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Nunsense a Habit-Forming, Unconventional Musical Comedy! APRIL-MAY, 1987, VoI12No2 ISSN0314-3058 A publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Nunsense a habit-forming, unconventional musical comedy! A scene from the Sydney production of NUNSENSE NUNSENSE by Dan Goggin ment of Health is about to descend on NUNSENSE has won four prestigious Directed by Barry Creyton the convent, so in order to raise enough New York awards including Best Off Musical Direction by Michael Tyack money for their burial, the Sisters decide Broadway musical of 1986, Best Music Choreography by Dolores Dunbar to organise a talent show. They aim to and Bt st Book. Lighting Design by Donn Byrnes bring in further funds by selling Sister The critics have been enthusiastic . Cast includes Joy Westmore, Myra de Julia's "Baking with The Blessed Virgin about NUNSENSE. A sample of the Groote, Chelsea Brown, Judith Roberts, Mary" which, incidentally, contains the their comments are: and Kerryn Henderson recipe for her vichyssoise. "Wickedly funny. .. the audience Comedy Theatre The variety show is, in fact, the play: laughed all night. " Sunday Telegraph the set, incongruously, is the backdrop "These nuns deserve a halo each ... for GREASE, which the nun's eighth grad­ God's sake go and see it. " ity the poor Little Sisters of Hoboken, ers are producing (the Sisters promised Andrew Urban, The Australian Pthey have a problem! Twenty-two of not to disturb the set). their members died of botulism when The five Sisters bounce through an Sister Julia Child of God (the convent hilarious, toe-tapping show. Sister chef) cooked up a tureen of contami­ Robert Anne does her impersonations nated vichyssoise. "Miraculously" five of (from Katherine Hepburn to Attila the BOOKING INFORMATION their members escaped the same fate as Nun) , Sister Mary Amnesia (her mem­ Tue Apr 28 to Sat lun 13 they were out playing bingo. The prob­ ory has failed) astounds with her ven­ Mon to Sat at 8.15pm Wed and Sat mat at 2pm lem is that after burying eighteen of their triloquist act, Sister Mary Leo performs AETT$19.50 number, the money ran out when the the ballet "The Dying Nun" and Sister G.P. $23.50 Mother Superior decided to buy a video Mary Hubert and the Reverend Mother Pens/Stud $13.50 cassette recorder; the remaining four are belt out "Just a Coupl'a Sisters" . All Two AETT tickets per member languishing in the 'fridge! The Depart- nun-stop fun . 2 Olivia Stapp, who is famous for her VSO Celebrates interpretation of Turandot will make her "First Decade Australian debut in the role and Ruma­ nian tenor, Corneliu Murgu will sing the leading male part, Calaf. TURANDOT 987 is an exciting year for the is characterised by its strong choral sec- Victoria State Opera as it marks the 1 . tions, and it does have a happy ending! tenth anniversary of the Company's The production will be sung in It-alian. debut season. The very first production back in 1977 was Offenbach's LA BELLE HELENE and a new produc­ tion of this operetta is a nostalgic inclu­ BOOKING INFORMATION July 25 ,28,31 , August 5,13,15,17 at sion in the program this year. The 7.30pm, August 8 at 1pm balance of the season is made up of three AETT $42 (A Res) $31 (B Res) wonderful operas, none of which has G.P. $46 (A Res) $35 (B Res) been performed by the VSO previously; Pens/Stud $35 (A Res) $30 (B Res) TURANDOT, THE FLYING DUTCH­ Two AETT tickets per member MAN and THE MARRIAGE OF I FIGARO. Those who would like to become sub­ scribers to the coming season should ring THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO as Susanna and Roger Howell as Figaro. the VSO for a brochure and subscription by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The artistic Director of Australian booking form on 4175061, as soon as pos­ Conducted by Nicholas Braithwaite/ Nouveau Theatre Company, Jean Pierre sible. Brian Stacey Mignon will direct the production. He is Members who prefer to attend one or Directed by Jean Pierre Mignon well known for his innovative work at more operas on a single performance Set design by Henry Bardon Anthill and it will be interesting to see basis should fill in their grey booking Costume design by Michael Stennett how he interprets THE MARRIAGE coupon and return it to the Trust well Lighting design by Nigel Levings OF FIGARO. before May 30, as that is the date over the Cast includes Christine Douglas, Wendy counter bookings will open to the public. Dixon, Jonathan Summers, Roger . Howell, Miriam Gormley BOOKING INFORMATION State Theatre August 1,4,6,8,10,12,14 at 7.30pm AETT $38 (A Res) $28 (B Res) G.P. $42 (A Res) $32 (B Res) he music from Mozart's comic opera Pens/Stud $32 (A Res) $25 (B Res) T THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Two AETT tickets per member will be familiar to most people although the complexity of the plot may require a quick "refresher" before you see the THE FLYING DUTCHMAN opera. by Richard Wagner Based on a play by Beaumarchais, it Conducted by Richard Divall concerns Figaro and his forthcoming Directed by Elke Neidhardt marriage to Susanna, Countess Design by Ken Wilby and Mark Almaviva's maid. Count Almaviva is Thompson pursuing Susanna with the intention of Lighting design by Nicholas Schlieper exercising his "droit du seigneur", which Cast includes Marilyn Richardson, gave the lord of the manor the right to Alberto Remedios, Malcol'{l Donnelly spend the wedding night with the brides State Theatre TURANDOT of his servants. The Countess' page, by Giacomo Puccini Cherubino, plots to seduce her, and ased on the legend of a sea captain Conducted by Richard Divall although he is caught in an apparently B condemned to sail the oceans Directed by Richard Wherrett compromising situation with the Coun­ forever, unless he is redeemed by a Set design by Brian Thompson tess, he escapes with the help of Susanna woman's unselfish love, THE FLYING Costume design by Terry Ryan and Figaro. Eventually Susanna and the DUTCHMAN is Wagner in his most Cast includes Olivia Stapp, Corneliu Countess trick the Count into attempting darkly romantic mood. Malcolm Don­ Murgu, Glenys Fowles and Noel Mangin to seduce his own wife . All is forgiven in nelly, who has sung recently with the State Theatre the final scene. Although there are polit­ English National Opera, returns to fea­ ical undertones, the emphasis is on fun. ture as the Dutchman, Marilyn et in ancient China, the beautiful but The cast is comprised of Melbourne's Richardson will sing Senta and Alberto Scruel Princess Turandot sends a suc­ internationally successful baritone, Remedios, one of the world's foremost cession of suitors to their deaths, when Jonathon Summers as Count Almaviva, Wagnerian tenors, will appear as Eric. they fail to answer her riddles. Two visit­ New Zealand soprano, Wendy Dixon as The production will be sung in German ing singers will appear in this opera. Countess Almaviva, Christine Douglas with surtitles. Thought -provoking BOOKING INFORMATION From Wed Apr 22 Play from N.Z. Tue to Sat at 8.15pm Sat and Sun mat at 5.15pm FORESKIN'S LAMENT AETI$19 by Greg McGee G.P. $23 Directed by Peter Tulloch Pens/Stud $15 Two AETI tickets per member Designed by lain Aitken Cast includes Simon Westaway, Matt Kay, David Clisby, Robert Morgan, Anna McCrossin and Lynne Ruthven Universal Theatre Malcolm Donnelly as The Dutchman in the South Australian Opera Co. production. ew Zealand playwright, Greg McGee New Australian N has written that "one of the theatre's Play BOOKING INFORMATION most important functions is to act as a November 9,12,14,17,20,23,25 at social catalyst". In his play FORE­ 7.30pm SKIN'S LAMENT, which centres SHIMADA by Jill Shearer AETI $38 (A Res) $28 (B Res) around a rugby football team, he Directed by Simon Phillips G .P. $42 (A Res) $32 (B Res) examines not only the mores of football Designed by Shaun Gurton Pens/Stud $32 (A Res) $25 (B Res) but many wider issues facing society Cast includes Elspeth Ballantyne Two AETI tickets per m~mber ~ today. It is a very funny play dealing with Russell Street Theatre serious subjects such as apartheid, chauvinism, feminism, violence in sport he theme of the play has a piquancy and literary academia. The play's T and sharp immediacy in these days LA BELLE HELl3NE humour is described as "witty, dark and of multi-national business expansion. by Jacques Offenbach belly-shaking" . Two Australian soldiers, Clive and Eric, Conducted by Richard Divall having found a mateship that endured Directed by Steven Pimlott through World War II and years of Designed by Kenneth Rowell imprisonment by the Japanese, then Lighting design by Nicholas Schlieper returned home to set up a bicycle com Cast includes Geraldine Turner, John pany. This small venture, largely family O'May, Gregory Yurisich, Gregory based, has had a successful past, but now ' Dempsey, Barbara Sambell Clive is dead, Eric has reached retiring State Theatre age, and pressure from overseas trade is proving a burden. When a Japanese con ffenbach composed some of his sortium wishes to buy the firm in its Ofinest music for his entertaining scheme for Australian representation satire LA BELLE HELENE, which Clive's widow has no qualms in consider. used the aristocracy of Greek antiquity ing the bid. Eric, however, has reserva to parody the French celebrities of his tions that grow to nightmarish propor day. Gregory Yurisich, who played tions with the arrival of the Uchiyama Pooh-Bah in the Australian Opera's pro­ representative.
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