Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

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Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/17/09 at 11:31pm

Season announced next Wednesday night.

The Drowsy Chaperone is the first show of the season.

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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

#2

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/18/09 at 7:58am

Lovely! Any cast information yet?

#3

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/18/09 at 10:19am

Geoffery Rush as the Man In The Chair

Marina Prior has been cast as well

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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

#4

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/18/09 at 10:24am

Geoffrey Rush will be really good!

Marina will do the Sutton Foster role, no doubt. I think she'll do it well.

Looks like a trip to Melbourne is in order.

#5

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/19/09 at 8:38am

Marina is playing Kitty. There is no way that Marina Prior could pull off the kind of feats required of the Janet role. Others in the cast are rumoured to be Richard Piper and Robyn Nevin (WTF?).

Updated On: 9/19/09 at 08:38 AM

#6

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/19/09 at 8:56am

Lucy Durack would've been great at Janet van de Graff, but she'll still be in Wicked.

Robyn Nevin could easily play the Chaperone.

#7

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/19/09 at 11:10pm

Robyn Nevin isn't exactly known for her sense of humour. She is playing Mrs Tottendale a role that requires her to do spit takes and play the ukelele. Both of which I would have thought outside her talent realm.

Lucy Durack couldn't pull off Janet (thank God she is contracted to WICKED). That role has gone to someone (can't think of her name) that was in The Production Company's THE BOYFRIEND.

Updated On: 9/19/09 at 11:10 PM

#8

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/20/09 at 7:04am

I'd love to see Geraldine Turner as the Chaperone, and Chloe Dallimore (was she in Boyfriend?) as Janet. Richard Piper could be Feldzieg?

Anyone know if the MTC will be using the original Gallo set design?

With Geoffrey Rush, Marina Prior and Robyn Nevin attached, plus obviously others to come, this is shaping up to be an amazing production.

#9

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/20/09 at 7:18am

My partner and I were lucky enough to see the entire original cast on Broadway. I think Adolfo will be very tough to cast.

#10

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/20/09 at 8:38am

I believe Richard Piper is playing Underling.

#11

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 1:31am

Alex Rathgeber is playing Robert in TDC.

http://www.doorstepensemble.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=50&Itemid=55

MTC's line up looks pretty damn strong. Interesting, they haven't put Marina in the cast list for TDC.

Heidi Arena
Shane Jacobson
Robyn Nevin
Richard Piper
Grant Piro
Geoffrey Rush

Updated On: 9/23/09 at 01:31 AM

#12

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 8:55am

Shane Jacobson that has to be a mistake!

#13

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 8:58am

No, Shane will be a good pastry chef brother/gangster - but they will need to find someone of a similar build to play his brother. Grant Piro will do Adolfo, I suspect - I saw him to Carmen Ghia in THE PRODUCERS and he was quite excellent.

rosscoe(au), could you please change the title of this thread to THE DROWSY CHAPERONE so people will know - we're not really covering the MTC season here so far.

#14

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 8:28pm

Shane Jacobson is the only person I've seen who failed to get an ovation of any sort with his Sit Down You're Rockin The Boat. Talk about flat.

#15

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 9:13pm

His Sit Down was rather, well yeah.

As for the rest of the season, apart from Ruhl's Dead Mans Cell Phone, there really is not a lot that makes want to see any of it. Which is disapointing.

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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

#16

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:07pm

Shane Jacobson is the only person I've seen who failed to get an ovation of any sort with his Sit Down You're Rockin The Boat. Talk about flat
You obviously didn't see the Broadway revival. Ugh.

He got standing ovations a couple of times I saw the show in Sydney and Melbourne.

They've got some duplicates with the Sydney season. A couple of things stand out for me, no Streetcar mentioned on their schedule and am interested to see All About My Mother.

Updated On: 9/23/09 at 10:07 PM

#17

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 10:42pm

Streetcar will not be a co production and if it's too happen it will go somewhere like the Comedy. An anouncement for it wont be until at least years end of early next year.

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Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist. Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino. This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more. Tazber's: Reply to Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian

#18

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/23/09 at 11:04pm

Thanks for that. Comedy would be a good theatre to hold it.

Forgot to add looks like I'll be seeing a couple of Joanna Murray-Smith productions next season

The Australian's take on MTC season.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,26115800-16947,00.html

Updated On: 9/23/09 at 11:04 PM

#19

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/24/09 at 1:29am

Could someone tell me who is Heidi Arena?

#20

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/24/09 at 11:28am

She is/was in the ensemble cast of Thank God You're Here, and also in The Librarians.

#21

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/24/09 at 9:33pm

So she is the Chaperone I take it.

#22

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/24/09 at 9:41pm

I thought Shane was one of the best people in GUYS & DOLLS. No-one got an ovation for any song when I saw it, but every song went down very well.

I think he'll be great in TDC.

#23

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/26/09 at 7:38pm

Heidi Arena as the Chaperone? Hells no - she's way too inexperienced in musical theatre, and is a little young (and by "little young", I mean "20 years young".

I'd expect her to play Kitty, and Marina Prior to play Chaperone, but alterego has already said that Marina Prior is playing Kitty.

Maybe she's a fierce dancer and will play Janet?

Anyone else think Shane Jacobsen would be great as Adolpho?

#24

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/26/09 at 11:06pm

I'd heard another name for Janet. Marina Prior as the Chaperone? Surely not. That role is well beyond her limited range.

#25

re: Melbourne Theatre Company 2010

Posted: 9/27/09 at 8:36am

Well, if she's not Kitty, Chaperone or Janet, then she might just be in the ensemble (there was a four member ensemble in the original production).