What's On

Aspect Theatre Company presents CABARET to be performed at The Shirley Burke Theatre 64 Parkers rd. Parkdale. Season commences Friday 23rd July 8pm (sold out)
Sat 24th 2pm & 8pm Sun 25th 5pm Thurs 29th 8pm Fri 30th 8pm Sat 31st 2pm & 8pm....

Cast List Sally Bowles - Maree Barnet
Clifford Bradshaw - Stefan Trentini
Emcee - John Davidson
Fr Schneider - Diane Weisner-Dwyer
Herr Schultz- Colin Prosser
Fr Kost - Katie Hopkins
Ernst Ludwig -David Higgins
Max- Tony Hosemans
Kit Kat Girls - Louisa Mitchel, Taryn Gore, Kate O'meara, Fran Hopkins
Laura Golden, Bridget Morissey, Katie Hopkins,
Male Ensemble- Dean Gorden, Daniel Payne, Daniel O'donoghue,
Fraser Mitchel, Andrew Weatherhead,
Female Ensemble- Marion Hammond, Alicia Beauchamp, Alana
Swallow, Aubrey Flood

Synopsis- Set in Berlin in 1934 Clifford Bradshaw a young American writer searching for inspiration for his 2nd novel meets Ernst Ludwig on a train, he introduces him to Fr schneider who runs a boarding house where Cliff rents a room, Ernst who seems to be running a smuggling racket introduces him to the KIT KAT club a seedy club where he meets Sally Bowles a madcap but not overly gifted brittish singer she is introduced by the Emcee....Despite her rousing reception from the patrons of the club she finds herself fired, she flirts with Cliff & the next day he finds her at his doorstep bags in hand, he agrees to her moving in, time passes and Cliff finds himself getting nowhere with his novel but enjoying his affair with Sally, who becomes pregnant, he is offered a job by Ernst smuggling a briefcase into Germany needing the money he accepts....Fr Schneider who runs the boarding house is being courted by a Jewish widower Herr Schultz who also lives in the boarding house Fr Kost a prostitute who also lives in the boarding house discovers Scnieder and Schultz are having an affair so Herr Schulttz announces they are getting engaged.At the engagement party Ernst Ludwig arrives wearing a swastika armband, Cliff also turns up at the party with the suitcase he has smuggled, when Ernst realizes that Herr Schultz is a Jew he decides to leave the party, Fr Kost lures him back with a Nazi song. The guests all join in and the party turns sour.

Fr Schneider breaks her emgagement to Schultz because she is afraid what will happen to them both when the Nazis come in to power. Cliff decides to take Sally to America as Berlin is not going to be the place to raise a family , but Sally who loves Berlin and her life at the Kit Kat club refuses. They have a savage argument & she disappears, she returns the next day having aborted Cliffs child. Heartbroken Cliff prepares to leave and offers Sally to come with him to Paris. Sally is trapped in her delusions so Cliff leaves and decides to write about Sally and the people of Berlin as the live in his memory. Meanwhile the threat of what is to come looms over larger and we sense that Cliffs novel will somehow document not only the place and the people but the moment that will change the world forever....

Booking Details:
www.aspecttheatre.com  or ph:9580-8415
Tickets:....Adults $28. Concession $23. children $19

The Monash University Musical Company (MUMCo) will present David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane’s hilarious Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the end of July at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clayton.

The musical premiered in San Diego, California on September 22, 2004, before moving to Broadway in January 2005 and officially opening in March at the Imperial Theatre. The show closed on Broadway on September 3, 2006 with a total of 626 performances. The cast included John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, and Sherie Rene Scott, with Joanna Gleason and Gregory Jbara. Nominated for 11 Tony Awards, the show won Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Norbert Leo Butz’s hilarious portrayal of Freddy Benson.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels centers on two con men living on the French Riviera. The first is the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. The other, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health.

After meeting at a classy French Resort, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female target, heiress Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town. A hilarious battle of cons ensues, that will keep audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the end!

MUMCo’s production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is being directed by Tyler Hess, choreographed by Sophie Briggs and Leah Osburn and musically directed by Natalie Reid. The production will showcase the talents of over 50 cast and crew members, many of which are current Monash University students. MUMCo is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing quality, student-produced musical theatre to the Monash University and surrounding communities.

Performances will take place from July 29th – August 7th at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clayton. Evening performances will take place at 8pm on Thursday 29th, Friday 30th, Saturday 31st, Thursday 5th, and Friday 6th with a 2pm matinee on Sunday 1st and 6pm shows on Wednesday 4th and Saturday 7th.

Bookings can be made through the Alexander Theatre Box Office on 9905 1111 or online at www.monash.edu.au/monart/whatson.htm
 

Tomorrow Morning is an award winning musical by British composer and lyricist Laurence Mark Wythe. The show was first seen in London in 2006 at the New End Theatre, and was later presented at Victory Gardens Greenhouse Theater in Chicago in 2008. The show's website announces an o...ff-Broadway production in the planning stages.[1] The show won a 2009 Jeff Award for Best Musical (midsize) and also won the award for Best Artistic Specialization

The show is an original musical centering around two couples, Jack and Catherine (who are in their late 30s, & John and Kat, who are in their early 20s. Jack and Catherine are getting divorced, John and Kat are getting married.

Tomorrow Morning is an intimate four-person musical that at times plays like a revue but unlike shows such as Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown, I Love you You're Perfect Now Change by Roberts & DiPietro or Closer than Ever by Maltby & Shire, Tomorrow Morning takes the form of the intimate four-hander musical further and weaves the songs around a storyline that intricately ties the two couples together across the span of time.

Directed by: Joel Batalha
Musically Directed by: Glen Barnett
Choreographed by: Josie White
Starring: Natasha Bassett, Jonathan Guthrie-Jones, Krystal Shute and Blake Testro

FRI 3RD AND FRI 10TH HAVE SOLD OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHOW DATES:
Wed 1st September (Gala Opening: Tickets $35)*
Thurs 2nd September
Fri 3rd September
Sat 4th September
Wed 8th September
Thurs 9th September
Fri 10th September
Sat 11th September

* Gala Opening is a red carpet event (No denim please) and includes a complimentary drink and nibbles

All shows start at 8pm and all tickets are $30 ($35 for Gala Opening)

For ticket purchases call Glen on 0417 692 092 or email justus_productions@hotmail.com