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- Catherine Della Bosca
To quote Veronica Sawyer “Lick it up baby. Lick it up.” And that’s exactly what the audience did at Heathers The Musical, currently playing at the Arts Centre Melbourne.
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- Heather Bloom
Edith Piaf – singer, songwriter, actress, and as far removed from the Hollywood wholesome ingénue as possible. Born (as legend has it) in the Parisian gutters in 1915, Piaf’s life wove a tragic tale from street busker, to cabaret star eventually becoming one of France’s greatest international stars.
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- Vito Mattarelli
The Golden era of Hollywood gave the world a number of classic musicals. Few are more memorable than MGM's glorious salute to its own history – Singin' in the Rain.
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- Diane Stubbings
Straight White Men arrives on our shores with the promise that audiences will be disturbed and ‘blindsided’; that they’ll come away feeling like they’ve had a ‘knife in the gut’. The reality of this MTC production doesn’t quite match the hype.
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- Heather Bloom
Based on the 1991 film of the same name, Dogfight is a brutal look into pre Vietnam War 1960s America, where heroes were young men with 13 weeks of military training and women, their playthings, objects of desire or in this case, humiliation.
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- Jane Canaway
So the premise behind Paper is that a group of ambitious journos hatch a plan to boost their failing readership figures by contriving a sex scandal to bring down their opposition.
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- Liza Dezfouli
After the Flood is a beautiful unpretentious work of storytelling, playing with tradition in ways both humorous and respectful. Mikelangelo and The Black Sea Gentlemen should be named national treasures, pronto.
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