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SUNDAY MARCH 4 AT 3PM past-Chairman of the White Ribbon Campaign His latest play, Acts of Faith, opens at the King BIOGRAPHIES (to end violence against women) and was St Theatre Newtown in July. a member of the expert Committee which MELVYN drafted Australia’s National Plan to Reduce MORROW Violence Against Women and their Children. REPERTOIRE Writer and Director ANDREW ACT 1 Melvyn Morrow’s first scripts were in the O’KEEFE The Judge’s Song Performer record-breaking TV comedy hit, The Mavis GLENN Bramston Show. Melvyn’s musicals (book Climbing Over Rocky Mountain Andrew is the long-time co-host of Australia’s & lyrics) include Morality!, Postcards From highest-rating weekend breakfast show, AMER Performer Provence), Vroom Vroom, Mad Louisa My Name is John Wellington Wells Weekend Sunrise, as well as the hugely and A unique entertainer, Glenn has been working Lawson, Offenbach In The Underworld popular host of the iconic game-show Deal or and the popular Christmas with singers since his first concert at the age When It Happens No Deal and now its successor, The Chase. pantomime . The Curate’s Song The Sorcerer of eleven. He cannot remember how many Santa Meets The Bushrangers Andrew’s television career started in 2003 as singers he has played for, but for many years Melvyn’s TV credits include Star Search When I Was A Lad HMS Pinafore a character actor and writer for the ARIA- was the exclusive accompanist to Rita Hunter and many ABC/Opera Australia simulcasts Fair Moon To Thee I Sing HMS Pinafore nominated sketch comedy series, . Big Bite and Horst Hoffmann. He also regularly appears including the Tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland Since then, in addition to Weekend Sunrise Never Mind The Why And Wherefore with David Hobson and Yvonne Kenny. and Richard Bonynge. His musical A Song HMS Pinafore and eleven seasons of Deal, he has hosted , , the story of Glenn is equally at home in the popular/jazz To Sing O two seasons of The Rich List and the chat and George Grossmith, was produced by I Am A Pirate King The Pirates of Penzance world, having appeared with many artists such show, This Is Your Laugh. He has also co- Dame Bridget D’Oyly Carte at London’s Savoy as Su Cruickshank and Ian Cooper. In addition A Policeman’s Lot The Pirates of Penzance hosted the historic tri-network tsunami appeal Theatre and directed by the author. Reach out to Asia and the Logie Awards. to his work as a pianist and conductor with Hail Poetry The Pirates of Penzance various opera companies (Opera Australia, Over the years, Melvyn has updated book and Andrew trained as a classical singer and Paradox Trio The Pirates of Penzance Opera Queensland and Pacific Opera) and lyrics for Opera Australia’s attained an A.Mus. A (Singing). His musical The Seven Sopranos, these days Glenn is also (four productions) and , and for Am I A lone And Unobserved? theatre debut was in the role of Herod in The found touring the world presenting his one- Simon Gallaher’s Gilbert and Sullivan trilogy, Patience Really Useful Group’s 2013 sell-out national When I Go Out Of Door man show (he is a singer too, and has been The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and tour of Jesus Christ Superstar in which he Entrance and March of the Peers described as having ‘the fingers of Liberace H.M.S. Pinafore. performed alongside Tim Minchin, Mel B and and the voice of Mario Lanza’)! The Sentry’s Song Iolanthe John Stevens. Since then, he has appeared With David Mitchell, Melvyn wrote the as the Pirate King in The Harvest Rain Theatre He has featured on TV shows all over musicals Peter Dawson – Off The Record and Oh Foolish Fay Iolanthe Company 2015 production of The Pirates of the world, with broadcasts in Japan, Here Comes Showtime and the lyrics for the When Britain Really Ruled the Waves Iolanthe Switzerland and New Zealand being amongst song Lest I Forget (Rebel the movie starring Penzance, and in the Popinjay Productions Nothing Venture Nothing Win Iolanthe cabaret of Flanders & Swann, Glorious Mud! his favourites, in addition to his regular Matt Dillon) Melvyn plays include Beating A broadcasts in Australia. Retreat, A Touch Of Paradise and Vice. He is Andrew also has extensive experience in ACT 2 the co-writer of the national hits, SHOUT! and Glenn is a passionate collector of historic 78s The Lost Chord improvised comedy and was a member . and has approximately 25,000 of them. Dusty – The Original Pop Diva of the Australian team that won the World Disagreeable Man He devised and directed the cabarets Improvisation Championships at the Just For He is the only artist in the history of Alone And Yet Alive The Mikado Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2001. recordings to have made acoustically Broadway Bard, Tae Kwon Shakespeare, and , recorded Cylinders, Pianola Rolls and Mozart and ME Shakespearean Idol Tit Willow The Mikado Andrew originally trained as a lawyer, which won the 2006 Australian Writers’ Guild Compact Discs. Glenn was the youngest There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast following in the footsteps of his father, the Award for Music Theatre. esteemed former Supreme Court judge, Barry pianist to ever record pianola rolls – his first The Mikado recordings were made for the Mastertouch In 1996, Melvyn was nominated for a Mo O’Keefe. Andrew worked for five years in The Ghosts’ High Noon intellectual property litigation with Allens Arthur Piano Roll Company when he was 17. Award for Outstanding Contribution to Robinson. He is also lead Ambassador and Australian Musical Theatre. REPERTOIRE (CONT.) RIVERSIDE I Have A Song To Sing O The Yeoman of the Guard THEATRES We’re Called Gondolieri The Gondoliers DIRECTOR ROBERT LOVE Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes The Gondoliers BUSINESS MANAGER Some Seven Men Form an Association PAMELA THORNTON Utopia Limited MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER JONATHAN LLEWELLYN The Roulette Song OPERATIONS MANAGER Grand Finale Medley of Gilbert and Sullivan Airs LINDA TAYLOR Arranged by Glenn Amer EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, NATIONAL THEATRE OF PARRAMATTA JOANNE KEE

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