RIVERSIDE THEATRES PRESENTS BELVOIR THEATRE 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 Overture O’KEEFE Melvyn Morrow’s first scripts were in the The Judge’s Song Performer record-breaking TV comedy hit, The Mavis GLENN Bramston Show. Melvyn’s musicals (book Andrew is the long-time co-host of Australia’s & lyrics) include Morality!, Postcards From Climbing Over Rocky Mountain highest-rating weekend breakfast show, AMER Performer Provence), Vroom Vroom, Mad Louisa , as well as the hugely Weekend Sunrise Lawson, Offenbach In The Underworld and popular host of the iconic game-show A unique entertainer, Glenn has been working My Name is John Wellington Wells Deal or When It Happens and the popular Christmas with singers since his first concert at the age The Sorcerer No Deal and now its successor, The Chase. pantomime . of eleven. He cannot remember how many Santa Meets The Bushrangers Andrew’s television career started in 2003 as The Curate’s Song singers he has played for, but for many years Melvyn’s TV credits include Star Search a character actor and writer for the ARIA- The Sorcerer was the exclusive accompanist to Rita Hunter and many ABC/ Australia simulcasts nominated sketch comedy series, . Big Bite and Horst Hoffmann. He also regularly appears including the Tribute to Dame When I Was A Lad Since then, in addition to Weekend Sunrise with David Hobson and . 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 I Am A Pirate King two seasons of The Rich List and the chat and George Grossmith, was produced by world, having appeared with many artists such The Pirates of Penzance 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 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 The Pirates of Penzance various opera companies (, Over the years, Melvyn has updated book and Andrew trained as a classical singer and When I Go Out Of Door Opera Queensland and Pacific Opera) and lyrics for Opera Australia’s attained an A.Mus. A (Singing). His musical Patience The Seven Sopranos, these days Glenn is also (four productions) and The Mikado, and for theatre debut was in the role of Herod in The found touring the world presenting his one- Simon Gallaher’s Gilbert and Sullivan trilogy, Entrance and March of the Peers Really Useful Group’s 2013 sell-out national man show (he is a singer too, and has been The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado and Iolanthe tour of Jesus Christ Superstar in which he described as having ‘the fingers of Liberace H.M.S. Pinafore. performed alongside Tim Minchin, Mel B and The Sentry’s Song and the voice of Mario Lanza’)! John Stevens. Since then, he has appeared With David Mitchell, Melvyn wrote the Iolanthe as the Pirate King in The Harvest Rain Theatre He has featured on TV shows all over musicals Peter Dawson – Off The Record and When Britain Really Ruled the Waves Company 2015 production of The Pirates of the world, with broadcasts in Japan, Here Comes Showtime and the lyrics for the 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 his favourites, in addition to his regular Matt Dillon) Melvyn plays include Beating A cabaret of Flanders & Swann, Glorious Mud! Iolanthe broadcasts in Australia. Retreat, A Touch Of Paradise and Vice. He is Andrew also has extensive experience in the co-writer of the national hits, SHOUT! and Disagreeable Man improvised comedy and was a member Glenn is a passionate collector of historic 78s Dusty – The Original Pop Diva. Princess Ida of team that won the World and has approximately 25,000 of them. He devised and directed the cabarets Tit Willow Improvisation Championships at the Just For He is the only artist in the history of 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 There is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast Andrew originally trained as a lawyer, which won the 2006 Australian Writers’ Guild Compact Discs. Glenn was the youngest The Mikado 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 Ghosts’ High Noon O’Keefe. Andrew worked for five years in recordings were made for the Mastertouch In 1996, Melvyn was nominated for a Mo Ruddigore 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 DIRECTOR We’re Called Gondolieri ROBERT LOVE The Gondoliers BUSINESS MANAGER Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes PAMELA THORNTON The Gondoliers MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER JONATHAN LLEWELLYN Some Seven Men Form an Association OPERATIONS MANAGER Utopia Limited LINDA TAYLOR The Roulette Song EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, The Grand Duke NATIONAL THEATRE OF PARRAMATTA JOANNE KEE Grand Finale Medley of Gilbert and Sullivan Airs Arranged by Glenn Amer

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