
Some things never change: mercifully, the music of Cole Porter is as current now as it was in 1936, when Anything Goes first opened in Sydney – except back then it caused quite a fervor due to its ribald and raunchy delivery!

The show must go on! Even when the actor playing a pivotal role is struck down with illness after the first preview.

Set is a gently amusing piece. It’s playful, enjoying its visual puns and the juxtaposition of everyone’s favourite love song against a literal interpretation of the words, a shift from the earlier dominant droning music.

The Book of Kevin pleases on all fronts. Simply in terms of performances, it’s brilliant. The impersonations of Kevin Rudd and Bob Carr are spot-on, with every last little detail observed and preserved in the performance.

This concert was a fine showcase for the Omega Ensemble, which to my mind can take its place with the Song Company and Pinchgut Opera as musical endeavours brought about by brilliant directors.

Epic. Dreamlike. Nightmarish. Disturbing. Confronting. Thrilling. Biblical. Poetic. Perfect theatre. Go see it.

About 30 years ago Willy Russell wrote a small scale musical, one that went on to become one of the longest running on the West End. Blood Brothers may have been small in scale, but its themes were as epic as any Greek tragedy.