ISSN 0314-0598 NOVEMBER, 1984, VOL 8, No. 7 ALVIN AILEY LA CAGE AUX FOLLES on the weekend we have arranged dress TOUR circle seats at $5 .00 discount for Saturday Keith Michell will play the lead in the evening March 9. As tickets are dearer on Broadway musical LA CAGE AUX a Saturday than a week night the Trust FOLLES which opens in Australia at Her price on March 9 is dearer than the Trust Majesty's Theatre, Sydney on Saturday nights and Members are restricted to two March 2, 1985. • tickets each . Additional tickets may of We are delighted to announce that the The musical, which is based on the same course be purchased at the general public Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust will Jean Poi ret farce as the highly successful price. A $3.00 discount applies to all other be touring the Alvin Ailey Dance film of the same name is written by Harvey performances Monday to Thursday Company throughout Australia during Fierstein (who w rote TORCH SONG (including Wednesday matinee) for the 1985. Considered to be the most exciting TRILOGY) with musical score by Jerry first four weeks of the season . Your dance company in the world today the Herman. It swept the boards at the 1984 booking coupon is enclosed . Australian tour of this remarkable Tony Awards, winning best musical, best American company is the result of years director, best actor, best costumes, best of negotiation. It will play in the Lyric script and best musical score. LA CAGE Theatre, Sydney Entertainment Centre in has been running on Broadway since August 1985. Booking facilities will be August 1983 and a second production has offered to Trust Members shortly. opened in San Francisco starring Keith Members who are subscribers to The Michell Australian Ballet will be notified La Cage aux Folies is a Saint-Tropez drag separately by The Australian Ballet and club run by Georges (to be played by should book through the Ballet in orderto Keith Michell). Its star performer is the retain their subscription seating. Please incredible Zaza who, when he takes off his mark the application form clearly to show dress and wig, is also Albin, Georges' that you are an AETT Member (and quote lover for twenty years. Years ago, just to your membership number) as AETT see what heterosexuality was all about, Members will be offered an additional Georges spent a few hours with a benefit. showgirl. The result was Jean-Michel who has lived with Georges and Albin ever since. Unfortunately for Jean-Michel he falls in love with the daughter of the head of DIARY UPDATE France's Tradition, Family and Morality party. How is he to explain his 'family' to NOVEMBER his potential father-in-law? This then is the basic plot of the musical 7, 8, 12 - TAKING STEPS, The but the reason for its popular success Ensemble according to the New York Times is that it 9, 12, 14 - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, "is an extravagantly produced, old­ Her Majesty's fashioned family musical, containing Keith Michell 9, 12 - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, likeable characters . a sentimental love Theatre Royal story, sumptuous sets and costumes - 12, 13, 14 - IL MAGNIFICO, Nimrod and that rarity, new songs that can be 14 - Breakfast at Sails hummed on the way home." MITCHELLS BASS HOTLINE 16 - Dinner and Ballet The producers of the Australian show will We wish to advise Members that our 20, 22 - THE BLIND GIANT IS be bringing to Australia all of the creative arrangement with Mitchells - Bass DANCING, STC people involved in the Broadway whereby Members had complimentary 21 , 22 - MIDDLE AGED SPREAD, production including director Arthur access to their Hotline will terminate on Stables Laurents, choreographer, Scott Salmon, December 31 , 1984. We have not sought 22 (mat) - SLEEPING BEAUTY, Lyric and Ted Azar who devised the original to renew this arrangement as we learned 26, 27 - LOVE AND THE SINGLE wigs and make-up. from the survey of Members conducted TEENAGER. Griffin Trust Member nights when a $7 .00 earlier this year that Members do not discount applies are Monday March 4and value this benefit highly. Our own ticket Tuesday March 5 when Members may booking facility is in the process of being DECEMBER purchase up to ten tickets each . For those streamlined and ultimately will include a 5 - CAMELOT dinner Members who prefer to attend the theatre facility for telephone bookings. Trust News is the newsletter of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust which is mailed free of charge to its 5000 Sydney members, eight times per year. The price concessions and advance booking facilities offered in this newsletter are available only to members of the A.E.T.T. Those wishing to join the Trust should complete the New Member Application form on the enclosed Trust Member Booking Coupons and return it to the Trust for processing. Anyone who would like further information about the facilities available to Trust Members should ring the membership office on 3571200. The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, P.O. Box 137, Kings Cross , N.S.w. 2011 . NEW SHOW BY RED WEATHER AUSTRALIAN FILM INSTITUTE member activities AWARDS BREAKFAST AT SAILS Wednesday November 14 at 10 a.m. IN the AFl's annual presentation of Following the success of our breakfast at awards to the Australian film industry, Mischa's earlier in the year, we have held last week in Melbourne, ANNIE'S arranged breakfast at Sails, Rose Bay COMING OUT won the award for best (Lyne Park, New South Head Road) . feature film and its star Angela Punch Tickets are $15.00 each and the morning McGregor won the award for best actress. will Include a parade of hats by leading Directed by Gil Brealey ANNIE'S milliner Calvert. Do bring your friends! COMING OUT is the true story of Anne BALLET AND DINNER McDonald, a cerebral palsy sufferer who Friday November 16 at 6 p.m. is a patient in a hospital for the Tickets are still available for Members and handicapped. The film is the story of the their friends who wish to attend the battle to release her from institutional life. Sydney premiere of the Australian Ballet's John Patterson and Chris Borthwick, the SLEEPING BEAUTY at the Lyric Theatre, film 's writers also won the award for best Entertainment Centre. Dinner will be "New wave" theatre group Red Weather adaptation from another medium . taken at the Cosmopolitan Restaurant at will present WHISTLING IN THE DARK at Winner of best actor was John the centre beforehand and the price (for the Seymour Centre Downstairs from Hargreaves for his portrayal of the both dinner and A Reserve seats) is $46 .00 November 14 to December1 . It is Red husband in Paul Cox's MY FIRST WIFE, a - only $6.00 more than the normal price Weather's third Sydney production film about the anguish of marital of openi ng night tickets. following their highly successful breakdown. Awards for best supporting CAMELOT DINNER - AD LIB productions of RED WEATHER and KEEP actor and supporting actress went to RESTAURANT THE DREAM RUNNING for the last Steve Bisley and Anna Jemison for their Wednesday December 5 at 6 p.m. Sydney Festival. James Waites writing in roles in SILVER CITY, the first feature film Members who have already purchased the National Times said of their last by Sophia Turkiewicz, a graduate of the tickets to see Richard Harris in CAMELOT production " They succeed in showing us Australian Film and Television School. on Wednesday December 5 are invited to what new wave theatre artists are about, Set in the late 1940's and early 1950's it is have dinner beforehand at the Ad Lib and why we should pay attention to about Polish immigrants and the attitude Restaurant just across the road from the them." of Australians to their arrival. Entertainment Centre. Price for two courses with coffee and wine is $17.00 per WHISTLING IN THE DARK is a person . performance about liberation , a NEW SEASON AT NIMROD CHRISTMAS COCKTAIL PARTY celebration of the unconventional and Nimrod has just announced details of its Thursday December 20, 7.30-9.30 p.m. diverse aspects of our civilised lives. 1985 season to be held in three venues at This year our Christmas get together for Through the stories and music of their the Seymour Centre. The programme Members will have a special significance Grotesque Orchestra RED WEATHER includes a considerable variety of plays­ as it is also the occasion on which we will confront what co-director Andrew old, new, borrowed and (even in one case) farewell our retiring General Manager, Lindsay describes as "those irregularities a trifle blue. Full details are given in the Jeffry Joynton-Smith who has held that and eccentricities that make us human". enclosed brochure. Member concessions position with the Trust for 15 years. Nicoletta Boris and Andrew Lindsay who are not available on the subscription price Members are warmly invited to join us for form the partnership on which Red but a $1 .00 concession applies Monday to cocktails and light refreshments at the Weather is based , met while studying at Thursday and Saturday matinees for Trust's Kings Cross office. Tickets are Le Coq mime school in Paris where they Single performance purchases. Trust $7 .00 each. expanded their experimetal concept of Member nights will also be available for all the Buffoon. The Buffoon is an oversized , productions and details will be given in mis-shapen parody of a human being Trust News throughout the year. whose actions and thoughts are an inverse mirror of everyday life.