
What do you do when you’ve outgrown Sesame Street, where each day is brought to you by a different letter of the alphabet with upmost certainty? You move to the ambiguous adult world of Avenue Q.

The Melbourne Arts Centre has been hosting the Sound of Music Sing-A-Long for a number of years, this year it was held at Hamer Hall, and although most of us are no Julie Andrews, or for that matter Lady Gaga, the auditorium was filled with “the sound of music” and it was simply beautiful.

This lovely interpretation of Cinderella, is far from a rehash of a tried and true fairytale to Sergei Prokofiev’s score, it successfully marries old-fashioned storytelling, with a modern twist

Sharing the stories behind the song choices allows her to make a strong connection with the audience but it is when Lane sings that we are captivated.

With minimal staging, props and lighting changes, it is the vocal talents of the six performers that carry the show. The voices were beautiful and the character driven songs by far the most worthwhile.

Directed with a fluid panache by Susanna Dowling, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie is an enchanting entertainment that enhances the literary legacy left by May Gibbs.

Translating a non-musical film to a stage musical is always risky business. Sometimes it works and sometimes it really doesn’t. Luckily Bring It On the film already had a lot of musical characteristics to work with, so its stage counterpart needn’t have strayed too far from the original incarnation.