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Sharon Millerchip
Sharon Millerchip is an Australian actress, dancer, director, and choreographer, best known for her performances in major musical theatre productions. Millerchip grew up in Davidson, New South Wales and attended Kambora Public School and Davidson High School, where she participated in the dance program. Growing up, she attended Johnny Young Talent School, and during high school, she performed with the Forest Youth Theatre Company. After enrolling in college for dance, she auditioned for and was accepted into the Australian of production of ''Cats.'' She understudied several roles before she took over the role of Demeter. Millerchip played Meg Giry in the original Australian production of ''The Phantom of the Opera.'' She also originated the role of Little Red Ridinghood in the Sydney Theatre Company production of ''Into the Woods'' opposite Philip Quast as the Big Bad Wolf/ Cinderella’s Prince. Further Sydney Theatre Company credits include originating the role of Cordeli ...
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Davidson, New South Wales
Davidson is a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Davidson is located 20 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Northern Beaches Council. Davidson is part of the Forest District. Location Davidson is adjacent to Belrose and Frenchs Forest and is located on the eastern edge of the Garigal National Park. Davidson is located approximately from the Sydney CBD. Davidson comprises part of the "Forest" area, which also encompasses the suburbs of Belrose, Frenchs Forest, Forestville, Killarney Heights, Terrey Hills and Duffys Forest. The Forest forms part of the Northern Beaches Council jurisdiction, which encompasses a large part of the Northern Beaches area of Sydney. History Davidson was named for Sir Walter Davidson, Governor of New South Wales from 18 February 1918 to 4 September 1923. A park was dedicated in his honour in this area in 1923 and the developing suburb later t ...
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Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf is a fictional wolf appearing in several cautionary tales, including some of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales''. Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works, and it has become a generic archetype of a menacing predatory antagonist. Interpretations "Little Red Riding Hood", " The Three Little Pigs", " The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids", " The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and the Russian tale ''Peter and the Wolf'', reflect the theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly, but the general theme of restoration is very old. The dialogue between the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has its analogies to the Norse ''Þrymskviða'' from the '' Elder Edda''; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölner, Thor's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return. Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja not having slept, or eaten, or ...
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Fangirls (musical)
''Fangirls'' is an Australian stage musical with book, music, and lyrics by Yve Blake. It concerns 14-year-old Edna, a diehard fan of the biggest boy band in the world, True Connection (a parody reference to One Direction), and its lead singer Harry. It was inspired by interviews with hundreds of teenage fangirls. The original production premiered on 7 September 2019 at Queensland Theatre, before transferring to Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney on 12 October 2019. In 2021, ''Fangirls'' returned for a national tour of Australia. ''Fangirls'' received critical acclaim. The musical won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Production of a Musical, Matilda Award for Best Musical or Cabaret, and the 2020 AWGIE Award for Music Theatre. The world premiere cast recording was released in 2021 via Ghostlight Records. At the 2021 ARIA Music Awards, the album was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack or Musical Theatre Cast Album. A London production co-produced by the Lyric Hammersmi ...
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Ensemble Theatre
The Ensemble Theatre is an Australian theatre company and theatre, situated in the Sydney suburb of Kirribilli, New South Wales. History It is Australia's longest continuously running professional theatre group, having given its first performance in Cammeray Children's Library on 11 May 1958. It relocated to the current premises in the old boatshed on the shore of Careening Cove in 1960. The theatre was founded by Hayes Gordon AO OBE along with the Ensemble Studios acting school, which introduced Stanislavsky-influenced method acting to Australia. Ensemble Studios was Australia's longest surviving acting school when it closed in 2009. Gordon passed on the position of Artistic Director of Ensemble Theatre to Sandra Bates in 1986, but remained Principal of the acting school until his death in 1999. Bates was joined by Mark Kilmurry first as her deputy and then as co-director, with Kilmurry replacing Bates upon her retirement in 2015. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austra ...
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Bombshells (play)
''Bombshells'' is a play by Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith. Synopsis Six monologues made famous by the diva Caroline O'Connor, exposing six women balancing their inner and outer lives with humour and often desperate cunning. They range in age from a feisty teenager to a 64-year-old widow yearning for the unexpected. References {{reflist 2000s Australian plays 2004 plays First production ''Bombshells'' was first presented by Melbourne Theatre Company at the Fairfax Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia, on 28 December 2001, with the following production team: *Performer: Caroline O'Connor *Director: Simon Phillips *Designer: Shaun Gurton *Composer: Elena Kats-Chernin *Lighting Designer: David Murray This production was revived at the same venue from 26 February 2004 and transferred to the York Theatre, Seymour Centre, Sydney, Australia, from 30 April 2004. A reduced version—consisting of four monologues—was presented as part of the Edinburgh F ...
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Love Never Dies (musical)
''Love Never Dies'' is a Musical theatre, romantic musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glenn Slater, and a book by Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton, Frederick Forsyth, and Slater. It is a sequel to the long-running 1986 musical ''The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical), The Phantom of the Opera'' and was loosely adapted from Forsyth's 1999 novel ''The Phantom of Manhattan''. The plot is not based on the storyline in the original The Phantom of the Opera (novel), 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. Lloyd Webber stated, "I don't regard this as a sequel—it's a stand-alone piece." He later clarified, "Clearly, it is a sequel, but I really do not believe that you have to have seen ''Phantom of the Opera'' to understand ''Love Never Dies''." Glenn Slater subsequently explained that Lloyd Webber "didn’t view it as a sequel as much as 'a second story with these characters'". The musical is set in 1907, which Lloyd Webber states is "ten years roughly after the end of the original ''P ...
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Velma Kelly
Velma Kelly is one of the main characters in the successful 1975 Broadway musical ''Chicago''. Kelly is based on the character "Velma", who first appeared in the 1926 play, also called ''Chicago'', who was in-turn inspired by events in the life of Belva Gaertner. Character background Kelly is a nightclub singer/vaudevillian who had mediocre success as part of an acrobatics double act with her sister Veronica until, when she catches Veronica with her husband Charlie while on tour, she presumably kills them both (though she denies remembering it). She is sent to the Cook County Jail where she hires the best soliciting lawyer, Billy Flynn, a master of turning cases into a media circus to free his clients. The attention prompts an offer from the William Morris Agency to pay her more than fourteen times what she had made as her share of the proceeds from the double act with Veronica—once she is acquitted. Kelly's plans are upended when Roxie Hart, a failed vaudeville aspirant acc ...
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Chicago (musical)
''Chicago'' is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the Jazz Age, the musical is based on a Chicago (play), 1926 play of the same title by Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal". The world premiere of the musical was a Broadway tryout from April 8, 1975, to May 3, 1975, at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. The original Broadway theatre, Broadway production opened on June 3, 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances, until August 27, 1977. Fosse directed and choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. It debuted in the West End theatre, West End in 1979, where it ran for 600 performances. ''Chicago'' was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. The ...
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Rachael Beck
Rachael Elizabeth Beck (born 2 September 1971) is an Australian stage and television singer-actress. From 1991 to 1994 Beck had a major role on the popular sitcom, '' Hey Dad..!'', as Samantha Kelly. From 2006 to 2008, Beck appeared on all three seasons of Seven Network's celebrity singing competition '' It Takes Two'', as a singing coach successively for Mark Furze, Ernie Dingo and Mark Wilson. She has appeared in the Australian musical theatre productions of ''Cats'' (1985), Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1995–96), ''Les Misérables'' (1995–96), ''The Sound of Music'' (August 2000 to February 2001), ''Cabaret'', '' Singing in the Rain'' and ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''. Beck released her first solo album ''This Girl'' on 7 March 2014. Biography Beck grew up in Sydney, and her father John Beck directed her in school musicals. She has a brother and sister. At nine years old, Beck was performing at Eisteddfods where she sang "The Count" (from ''Sesame Street''). She atte ...
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Belle (Disney Character)
Belle is a fictional character in Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast (franchise), Beauty and the Beast'' franchise. First appearing in the Beauty and the Beast (1991 film), 1991 animated film, Belle is the Bibliophilia, book-loving daughter of an eccentric inventor who yearns for adventure and reprieve from her mundane village existence. When her father is imprisoned by a cold-hearted beast, Belle offers her own freedom in exchange for his. Despite his outward appearance, she gradually befriends the Beast (Disney character), Beast, who learns kindness and compassion in return. The character was created by screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who Disney had hired to adapt the "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tale into an animated musical about a Strong female character, strong heroine. Determined to create a proactive, intelligent female character, Woolverton drew inspiration from the women's movement and actress Katharine Hepburn's portrayal of Jo March in the ...
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Beauty And The Beast (musical)
''Beauty and the Beast'' is a musical, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and book by Linda Woolverton. Adapted from Walt Disney Pictures' animated film – which in turn was based on "Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont – it tells the story of an unkind prince who has been magically transformed into an unsightly creature as punishment for his selfish ways. To revert into his true human form, the Beast must learn to love a bright, beautiful young lady who he has imprisoned in his enchanted castle and earn her love in return before it is too late. Critics, most of whom hailed the original film as one of the finest musicals in years, instantly noted its Broadway musical potential when it was first released in 1991, encouraging Disney CEO Michael Eisner to venture into Broadway. All eight songs from the animated film were reused in the musical, including a resurrected musical number which had been cut from the motion picture. ...
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Caroline O'Connor (actress)
Caroline Ann O'Connor is an Anglo-Australian singer, dancer, and actress. For her theatre work she has won three Helpmann Awards: Best Female Actor in a Play for Edith Piaf in '' Piaf'' in 2001; in the same category for Judy Garland in '' End of the Rainbow'' in 2006; and Best Female Actor in a Musical for Reno Sweeney in '' Anything Goes'' in 2015. Early life and education Caroline Ann O'Connor was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England, to Irish parents. After her family migrated to Australia she was brought up and educated in Sydney, where she took Irish dance lessons with Joy Ransley and Valerie McGrath. Note: includes two colour photos of the dancer. O'Connor had joined a touring dance troupe by August 1974, which travelled to Ireland, Paris, London, and the United States west coast. The troupe's members, including O'Connor, competed in the Irish Dancing World Championships, held in Dublin. At the age of 15 she returned to Dublin to appear in a dance competition and finish ...
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