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Mark recently played for an old friend’s parents’ 60th anniversary celebration, including instrumentals from over 100 years of musical theatre, and accompanying an Opera Australia soloist, an Irish baritone, an 92 year old jazz trumpeter, and some impromptu singalongs from the very musical audience. The magic of music to bring generations together never grows cold…
I’m very much looking forward to our annual spring concert this Sunday 21/9. Exam pieces, just for fun pieces, and duets, covering over 300 years of music up to the present day. Every performance opportunity is highly valuable for students, and highly enjoyable for the audience of family and friends - especially in a relaxed atmosphere with drinks and nibbles…
Mark had a weekend in Melbourne in August to see three quite different but all great musicals:
“Kimberly Akimbo” - a co-production between Melbourne Theatre Company and State Theatre Company of South Australia, this was a new production of the original Tony-award winning Broadway production I saw in 2023, and it stood up very well by comparison. Congrats to Marina Prior, Christy Whelan Brown and the company, and director Mitchell Butel
“In the Heights” - the Australian production that has been touring for a while now, directed by Luke Joslin and with old acquaintance Lena Cruz (Lena played Svetlana in a production of Chess I did quite a few years ago) as the grandmother “Abuela” - great production, especially the chorey and band!
“Beetlejuice” - starring the composer Eddie Perfect in the title role, it was a high enerby laugh from start to finish
Of course, I highly recommend everyone to support Australian live theatre…