Left - Jolene AndersonAfter 4 years of planning and preparation and a season in Sydney, Kookaburra, Australia’s only national musical theatre company, announced this week that it finally lands in Melbourne on September 2nd at Her Majesty’s Theatre, with Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Tell me On a Sunday starring Jolene Anderson.
“We have been waiting for this moment for some time but wanted to get everything right before coming to wonderful Melbourne and spreading Kookaburra’s wings across the nation.” Said Peter Cousens Kookaburra’s CEO and Artistic Director Tell Me On A Sunday stars Jolene Anderson whom audiences will recognise from her current lead role as Nurse Erica Templeton on All Saints. Jolene was also winner, with David Campbell, of Channel 7’s hit TV talent show It Takes Two in 2007.
“Jolene brings enormous honesty and heart to this role in a way that intimately connects with Australian audiences everywhere”, says Kookaburra’s Peter Ross and director of Tell Me On A Sunday.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black's revised Tell Me On A Sunday charts the course of a single girl arriving in New York. Brimming with the optimism of ‘starting over’ she sets out to seek success, companionship and, of course, love. But as she weaves her way through the maze of the city and her own anxieties, frustrations and heartaches she begins to wonder whether - in fact - she's been looking for love in all the wrong places.
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the most prolific composers of our time having composed the music for Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom Of The Opera, Cats, Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Sunset Boulevard.
Kookaburra, Australia's national musical theatre company was established in 2006 by Peter Cousens with the ambition of being Australia’s key organisation for the development and promotion of musical theatre. “As a company with charitable tax status, we have created a blueprint for a musical theatre company never before seen in Australia.” says Cousens.
Kookaburra presents
Tell Me On A Sunday
by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black
Venue: Her Majesty’s Theatre
Dates: From September 2
Tickets: On Sale May 6
Bookings: Ticketek 132 849
To purchase tickets and for further information on Kookaburra The National Musical Theatre Company, visit www.kookaburra.org.au
