Tag: Sydney Opera House
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Sunset Boulevard
HIGH EYEBROW ARCH – ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Dramatic Premise I am big! It’s the pictures that got small! Norma Desmond (Sarah Brightman) is in a trance. She’s standing in her decaying palazzo. Her hands are clasped to her chest. She’s watching her own performance in Joan of Arc. She’s mesmerised. Enraptured. Behind her, writer Joseph Gillis (Tim Draxl),…
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a CATERPILLAR ARCH The Dramatic Premise Esme Nicoll is 4 years old. She spends her days at the Scriptorium in Banbury Street, Oxford, where her father is helping Sir James Murray compile the first Oxford English Dictionary. But whilst Sir James and his team of…
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Julia
JULIA caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a HIGH ARCH The Performance I can’t speak more highly of a performer who takes to the stage, largely alone, and holds an audience’s attention for ninety enthralling minutes. Following on from Eryn Jean Norville, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Heather Mitchell in RBG, Justine Clark delivers…
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The Piano Guys
THE PIANO GUYS caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a CATERPILLAR ARCH. The Show I never thought I’d see the day when two self-confessed “dorky dads” – one who plays the piano and another who plays the cello – would be welcomed to the stage like rock stars! Yet that’s what happened in the Sydney Opera…
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Velvet Rewired
VELVET REWIRED caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a CATERPILLAR ARCH. The Show Velvet Rewired is an intoxicating mix of disco, theatre, vaudeville, cabaret and Studio 54-style debauchery. Featuring disco legend, Marcia Hines, the show was a glittering rainbow of joy from start to finish. There’s a disco inferno burning up the dance floor. It’s a boogie wonderland which is raining…
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Amadeus
AMADEUS caused PETE’S EYEBROWS to form a CATERPILLAR ARCH The Dramatic Premise It’s 1781 and Antonio Salieri is the court composer to Emperor Joseph II in Vienna. He wants, with all his heart, to be the conduit of God’s glory through music. But he is about to meet child prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Across the…
