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Australian smash hit musical KEATING! is set to tour the nation in 2008
with Perth and Melbourne planned to be the first stops for this biting
political satire. Over the past two years, this outstanding show has
received pretty much every award going, culminating in outstanding
success at the 2007 Helpmann Awards.
KEATING! is a wickedly funny and clever musical comedy that burst into
life at the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, where it won
all available awards including the Barry Award for Most Outstanding
Show, The Age Critics’ Award and the Golden Gibbo. Following rave
reviews and standing ovations across Australia, writer/creator Casey
Bennetto won a Green Room Award in 2005 and a Helpmann Award in 2006;
both for Best Original Score.
In 2006, Bennetto invited acclaimed Company B Artistic Director Neil
Armfield to up the theatrical ante on his outlandish and acerbic
musical, reworking it to be bigger and better than ever. Since the
birth of that partnership, KEATING! has enjoyed further sold-out
seasons around Australia, including three in Sydney, a
'hottest-ticket-in-town' season at the 2006 Perth International Arts
Festival and seven packed-out weeks at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre
earlier this year. An amazing fourth Sydney season is coming up this
November/December, followed by return seasons in Perth from January 9
and Melbourne from February 13. Politicians can only dream of such a
run!
KEATING! was nominated for no less than four Helpmann Awards this year
and won three of them: Best Musical (ahead of The Boy from Oz, Miss
Saigon and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), Best Direction of a Musical
(Neil Armfield) and Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Terry Serio).
Casey Bennetto’s scathingly hilarious lyrics and glee-inducing array of
musical styles tear through the reign and tragic fall of the Placido
Domingo of Australian politics. Part French farce, part Greek tragedy,
and all Australian history, “the musical we had to have” transports you
back to a time less politically grey.
“Outrageous and outrageously funny” The Australian
“the best piece of Australian musical theatre in the past decade” The Age
“See it... only a scumbag wouldn't” Sunday Herald Sun”
Company B proudly presents
Keating!
by Casey Bennetto
Directed by Neil Armfield
Musical Director Casey Bennetto
Set Designer Brian Thomson
Costume Designer Jennifer Irwin
Lighting Designer Damien Cooper
Choreographer John O’Connell
Sound Designer Steve Francis
PERTH
Venue: The Regal
Dates: from Wednesday January 9
Times: Tuesday - Saturday @ 8.00pm, Sunday @ 5.00pm; Matinee Saturday @ 2.00pm
Bookings: Ticketek 132 849 www.ticketek.com
MELBOURNE
Venue: Comedy Theatre
Dates: from Wednesday February 13
Times: Tuesday - Saturday @ 8.00pm, Sunday @ 5.00pm; Matinee Saturday @ 2.00pm
Bookings: Ticketek 132 849 www.ticketek.com
TICKETS ON SALE ON MONDAY OCTOBER 22, 2007
Preview: $48.00 (Perth only)
Adult: $58.00
Concession: $53.00
Groups/Offers: $48.00
Saturday 8.00pm – all tickets $62.00
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