing high quality THE MASSES AND increasingly more professional orchestral music to audiences in TWINNING THEM OVER Trust these days. Noticing the say, Sydney's fast growing western is not a challenge for the faint­ State Symphony Orchestras were region, can now be realised. hearted. But then, maestro booked out years in advance, Mr Those possibilities have defi­ Giuseppe Raffa's efforts in staging Warwick Ross, head of The Trust's nitely opened up with the comple­ the recent Australian tour of music division, saw the need for tion of excellent new performance Verdi's magnificent Aida, were an orchestra of high calibre musi­ centres at Parramatta and assisted in no small part by the cians, who could take on one-off Baulkham Hills. combined magnetism of interna­ assignments. Mr Ross believes that local tional stars, a strong local chorus This newly conceived 'free­ entrepreneurial resources and and a world class orchestra. lance' orchestra attracted the sponsors will quickly see the value After sharing Aida with new interests of some of Australia's of staging this unique entertain­ and wider audiences in Australia, finest professional recording musi­ ment in such venues. the maestro and his inspired cians. Mr Ross says Australia now Sutherland, in Sydney's south, coterie have transferred their has a world standard orchestra - has already played host to a con­ efforts to the 60,000 seat Tokyo "It gives so many fine cert from a brass quintet sifted Stadium in Japan. Australian freelance musicians the from the ranks of the Elizabethan Raffa's major chore, of course, opportunity to engage in top class Symfonietta. was finding an orchestra that orchestral playing." Last New Year's Eve, 35 players would live up to the artistic merits Gordon Webb, for 14 years, played Viennese music to a room of previous triumphs. principal trumpet with the filled with dancing VIPs at Orchestras submitted tenders London Philharmonic; David Sydney's Intercontinental Hotel. from as far afield as New York and Ellis, one of the finest bass players And when 90 players were Vancouver. But Raffa remembered in Australia; Robert Ingram, an engaged with the Symfonietta for how he had sought out The important figure to aficionados of the Royal Ballet season of Elizabethan Symfonietta for the string music in this country; and Stravinsky's famous The Rite Of Australian performances of Aida. Wilfred Lehmann, concert master Spring, it was definitely an 'event' Even thoughThe Trust's fine for the Tokyo Philharmonic for 14 of a lifetime. orchestra was less than two years years; give some indication of the The Symfonietta's lifetime may old, he was impressed to the point great depth of experience here. be only 18 months old, but the of hiring them for the opera. Young players aren't overlooked Tokyo assignment is further recog­ And now, in Japan, he will thanks to guidelines from The nition of the importance of this enjoy them once more. Trust. In the Symfonietta, it's not 'freelance orchestra' from For the Symfonietta, winning unusual to see students playing Australia. .:. the much sought after Tokyo con­ alongside their teachers. by James Waites tract could well have been a hard As for commercial success - luck story. Raffa's comm,endable prayers have been answered for Sadly, we regret to advise the choice was finally made possible people like entrepreneur Michael death of CAROLE LONG, because ofQANTAS Airways­ Edgley, who sometimes need an Membership Manager at The and the Symfonietta had gained orchestra to support one of their Trust from 1973 to 1988. an official carrier and tickets to tours; or, Giuseppe Raffa, an Condolences to her family Japan and back. entrepreneur who is aiming to from all who knew her. The orchestra is a reflection of bring his own show into Australia.

33 Nancye Hayes

It took only three years on the stage before

John Pierce finds out what it is that keeps

ANCYE HAYES IS "After my father died, my EVERY BIT A STAR - mother had to earn a living. But N with all of the warmth my grandmother, who had been a and none of the aloofness that hard-working woman all her life, that label can conjure. was able to spend the time with But does she call herself a star? me, and do the things with me The word is certainly in her that she had been unable to do vocabulary, but only in relation to with her own children." say, a show being a 'star' vehicle. She took Nancye to matinees, When Nancye speaks of 'star' introducing her to the theatre quality, she is referring not to her that has since been her life. singing, dancing or acting ... but to her star sign. Nancye was in her teens when "It's not because I'm particular­ she began on stage in 1961 - a ly into it," she says. "I suppose period when imported stars head­ basically there's a lot of truth ed the casts of most major musi­ about how Capricorns are cals. described - as being practical and By 1964 though, she had taken floating along. And as being the over from the American lead, mountain goat that's sure-footed. Betty McGuire, in the musical "And that, I suppose, is part of How To Succeed In Business. the way I approach my work, and "Then I spent a year in Hello the way I come to the same end Dolly, where I was called to do everyone else does. But it's a dif­ vety little, and Boys From ferent journey." Syracuse came up," Nancye recalls. It is that practicalapproach, "I really went for a part as one with its sincerity, warmth and of the courtesans - more of a danc­ generosity, coupled with super­ ing role - but Christopher Hewitt abundant talent, that has (now in the Mr Belvedere TV endeared her to audience and fel­ series) saw me audition and low performer alike. offered me the part of Luce. When she was born, in the lat­ ter part of World War II, home "He saw a comedy flair in me was a household of women - and said he really wanted me for mother, grandmother and two the part. It was a springboard into aunts. Sweet Charity." "My aunts and my mother - the It had all happened so quickly. three sisters - all had either Then tragedy struck in 1967. singing or dancing ability," she Her mother died. says. But because they grew up at Within a month, her grand­ the time they did, they weren't mother, with whom she had able to go off and suddenly launch enjoyed "a vety, vety close rela­ themselves into a career on the tionship" - was also dead. stage. "It was when I was doing Sweet

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she landed herself a starring role in a major musical rNancye Hayes out of the typing pool

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Charity," says Nancye. point, but you get on with your is so very important. "I always thank God that, career because that's what you "Dorothy is not the biggest role although Sweet Charity happened want - a career in the theatre, not I've played, but as the old saying to me when I was extraordinarily just one magnificent moment." goes - there are no small roles." young, it gave them the opportu­ There have been times, such as "Dorothy is beautifully set up," nity to see me do it. at present, when Nancye has vir­ says Nancye. "She makes wonder­ "It was one of those times when tually gone from one show to ful exits and entrances and always I think fate takes a hand in your another and another. • has something bitchy to say. life." Stepping Out, The Glass "And there's this nice redeem­ But fate acted strangely towards Menagerie and Guys And Dolls ing scene in the second act where Nancye when Sweet Charity ended gave her nearly three years with­ she encourages the young girl to its run. out a day off. go out there and give it her all. Then two years ago, she "I really enjoy the part - and I "I didn't get offered anything. became involved with the musical get to sing four of the great old Because everyone thought I WqS a Nine (as the inimitable Liliane La hits." star and would only play star roles Fleur) and its hoped-for transfer to Her favourite is "About A - and star roles don't come along Broadway. Quarter To Nine", "a lovely old very often," she says. "I was like a song that I've always liked." racehorse that war trained for the " .. . We came very close." The others are "Getting To Be Melbourne Cup and won it, then She took a few weeks out for A Habit", "I Only Have Eyes For nobody asked me to race again. "one of the big highlights of my You" and "The Shadow Waltz" ... "I was very frisky and dying to career," playing Mrs Lovett in " more of a visual thing really." , work. I just wanted to be out there Gale Edwards' magnificent pro­ doing it. duction of Sweeny Todd - "if it The load for Nancye, whose ever gets another guemsy, I'd love fellow stars are Toni Lamond and "Instead I was in the lounge­ to do it again." Barry Quin, is heavy, but not as room, dancing to records." heavy as it is for the "kids" in the Nancye was at her "lowest ebb" Steel Magnolias came and went, cast. when Jon Ewing asked her to per­ as did Summer Rain. form in the Menzies ( Sydney ) Now Nancye Hayes is portray­ There's 44 of them and they Hotel theatre restaurant produc­ ing a character so unlike any other "are the engine of the show, the tion of Bells Are Ringing. It was a she has played - Dorothy Brock - heart of the show - they never success and was followed by in the musical42nd St (at really stop." Annie Get Your Gun (with Margo Sydney's Her Majesty's Theatre). Will Nancye Hayes ever stop? Lee and Colin Croft). "I've never played anyone who "Why shouldn't I go on? Now that I've started to do a bit of I "The Menzies set the wheels is quite so bitchy before - I've I turning again for me," says tended to play the comedienne­ directing, I would certainly pursue Nancye. "Then I started to do all type part," she says. that. sorts of varying things, including "And although there are a lot "And I would also like to work straight acting. It led to me being of funny things about Dorothy as a with younger actors in either very happy to work in cameo situ­ character (I find it terribly funny workshop or class situations. ations. that she is so grand about every­ With a coquettish grin, she "You are grateful that you've thing), it's not what you call a adds: "I certainly don't want to go i' had a star vehicle role at some comedienne's role. But every role back to the typing pool". .:. :~ 35 I Googie Withers share

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OEL FERRIER CALLS tremendous excitement and I'm IT "THE AFfERNOON sure it helps keep you going." NTEA PERIOD OF LIFE", She tells me that Malcolm but after their 42nd year of mar­ Muggeridge, on his birthday, was riage, the only ambition Googie . asked how it felt to be 70. "'Well, ' Withers and John McCallum have he said, 'if you consider the alter­ is "to keep healthy and keep at it native, very well'," Miss Withers for as long as possible". quotes with a throaty laugh. Theatrical to the tips of their When I ask if they have any fingers; professional to the bottom unfulfilled ambitions, Mr of their toes; here are two people McCallum, equally amused, who have no intention of living in quotes Muggeridge again - the past, even if they may prefer "'When you're nearing port, some things (including plays) you don't want to sit at the from yesteryear. Captain's table'." They are exactly as I expected Although she loves being in them to be ... right on time, hav­ drama, Miss Withers believes that ing obviously enjoyed catching up comedy is the most difficult of all on old times with old friends at a - "People think they're giving you theatrical birthday party (a 70th), the greatest accolade when they earlier in the day. say that it wasn't acting at all - Perhaps due to their energy and that it was just you. zest for life, they're looking fit and "Well, what they don't know, is spritely. Miss Withers in a brightly that it has taken 40 years to learn coloured dress, looks positively how to do it and to make it look radiant as she laughs at any sug­ as easy as pie." gestion of retirement. Surprisingly, perhaps, they both "People say to us: 'don't you enjoy touring. They recently Now they're here in Australia want to retire and put your feet toured the Far East in a produc­ up?' says Miss Withers. "We say: tion of School For Scandal. "It's to star in the hit comedy, The 'retire from what?' part of an actor's job to get out Cocktail Hour, produced by John "If you're a writer, you don't and about," says Mr McCallum. McCallum and Gary Penny. The stop writing. If you're a painter, They like keeping busy too. play opens at Sydney Opera you don't stop painting. You only While Mr McCallum performed House's Playhouse Theatre on stop acting if they don't want you in a play in the West End, Miss October 4. After a successful sea­ anymore or you can't find your Withers was performing at the son in Sydney, Melbourne and way across the stage or learn the Chichester Festival Theatre and Adelaide tours are proposed. lines. Those are the only reasons in a film with John Mills, Wendy Playwright, A.R. ('Pete') you would ever give it up. It's a Hiller and Michael Hordern. Gurney who admits that The

36 and ohn McCallum afternoon tea . The Cocktail Hour? with Jo Litson in the kitchen, the cocktail hour why we like this play - it harks becomes two hours, one too many back to pre-war plays. martinis are consumed, and out "It's an old-fashioned play. You comes the truth. understand every word that's said The play was first suggested to for a start. No-one takes their Withers and McCallum by their clothes off or swears. It's civilised. London agent who had been in "Gurney's play is about his fam­ New York but who hadn't seen ily because that's what he knows the play because he hadn't been best. It really is very funny. He able to get in. observes life rather like They both read the script and Ayckbourn does in England. But liked it. And they were also these characters - WASPS (White pleased to find a part which was Anglo-Saxon Protestants) - are a perfect for Joanna, their daughter, little bit more upper class than also an actor, who will play ... Ayckbourn's lower middle class their daughter. life. It's very civilised, sophisticat­ After seeing The Cocktail Hour ed and very funny." in New York, the enthused couple American critics have certainly met with 'Pete' Gurney. Miss been won over: "An evening of Withers was slightly concerned martini-fueled drawing-room ban­ that the character wasn't right for ter"; "A wise, witty and humane her - the actress on Broadway was comedy"; "There is more truth in very mid-West tough. Lunch with the cleverly crafted Cocktail Hour the playwright, however, put her than in any other play on or off mind at rest. "He said, 'you're Broadway in years"; "When I more like my parents than the watch Gurney at his best as here is actors on Broadway' ... very here, I laugh through the tears" .. sweet and terribly nice, he obvi­ . and more. Cocktail Hour is autobiographical, ously wanted us to do it." "Never in my life, have I read has several other plays to his In the play, the 'parents' lament name, notably The Children and the passing of elegant, well-made reviews like those in New York," The Dining Room. plays. Mr McCallum admits to says Miss Withers. In The Cocktail Hour, John, a sharing their feeling to a degree - With the world-wide rights to playwright writes a play called "Frankly, I think the world has the play sewn up, the plan is to "The Co'Cktail Hour" about his become too materialistic, with take it to London. But Miss family and then goes home with everyone out for themselves. Withers and Mr McCallum are the script to ask their permission During, and after the war, people's making sure that Australia will be to go ahead with the production. principals stood for something. It the next country to see With a new cook having trouble was a graceful era then. That's The Cocktail Hour. .:.

37 Lady Potterly's Chatter This month sees lots of pies and not much chatter! 42nd Street Gala

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3 Opening of The Trust's new rooms by the Hon. Clyde Holding, Minister for The Arts, Tourism and Territories. 1 Richard and Lillian Frank M. B. E. 2 Founding Benefactors: (\ to r) Gordon Darling and Henry Gillespie with Mrs Marilyn Davies. 3 Founding The 42nd St. Gala Preview at Her Benefactors: (\ to r) Mr and Mrs Quintin pollard and Mrs Joy Mein O. B. E. 4 John Ridge. Majesties Theatre, attended by lots of S Victorian Board Member, Carillo Gantner. 4 6 Lady potter, Victorian Chairman, watches The celebrities from TV and stage. Hon. Clyde Holding unveiling the Commemor- 1 Tre Urbani. 2 Barry Thompson and friend. 3 ative Plaque. 7 (I to r) Trust President, Sir Ian Phyllis and Harold Albert. 4 Peter and Mira potter, Victorian Governor, Miss Myra Roper and Simpson. 5Neit Collins and friend. 6 Jonothan The Hon. Clyde Holding. B (\ to r) Founding Coleman and his mum. 7 Ita Buttrose. 8 David Benefactors: Mrs Paula Hansky, Robin Pleydell, Jones's PR Lady-Skye Macleod. 9 Prince Social Committee Chair-man Margaret Toyne and LorenzO Giustiniani Montesini and Hden Janice Pleydell. 9 Victorian State Manager, Montag drawing Nick and Christine Charmaine Hart with husband, Ted. u Southcombe's name out as the winners of a 6 weekend at Hayman Island flying with AAsett In Perth Airlines. prince Lorenzo a150 gave a copy ofn his book, Cardboard Cantata. 10 Ritz-Cartto PR Lady _ Jane Roenfddt. 11 Ginny Green. 12 Alexandria Armytage. 13 Sir John AtwiU. 14 Ken Stevens. 15 John Wahon. 16 John Meet the Cats William. 17 Geoff Viviers. 18 Hinke Zieck. 19 Luncheon Bubbles Fischer seHing programs. 20 Patti Mostyn. 21 Hoyts PR girt Ngaire Laundy lets her hair down. 22 John Lane. 23 Vicki Jones. 24 Mark Patrick. 25 Elizabeth Fox. 26 Stephen Hall. 27 Lady Louise BrudeneH­ Bruce. 28 Glen-Marie Frost. 29 Dorian Wild. 30 Robert Rosen. 31 Jeanette Boyd. 32 Don McPhee, manager - Her Majesty's Theatre. 33 LorenZO Giustiniani Montesini. 34 GabrieUe Hagon. 35 SaUy Hampshire. I Chairman of Member's Committee, Mary Martini with John Wood - Old Deute-ronomy, in Cats 2. Jo Manford, Flick McCorkill and Tracy Peta (L to R)

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