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New Fair Lady MAY, 1988 Vol 12 No 4 ISSN 0314 - 0598 Including Annual Report 1987 and Notice of Annual General Meeting A publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Madge Ryan, Noel Ferrier and Helen Buday in the VOC production of MY FAIR LADY New Fair Lady - Revival of a Classic MY FAIR LADY MY FAIR LADY has all a musical Trust Members should note that Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner should - breathtaking sets, lavish cos­ special concession prices apply only to Music by Frederick Loewe tumes, wonderful music and an all-star the first four weeks ' of the season. We Directed by Rodney Fisher cast. It features a twenty-piece orches­ regret the lateness in announcing this Cast: John Waters, Noel Ferrier, Simon tra conducted by Andrew Greene, who show as a result of protracted nego­ Gallaher, June Bronhill, Helen Buday is also the musical director, and a cast tiations with the producers for accept­ of forty, including some of Australia's able arrangements for Trust Members. ho hasn't read or at least heard of As a result, we do advise Members that George Bernard Shaw's most talented performers. Helen W Buday, who performed in MAD MAX they will obtain the best seats if they "Pygmalion" - the classic tale of a order tickets during the two weeks from Cockney flower seller who became a III and FOR LOVE ALONE, will play Eliza and Noel Ferrier, who has had a June 6-18. See Member Activities (p. 5) "lady". Now a new production by Vic­ for pre-theatre dinner on Wednesday, toria State Opera, fresh from a most distinguished career in the theatre and successful season in Melbourne, comes in films, will play Alfred P. Doolittle. June 8. to Sydney. Many members will have seen him recently in the critically acclaimed pro­ BOOKING INFORMATION duction of THE WINSLOW BOY at Her Majesty's Theatre ~ WHY NOT USE OUR the Marian Street Theatre. The role of Sat May 21 to Sat Juo 18 ~ EASY BOOKING LINE Henry Higgins, that Rex Harrison Moo to Sat at 8 p.m. Wed aod Sat at 2 p.m. made famous, will be played by John AETT $36.00 (Moo to Thu evg), Waters. Add to all this, no fewer than $33.00 (mats) sixteen legendary songs - "Wouldn't G.P. $39.50 (Moo to Sat evg), 357-1200 It Be Loverly", "With a Little Bit of $36.50 (mats) Luck", "I Could Have Danced All Peos/Stud $30.00 (Moo to Thu evg), Man ta Fri, 9-5 pm Night" to name but a few and it's no $27.00 (mats) VISA MASTERCARD BANKCARD wonder that this is hailed as the world's Two AETT tickets per Member most famous musical. 2 Australian Opera Modern Classic At Bondi embers are invited to purchase OME BLOW YOUR HORN, a M tickets for the winter season of EDUCA TING RITA by Willy Russell Chuge hit on Broadway in the early The Australian Opera. Discounts of up Directed by Peter Williams 'sixties, shot Neil Simon to fame as a to $6.00 per ticket are available for all Cast: Amanda Muggleton, Terence comedy writer, and had its Australian productions except for THE Donovan premiere over twenty years ago. COME MASTERSINGERS. Members may BLOW YOUR HORN is set in New purchase as many tickets as they wish ince the Royal Shakespeare Com­ York: Alan, 33, has established the per­ but please note it is essential that an Spany first produced EDUCATING fect lifestyle for a bachelor - a discreet alternative date for each opera be pro­ RITA in 1980, the play has rapidly apartment and a plentiful supply of vided before a booking can be become one of the most popular on the girlfriends. His work as a salesman in accepted. Full details of the winter world stage. his father's company is allowed to take season operas are given in the enclosed a back seat to his other more pleasur­ brochure. Please ring the Membership able pursuits. Problems begin when office on 357 1200 to make your reser­ Alan's younger brother decides to vations. Tickets are not available for move out of home and into his Saturday evening performances. brother's apartment. BOOKING INFORMATION Royal Ballet Bondi Pavilion Theatre Tue May 3 to Sat Jun 4 Wed to Fri at 8 p.m. hose Members who didn't reserve Sats 5 p.m. & 8 p.m., Sun 8 p.m. T tickets when we first offered book­ AETT discount $2.00 ings for The Royal Ballet in February Bookings on 3376085/2664800 this year have another opportunity to Two AETT tickets per Member do so. Excellent seats are available for the Ballet's Triple Bill programme which includes Frederick Ashton's THE DREAM and RHAPSODY and Amanda Mugg/eton and Terence Donovan in Aussie Musical Kenneth MacMillan's THE RITE OF EDUCATING RITA SPRING. In order that tickets for It is the story of a Liverpudlian hair­ Members can be purchased before dresser who decided to change her ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS by Alex tickets are offered to the general public, station in life by becoming a student at Harding bookings must reach the Trust by Mon­ the Open University. The comedy of Directed by Margaret Davis day, May 16. the play comes from the interplay of the Musical Director: Grant Oven den opposing interests of student and tutor. Cast: James Bean, Paul Hunt, Steve BOOKING INFORMATION Amanda Muggleton needs no introduc­ Kidd, Jacqy Phillips, John Turnbull Sydney Entertainment Centre tion, she was last seen in PRIVATE Tue Jul 26 & Thu JuI 28 LIVES and is currently appearing in onsistent with its policy of produc­ at 7.30 p.m. "Richmond Hill". Terence Donovan is Cing new and innovative Australian AETT $69.00 also well known through his work, Griffin Theatre is presenting G.P. $73.00 appearances in television and film. ONLY HEAVEN KNOWS by Alex Pens $60.00 There will be two special AETT per­ Harding. In 1944, Sydney is considered Two AETT tickets per Member formances on Saturday, May 28 at 9 the Paris of the Southern Hemisphere p.m. and Sunday, May 29 at 6 p.m., at and the city offers many temptations to $5.00 discount per ticket. Members a war-weary population. A young may purchase as many tickets as they writer arrives from Melbourne in Need a Speaker? wish. search of life and love, and so a unique musical story begins. Margaret Davis, s your local Rotary Club, Ladies' the director, won this year's Fay Auxiliary or Professional Associ­ BOOKING INFORMATION I Phillip Street Theatre Mokotow Memorial Scholarship. ation looking for speakers? If so, you'll Tue May 24 to Sun Jun 26 be interested to know that the Trust Tue to Fri at 8 p.m. BOOKING INFORMATION provides speakers to community Sat 6 p.m. & 9 p.m., Sun 6 p.m. Stables Theatre groups free of charge. Staff members AETT $21.90, $18.90 (May 28 (9 p.m.) Tue May 3 to Sun May 29 welcome the opportunity to talk about & May 29 (6 p.m.) Tue to Sat at 8.15 p.m. the fascinating history of the Trust and G.P. $23.90 Sat & Sun at 5 p.m. its continuing role in fostering the arts Pens/Stud $14.90 AETT $14.00, G.P. $17.00 in Australia. Enquiries should be Two AETT tickets per Member except Pens/Stud $10.00 directed to Carol Martin on 357 1200. May 28129 Two AETT tickets per Member 3 background of colonial warfare, Genet Coward Nostalgia has fashioned a majestic celebration of death, treachery and rebellion. THE NOEL AND GERTIE by Sheridan SCREENS is extravagant, hilarious Morley and ferocious and was Genet's last tes­ Director: Jon Ewing tament to the theatre. It is the first time Designer: Roger Kirk this play has been produced in Aus­ tralia, but many Members will prob­ Choreography: Nancye Hayes ably remember Genet's most Cast: Geraldine Turner, Peter Carroll, well-known play THE MAIDS which Bill Collins has been produced in Sydney. THE SCREENS will be performed in the heridan Morley devised this revue new NIDA theatre which is housed in Sto celebrate the long-standing NIDA's new drama school. friendship between Noel Coward and At a cost of $8.6 million, the school ~ Gertrude Lawrence. Despite their pri­ was officially opened by the Prime ~ Ii:: vate and public battles, Coward wrote Minister last month. A state-of-the-art .::1 PRIVATE LIVES for Gertrude, and development, the main theatre has 150 ::::: indeed starred in it with her. NOEL G fixed seats with the flexibility to add incredibly absurd situations, but per­ AND GERTIE contains many excerpts more and a large open stage. from Coward's plays and songs and haps it isn't as far removed from real excerpts from both their memoirs. life as it appears. There will be two BOOKlNG INFORMATION special Trust nights on Tuesday, June NIDA Theatre 21 and Wednesday, June 22. Wed May 25 to Sun Jun 5 Tue to Sat at 7.30 p.m. Sun at 5 p.m. BOOKlNG INFORMATION AETT discount $2.00 Ensemble Theatre Bookings on 697 7600 Wed Jun 15 to Sun lun 19 Tue to Sun at 8 p.m. Sat & Sun at 5 p.m., Thu at 11 a.m. AETT $15.00(Jun 21122), $12.00(Thu mat), $19.00 (Fri) ~ WHY NOT USE OUR $17.00 (Mon to Thu & Sat/Sun mats) ~ EASY BOOKING LINE G.P. $14.00 (Thu mat), $21.00 (Fri/Sat) $19.00 (Mon to Thu & Sat/Sun mats) Pens/Stud $14.00 (exc Sat evg) Two AETT tickets per Member except It is an elegant evening of nostalgia, 357-1200 Jun 21/22 with Bill Collins as the narrator.
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