Weekend of Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 August 2013

Foster War Memorial Arts Centre

The South Gippsland One Act Play Festival is hosted by Foster Amateur Music & Drama Association

Festival Address: Foster War Memorial Arts Centre, Main Street, Foster

Adjudicator 2013: Malcolm Sussman

Information & Entries: Marieke Ormsby, 6 Reserve Street, Foster 3960
Telephone: 0403 059 704     (03) 5682 1820 
Email: marieke @ satalyte.com.au    

Entries close: Friday 12 July 2013

GREAT PRIZES
Thanks to sponsorship from our local Community Bank branch of Bendigo Bank, there is on offer $2500 in prize money plus trophies including a $1000 cheque for the Bruce Crowl Award for the most outstanding production.

Bruce Crowl Award – Most Outstanding Production = $1000 plus a trophy
Runner-up Most Outstanding Production = $200
Most Outstanding Director = $250 plus a trophy
Most Outstanding Male Actor = $250 plus a trophy
Most Outstanding Female Actor = $250 plus a trophy
Most Outstanding Support Actor = $100 plus a trophy
Design Award = $100 plus a trophy
Adjudicator’s Award = $100 plus a trophy
Most Outstanding Youth Performance = $100 plus a trophy
Playwright’s Award*= $100 plus a trophy
            * Most Outstanding Original Play (first performed 2012 – 2013)

In addition
The Victorian Drama League provides a $50 Encouragement Award

FESTIVAL GUIDELINES

• Running time: Between 15 to 45-50 minutes per production
• Number of characters: At least 2
• “Bump in” time: 10 minutes, “bump out” time: 5 minutes
• Royalties: to be paid by the participant(s)
• A copy of the script should be sent with the entry
• Information about cast, play & company to be sent to FAMDA with the entry form for inclusion in the program
• We will run a separate Youth Section provided there are enough entries to warrant it
  
• Entry fees:  $50 per play, $20 for Youth entries

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Victorian One Act Play Festival Circuit 2013

The Mount Players 10^th One Act Play Festival
Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 July
The Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon

Dandenong Ranges One Act Play Festival
Saturday 20 – Sunday 21 July
Hosted by Gemco Players Community Theatre
The Gem Theatre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald

Ararat One Act Play Festival
Saturday 3 & Sunday4 August
Ararat Performing Arts Centre, Barkly St, Ararat

South Gippsland 13^th One Act Play Festival
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 August
Hosted by FAMDA (Foster Amateur Music & Drama Association)
Foster War Memorial Arts Centre, Main Street, Foster

Her Majesty’s Theatre – Royal South Street One Act Play Festival
Saturday 17  & Sunday 18 August
Hosted by Royal South Street Society
Her Majesty’s Theatre, 17 Lydiad Street, Ballarat

Anglesea 24th One Act Play Festival
Saturday 24  & Sunday 25 August
Anglesea Hall, McMillan Street, Anglesea

Kyneton One Act Play Festival
Friday 6 (Youth), Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 September
Bluestone Theatre, Hutton Street, Kyneton

Monash One Act Play Festival
Friday 20 – Sunday 22 September
Hosted by Peridot Theatre
Peridot Theatre, Mt Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Rd.,  Mt Waverley

Deloraine Festival of One Act Plays
Friday 20  & Saturday 21 September
Deloraine Little Theatre, Deloraine, TASMANIA 7304

For further details of one act play festivals, entry closing dates etc. visit www.theatrecraft.org.au

GREAT ENTERTAINMENT

A one act play festival gives the chance for a friendly theatrical competition. You can see new plays, support your friends, meet new people and be thoroughly entertained.

It’s an exciting prospect for  companies from all over Victoria to come together with the opportunity to showcase their talents to an audience not normally available to them and it’s also a marvellous chance for local people to see some wonderful theatrical talent close to home and without spending a fortune.

Despite the competitive element, the Foster Festival is always a very friendly and social occasion with audience members and theatre companies being given the choice of concert style seating or sitting at tables with their own drinks and nibbles.

GREAT FOOD

FAMDA is providing lunch (soup and a roll) and afternoon tea on both days and supper on Saturday night.

To allow time for more socializing on Saturday evening, and to ensure that everyone is able to get their meal on time, FAMDA has arranged in-house catering at the Foster Arts Centre. The Prom Coast Aged Care catering corps will be swinging into action raising money for their building fund while providing a delicious meal for performers and audience members. The two course dinner with main course and sweets includes a vegetarian option and will cost $25.

To enjoy the cuisine, convenience and camaraderie of this in-house dining experience, and to reduce wastage as much as possible, please confirm the number of people who would like to dine in house with Marieke Ormsby via marieke @ satalyte.com.au or  5682 1820  or  0403 059 704 by Wednesday 7 August.
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Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – BEND IT LIKE BROADWAY ~ Cabaret style concert with a twist. Your favourite Broadway tunes delivered in a fresh and surprising way.
8pm Friday 15, 8pm Saturday 16 & 1pm Sunday 17 February
Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre, 98 Graham Street, Wonthaggi
Bookings:  Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club    5672 1083

Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC) – HAIRSPRAY ~ Big hair in the ’60s
Saturday February 23 @ 8pm, Sunday 24 @ 2pm,
Friday March 1, Saturday 2 @ 8pm, Sunday 3 @ 2pm,
Thursday 7 March @ 7pm, Friday 8 @ 8pm
Cardinia Cultural Centre, Lakeside Boulevard, Pakenham
www.cardiniaperformingarts.com …. 9587 1750   or  0407 090 354

Nanoo Nanoo Productions – AVENUE Q ~ Sesame Street for adults
7:30 Thursday 14 March – ONE SHOW ONLY
ESSO BHP Billiton Wellington Entertainment Centre, Sale  …  5143 3200
7:30 Friday 15,  Saturday 16 + Thursday 21, Friday 22 & Saturday 23 March
Latrobe Performing Arts Centre, Grey Street, Traralgon  …  5176 3559
http://youtu.be/y_IxBuAZ4UU                www.facebook.com/avenueQgippsland

Phillip Island Offshore Theatre – ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN ~ By Alan Ayckbourn, from ‘The Norman Conquests’ trilogy
18 – 28 April …. (7:30 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 & 27 April ..  Sunday matinée @ 2pm 28 April)
Cowes Cultural Centre, Thompson Avenue, Cowes, Phillip Island
5956 8607

Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre – CHICAGO ~ musical about the merry murderesses of 1920s Chicago and All That Jazz
10 – 26 May … 7:30 Fridays & Saturdays, 2pm Sundays
Forge Theatre and Arts Hub, 80 McKean Street, Bairnsdale
www.bairnsdaleproductionline.com.au
Bookings: Bairnsdale Visitor Information Centre  5152 3444 or 1800 637 060

Warragul Theatre Company - JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT
Family entertainment, Andrew Lloyd-Webber & Tim Rice’s colourful version of the biblical story
17 – 25 May .7:30pm 17, 18, 23, 24  & 25 May   Matinées 2pm Sat  18, Sun 19  & Sat 25 May
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul
www.warragultheatrecompany.org.au… 5624 2456

Latrobe Theatre Company - HAIRSPRAY ~ 60s sounding musical on body image & racism
Thursday 23 & Friday 24 May 7.30, Saturday 25 May 2.30 & 7.30, Sunday 26 May 7.30
Thursday 30 & Friday 31 May 7.30, Saturday 1 June 2.30 & 7.30, Sunday 2 June 7.30
Thursday 6  & Friday 7 June 7.30, Saturday 8 June 2.30 & 7.30
Little Theatre, Latrobe Performing Arts Centre (Traralgon)
www.latrobetheatrecompany.org.au      5176 3559

Maffra Dramatic Society - SECRET BRIDESMAIDS’ BUSINESS ~ Australian comedy
7:30 Friday 24 & Saturday 25, 2pm Sunday 26 May and 7:30 Friday 31 May & Saturday 1 June
Court House Theatre, 60 Princes Hwy, Stratford
www.maffradramatics.com  .. 5147 2135

Wonthaggi Theatrical Group - 13! ~ A grown up musical about growing up by
Jason Robert Brown, creator of  The Last 5 Years.
An hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.
25 May – 8  June … 7:30pm Fridays & Saturdays, 7:00pm Thursday 30 May
Matinées: 5pm Sunday 26 May, 2pm Saturdays 1 & 8 June & Sunday 2 June
Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre, 98 Graham Street, Wonthaggi
Bookings:  Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club    5672 1083

Sale Theatre Company – THE ODD COUPLE ~ Neil Simon comedy
Remember the television series?
31 May – 8 June   8pm 31 May, 1, 6, 7 & 8 June  2pm Sunday 2 & Saturday 8 June
John Leslie Theatre, Esso BHP Billiton Wellington Entertainment Centre, Foster St., Sale
Bookings:  EBBWEC Box Office   www.ebbwec.com.au   5143 3200

Leongatha Lyric Theatre - THE WIZARD OF OZ ~ Munchkins and magic take you along the Yellow Brick Road and Over the Rainbow
5 – 20 July    Thursdays – Saturdays  7:30 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 July
Matinées @ 2pm – Sundays 7 &  14 July plus Saturdays 13 & 20 July
Mesley Hall, Leongatha Secondary College, Nerrena Rd., Leongatha
www.lyrictheatre.net.au .. Mushroom Crafts   5662 3940

MOaRTZ Theatre - GOD OF CARNAGE ~ 4 adults behaving very childishly – written by Yasmina Reza, creator of the multi-award winning Art
13 – 21 September
www.moartz.org.au

Off the Leash Theatre – WILD DOGS
October 2013

. . . There will be more!

OCTOB

Prom Coast Film Society’s screenings
8:00pm on the first Friday of each month
@ Fish Creek Hall

JUNE SCREENING – 7 June
Animated Drama double bill

The Illusionist  ~ 2011 – France –  PG
Idiots and Angels ~ 2008 – USA  – PG

The Illusionist (French: L’Illusionniste) is a 2010 British-French animated comedy-drama film directed by Sylvain Chomet. The film is based on an unproduced script written by French mime, director and actor Jacques Tati in 1956. Controversy surrounds Tati’s motivation for the script, which was written as a personal letter to his estranged eldest daughter, Helga Marie-Jeanne Schielin collaboration with his long-term writing partner Henri Marquet, between writing for the films Mon Oncle and Play Time.
The main character is a version of Tati animated by several people under the lead of Laurent Kircher. The plot revolves around a struggling illusionist who visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician. Originally intended by Tati to be set in Czechoslovakia, Chomet relocated the film to Scotland in the late 1950s. According to the director, “It’s not a romance, it’s more the relationship between a dad and a daughter.”

Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out as his local bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back . . .

The Prom Coast Film Society operates under the rules of the Victorian Film Society and attendees at films must be subscribers.
The Film Society will have 3 (consecutive) months or full season subscriptions available during 2013.
Annual subscription: $60        Quarterly subscription: $25
Screenings are at 8:00pm on the first Friday of each month in the Fish Creek Hall.

Single entry is not available due to copyright restrictions on film societies.
Members may request a guest pass if they would like to bring along a friend.

To add to the social atmosphere Windy Ridge Winery sells local wine and fruit juice by the glass at each screening.
Supper is served at the conclusion of the film (a donation applies) so you can meet others and socialise.

This is very cheap movie-going and you will be surrounded by other enthusiastic supporters in a welcoming setting.

For inquiries email famda {@} dcsi.net.au or phone Catherine McGlead on 0407 543 371

The Prom Coast Film Society committee looks forward to your company on Friday 7th June 2013

You can bring your own cushions or chairs to make yourself feel really at home.

 2013 PROGRAM

Friday 1st February 2013
The Artist ~ 2011 – France – Comedy / Drama – PG

Friday 1st March 2013
Margaret ~ 2012 – USA – Drama – MA

Friday 5th April 2013
Take This Waltz ~ 2012 – Canada – Comedy / Drama – MA

Friday 3rd of May 2013
I am Eleven ~ 2012 – Documentary – G

Friday 7th June 2013
The Illusionist  ~ 2011 – France – Animated Drama – PG and
Idiots and Angels ~ 2008 – USA – Animated Drama – PG

Friday 5th July 2013
The Sapphires ~ 2012 – Australia – Indigenous Drama – PG

Friday 2nd August 2013
Margin Call ~ 2011 – USA – Drama – MA

Friday 6th September 2013
A Separation~ 2012 – Iran – Drama – PG

Friday 4th October 2013
The Ides of March ~ 2011 – USA -  Drama – M

Friday 1st November 2013
Notorious ~ 1946 – USA – Film Noir / Romance – PG

Friday 6th December 2013
Made in Dagenham ~ 2010 – UK – Comedy / Drama – M

SEASON 2012

Friday 3^rd February
Slumdog Millionaire – 2008 – India – Crime/Drama – MA

Friday 2^nd March
Oranges & Sunshine – 2011 – Australia – Drama – M

Friday 30^th March
Bobby – 2007 – USA – Drama – M

Friday 4^th May
The Hunter – 2011 – Australia – Drama – M

Friday 1^st June – Winter Blues Double
6pm A Fish Called Wanda – 1988 – USA/UK – Comedy – M
8pm Young Frankenstein – 1974 – US – Comedy – PG

Friday 6^th July – NAIDOC Week
The Tall Man – 2011 – Australia – Indigenous Documentary – M

Friday 3^rd August
Another Year – 2011 – UK – Drama – M

Friday 7^th September
Barney’s Version – 2010 – USA – Drama – M

Friday 5^th October
Norwegian Wood – 2011 – Japan – Drama/Romance – MA

Friday 2^nd November
Lantana – 2001 – Australia – Drama – M

Friday 7^th December
Tabloid – 2011 – USA – Documentary – M

Season Flyer 2012

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PCFS INAUGURAL SEASON 2011

Friday 4 March
Animal Kingdom – 2010 – Australia – Crime /Drama – MA

Friday 1st April
Boy – 2010 – New Zealand – Drama/Comedy – M

Friday 6th May
South Solitary – 2010 – Australia – Drama – M

Friday 3rd June
The Kids Are All Right – 2010 – US – Comedy Drama – MA

Friday 1st July
The Tracker – 2003 – Australia – Indigenous Drama – M
Screening during NAIDOC Week

Friday 5th August
Rosemary’s Baby – 1968 – US – Drama – M

Friday 2nd September
Food Inc. – 2010 – US – Documentary – PG

Friday 7th October
BONUS SCREENING – 6:00pm ~ Australian Rules - 2002 – Australia – Drama – M
8:00pm  A Clockwork Orange – 1971 – UK – Drama – R

Friday 4th November
The Father of My Children – 2010 – France – Comedy/Subtitled – M

Friday 2nd December
The King’s Speech - 2010 – UK - Drama/History – M

Films are shown on the first Friday of each month in the Fish Creek Hall

Season Flyer 2011

FAMDA’s Newest Offspring

Did you know that the letters of F A M D A originally stood for Film, Art, Music & Drama Association?
FAMDA is returning to its roots with the decision to form the Prom Coast Film Society.

The aim of the project is to provide access to high quality non-mainstream films in a community setting plus the opportunity for social discussion and interaction.

FAMDA has a strong reputation for providing Foster audiences with entertaining and often quirky plays and the Prom Coast Film Society aims to keep up this tradition using a new medium.

It is proposed that the Prom Coast Film Society would become a financially self supporting sub-group of the main FAMDA body similar to the Prom Coast Singers.

As mandated by the Australian Council of Film Societies (ACOFS) members would need to have a separate subscription for the Prom Coast Film Society.

The plan is to show “art house” films in the Fish Creek Memorial Hall on the  First Friday of each month, thus catering for both for both locals and those who visit at weekends.

To launch the project the Prom Coast Film Society showed Animal Kingdom on Friday 4 March 2011.

The  Prom Coast Seachange Festival  is a celebration of all that’s wonderful about living and visiting the Prom Coast. Join us for a long weekend of fantastic fun.

When is the Seachange Festival?
Thursday 25th April  to Monday 29th April 2113

Where is the Seachange Festival?
Beautiful Prom Coast: Fish Creek, Foster, Toora, Welshpool and surrounding areas.

Prom Coast Seachange Festival
25 – 29 April 2013

Join the communities of the Prom Coast in celebrating creativity, culture, lifestyle and landscape.

The 5-day Prom Coast Seachange Festival has over 40 events in the pipeline. Bring some friends along and enjoy this beautiful part of Gippsland through the range of exhibitions, performances, presentations, tours, sport, workshops and local fare on offer.

A diverse program means that there’s something for everyone. Keep checking the festival website www.promcoastseachangefestival.org and Facebook page for program updates and for bookings.

• The Prom Coast Seachange Festival is a mixing-pot of over 40 events, involving a number of towns and spanning the 5-days between April 25-29.

• The festival grows each year in size, reputation and participant numbers, and it fosters quality events that draw attention to this magnificent region.

• The festival is organised by locals and celebrates creativity, culture, lifestyle and landscape. It also provides a fantastic platform that attracts artists and performances to the region.

• Enjoy this beautiful part of Gippsland through the range of exhibitions, performances, presentations, tours, sport, workshops and local fare on offer.

• There is strong commitment to the festival from local communities in the Prom Coast area where, across a five-day period, over 40 events will be held at a variety of venues in a variety of towns.

• With so many great events being organised by local community groups, sporting clubs and traders it’s impossible to list them all. Keep checking the festival website www.promcoastseachangefestival.org and our Facebook page for updates and details on how to make bookings.

Some 2013 Highlights

Hosted by FAMDA
Musica Viva Cabaret Concert – SHREWD BRASS

Like your music big, bold and brassy?  Shrewd Brass is for you!!

Shrewd Brass is a vibrant quintet featuring trumpets, French horn, trombone and tuba comprising musicians from the fields of jazz, musical theatre and classical music.
Formed in 1988 at the Victorian College of the Arts, Shrewd Brass now has over 20 years of touring under their belts and developed their own distinct style of presentation from duelling trumpet players to an out of control trombonist and a tuba player who needs assistance to stay in time.

Guaranteed to dazzle you with a diverse repertoire, Shrewd Brass will take you on a fantastic musical journey with featuring classical and contemporary jazz, tango and blues with highlights that could include pieces as diverse as selections from Bizet’s classic opera, Carmen, The Man from Snowy River and a tuba version of Tiger Rag.
With repertoire from Susato and Rossini to Gershwin and Mendez, Shrewd Brass explores the extremes in a comical way that will hold your attention right through the performance and bring a smile to all.

Come and enjoy a night of rollicking laughs and superb entertainment presented cabaret style with the audience seated at tables.
You are invited to bring your own drinks and nibbles.

Where: Foster War Memorial Arts Centre
When: 8.00 pm Friday 26 April
Price: $30.00
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: Cash bookings from Main Street Revelations, Foster.
Credit card bookings phone 0400 867 872

YEHUDI MENUHIN – PRODIGY AND PHENOMENON

A recital program of superb music by violinist Cath Shugg
with narration by Philip Bailey, raconteur and biographer
of the world famous violinist, Yehudi Menuhin.

Serena Carmel pianist and Catherine Shugg violinist

Yehudi Menuhin (22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999) was born in New York City, United States, to Jewish parents from what is now Belarus.
His sisters were the concert pianist and human rights worker Hephzibah Menuhin and the pianist, painter, and poet Yaltah Menuhin.
He began violin instruction at age four and became one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.

Philip Bailey spent his childhood playing footy and harbouring aspirations to become a farmer, until he attended a Sydney Town Hall concert of internationally renowned violinist Yehudi Menhuin that changed his life.
A chance meeting years later led to a lifetime of service as Yehudi Menuhin’s private assistant and close friend.
A marvellous raconteur, Philip eventually published a biography of Yehudi Menuhin  which runs over two volumes entitled Yehundiana: Reliving The Menuhin Odyssey.
Philip will share some of his insights about the Menuhins at this musical recital at the spectacular Celia Rosser Gallery.

Philip Bailey and Yehudi at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in January 1978 during filming of final sequences of The Music of Man television series.

YEHUDI MENUHIN – PRODIGY AND PHENOMENON
A recital program of superb music and stories        THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT
When: 7.30 pm Sunday 28 April
Where: Celia Rosser Gallery, Fish Creek

Margret RoadKnight @ Waratah Hills Vineyard

There are two components to Margret RoadKnight’s visit:

(i)  “An Evening with Margret RoadKnight” on Thursday 25 April at 8pm, at the Waratah Hills Vineyard, Prom Road, Fish Creek

(ii) “Instant Singing” – a workshop with Margret RoadKnight:  Saturday 27 April from 10.30am to 12 noon, at the Waratah Hills Vineyard.

For those of you who have not been to Waratah Hills Vineyard – you are in for a real treat – the venue is ideal for these events, and the food is EXCELLENT!

>>To see the full Seachange Festival program.<<

>>See list of good local accommodation.<<

>>For more information phone (03) 5682 2953.<< or visit www.promcoastseachangefestival.org

FAMDA contributions to Prom Coast Seachange Festivals

2007

Directed by Bruce Crowl
Melissa Gardner – Judy Barnard
Andrew Makepeace Ladd III – Max Hastings

From Pop to Op(era)

An afternoon of glorious music
presented by the Melbourne based
Young Musicians of Excellence
led by Nehama Patkin
&
The Prom Coast Singers
2:30 Sunday 22 April 2007

Fire Up!

Community Arts Project
Music by Paddy Broberg
The Prom Coast Singers

2009

A Gourmet Thriller by Edwin Coad
Music by Rob Ellis
Directed by Raymond Dunstan

Set in Hugo’s home on a hilltop overlooking the sea in contemporary country Victoria.
Served as the entrée to the Prom Coast Seachange Festival
(24 April – 3 May 2009)

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PROMONTORY DREAMING

STARSCAPES AND VISIONS
A multi-arts choral project composed by Larry Hills

 The Prom Coast Singers directed by Paddy Broberg
The Bass Coast Chorale & South Gippsland Singers directed by Larry Hills
Production Coordinator ~ Joanne Stringer
Artistic Coordinator ~ Paddy Broberg
Musical Director ~ Larry Hills
Choreographer & Set Designer ~ Susan Taylor
Creative Designer & Webmaster ~ Ros Wathen
Costume Designer ~ Anda Banikos
Lighting Designer ~ Andrew Oldroyd
Sound Designer ~ Rob Ellis

2011

CABARETRO

2013

Hosted by FAMDA
Musica Viva Cabaret Concert
SHREWD BRASS

President:  Edwin Coad – pandecoad [@] skymesh.com.au …. 5689 1305
Vice President:  Dianne Paragreen – raphoto [@] dcsi.net.au … 0407 883 600… 5682 2421
Secretary:  Jane Park – janeanndear [@] hotmail.com
Treasurer:  Andrew Oldroyd – aoldroyd [@] dcsi.net.au … 0428 315 397 … 5683 2313
Publicity Officer:  Jennifer Paragreen – sgas [@] dcsi.net.au … 5682 2077

General:  Anda Banikos – anda [@] banikos.net.au … 5687 1206
……………. Peter Clyne – peter [@] johnsonclyne.com … 5882 2711
……………. Marieke Ormsby – marieke [@] satalyte.com.au … 5682 1820
……………. Margaret Rudge – amrudge3960 [@] gmail.com … 5681 2247
……………. Norm Willoughby – normwill2 [@] bigpond.com. au … 5688 1562

LIFE MEMBERS

Verna Anderson +,  Paddy Broberg,,  Bruce Crowl,,  Geoff Davey,
Barbara Fleming,,  Patricia Fleming +,  Robert Fleming +,
Jack Giblett +,,  Max Hastings +,,  John Kahsnitz,,  Brian Paragreen,
Dianne Paragreen ..  Jennifer Paragreen,,  Robert Paragreen,
Arthur Smallwood +,,  Ethel Smallwood +,,  Dick Straw.

If you are interested in joining FAMDA or you have any questions, please phone our helpful president Edwin Coad on 5689 1305 or use the contact form.

A BRIEF HISTORY

Foster’s theatre company is known as FAMDA – Foster Amateur Music and Drama Association.

FAMDA is an award-winning, community theatre and singing company that has involved, inspired and enriched the South Gippsland community since 1953.

We like to do a variety of shows so we stage plays as well as musicals, pantomimes and the occasional music halls. We really enjoy setting ourselves to plays which are a challenge – ‘Oedipus Rex’ in 2006 and also much more modern plays like Shadowlands, Shirley Valentine and The Cemetery Club.  We have also presented some locally written productions such as Stringlines and Bush Magic.

We have an affiliated choir called the Prom Coast Singers. Some choir members perform in FAMDA’s stage productions as well as in the choir’s independent performances.  In 2009 the choir was heavily involved in the multi-arts spectacular, Promontory Dreaming, as part of the Prom Coast Seachange Festival.

We like to get involved in community events. FAMDA recently presented a piece called ‘In Their Own Words’ (which was written with Alzheimer sufferers with their helpers in mind), and the Prom Coast Singers perform at Community Christmas Carols.

In 2011 went back to its roots as the Foster Film, Art, Music and Drama Association by starting a film society as another of its activities.  The Prom Coast Film Society screens movies at the Fish Creek Hall at 8:00pm on the first Friday of each month.  New members are always welcome to take out a subscription.

Most performances, productions, rehearsals and singing practices are held at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre though we have occasionally done outside events such as Alice in Wonderland, staged in Pearl Park, and have even toured to Leongatha (Don’s Party), Yarram (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and Georgetown in Tasmania (Follow the Star).

Every year we host a one-act play festival over the weekend of the second Saturday in August.  With sponsorship from the local branch of Bendigo Bank this had developed into an amazing event with the Bruce Crowl Award for the Most Outstanding Production also including a prize cheque of $1000.

We are fortunate to have some very talented people working behind the scenes to make sure that we produce top quality theatre – Geoff Davey has won numerous awards for set design and scenic art, Bruce Crowl has incredible expertise in set building and he is also a brilliant director, Andrew Oldroyd and Rob Ellis are extremely creative when it comes to lighting and sound design so FAMDA productions are always extremely well crafted.

RECENT SHOWS

In 2007 we staged the Broadway musical, The Producers, and we began 2008 with a locally written pantomime called Twisted Tales from the Woods.

Our next production was Blue Remembered Hills, a very challenging play which concerns a group of seven year olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon during 1943, when Britain was in the depths of World War II. Our adult actors had to behave like children and at the end of the play we had to burn down the barn – our sound and lighting people made this truly spectacular.

Blue Remembered Hills was entered in the Victorian Drama League competition vying with plays from 25 of Victoria’s leading theatre companies. It was one of only three plays in the whole competition to be nominated in every production category – best lighting, sound, costumes, director etc. and FAMDA won two judge’s awards, one for ensemble playing and the other for the magnificent ‘pyrotechnics’.

In the 2008 Gippsland Theatre awards, Blue Remembered Hills won four major trophies. Max Hastings won two awards, most outstanding director of a drama or comedy and most outstanding support actor.

Andrew Oldroyd won the award for best lighting for his work on Blue Remembered Hills and the company also earned the inaugural Alby Fisher Memorial Award for excellence in creativity and design for the outstanding creation of the fire effects in the burning barn.

Wonthaggi Judge, Jill Allen, gave her special adjudicator’s award to FAMDA for “producing Blue Remembered Hills as a different and challenging theatrical experience”.

2009

• In January FAMDA staged a happy home-grown pantomime filled with puns, perfidy and puppets. Called Bush Magic, it was written locally by Edwin Coad with music by Rob Ellis. There were forty two performers in the cast playing humans (good and bad) bush animals, farm animals and numerous puppets. We have everything for cows to tap dancing lambs, kangaroos and cockatoos.

• Our next production was a black comedy set in contemporary rural Victoria called Dinner at Hugo’s. This gourmet thriller by Edwin Coad was served as the entrée to the 2009 Prom Coast Seachange Festival and was staged in Foster 17 – 24 April with Raymond Dunstan as the director.

• 1 – 3 May 2009 FAMDA’s affiliated choir, the Prom Coast Singers, participated in a huge multi-arts project called Promontory Dreaming.  Locally written, it involved more than 100 singers, musicians and dancers in performances at the Foster Arts Centre.

• FAMDA hosted the ninth annual South Gippsland One-Act Play Festival on the weekend of 8th August with the largest number of entries to date.

• FAMDA’s final project 2009 was Stephen Sondheim’s fractured fairytale musical, Into the Woods, staged at the beginning of October.  GAT Awards went to Fiona Watts (lead female), Josh Gardiner (Junior Male), Louise Dower (Junior Female) and Andrew Oldroyd (Lighting Design – His fourth consecutive win). Louise Dower also earned a Music Theatre Guild Judge’s award for her performance as the cow, Milky White.

2010

• Unfortunately our planned production of Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell had to be cancelled when it could not be cast.
• In July we celebrated with other theatre groups at the Arty-Farty Trivia Party with Andrew Oldroyd as quizmaster.
• FAMDA hosted the tenth annual South Gippsland One-Act Play Festival on Saturday & Sunday 21 & 22 August and staged a locally written drama, Living on the Edge, by Ruth Carson.
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee proved to be a critical and popular success with an enthusiastic new director, Nathan Eva – winning the Gippsland Theatre awards for Most Outstanding Musical, Director, Ensemble, Support Actor – Male (Ivan Koetsveld), Support Actor – Female (Jemima Eva) & Cameo Performance (Paul Smith).

2011

• The Prom Coast Film Society was established.
• Cabaretro - a sophisticated retrospective on the history of cabaret combined with a fine dining experience was presented 1 & 2 April.  The final performance on 8 April was staged in conjunction with the third Prom Coast SeaChange Festival.
• On 21st May we invited other theatre groups and theatregoers to another  Arty-Farty Trivia Party with Andrew Oldroyd as quizmaster.
• Heroes, the whimsical French comedy translated and adapted by Tom Stoppard, was staged in 17 – 25 June with an all-star cast.
• FAMDA hosted the eleventh annual Foster One-Act Play Festival on Saturday & Sunday 13 & 14 August with even more theatre companies participating. FAMDA’s entry, An Unreal Reality, was written locally by Ruth Carson.
• A Choral Festival called Sing South Gippsland! with workshops by Stephen Leek attracted over 100 singers to Foster on the weekend of 17 & 18 September.
• We were saddened by the death of FAMDA life member, Max Hastings who had, earlier in the year, been one of the stars of our staging of Heroes.

2012

• The Prom Coast Film Society continued its successful screenings.
• FAMDA staged the poignant Australian drama, The Shoe-Horn Sonata.
• The 12th South Gippsland One-Act Play Festival attracted a record number of entries.
• Dreamboats, written locally by Edwin Coad, provided opportunities for young people and older to be involved on stage and delighted our audiences.

2013

• It’s our 60^th year!
• There are plans to interview and record many of our significant members and to stage exhibitions of memorabilia.  More details later.
• Unfortunately our planned staging of the musical, The Last 5 Years by Jason Robert Brown has been deferred.
• In February we enjoyed our third Arty-Farty Trivia Party with Andrew Oldroyd again as quizmaster.
• FAMDA hosts the thirteenth annual South Gippsland One-Act Play Festival on Saturday & Sunday 10 & 11 August.

ALL PROJECTS

To see a complete listing of FAMDA productions from 1953 onwards, >>Click HERE<<

FAMDA COMMITTEE 2013 – 2014

President:  Edwin Coad – pandecoad [@] skymesh.com.au
Vice President:  Dianne Paragreen – raphoto [@] dcsi.net.au
Secretary:  Jane Park – janeanndear [@] hotmail.com
Treasurer:  Andrew Oldroyd – aoldroyd [@] dcsi.net.au
Publicity Officer:  Jennifer Paragreen – sgas [@] dcsi.net.au

General:  Anda Banikos, Peter Clyne, Marieke Ormsby, Margaret Rudge, Norm Willoughby

LIFE MEMBERS

Verna Anderson (dec) , Paddy Broberg, Bruce Crowl, Geoff Davey,
Barbara Fleming, Patricia Fleming (dec), Robert Fleming (dec),
Jack Giblett (dec), Max Hastings (dec), John Kahsnitz, Brian Paragreen,
Dianne Paragreen, Jennifer Paragreen, Robert Paragreen,
Arthur Smallwood (dec), Ethel Smallwood (dec), Dick Straw.

FAMDA life members, Dianne Paragreen, Dick Straw, Max Hastings, Jennifer Paragreen and Bruce Crowl, at FAMDA’s 2011 AGM.

COMMITTEE 2013– 2014
President:  Edwin Coad
Vice President:  Dianne Paragreen
Secretary:  Jane Park
Treasurer:   Andrew Oldroyd
Publicity Officer:   Jennifer Paragreen
General:   Anda Banikos, Peter Clyne, Marieke Ormsby, Margaret Rudge & Norm Willoughby

President’s Report 2012 – 2013

The ‘Foster F.A.M.D.A. – Films, Art, Music and Drama Association’ – presented its first public performance, the Foster Frolics, on Wednesday, November 4^th 1953.  It offered its members drama, record playing, discussion, orchestral groups and a choir.  We may not have discussion and record appreciation groups, but we have by and large remained true to our origins.  We are very much about drama, music, film and art.
Our sixtieth year has involved the committee and the wider FAMDA family in a great deal of hard work and many challenges, like every other preceding year, I suspect.

The Shoe Horn Sonata
Because of difficulties in casting our original drama selections, it was not until July 20 that we began our season of John Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata.  This was directed by David Baggallay and performed by Margaret Rudge and Jean Moore with Peter Clyne’s voice.
Evocative sounds and images of World War II were designed by Brian and Robert Paragreen.
The set construction was managed by Bruce Crowl, lighting by Andrew Oldroyd and the whole production managed by Jennifer Paragreen.
This powerful reminder of the women’s experience of the war was very well received and maintained FAMDA’s reputation for quality productions of interesting plays.

One-Act Play Festival
Two weeks later, we held the twelfth annual One-Act Play Festival where the audience could feast on twelve plays performed by eight very talented theatre groups.  Alas, FAMDA was not one of them.
The event was organized by Margaret Rudge, Marieke Ormsby and Jennifer Paragreen, ably supported by Bruce and Kate Crowl.  Those who attended the festival were treated to a wide range of theatrical experience and witnessed some wonderful performances.
We are told that our OAPF is popular because it is well organised, friendly and generously sponsored by the local Community Bank Branch of the Bendigo Bank.

Dreamboats
The M in FAMDA is for music and the D is for Drama, but it might very well be for Dance for we had a great deal of fine dancing in Dreamboats, with a troupe of fourteen girls and boys choreographed by Louise Dower. The music was composed by Paddy Broberg and played by a splendid eight piece band.
The A in the original F.A.M.D.A. was for Art and that was most evident in the colourful sets, designed by Gavin van Eede, gorgeous costumes designed by Anda Banikos, and props constructed and painted by numerous skilled workers.  Kate and Bruce Crowl seemed to be living in the hall for some weeks.
Dreamboats was a premiere production and was entirely a product of South Gippsland: the words, music, choreography, sets, costumes, puppets and the performances were all by local people.  This is very satisfying, but also very difficult, because everything has to be worked out; you cannot see how someone else has done it in another production.  How do beds turn into boats?  How do you make horses gallop across the stage?  Amanda Mahomed and her team knew.
Dreamboats was a big production involving more than a hundred people, many of them young and many of them first time performers.  We hope that they will all continue their interest in theatre and find other opportunities to perform on the FAMDA stage in the future.  Beth Millar courageously directed Dreamboats and much of its success was due to her theatre experience, organization and sheer hard work.

Trivia Party
FAMDA held its third Arty Farty Trivia Party on February 16^th this year with about ninety guests having a most enjoyable time.  Music was provided by Heartstrings – Natalie Burrows and John Laurie – Andrew Oldroyd was the Quizmaster and Catherine McGlead kept count of the score for the ten teams.  The prizes were donated by a wide range of generous individuals, businesses and organizations.  Thank you all.

Prom Coast Film Society
The Prom Coast Film Society has put the original F back into the F.A.M.D.A. of 1953.  With more than sixty members it meets in the Fish Creek Hall at 8pm on the first Friday of each month.  Thanks to receiving a generous grant from the Gardiner Foundation, the PCFS has been able to purchase improved projection, sound and screen equipment to provide a superior presentation of films and also to reduce the annual subscription to $60.

Choir
It is disappointing that we have been unable to keep the Prom Coast Singers going. Although we have approached several suitable people, advertised, enquired and made our situation well known, we have been unsuccessful in our search for a Director to lead the choir.  Paddy Broberg seems to be impossible to replace.  The Prom Coast Singers remains in ‘recess’.

famda.org.au
The FAMDA website – famda.org.au – is a central part of our communication with each other, the community and the world.  It is an attractive, easily used and informative site and is kept up to date with news, images, information, notification of future events, awards, everything that you might wish to know about us, and for this we are indebted to Jennifer Paragreen.

Affiliations and Sponsorship
We retain our affiliation with Gippsland Associated Theatre, the Victorian Drama League, the Music Guild of Victoria and the Federation of Victorian Film Societies.
Norm Willoughby serves as GAT treasurer and Jennifer Paragreen continues as the FAMDA representative on the GAT judging panel.
We continue to sponsor GAT awards as well as an annual Performing Arts Award to a student of South Gippsland Secondary College.
This year FAMDA was very pleased to sponsor Louis Wheeler to attend the Victorian Drama League Performing Arts Summer School in January.  Louis played the role of Benny Fester, the chief bully in Dreamboats.  We anticipate sponsoring other students in the future.

2013
At the time this report was compiled, we have not been able to commence our 2013 planned production because we were unable to cast our chosen musical.  We are nevertheless determined to mount a production and have a director for a play and are actively assessing likely scripts.
Planning for the 2013 One-Act Play Festival on the second weekend in August is well underway. We are particularly keen to have a youth performance section as part of the festival and have been liaising with local schools to encourage their participation.  We are fortunate to have Malcolm Sussman return as our adjudicator.
Much of our imagination, time and energy will be devoted to suitably marking and celebrating our sixtieth anniversary.

History
We feel that it is important to remember the history of FAMDA and to record it before it is too late.  We already know of two people who were present at that first Foster F.A.M.D.A. Frolics in 1953.  How may more are there?
In order to achieve this goal, FAMDA is undertaking an updating of our history, building on Kate Crowl’s work ‘Famda’s Frolics’, published in 2003 to mark the fiftieth anniversary.  We have applied for a grant under The Local History Grants Program to assist in this project.
We have four tasks to complete: bring the written history up to the present day; mount an exhibition of costumes, artwork, programs, posters, photographs stage props and any other relevant materials; conduct a series of interviews to create an oral and visual history; create a data base of the names of everyone who has been a part of the FAMDA story.
FAMDA invites anyone who has stories, photographs, souvenirs, programs, experiences on stage, scripts, music, anything that helps to tell the story of Foster’s own theatre company, to contact us and share their memories.

Celebration
We are planning an event in November to celebrate FAMDA’s sixty years.  We hope to gather as many FAMDA people as we can.  It has been suggested that we have a concert of some of the music that has been performed in our shows.  Others have suggested a party, a dinner, a ball, a dinner dance, or all of them.  You are all invited.  We’ll let you know.

Thanks
The FAMDA committee thanks everyone who has assisted us in our endeavours.  Without you we can achieve nothing.
I, in my current role as President, wish to acknowledge the help and support that I have received from everyone associated with FAMDA, particularly the members of the committee.  Thank you.

Edwin Coad
President FAMDA 2012 – 2013

Congratulations to FAMDA’s Gippsland Associated Theatre winners 2012

ALBY FISHER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR CREATIVE DESIGN
* FAMDA - The Night Mares in Dreamboats
Designed by Anda Banikos, fabricated by Amanda Mahomed and operated by puppeteers, Chloe Bindloss, Tania Bird, Hannah Fletcher, Sarah Maclean, Abbie Thomas, Tracey Standfield and Megan Williams

Judge’s Award – Jill Allen
FAMDA – Using local talent to write and produce a musical culminating in the staging of Dreamboats

Judge’s Award – Mandy Clancey
FAMDA – Skilled integration of audio and video components into the production of The Shoe-Horn Sonata

Judge’s Award – Lawrie Fildes
FAMDA – The delightful transformation of the beds into boats in their production of Dreamboats

Congratulations to FAMDA’s GAT nominees 2012

THE SHOE-HORN SONATA
Most Outstanding Director ~ David Baggallay
Most Outstanding Lead Actor – Female ~ Jean Moore
Most Outstanding Lead Actor – Female ~ Margaret Rudge
Most Outstanding Programme ~ Jennifer Paragreen

DREAMBOATS
Most Outstanding Support Actor – Male ~ Jack Millar
Most Outstanding Technical Achievement ~ the Night Mares

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AGM invitation 2013

COMMITTEE 2012 – 2013
President:  Edwin Coad
Vice President:  Dianne Paragreen
Secretary:  Jane Park
Treasurer:   Andrew Oldroyd
Publicity Officer:   Jennifer Paragreen
Marieke Ormsby, Margaret Rudge & Norm Willoughby

Foster Amateur Music & Drama Association’s next major event is its 60th Annual General Meeting which will be held at 8:00pm on Thursday 14^th March at the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre.

This is your chance to express your interest in joining the committee or to nominate someone who you think would make a good committee member. All positions are available.

FAMDA is looking to expand its committee so download a nomination form or speak to any member of the current committee to organise your nomination to join this vibrant group.

DOWNLOAD AGM notice & nomination form

FAMDA membership subscriptions become due at the time of the Annual General Meeting.
Adults: $20.00 … Concession: $15.00 … Family: $35.00
Download a Subscription Form

FAMDA’s third

7pm Saturday 16 February 2013 @ Foster War Memorial Arts Centre

THE WINNERS 2013
Standing (left to right): Richard Dargaville, Peter Thomson, Bernadette Thomson, Peter Latreille, Jackie Dargaville, Anne Strong, Michael Strong, Anne Latreille
Seated (left to right): Mark Alsop, Sue Alsop

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FAMDA successfully hosted its third Arty-Farty Trivia Party at the Foster Arts Centre on 16 February 2013  with a birthday theme.

All guests were offered a cup cake complete with candle and got to sing “Happy Birthday” to FAMDA along with HeartStrings’ Natalie Burrow and John Laurie who provided musical entertainment throughout the evening.

Quizmaster, Andrew Oldroyd, assembled an amazing mix of intriguing questions which even included a round called “Sixty” in recognition of FAMDA’s 60^th birthday which will be celebrated in November 2013.

This year the winning table was organised by Sue Alsop with Jackie and Richard Dargaville, Peter Thomson and Bernadette Thomson, Peter and Anne Latreille, Michael and Anne Strong and Mark Alsop taking home an amazing selection of prizes generously sponsored by several local businesses.

There was a colouring competition which was won by the folk from the Foster Pharmacy table.

Noted children’s author and illustrator, Alison Lester, had generously donated a signed print of the illustration created for the cover of her ‘Magic Beach’. This proved to be a very eagerly sought raffle prize which was won by Arie Bos.

Opera Australia, Melbourne Theatre Company, Musica Viva, Heide Gallery, Melbourne Museum and local donors also provided raffle prizes.

Patricia Wrighton won the Opera Australia tickets. Leeanne Woods was the lucky winner of the Musica Viva prize. Tanya Pell won both the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Heide Museum and Gallery vouchers while Jennifer Paragreen won the Museum Victoria prize. Other raffle winners included Agatha Carrafa, Tara Hendry, Greg Mattingley, Mike Street and Robert Paragreen.

FAMDA wishes to thank the local sponsors who provided prizes for the evening, Ahern’s Fruit Market and Fine Foods, Foster IGA, Foster Pharmacy, Foster Seafoods, Glenn’s Sports and Gifts, Golden Creek Olives, Larkrise Soaps, Main Street Revelations, Marieke Ormsby Photography, OK Pizza & Pasta, Prom Coast Film Society, Prom Meats and South Gippsland One Act Play Festival for their much appreciated contribution to the occasion.

Happy raffle winner, Arie Bos, proudly holding his signed copy of the painting created as the cover of Alison Lester’s book, ‘Magic Beach’.

HeartStrings – John Laurie and Natalie Burrow in performance

HeartsSrings perform

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The Leongatha Lyric / Dowd table team

Author and illustrator, Alison Lester, was born in Foster and grew up on a farm overlooking the sea.

She has since gone on to become one of Australia’s most popular authors, having written and illustrated over 25 picture books with famous titles such as The Quicksand Pony, Are We There Yet? , Clive Eats Alligators and, of course, Magic Beach.

Her books are published in many languages and are loved by children around the world with her sure sense of colour and design, her humour and her keen observation of the details of children’s lives making her books lasting favourites.

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FAMDA’s second Arty-Farty Trivia Party was held on Saturday 21 May 2011 in the newly painted auditorium of the Foster War Memorial Arts Centre.

The party atmosphere started from the time the first guests arrived with musical entertainment provided by the talented combination of Natalie Burrow and John Laurie.

Quizmaster, Andrew Oldroyd, again provided an intriguing variety of trivia questions, some related to visual and performing arts, music, stage and screen, plus topics such as geography, history, food and literature.

Trivia Champions – Georgina Williamson, Amy Kindellan & Melina Newman
Jan & David Gallacher, Liz Kindellan, Genevieve Davies, Wendy & Ross Williamson

Prizes came from an amazing variety of sponsors and donors: Ando’s Bakery, Cadbury’s Chocolates, Dino the Butcher, Elsie’s Florist, Essential Body Basics, Foster IGA, Foster Seafood, Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, OK Pizza & Pasta, Parks Victoria, Prom Meats, Pulham’s Furniture & Carpets, RACV Inverloch and Wonthaggi Theatrical Group.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to making the Second Arty-Farty Party so successful.

The inaugural Arty-Farty Trivia Party was held on Saturday 17 July 2010.

FAMDA’s Arty-Farty Trivia Party proved to be a trivia night with a difference.

Quizmaster, Andrew Oldroyd, really kept the night moving with lots of trivia questions, some related to visual and performing arts, music, stage and screen, plus more general knowledge topics of the history, geography, sport variety.

What made this night special was a Trivia Party with a very social aspect to it, lots of other games and prizes to be won plus some FAMDA “stars”, John Laurie and Josh Gardiner  providing musical entertainment.

Leongatha Lyric Theatre and Wonthaggi Theatrical Group were well represented on the occasion.

Several local artists generously donated works to be sold via a silent auction.
There were drawings, paintings, photography, sculpture and woodwork by such noted
South Gippsland artists as Marilyn Ardley, Ann Parry, Jason Pell (South Coast Joinery),
Elizabeth Richardson, Anne Roussac–Hoyne and Kerry Spokes.

The winning table was made up of Barbara Partridge, Arie Bos, Fleur & Graeme Wheeler, Llew, Jane & Tom Vale, Bev and Don Nicoll.

Congratulations to all who helped make the night such a huge success.

FAMDA’s Arty-Farty Trivia Party is designed as a fun night for everyone, particularly theatrical people, and a chance for current & recent cast members from many different theatre groups to get together and enjoy each other’s company when they are not rehearsing or performing.

Naturally there will be lots of trivia questions, some related to visual and performing arts, music, stage and screen, plus general knowledge on topics such geography, history, local news, food and sport with quiz master, Andrew Oldroyd, keeping proceedings rolling along.

CLOC Music Theatre – PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ~ with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Toby Truscott (Foster connections) as the Phantom
10 – 25 May … 8pm Wednesdays – Saturdays, 2pm Sundays
National Theatre, Cnr. Carlisle & Barkly Streets, St Kilda   Melway 58 B10
www.cloc.org.au  …..  1300 362 547

Eltham Little Theatre – CALENDAR GIRLS ~ an uplifting and very inspiring true story that is quirky, poignant and hilarious.
10 – 25 May   8pm Fri & Sat 10 & 11, Thursday–Saturday 16-18, 23-25, 2pm Sunday 19 May
Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Road Research … Melways: 22 H1
www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au … 9437 1574    * 2013 VDL Entry *

Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre – CHICAGO ~ musical about the merry murderesses of 1920s Chicago
10 – 26 May … 7:30 Fridays & Saturdays, 2pm Sundays
Forge Theatre and Arts Hub, 80 McKean Street, Bairnsdale
www.bairnsdaleproductionline.com.au
Bookings: Bairnsdale Visitor Information Centre  5152 3444 or 1800 637 060

JYM Theatre Co. – THE PRODUCERS ~ Cooking the books for a Broadway musical
11 – 25 May
Phoenix Theatre, 101 Glenhuntly Road, Elwood
www. jymtheatre.com …. 0408 024 224

Nova Music Theatre –  SWEENEY TODD ~ Stephen Sondheim musical about the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
11 – 25 May   8pm 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 & 25 May, 2pm Saturdays 18 & 25 + Sunday 19 May
Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
www.novamusictheatre.com.au … 1300 305 771  or 9727 0192

BLOC Music Theatre – ANYTHING GOES ~ Cole Porter’s music and shipboard romance
16 – 26 May
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat
www.blocmusictheatre.com.au

Strathmore Theatre Arts Group – THE MERRY WIDOWS ~ a world première
16 – 26 May   (Thursdays – Saturdays plus Sunday matinées)
Community Centre, Cnr. Loeman and Napier Sts, Strathmore … Melways 16 G10
www.stagtheatre.org …… Drew: 9382 6284 (ah)…. 

The Basin Theatre Group – THE WOMAN IN BLACK ~ a ghost thriller adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from Susan Hill’s 1983 novel
16 May – 8  June
Theatre: Cnr Simpson & Doongalla Roads, The Basin
www.thebasintheatre.org.au ….. 1300 784 668          * 2013 VDL Entry *

Warragul Theatre Company – JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOUR DREAMCOAT
Family entertainment – Andrew Lloyd-Webber & Tim Rice’s colourful version of the biblical story
17 – 25 May . 7:30 17, 18, 25,  26  & 27 May, Matinées 2pm Sat. 18, Sun. 19  & Sat. 25 May
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul
www.warragultheatrecompany.org.au… 5624 2456

Magnormos Musicals – FLOWER CHILDREN ~ The Mamas & Papas story Returning to Melbourne for a limited season
Wednesday 18th May – Sunday 23rd June 2013
Comedy Theatre, 240 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
www.flowerchildren.com.au

Latrobe Theatre Company – HAIRSPRAY ~ Welcome to the 60s & big hair
Thursday 23 & Friday 24 May 7.30, Saturday 25 May 2.30 & 7.30, Sunday 26 May 7.30
Thursday 30 & Friday 31 May 7.30, Saturday 1 June 2.30 & 7.30, Sunday 2 June 7.30
Thursday 6  & Friday 7 June 7.30, Saturday 8 June 2.30 & 7.30
Little Theatre, Latrobe Performing Arts Centre (Traralgon)
www.latrobetheatrecompany.org.au      5176 3559

Maffra Dramatic Society - SECRET BRIDESMAIDS’ BUSINESS ~ contemporary Australian comedy
7:30 Friday 24 & Saturday 25, 2pm Sunday 26 May and 7:30 Friday 31 May & Saturday 1 June
Court House Theatre, 60 Princes Hwy, Stratford
www.maffradramatics.com  .. 5147 2135

Moreland Theatre Company – ARSENIC AND OLD LACE ~ vintage comedy
23 May – 1 June
Mechanics Institute of Performing Arts (MIPAC) Cnr Sydney & Glenlyon Rd, Brunswick
www.moreland.org.au…..9386 0048

Gemco Players – DON’T DRINK THE WATER ~ Woody Allen’s classic stage comedy set during the Cold War
24 May – 1 June  8pm Friday 24, Sat 25, 2pm Sunday 26, 8pm Friday 31 May, Sat. 1 June
The Gem Community Arts Centre, 19 Kilvington Drive, Emerald
www.gemcoplayers.org   0411 723 530         * 2013 VDL Entry *

Phoenix Theatre Company – THE WEDDING SINGER ~ musical based on the 1998 film
24 May – 1 June
8pm 24, 25, 29 & 30 May  Saturday matinees 2pm 25 May & 1 June   Final show 6pm 1 June
Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Road, Doncaster … Melway 47 E1
www.phoenixtheatrecompany.org… 9012 5897

Brighton Theatre Company – PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE ~ a fun romp through history set against the dawn of the 20th Century
23 May – 8 June
8pm Wednesday – Saturday .. Matinées 2:15 Sundays plus second Saturday
Brighton Arts & Cultural Centre, Wilson Street, Brighton
www.brightontheatreco.com ….. 9589 0005    * 2013 VDL Entry *

The Mount Theatre – THREE PENNY OPERA ~ Bertolt Brecht’s story, Kurt Weill’s music with Mack the Knife
24 May – 16 June  … 8:00pm Fridays & Saturdays, Matinées 2:00pm Sundays
Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon (only 40 mins from CBD)
www.themountplayers.com …. 1300 463 224 (10am – 5pm Tues to Sat)

Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – 13 the Musical ~ A grown up musical about growing up by Jason Robert Brown. An hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.
25 May – 8 June … 7:30pm Fridays & Saturdays, 7:00pm Thursday 30 May
Matinées: 5pm Sunday 26 May, 2pm Saturdays 1 & 8 June & Sunday 2 June
Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre, 98 Graham Street, Wonthaggi
Bookings:  Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club    5672 1083

COMING SOON

Lilydale Athenæum Theatre – LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd FLOOR ~ A Neil Simon comedy directed by Kevin Trask
29 May – 15 June  8:15 Wednesdays to Saturdays + Tuesday last week  2pm Sundays
39 – 41 Castella Street, Lilydale
www.lilydaletc.com …… 9735 1777      * 2013 VDL Entry *

Eighteen Twelve Theatre – THE VICAR OF DIBLEY ~ The irreverent reverent on stage!
30 May – 22 June …  (8:00 Wednesdays to Saturdays ..  Sunday matinées @ 4pm)
Theatre: bakery@1812, 3 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully 3156
www.1812theatre.com.au  .. 9758 3964 or 0406 752 067 

Sale Theatre Company – THE ODD COUPLE ~ Neil Simon comedy
Remember the television series?
31 May – 8 June   8pm 31 May, 1, 6, 7 & 8 June  2pm Sunday 2 & Saturday 8 June
John Leslie Theatre, Esso BHP Billiton Wellington Entertainment Centre, Foster St., Sale
Bookings:  EBBWEC Box Office   www.ebbwec.com.au   5143 3200

Babirra Music Theatre – ANNIE ~ A delightful musical
31 May – 9 June .  8pm Friday 31 May &  Saturday 1 June, 2pm Sunday 2 June
8pm Thursday 6 & Friday 7, 2pm & 8pm Saturday 8, Sunday 9 June
Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
www.babirra.org.au .… 9262 6555 (10am – 4:30pm weekdays)

Beaumaris Theatre Inc. – SET BUILD ~ Original comedy written & directed by Andy Payne
31 May – 15 June
82 Wells Road, Beaumaris  …. Melways 86 G6
www.beaumaristheatre.com.au …. 9583 6896

Fab Nobs Theatre in conjunction with Williamstown Musical Theatre Company –
[title of show] ~ Victorian amateur première – 2 companies, 1 show, same cast, 2 venues
7 – 15 June
The Fab Factory, 33 Industry Place (Off Malvern Street), Bayswater
Bookings:   www.fabnobstheatre.com.au .… Anne 0401 018 846

Kew Court House Arts Association – COSI ~ Set in 1971, Louis Nowra’s semi-autobiographical play, a touching yet biting, humorous portrayal of human relationships in a Melbourne mental institution
7 – 16 June  (Fri 7, Sat 8, Wed 12, Thurs 13, Fri 14, Sat 15 June all @ 8pm. Sundays 9 & 16 June @ 5pm)
Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Road, Doncaster       * 2013 VDL Entry *
www.kewcourthousearts.com.au        0450 572 522

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company – HEROES ~ A wonderful look at our later years. Gustave, Henri and Philippe are three WW1 veterans who pass their monotony filled days in a military hospital reflecting on their lives and the war, grumbling about the staff and dreaming of freedom. 
June 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 21 & 22 at 8pm.  Sunday matinee at 2pm. June 9 & 16
Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., West Geelong
www.geelongrep.com.au ….5225 1200

Peridot Theatre  -  ONE ACT PLAY SEASON ~ Ferris Wheel by Mary Miller,
Cupboard Love by Jean McConnell, Leap Year by Allan Curtis & The Pink Umbrella by Cerise de Gelder
8pm 13, 14 & 15 June … 2:15pm Sunday 16 June
Unicorn Theatre, Mt. Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Road
www.peridot.com.au … 1300 138 646 (no mobiles),   9898 9090 (for mobiles)

Mordialloc Theatre Company – ALBERT NOBBS ~ Blithe Spirit for the working class
13 – 29 June 8pm Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays + last Wednesday, 2:15 Sundays
Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Road, Parkdale
www.mordialloctheatre.com  . . 9587 5141

MLOC – BIG THE MUSICAL ~ a musical adaptation of the 1988 Tom Hanks film Big
14 – 22 June 8pm Fri’s & Sat’s + 2nd Thursday.  Matinées 5pm Sunday & 2pm last Saturday
Phoenix Theatre, 101 Glenhuntly Rd., Elwood
www.mloc.org.au …. 9570 4052

Mountain District Musical Society – FIDDLER ON THE ROOF ~ Welcome to Anatevka and a musical which plays on the heartstrings as well as the violin
14 – 22 June … 8pm 14, 15, 20, 21 & 22,  June,  2pm Sunday 16 & Saturday 22 June
Karralyka Theatre, Mines Road, Ringwood
www.mdms.org.au … 0431 940 984 (a.h.)

Williamstown Musical Theatre Company in conjunction with Fab Nobs Theatre –
[title of show] ~ Victorian amateur première – 2 companies, 1 show, same cast, 2 venues
20 – 23 June
Williamstown Mechanics Institute, Cnr. Williamstown Rd. & Electra St., Williamstown
www.wmtc.org.au …..  1300 881 545

Malvern Theatre Company – WHAT THE BUTLER SAW ~ Joe Orton’s classic comedy
21 June – 6 July  . 8.15 Tuesdays to Saturdays . Matinées 2pm Saturday 22 & Sunday 30 June
29a Burke Road, East Malvern
www.malverntheatre.com.au …..  1300 131 552

Windmill Theatre Company – PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber musical compete with chandelier
Friday 21 June – Sunday 14 July ..   8pm  Thursdays, Fridays  & Saturdays    2pm Sundays
Drum Theatre, Cnr. Lonsdale & Walkers Streets, Dandenong
www.wtc-theatre.com  …. Bookings: www.drumtheatre.com.au … 9771 6666

Sunshine Community Theatre Inc. – BOSTON MARRIAGE ~ the tale of  two women at the turn of the 20th century who are involved in a ‘Boston marriage’
June 27 – July 7   8pm Fridays and Saturdays plus 3pm Sunday  and 2pm final Saturday
Dempster Park Hall, 82 Phoenix Street North Sunshine
www.sunshinecommunitytheatre.com.au    0407 802 165

Williamstown Little Theatre  - THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE ~ by Martin McDonagh, set in Ireland and directed by Ellis Ebell
27 June – 13 July .Tuesday – Saturday 8:15pm, Sundays 5pm
2-4 Albert Street, Williamstown … Melways 56 B7
www.wlt.org.au ….. 9885 9678

Geelong Lyric Theatre Society & Geelong Repertory Theatre Company – COMPANY ~ A Stephen Sondheim musical. To the sounds and rhythms of New York City, we meet Robert’s married friends as he weighs the pros and cons of married life
4 – 20 July … 8pm 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19 & 20 July.
Sunday matinees 2pm July 7, 14 & 20
Woodbin Theatre, Coronation Street, Geelong
www.glts.asn.au    www.geelongrep.com.au .Book: www.gpac.org.au … 5225 1200

ARC Theatre (Amateur Repertory Company) – SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN ~ Great music and lots of water
5 – 13 July . 8pm 5 & 6, Wednesday 10 – 13 July . Matinée 2pm Saturday 13 July
Banyule Theatre, Viewbank College, Buckingham Drive, Heidelberg  Melways 32 D3
www.arc-theatre.com…. 0435 062 087

Leongatha Lyric Theatre – THE WIZARD OF OZ ~ Munchkins and magic take you down the Yellow Brick Road and Over the Rainbow
5 – 20 July    Thursdays – Saturdays  7:30 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 July
Matinées @ 2pm – Sundays 7 &  14 July plus Saturdays 13 & 20 July
Mesley Hall, Leongatha Secondary College, Nerrena Rd., Leongatha
www.lyrictheatre.net.au .. Mushroom Crafts   5662 3940

Altona City Theatre – SPRING AWAKENING ~ A new musical
July . 7:30  Fridays, 2pm matinées Saturdays  & Sundays, 2pm
Altona Civic Centre, Civic Parade, Altona
www.altonacitytheatre.com.au … 0425 705 550

Heidelberg Theatre Company – BLITHE SPIRIT ~ Vintage Noel Coward
11 – 27 July .. 8:00 Thursday to Saturday + Wednesday last week . Matinées 2:00 Sundays
36 Turnham Avenue,  Rosanna
www.htc.org.au ….. 9457 4117

Encore Theatre - THE CLUB ~ Vintage David Williamson football comedy
12 – 27 July
Clayton Community Centre, Cooke Street, Clayton   Melway: 79 C3
www.encoretheatre.com.au  …….  1300 739 099

PLOS Musical Productions – LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS ~ be careful of the plants
8pm Fri 19 & Sat 20, 2pm Sunday 21, 8pm Thursday 25 & Friday 26, 2pm Saturday 27 July
Frankston Arts Centre, Davey Street, Frankston
www.plos.asn.au …… Bookings: Frankston Arts Centre box office      9784 1060

Mornington CEF Players – SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD ~ A song cycle by Jason Robert Brown, creator of  Parade, 13! and The Last Five Years
19 – 28 July   8:00pm Fridays & Saturdays   Matinées 2:00pm Sundays
St Peter’s Bellamy Hall, Cnr. Albert & Octavia St. Mornington …. Melway 104 D10/11
www.cefplayers.com …… 5975 6868

Center Stage Geelong – THE WEDDING SINGER ~
21 July – 3 August 
www.centerstagegeelong.com

Sherbrooke Theatre Co. Inc. – AGATHA CRISPIE ~ after World War I an unknown mystery writer longs to have her stories published – there are surprises, mystery, drama, humour, an that infernal mousetrap
26 July – 10 August    8:15 Thursday – Saturday, 5:15 Sundays
Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Road, Doncaster … Melway 47 E1
www.sherbrooketc.org.au …. 1300 650 209

Mockingbird Theatre – EQUUS ~ Tony Award-winning play on a psychiatrist’s attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses
3 – 17 August   Opens 8pm Saturday 3, 8pm Tuesdays – Saturdays & 5pm Sunday 11 August
Brunswick Institute Performing Arts Centre, Cnr. Glenlyon & Sydney Road, Brunswick
www.mockingbirdtheatre.com.au

Beaumaris Theatre Inc. –  GREASE ~ A family musical with teenage angst
3 August – 14 September
82 Wells Road, Beaumaris  …. Melways 86 G6
www.beaumaristheatre.com.au …. 9583 6896

Eighteen Twelve Theatre – SLEUTH ~ The world’s greatest thriller
8 – 31 August …  (8:00 Wednesdays to Saturdays ..  Sunday matinées @ 4pm)
Theatre: bakery@1812, 3 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully 3156
www.1812theatre.com.au .. 9758 3964 or 0406 752 067      * 2013 VDL Entry *

Williamstown Musical Theatre Company – ANNIE ~ Youth Production
9 – 18 August
Williamstown Mechanics Institute, Cnr. Williamstown Rd. & Electra St., Williamstown
www.wmtc.org.au …..  1300 881 545

Peridot Theatre – THE WISDOM OF EVE ~ Classic play adapted from the film All About Eve
8pm 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24  August Wednesdays – Saturdays
matinées 2:15pm Sunday 11  & Saturday 17 & Twilight 4pm Sunday August
Unicorn Theatre, Mt. Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Road       * 2013 VDL Entry *
www.peridot.com.au ….  1300 138 646 (no mobiles),   9898 9090 (for mobiles)

Strathmore Theatre Arts Group – LAYING THE GHOST ~ Set in a retirement home for actors, directed by Robert Harsley
15 – 25 August   (Thursdays – Saturdays plus Sunday matinées)
Community Centre, Theatre: Cnr. Loeman and Napier Sts, Strathmore … Melways 16 G10
www.stagtheatre.org …… Drew: 9382 6284 (ah)

Brighton Theatre Company – ECHOES ~ A three character drama by N. Richard Nash
15 – 31 August
8pm Wednesday – Saturday .. Matinées 2:15 Sundays plus second Saturday
Brighton Arts & Cultural Centre, Wilson Street, Brighton
www.brightontheatreco.com ….. 9589 0005

The Basin Theatre Group – KID STAKES ~ Part of the  Ray Lawler trilogy which includes Summer of the 17th Doll
16 August – 8 September
Theatre: Cnr Simpson & Doongalla Roads, The Basin
www.thebasintheatre.org.au ….. 1300 784 668

Class Act Productions – DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ~
August
Lowanna College Auditorium, Newark Avenue, Newborough
www.classactproductions.com.au

Lilydale Athenæum Theatre – THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA ~ Australian non-professional premiere of a musical about a whirlwind courtship in Florence
21 August – 7 Sept.  8:15 Wednesdays to Saturdays + Tuesday last week  2pm Sundays
39 – 41 Castella Street, Lilydale
www.lilydaletc.com …… 9735 1777

Dionysus Theatre – LYSISTRATA ~ An ancient comedy by Aristophanes, English version by Dudley Fitts
23 – 31 August
www.dionysustheatre.com.au           * 2013 VDL Entry *

Malvern Theatre Company – 33 VARIATIONS ~ Multi-award winning play with parallel stories of Ludwig Van Beethoven and a 21st Century musicologist
23 August – 3 Sept .. Tuesday to Saturday, matinées Saturday 24 Aug  &  Sunday 1 Sept
29a Burke Road, East Malvern
www.malverntheatre.com.au …  1300 131 552        * 2013 VDL Entry *

The Mount Players – STEEL MAGNOLIAS ~ Comedy / drama set in a Louisiana home beauty salon
28 August – 14 September  … 8:00pm Fridays & Saturdays, Matinées 2:00pm Sundays
Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon (only 40 mins from CBD)
www.themountplayers.com .   1300 463 224 (10 – 5 Tues – Sat)  * 2013 VDL Entry *

Mockingbird Theatre – KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN ~ sharply provocative tale of love, victimisation, fantasy and of the friendship that develops between two strikingly different men. Also the subject of an Academy Award-winning film and a hit Broadway musical
29 August – 7 Sept.  8pm Thursday 29, Friday 30 & Saturday 31 August, 5pm Sunday 1 Sept.
8pm Tuesday 3 – Saturday 7 September plus Saturday matinee 2pm 7 September
Venue TBA
www.mockingbirdtheatre.com.au

Sunshine Community Theatre – AND THE BIG MEN FLY ~ the original (VFL) football show
30 August – 5 September  8pm Fridays and Saturdays plus 3pm Sunday and 2pm last Saturday
Dempster Park Hall, 82 Phoenix Street North Sunshine
www.sunshinecommunitytheatre.com.au    0407 802 165      * 2013 VDL Entry *

Eltham Little Theatre – ARMS AND THE MAN ~ The George Bernard Shaw play about the Chocolate Soldier
30 August – 14 September
Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Road Research … Melways: 22 H1
www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au … 9437 1574

Moreland Theatre Company – UP FOR GRABS ~ social comedy by David Williamson
5 – 14 September
Mechanics Institute of Performing Arts (MIPAC) Cnr Sydney & Glenlyon Rd, Brunswick
www.moreland.org.au…..9386 0048

Purely Pensive Productions – THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST ~ vintage Oscar Wilde classic
5 – 14 September
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre, Corner Sydney and Glenlyon Roads Brunswick
www.purelypensive.com.au         * 2013 VDL Entry *

Williamstown Little Theatre - MORNING DEPARTURE ~ by Kenneth Wollard
5 – 21 September  Tuesday – Saturday 8:15pm, Sundays 5pm
2-4 Albert Street, Williamstown … Melways 56 B7
www.wlt.org.au ….. 9885 9678

Mordialloc Theatre Company – NIGHT MUST FALL ~ A thriller
6 – 21 September  8pm Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays + last Wednesday, 2:15 Sundays
Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Road, Parkdale
www.mordialloctheatre.com  . . 9587 5141           * 2013 VDL Entry *

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company – THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE ~ A liberated young school teacher in an Edinburgh girls’ school, in the period between the wars, instructs “her girls” on the ways of life – love, politics and art.
September 6, 7, 13, 14, 19, 20 & 21 at 8pm.   Sunday matinées at 2pm Sept 8 & 15.
Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., West Geelong
www.geelongrep.com.au ….5225 1200

Essendon Theatre Company – GARY’S HOUSE ~ Australian drama by Debra Oswald
12 – 21 September
www.essendontheatrecompany.com     * 2013 VDL Entry *

Heidelberg Theatre Company – ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST ~ Unforgettable much loved story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants
12 – 28 September.. 8:00 Thursday to Saturday + Wednesday last week . Matinées 2:00 Sundays
36 Turnham Avenue,  Rosanna
www.htc.org.au ….. 9457 4117

MOaRTZ Theatre - GOD OF CARNAGE ~ 4 adults behaving very childishly – written by Yasmina Reza, creator of the multi-award winning Art
13 – 21 September
www.moartz.org.au         * 2013 VDL Entry *

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria – THE GEISHA ~ One of the most successful musical comedies of its era – 1896!
17 – 21 September @ 8:15, 21 September @ 2:15
Malvern Theatre, 29A Burke Rd., East Malvern
www.gilbertandsullivan.org.au         9905 1111

Geelong Lyric Theatre Society – THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ~ Tales from the Paris Opera House
4 – 12 October
Playhouse Theatre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, 50 Lt Malop Street, Geelong
www.glts.asn.au…  Bookings: www.gpac.org.au … 5225 1200

Leongatha Lyric Theatre – MURDERED TO DEATH ~ hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions
4 – 12 October
Mesley Hall, Leongatha Secondary College, Nerrena Rd., Leongatha
www.lyrictheatre.net.au .. Mushroom Crafts   5662 3940

CLOC Music Theatre – GUYS AND DOLLS ~ with hilarity, joy and a touch of old-fashioned romance, CLOC takes you back to New York in the late 1940s to present this classic musical fable
4 – 19 October … 8pm Wednesdays – Saturdays, 2pm Sundays
National Theatre, Cnr. Carlisle & Barkly Streets, St Kilda   Melway 58 B10
www.cloc.org.au  …..  1300 362 547

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria – PRINCESS IDA
19, 25 & 26 October @ 8:00pm, 19 & 26 October @ 2:00pm
Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clayton
www.gilbertandsullivan.org.au       9905 1111

Eighteen Twelve Theatre – GOD OF CARNAGE ~ A contemporary moral dilemma with acerbic wit and shrewd observations
9 October – 2 November
Theatre: bakery@1812, 3 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully 3156
www.1812theatre.com.au ..  9758 3964 or 0406 752 067 

Wangaratta Players – NOISES OFF ~ An extremely theatrical farce
10 – 19 October        * 2013 VDL Entry *

Babirra Music Theatre – CAROUSEL ~ A Rodgers & Hammerstein classic
11 – 19 October
Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
www.babirra.org.au .… 9262 6555 (10am – 4:30pm weekdays)

Encore Theatre - THE MERRY WIDOWS ~ a new Australian comedy
11 – 26 October
Clayton Community Centre Theatrette, Cooke Street, Clayton  Melway: 79 C3
www.encoretheatre.com.au  …….  1300 739 099

Nova Music Theatre –  GYPSY ~ Jule Styne’s music, Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics
Musical based on the memoires of Gypsy Rose Lee
26 October – 10 November  8pm Saturday 26 & Thursday 31 October, 8pm 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 November
Matinees: 2pm Saturday 2, Sunday 3, Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 November
Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
www.novamusictheatre.com.au … 1300 305 771  or 9727 0192

Center Stage Geelong – ZOMBIE PROM ~
27 October – 9 November
www.centerstagegeelong.com

Malvern Theatre Company – THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA ~ a 2005 musical set in 1953 Italy
1 – 16 November.. Tuesday to Saturday, matinées Saturday 2  &  Sunday 10 November
29a Burke Road, East Malvern
www.malverntheatre.com.au …. 1300 131 552

Strathmore Theatre Arts Group – FUNNY MONEY ~ A comic romp by Ray Cooney
7 – 17 November   (Thursdays – Saturdays plus Sunday matinées)
Community Centre, Cnr. Loeman and Napier Sts, Strathmore … Melways 16 G10
www.stagtheatre.org …… Drew: 9382 6284 (ah)

Lilydale Athanaeum Theatre – ARE YOU BEING SERVED? ~ Remember the British TV comedy?
6 – 23 November  8:15 Wednesdays to Saturdays + Tuesday last week  2pm Sundays
39 – 41 Castella Street, Lilydale
www.lilydaletc.com …… 9735 1777

Brighton Theatre Company – DUSK RINGS A BELL ~ Steeped in regret and possibility, a play about taking responsibility for our choices
7 – 23 November
8pm Wednesday – Saturday .. Matinées 2:15 Sundays plus second Saturday
Brighton Arts & Cultural Centre, Wilson Street, Brighton
www.brightontheatreco.com ….. 9589 0005

Williamstown Musical Theatre Company – URINETOWN THE MUSICAL ~
To pee or not to pee
8 – 23 November  (8pm Fridays & Saturdays & Thursday last week, 2pm Sundays)
Williamstown Mechanics Institute, Cnr. Williamstown Rd. & Electra St., Williamstown
www.wmtc.org.au …..  1300 881 545

Mordialloc Theatre Company – THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB ~ Same Time Next Year meets Steel Magnolias
8 – 23 November  8pm Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays + last Wednesday, 2:15 Sundays
Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Road, Parkdale
www.mordialloctheatre.com  . . 9587 5141

Peridot Theatre – EASY VIRTUE ~ Noel Coward’s witty satire examining the manners and morals of English society in the 1920s 
8pm 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 November    Wednesdays – Saturdays
matinées 2:15pm Sunday 10 & Saturday 16  & Twilight 4pm Sunday 17 November
Unicorn Theatre, Mt. Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Road
www.peridot.com.au ….  1300 138 646 (no mobiles),   9898 9090 (for mobiles)

Beaumaris Theatre Inc. – THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
~ a simply H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S  musical
8 – 30 November
82 Wells Road, Beaumaris  …. Melways 86 G6
www.beaumaristheatre.com.au …. 9583 6896

The Basin Theatre Group – LEND ME A TENOR ~ by Ken Ludwig
8 – 30 November
Theatre: Cnr Simpson & Doongalla Roads, The Basin
www.thebasintheatre.org.au ….. 1300 784 668

The Mount Theatre – THE SOUND OF MUSIC ~ Rodgers and Hammerstein’s last musical
8 November – 1 December  … 8pm Fridays & Saturdays, Matinées 2pm Sundays
Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon (only 40 mins from CBD)
www.themountplayers.com …. 1300 463 224 (10am – 5pm Tues to Sat)

Williamstown Little Theatre - A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM ~ Stephen Sondheim’s funniest musical
14 – 20 November  Tuesday – Saturday 8:15pm, Sundays 5pm
2-4 Albert Street, Williamstown … Melways 56 B7
www.wlt.org.au ….. 9885 9678

Sherbrooke Theatre Co. Inc. – FACE TO FACE ~ David Williamson’s play about workplace bullying and community conferencing.
15 – 30 November    8:15 Thursday – Saturday, 5:15 Sundays
Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Road, Doncaster … Melway 47 E1
www.sherbrooketc.org.au …. 1300 650 209

MLOC – THE PRODUCERS ~ Mel Brooks’ musical based based on his movie
November
Phoenix Theatre, 101 Glenhuntly Rd., Elwood
www.mloc.org.au …. 9570 4052

Warrandyte Theatre Company – THE 39 STEPS ~ An economical version of the Hitchcock film
15 – 30 November
Mechanics Institute Hall, on the corner of Yarra Street and Mitchell Avenue, Warrandyte
www.warrandytehallarts.asn.au/Theatre       0488 333 575

Heidelberg Theatre Company - STEEL MAGNOLIAS ~ A touching and funny play set in a Southern hairdressing salon
21 Nov – 7 Dec . 8pm Thursday to Saturday + Wednesday last week .Matinées 2pm Sundays
36 Turnham Avenue,  Rosanna
www.htc.org.au ….. 9457 4117

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company– BLACKADDER ~ England 1588!  A riotous romp through the Renaissance
Nov 22, 23, 29 & 30. Dec 5, 6 & 7 at 8pm.    Sunday matinee at 2pm Nov 24 & Dec 1.
Woodbin Theatre, Coronation Street, Geelong
www.glts.asn.au… Bookings: www.gpac.org.au … 5225 1200

The Mount Theatre – QUIET BACK STAGE ~ Mount Players Youth Theatre
6 – 15 December  … 8:00pm Fridays & Saturdays, Matinées 2:00pm Sundays
Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon (only 40 mins from CBD)
www.themountplayers.com …. 1300 463 224 (10am – 5pm Tues to Sat)

PLOS Musical Productions – OKLAHOMA!  ~ vintage Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
8pm Friday 19 & Saturday 20, 2pm Sunday 21, 8pm Thursday 25 & Friday 26, 2pm Saturday 27 New Year 2014
Frankston Arts Centre, Davey Street, Frankston
www.plos.asn.au …… Bookings: Frankston Arts Centre box office      9784 1060

WHAT’S BEEN ON

PLOS Musical Productions – THE SECRET GARDEN ~ the classic children’s book now a musical with Toby Truscott (Foster connections) as Archibald Craven
31 December 2012 – 6 January 2013
Frankston Arts Centre, Davey Street, Frankston
www.plos.asn.au …… Bookings: Frankston Arts Centre box office      9784 1060

Encore Theatre – DICK WITTINGTON AND HIS CAT ~ A pantomime of the traditional story
10 – 19 January 2012  ..  Shows Thursday Friday & Saturday @ 11:00am & 2:00pm
Clayton Community Centre Theatrette, Cooke Street, Clayton  Melway: 79 C3
www.encoretheatre.com.au  ….  1300 739 099

Hartwell Payers – TINY THUMBERLINA ~ Family-friendly summer fun
19 – 26 January – 2pm 19, 20, 25 & 26 plus 7pm Saturday 19 & Friday 25 January
Ashwood College Performing Arts Centre, Vannam Drive, Ashwood      Melway: 60 J10
www.hartwellplayers.org.au …. 9889 5006

Footlight Productions – LES MISÉRABLES ~ Victor Hugo’s gripping story set to music
7:30 January 25, 26, 30 & 31, February 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 & 9  Saturday matinées 1:30 Feb 2 & 9
Playhouse Theatre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, 50 Lt Malop Street, Geelong
www.footlightproductionsvic.com ….. 5225 1200

Mordialloc Theatre Company – THE GRAND MANNER ~ A mix of remembrance and imagination, a love letter to the fabled actress Katherine Cornell, written by A.R. Gurney, author of  Sylvia and Love Letters.
1 – 16 February  8pm Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays + last Wednesday, 2:15 Sundays
Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Road, Parkdale
www.mordialloctheatre.com  . . 9587 5141

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company – ARSENIC AND OLD LACE ~ A madcap farce with a policeman who thinks he is a playwright, a plastic surgeon to the criminally insane, the glamorous daughter of a minister, a nephew who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt and a gangster on the run
February 1, 2, 8, 9, 14, 15 & 16 at 8pm. Sunday matinées at 2pm Feb 3 & 10
Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., West Geelong     * 2013 VDL Entry *
www.geelongrep.com.au …. 5225 1200

BLOC Music Theatre - XANADU ~ Get your skates on – It’s Magic!
7 – 10 February 8pm Thursday 7, Fri 8,  Sat 9 plus matinées 2pm Saturday & Sunday
Helen MacPherson Smith Theatre, Camp St, University of Ballarat, Ballarat
www.blocmusictheatre.com.au

ARC Theatre (Amateur Repertory Company) – THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE  ~ a simply H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S musical
8 – 16 February   8pm 8 & 9, 14 – 16 February   No matinees
Banyule Theatre, Viewbank College, 10 Buckingham Drive, Heidelberg  Melways 32 D3
www.arc-theatre.com …. 0435 062 087

Williamstown Little Theatre - TALKING HEADS ~ Three monologues by Alan Bennett
7 – 23 February  Tuesday – Saturday 8:15pm, Sundays 5pm
2-4 Albert Street, Williamstown … Melways 56 B7
www.wlt.org.au ….. 9885 9678

Peridot Theatre – BUSYBODY ~ A comedy by Jack Popplewell
8pm February 8 – 23  (Wed. – Sats)   Matinées: 10 & 16 @ 2.15 pm,  4pm Sunday 17 Feb
Unicorn Theatre, Mt. Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Road
www.peridot.com.au … 1300 138 646 (no mobiles),   9898 9090 (for mobiles)

Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – BEND IT LIKE BROADWAY ~ A cabaret style concert with a twist. Your favourite Broadway tunes delivered in a fresh and surprising way.
8pm Friday 15, 8pm Saturday 16 & 1pm Sunday 17 February
Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre, 98 Graham Street, Wonthaggi
Bookings:  Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club    5672 1083

PEP Productions – THE BOYS ~ Just out of jail, Brett is reunited with his family, ready to reclaim his life but things have changed while he’s been inside (Adult themes & language)
15 – 23 February 8pm Thursday, Fridays & Saturday.   No matinées!
Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster   Melways Map: 47 E1
www.pepproductions.org.au …. 0423 935 320

Eltham Little Theatre – KATERINA ~ Kat, a single woman in her late 20’s, is in a major life slump decides tobecome a playwright, but has serious writer’s block
15 February – 2 March
Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Road Research … Melways: 22 H1
www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au .. 9437 1574

The Basin Theatre Group – MURDERED TO DEATH ~ by Peter Gordon
15 February – 9 March
Theatre: Cnr Simpson & Doongalla Roads, The Basin
www.thebasintheatre.org.au ….. 1300 784 668

Strathmore Theatre Arts Group – THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR ~ Shakespeare set in Windsor Lakes, a new planned housin estate near Yarra Glen
21 Feb – 3 March   (Thursdays – Saturdays plus Sunday matinées)
Community Centre, Cnr. Loeman and Napier Sts, Strathmore … Melways 16 G10
www.stagtheatre.org …… Drew: 9382 6284 (ah)     * 2013 VDL Entry *

Brighton Theatre Company – THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES ~ a drama by Joanna Murray-Smith with shades of Germaine Greer
21 February – 9 March 8pm Wed  – Saturdays .. Matinées 2:15 Sundays plus second Saturday
Brighton Arts & Cultural Centre, Wilson Street, Brighton
www.brightontheatreco.com ….. 9589 0005

Heidelberg Theatre Company – THE DRESSER ~ World War II, Shakespearian players in a seaside town . . .
21 Feb – 9 March .8pm Thursday to Saturday + Wednesday last week, matinées 2pm Sundays
36 Turnham Avenue,  Rosanna
www.htc.org.au ….. 9457 4117

Malvern Theatre Company – DEATH AND THE MAIDEN ~ a moral thriller set in an unnamed South American country
22 Feb – 9 March .. Tuesday to Saturday, matinées Saturday 23 Feb & Sunday 3 March
29a Burke Road, East Malvern
www.malverntheatre.com.au ….. 1300 131 552

Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC) – HAIRSPRAY ~ Big hair in the ’60s
Sat Feb 23 8pm, Sun 24 2pm, Fri March 1, Sat 2 8pm, Sun 3 2pm, Thurs 7 7pm, Fri 8 8pm
Cardinia Cultural Centre, Lakeside Boulevard, Pakenham
www.cardiniaperformingarts.com …. 9587 1750  or 0407 090 354

Eighteen Twelve Theatre – THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY MURDER MYSTERY
28 February – 23 March   (8:00 Wednesdays to Saturdays ..  Sunday matinées @ 4pm)
Theatre: bakery@1812, 3 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully
www.1812theatre.com.au ….. 9758 3964 or 0406 752 067

SPX Waterdale Players – THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK ~ Dance with the Devil
1 – 9 March    (8pm 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9 March and 5pm Sunday 3 March)
Rivergum Theatre, Parade College, 1436 Plenty Road, Bundoora
www.waterdale.synthasite.com …. 0400 212 566

The Mount Theatre – STONES IN HIS POCKETS ~ An Irish play directed by Richard Keown
1 – 22 March  … 8:00pm Fridays & Saturdays, Matinées 2:00pm Sundays
Mountview Theatre, 56 Smith Street, Macedon (only 40 mins from CBD)
www.themountplayers.com …. 1300 463 224 (10am – 5pm Tues to Sat)

Lilydale Athenæum Theatre – STEEL MAGNOLIAS ~ with female characters as delicate as magnolias and as tough as steel
6 – 23 March  8:15 Wednesdays to Saturdays + Tuesday last week  2pm Sundays
39 – 41 Castella Street, Lilydale
www.lilydaletc.com  …… 9735 1777

Beaumaris Theatre Inc. – THE ODD COUPLE ~ a Neil Simon classic
directed by Peter Newling
8 – 23 March   8th, 9th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd @ 8pm . March 17th @ 5pm.
82 Wells Road, Beaumaris  …. Melways 86 G6
www.beaumaristheatre.com.au …. 9583 6896   * 2013 VDL Entry *

Altona City Theatre – JACK AND THE BEANSTALK ~ A pantomime
8 – 23 March . 7:30  Fridays, 2pm matinées Sat 10  & Sundays, 2pm + 7:30 Sats 16 & 23
Altona Civic Centre, Civic Parade, Altona
www.altonacitytheatre.com.au … 0425 705 550

Encore Theatre – SUMMER OF THE 17th DOLL ~ an Australian classic
Evenings March 8, 9, 15, 21, 22, 23 @ 8pm    Matinées March 10, 17 & 23 @ 2.15pm
Clayton Community Centre Theatrette, Cooke Street, Clayton  Melway: 79 C3
www.encoretheatre.com.au  …..  1300 739 099     * 2013 VDL Entry *

Fab Nobs Theatre – EURÖBEAT ALMÖST EURÖVISION~ patriotism & stereotypes abound
Sheona Gregg (Dianne Lorimer in Leongatha Lyric’s 42^nd Street) representing the Ukraine
8 – 23 March (8pm Thursday – Saturday plus Monday 11 March [cheap night] & last Wednesday)
The Fab Factory, 33 Industry Place (Off Malvern Street), Bayswater
Bookings:   www.fabnobstheatre.com.au .… Anne 0401 018 846

Nanoo Nanoo Productions – AVENUE Q ~ Sesame Street for adults
7:30 Thursday 14 March – ONE SHOW ONLY
ESSO BHP Billiton Wellington Entertainment Centre, Sale  …  5143 3200
7:30 Friday 15, Saturday 16 + Thursday 21, Friday 22 & Saturday 23 March
Latrobe Performing Arts Centre, Grey Street, Traralgon  …  5176 3559
http://youtu.be/y_IxBuAZ4UU                www.facebook.com/avenueQgippsland

Mornington CEF Players – STEEL MAGNOLIAS ~ the funniest play ever to make you cry
15 – 24 March   8:00pm Fridays & Saturdays   Matinées 2:00pm Sundays
St Peter’s Bellamy Hall, Cnr. Albert & Octavia St. Mornington …. Melway 104 D10/11
www.cefplayers.com …… 5975 6868      * 2013 VDL Entry *

SLAMS Music Theatre – FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE ~ with 50+ R&B hits, an exhilarating theatrical experience
8pm 15, 16, 21, 22 & 23 March
Knox Community Arts Centre (Cnr Mountain Hwy & Scoresby Road, Bayswater)
www.slams.org.au    www.knox.vic.gov.au/theatretix … 9720 3205

Warrandyte Theatre Company – FANTASY FOLLIES 2013 ~
21 March – 13 April
Mechanics Institute Hall, on the corner of Yarra Street and Mitchell Avenue, Warrandyte
www.warrandytehallarts.asn.au/Theatre  … Book a table: 0488 333 575

Essendon Theatre Company – FANTASMAGORICAL ~ a children’s pantomime
5 – 13 April    Friday Apr 5 2pm & 7pm, Saturday 6 Apr 2pm, Sunday 7 Apr 2pm,
Fri 12 Apr 7pm & Sat 13 Apr 2pm & 7pm
Community Centre, 9 Bradshaw St., West Essendon (off Buckley St.)  (Melways 28 B3)
www.essendontheatrecompany.com  . . 0422 029 483

Catchment Players – 13 the Musical ~ A grown up musical about growing up, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, the creative force behind The Last 5 Years and Parade.
5 – 7 April    Friday 5 April 8pm, Saturday 6 April 2pm & 8pm, Sunday 7 April 2pm
Banyule Theatre, Viewbank College, Buckingham Drive, Heidelberg
www.catchmentplayers.org.au ….. 0437 228 246

Geelong Repertory Theatre Company – MISS BOSNIA ~ Cutting edge comedy, set in 1993 during the Siege of Sarajevo. Mira is running the first Miss Bosnia pageant – first prize is a seat on the last UN convey out of Sarajevo with a motley bunch of contestants, judged by an army general.
April 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 & 20 at 8pm.  Sunday matinées @ 2pm April 7 & 14
Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., West Geelong
www.geelongrep.com.au ….5225 1200

Sunshine Community Theatre Inc. – WAIT UNTIL DARK ~ Classic thriller about a blind Greenwich Village housewife, the target of three con-men searching for the heroin.
12 – 20 April   8pm Fridays and Saturdays plus 3pm Sunday 14 and 2pm Saturday 19 April
Dempster Park Hall, 82 Phoenix Street North Sunshine
www.sunshinecommunitytheatre.com.au    0407 802 165

Sherbrooke Theatre Co. Inc. – THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES ~ a deliciously funny farce about the fallout for fans when celebrated heroes change their minds.
12 – 27 April    8:15 Thursday – Saturday, 5:15 Sundays
Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Road, Doncaster … Melway 47 E1
www.sherbrooketc.org.au ….  1300 650 209    * 2013 VDL Entry *

Phillip Island Offshore Theatre – ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN ~ By Alan Ayckbourn, from the Norman Conquests trilogy
18 – 28 April . (7:30 18, 19, 20, 25, 26 & 27 April ..  Sunday matinée @ 2pm 28 April)
Cowes Cultural Centre, Thompson Avenue, Cowes, Phillip Island
5956 8607

Williamstown Little Theatre – 33 VARIATIONS ~ Australian première of a play by Moises Kaufman, directed by Chris Baldock
18 April – 4 May .. Tuesday – Saturday 8:15pm, Sundays 5pm
2-4 Albert Street, Williamstown … Melways 56 B7
www.wlt.org.au …. . 9885 9678       * 2013 VDL Entry *

Eighteen Twelve Theatre – PAST PERFECT ~ Will an innocent man go to the chair?
18 April – 11 May …. (8:00 Wednesdays to Saturdays ..  Sunday matinées @ 4pm)
Theatre: bakery@1812, 3 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully
www.1812theatre.com.au ….. 9758 3964 or 0406 752 067

University of Melbourne Music Theatre Association (UMMTA) –
HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING ~ Frank Loesser’s musical on 1960s corporate life
19 – 27 April     7:30 19 – 20, 24 – 27 April, 2:00 Sunday 21 April
Union Theatre, Building 130, Union House,University of Melbourne, Parkville
www.ummta.org

Wyndham Theatre Company (Formerly Werribee Theatre Company) – COSI ~
now a classic Australian comedy
19 – 27 April    Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30pm, plus Saturday matinées @ 2:30pm
Crossroads Theatre (Cnr. Duncans Rd & Synnot St, next to Uniting Church)
wyndhamtheatrecompany.org.au    0401 800 196      * 2013 VDL Entry *

Kyneton Theatre Co. Inc. – THE GONDOLIERS ~ Gilbert & Sullivan hit Venice
19 – 27 April  Friday 19 @ 8pm, Saturday 20 @ 8 pm, Sunday April 21 @ 2pm
Friday 26 @ 8pm, Saturday April 27 @ 2 pm & 7 pm
Kyneton Mechanics Institute
www.tryboooking.com/41673       Fran Kelly on 5427 4210

Frankston Theatre Group – DAD’S ARMY ~ Based on the British television series
19 – 27 April
8pm Friday 19, Saturday 20, Friday 26April  Two Saturday matinées 2:15 20 & 27 April
George Jenkins Theatre, Monash University, McMahon’s Rd. Frankston
Melways 102 F4 Map 476 Building A
www.frankstontheatregroup.org.au …. 9905 1111

Kew Court House Arts Association – THE TRICKY PART ~ Award winning work often funny and always surprising journey through the complexities of Catholicism, desire and human trespass.
19 – 27 April  (8:30 19, 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27 plus 5:30 twilight shows Saturdays 20 & 27 April)
Gasworks Studio Theatre, 21 Graham Street Albert Park
www.kewcourthousearts.com.au   www.gasworks.org.au   9699 3253    (0450 572 522)

Purely Pensive Productions – THE HISTORY BOYS ~ comedy /drama by Alan Bennett
25 – 27 April  8pm Thursday 25 & Friday 26, 2pm & 8pm Saturday 27 April
Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre, Corner Sydney and Glenlyon Roads Brunswick
www.purelypensive.com.au

Williamstown Little Theatre – 33 VARIATIONS ~ Australian première of a play by Moises Kaufman, directed by Chris Baldock
18 April – 4 May .. Tuesday – Saturday 8:15pm, Sundays 5pm
2-4 Albert Street, Williamstown … Melways 56 B7
www.wlt.org.au …. . 9885 9678       * 2013 VDL Entry *

Eighteen Twelve Theatre – PAST PERFECT ~ Will an innocent man go to the chair?
18 April – 11 May …. (8:00 Wednesdays to Saturdays ..  Sunday matinées @ 4pm)
Theatre: bakery@1812, 3 Rose Street, Upper Ferntree Gully
www.1812theatre.com.au ….. 9758 3964 or 0406 752 067

Mordialloc Theatre Company – LOST IN YONKERS ~ by Neil Simon
19 April – 4 May …  8pm Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays + last Wednesday, 2:15 Sundays
Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Road, Parkdale
www.mordialloctheatre.com  . .     9587 5141

Malvern Theatre Company – THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK ~ Based on a true story, set in war-torn Amsterdam
19 April – 4 May … 8.15 Tuesdays to Saturdays . Matinées 2pm Saturday 20 & Sunday 28 April
29a Burke Road, East Malvern
www.malverntheatre.com.au …  1300 131 552

Torquay Theatre Troup – BREAKER MORANT ~ Australian play set during the Boer War and centred on the court-martial and the last days of Lieutenant Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant (1864–1902) of the Bushveldt Carbineers (BVC)
April 25, 26, 27 May 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 @ 8pm.  April 28 @ 2pm
Theatre: 16 Price St. Torquay
Bookings:  Surf Sight Optical, Shop 3, 8 Gilbert St Torquay    5261 9035

Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria – THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
27 April, 3 & 4 May @ 8pm, 27 April & 4 May @ 2pm
Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Clayton
www.gilbertandsullivan.org.au       9905 1111

Croydon Parish Players – HOTEL SORRENTO ~ a beautiful play by Hannie Rayson
8pm Fri 3, Sat 4, Tuesday 7, Friday 10 & Saturday 11 May Matinee  2pm Saturday 11 May
Croydon Uniting Church, Tallent St, Croydon
www.croydonparishplayers.com     0447 014 584

Geelong Lyric Theatre Society – THE KING AND I ~ Vintage Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
3 – 11 May  7:30 3, 4, 9, 10, & 11  May plus Saturday matinée 1:30 4 May
Playhouse Theatre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, 50 Lt Malop Street, Geelong
www.glts.asn.au …  Bookings: www.gpac.org.au … 5225 1200

Peridot Theatre – NUNSENSE ~ a musical demonstrating that nun rhymes with fun
8pm 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18  May Wednesdays – Saturdays
matinées 2:15pm Sunday 10  & Saturday 11 May   Twilight 4pm Sunday 12 May
Unicorn Theatre, Mt. Waverley Secondary College, Lechte Road
www.peridot.com.au ….  1300 138 646 (no mobiles),   9898 9090 (for mobiles)

Heidelberg Theatre Company – AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ~ The Weston family reunite after Dad disappears. Shady secrets and repressed truths result in family meltdown.
2 – 18 May .. 8pm Thursday to Saturday + Wednesday last week .  Matinées 2pm Sundays
36 Turnham Avenue, Rosanna
www.htc.org.au ….. 9457 4117         * 2013 VDL Entry *

Williamstown Musical Theatre Company – SWEET CHARITY ~
Enjoy the Rhythm of Life!
3 – 18 May (8pm Fridays & Saturdays & Thursday last week, 2pm Sundays)
Williamstown Mechanics Institute, Cnr. Williamstown Rd. & Electra St., Williamstown
www.wmtc.org.au …..  1300 881 545

Mockingbird Theatre – HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE ~ a Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece
by Paula Vogel, directed by Chris Baldock
3 – 18 May   8pm Friday 3, Saturday 4, Tuesday – Saturday 7 – 11 & 14 – 18 May
Brunswick Institute Performing Arts Centre, Cnr. Glenlyon & Sydney Road, Brunswick
www.mockingbirdtheatre.com.au

Southern Peninsula Players – THE MATING GAME ~ The hugely successful chat show host  enlists the help of his long-lost, worldly-wise brother to assist him in the pursuit of his new, sexy PR girl.
May 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18 at 8pm    May 19 at 2pm
Rosebud Memorial Hall, 994 Point Nepean Rd.
www.spptheatre.org   ….. 5982 2777 or 5976 4494

CLOC Music Theatre – PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ~ with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Toby Truscott (Foster connections) as the Phantom
10 – 25 May … 8pm Wednesdays – Saturdays, 2pm Sundays
National Theatre, Cnr. Carlisle & Barkly Streets, St Kilda   Melway 58 B10
www.cloc.org.au  …..  1300 362 547

Eltham Little Theatre – CALENDAR GIRLS ~ an uplifting and very inspiring true story that is quirky, poignant and hilarious.
10 – 25 May   8pm Fri & Sat 10 & 11, Thursday–Saturday 16-18, 23-25, 2pm Sunday 19 May
Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Road Research … Melways: 22 H1
www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au … 9437 1574    * 2013 VDL Entry *

Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre – CHICAGO ~ musical about the merry murderesses of 1920s Chicago
10 – 26 May … 7:30 Fridays & Saturdays, 2pm Sundays
Forge Theatre and Arts Hub, 80 McKean Street, Bairnsdale
www.bairnsdaleproductionline.com.au
Bookings: Bairnsdale Visitor Information Centre  5152 3444 or 1800 637 060

JYM Theatre Co. – THE PRODUCERS ~ Cooking the books for a Broadway musical
11 – 25 May
Phoenix Theatre, 101 Glenhuntly Road, Elwood
www. jymtheatre.com …. 0408 024 224

Nova Music Theatre –  SWEENEY TODD ~ Stephen Sondheim musical about the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
11 – 25 May   8pm 11, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 & 25 May, 2pm Saturdays 18 & 25 + Sunday 19 May
Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
www.novamusictheatre.com.au … 1300 305 771  or 9727 0192

BLOC Music Theatre – ANYTHING GOES ~ Cole Porter’s music and shipboard romance
16 – 26 May
Her Majesty’s Theatre, Ballarat
www.blocmusictheatre.com.au

Strathmore Theatre Arts Group – THE MERRY WIDOWS ~ a world première
16 – 26 May   (Thursdays – Saturdays plus Sunday matinées)
Community Centre, Cnr. Loeman and Napier Sts, Strathmore
www.stagtheatre.org …… Drew: 9382 6284 (ah)

All inquiries to the Production Manager

03 5682 2421 .. .0407 883 600 … raphoto{@}dcsi.net.au

FAMDA plans to stage this brilliant 21st Century musical in 2013

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical by

Jason Robert Brown – Composer & Librettist
(also creator of Songs for a New World, Parade & 13)

Directed for FAMDA by David Tattersall

The tale of two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
The show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically.
The two characters meet only once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.
Jason Robert Brown won Drama Desk Awards for the music and the lyrics after the Off-Broadway premiere in 2002.

Two singer / actors required

CASTING INFORMATION – Dance Requirement: Minimal/None
Characters
Catherine Hiatt:  Excellent actress and singer, late 20s – early 30′s
Jamie Wellerstein:  Excellent actor and singer, late 20s – early 30′s

Originally scheduled for performance 13 – 26 April
to lead into the 2013 Prom Coast Seachange Festival

For further details and casting information:
Contact Production Manager, Dianne Paragreen
03 5682 2421 ..0407 883 600 … raphoto{@}dcsi.net.au

Chair: PHILLIP VAN NES
Vice-Chair: DAN CLANCEY
Secretary: MICHELLE LINAHAN
Treasurer: NORM WILLOUGHBY
Judges’ Coordinator: CHRISTINE SKICKO

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Kirshy McAinch (Production Line), Matt Saario (Lyric),
Beck Gardiner (Maffra), David Wall (Wonthaggi) & Mandy Clancey (BALT).

GIPPSLAND ASSOCIATED THEATRE
JUDGING PANEL 2013

• FAMDA:     Jennifer Paragreen
• Leongatha Lyric Theatre :     Nathan Eva
• Latrobe Theatre Co:    Lawrie Fildes
• Production Line:     Lillian Lee
• Maffra Dramatic Society:      Anne Roffe
• Wonthaggi Theatrical Group:     Sophie Cuttriss
• Off The Leash:      Jeannie Haughton
• Sale Theatre Company:       Michelle Linahan
• Warragul Theatre Company:     Peter Larsen  (TO BE CONFIRMED)
  

Gippsland Associated Theatre Awards Night 2013
hosted by Production Line Theatre in Bairnsdale on Saturday 7 December

Gippsland Associated Theatre

Awards ceremony Saturday 1 December 2012 @ Maffra Memorial Hall

Congratulations to FAMDA’s GAT winners 2012

ALBY FISHER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR CREATIVE DESIGN
* FAMDA - The Night Mares in Dreamboats
.. Designed by Anda Banikos, fabricated by Amanda Mahomed and operated by puppeteers,
.. Chloe Bindloss, Tania Bird, Hannah Fletcher, Sarah Maclean, Abbie Thomas,
.. Tracey Standfield and Megan Williams

Judge’s Award – Jill Allen
FAMDA – Using local talent to write and produce a musical culminating in the staging of Dreamboats

Judge’s Award – Mandy Clancey
FAMDA – Skilled integration of audio and video components into the production of The Shoe-Horn Sonata

Judge’s Award – Lawrie Fildes
FAMDA – The delightful transformation of the beds into boats in their production of Dreamboats

Congratulations to FAMDA’s GAT nominees 2012

THE SHOE-HORN SONATA
Most Outstanding Director ~ David Baggallay
Most Outstanding Lead Actor – Female ~ Jean Moore
Most Outstanding Lead Actor – Female ~ Margaret Rudge
Most Outstanding Programme ~ Jennifer Paragreen

DREAMBOATS
Most Outstanding Support  Actor – Male ~ Jack Millar
Most Outstanding Technical Achievement ~ the Night Mares

Dianne and Jennifer Paragreen, Edwin Coad and Margaret Rudge all smiles with FAMDA awards on GAT night.

GIPPSLAND ASSOCIATED THEATRE AWARDS 2012

GAT COMPANIES 2012
Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre – (BPLT)
Break A Leg Theatre – (BALT)
FAMDA - The Shoe-Horn Sonata – (FAMDA)
Latrobe Theatre Company – (LTC)
Leongatha Lyric Theatre –  (LLT)
Maffra Dramatic Society - (MDS)
Off the Leash Theatre – (OTL)
Sale Theatre Company – (STC)
Warragul Theatre Company – (WTC)
Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – (WTG)

MUSICALS
Warragul Theatre Company – Carmen
Latrobe Theatre Company – My Son Pinocchio
Maffra Dramatic Society - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – Anything Goes
Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre – Guys & Dolls
Leongatha Lyric Theatre – Narnia
FAMDA – Dreamboats 

PLAYS
Break A Leg Theatre – It’s My Party (and I’ll Die If I Want to)
Leongatha Lyric Theatre – Habeas Corpus
Off the Leash Theatre – Face to Face
Sale Theatre Company – The Crucible
FAMDA – The Shoe-Horn Sonata
Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – Secret Bridesmaids Business
Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre – A Month of Sundays
Off the Leash Theatre – Last Cab to Darwin

GAT JUDGES 2012
Jill Allen, Mandy Clancey, Raymond Dunstan, Lawrie Fildes, Peter Larsen, Michelle Linahan, Jennifer Paragreen, Ann Roffe

* WINNERS & NOMINATIONS 2012

MUSICAL THEATRE

MOST OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR – Male
* Will Hanley  (Billy Crocker) ~ Anything Goes  (WTG)
Josiah Brooks  (Don José) ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)
Adrian Cooper  (Joseph) ~ Joseph … Dreamcoat (MDS)
Lawrie Fildes  (Gepetto) ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Terry Lay  (Mr Beaver) ~ Narnia ( LLT)
Jay Nelson  (Moonface Martin) ~ Anything Goes (WTG)

MOST OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR – Female
* Sarah Kate Hanley (Reno Sweeney) ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Shakira Dugan (Sarah Brown) ~ Guys & Dolls (BPLT)
Sue Lake Harris (Miss Adelaide) ~ Guys & Dolls B(PLT)
Kate Taylor (Carmen) ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)

MOST OUTSTANDING SUPPORT ACTOR – Male
* Anthony Di Donato (Stromboli) ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
John Bridgeman (Dan) ~ Joseph … Dreamcoat (MDS)
Tim Gesell (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh) ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Jack Millar (Pirate Pete) ~ Dreamboats (FAMDA)
John Molden (Judah) ~ Joseph … Dreamcoat (MDS)

MOST OUTSTANDING SUPPORT ACTOR – Female
* Emmi Latham (Erma) ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Brodie Dorling (Micaela) ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)
Kerrie Giles (Evangeline Harcourt) ~ Anything Goes (WTG)

MOST OUTSTANDING MUSICAL DIRECTOR
* Kirk Skinner ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Marian Jenkinson & Heather James ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
David Williams ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)
John Schmidli ~ Guys & Dolls (BPLT)

MOST OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER
* Bron Kalos ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Andrew Camp ~ Joseph … Dreamcoat (MDS)
Chris Ross ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)

MOST OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
* Karen Milkins-Hendry ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Michelle Carrigy ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)
Christine Skicko ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)

MOST OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
* Anything Goes ~ Wonthaggi Theatrical Group
Carmen – the Musical ~ Warragul Theatre Company
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat ~ Maffra Dramatic Society
My Son Pinocchio ~ Latrobe Theatre Company

DRAMA/COMEDY

MOST OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR – Male
* John Black (Max Bell) ~ Last Cab to Darwin (OTL)
John Black (Greg Baldoni) ~ Face to Face (OTL)
Cameron Gray (Glen Tregaskis) ~ Face to Face (OTL)
John Lewis (Cooper) ~ A Month of Sundays (BPLT)

MOST OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR – Female
* Bron Kalos (Meg) ~ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (WTG)
Jean Moore (Sheila Richards) ~ The Shoe-Horn Sonata (FAMDA)
Margaret Rudge (Bridie Cartwright) ~ The Shoe-Horn Sonata (FAMDA)

MOST OUTSTANDING SUPPORT ACTOR – Male
* Jai Law (Jack Del Borello) ~ Last Cab to Darwin (OTL)
Steve Dwyer (Giles Corey) ~ The Crucible  (STC)
Spencer Holmes – Dobe (Barry McLean) ~ Face to Face (OTL)
Jeff Mooney (Dougie) ~ Last Cab to Darwin (OTL)
Nye Pascoe (Jack Manning) ~ Face to Face (OTL)

MOST OUTSTANDING SUPPORT ACTOR – Female
* Tracy Rabl (Polly) ~ Last Cab to Darwin (OTL)
Renee Beasley (Angela) ~ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (WTG)
Sarah Kate Hanley (Lucy) ~ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (WTG)
Julia Lambert (Julie Rossiter) ~ Face to Face (OTL)
Annette O’Shea (Maureen Tregaskis) ~ Face to Face (OTL)

MOST OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
* Michelle Dal Masetto ~ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (WTG)
David Baggallay ~ The Shoe-Horn Sonata (FAMDA)
Amy Moss ~ Face to Face (OTL)
Steve Wiegerink ~ Last Cab to Darwin (OTL)

MOST OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION
* Secret Bridesmaids’ Business ~ Wonthaggi Theatrical Group
Face to Face ~ Off the Leash Theatre
Last Cab to Darwin ~ Off the Leash Theatre

GIPPSLAND THEATRE

MOST OUTSTANDING YOUTH PERFORMANCE
* Morgan Anthony (Lucy) ~ Narnia (LLT)
* Tom Barker (Edmund) ~ Narnia (LLT)
James Cantwell (The Dwarf) ~ Narnia (LLT)
Ethan Detering (Junior) ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Jacob Holt (Pinocchio) ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)

MOST OUTSTANDING CAMEO PERFORMANCE
* Bernard Detering (Prof Buonragazzo) ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Jack Millar (Mr Shanks) ~ Habeas Corpus ( LLT)
Noel Stringer (Mr Purdue) ~ Habeas Corpus ( LLT)

MOST OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE 
* Children’s Ensemble ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Joseph’s Brothers ~ Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (MDS)

MOST OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
* Tad Hendry ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
John Hall ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Carole Harvey ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)
Michelle & Tony Dal Masetto ~ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (WTG)
Mairead Dwyer ~ The Crucible (STC)

MOST OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
* Christine Skicko ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Helen Lindton ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)
Isaac Lummis & Sophie Cuttriss ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Peter McAlpine & Heather Drury ~ Narnia ( LLT)
Virginia Maloney ~ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (WTG)

MOST OUTSTANDING MAKE-UP AND HAIR DESIGN
*  Sue Thompson ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Kerryn Barker & Jessica McCurdy ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Sharon Cheesman ~ Narnia ( LLT)

MOST OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
* Janne Speirs & Christine Skicko ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Ewan Cole ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
Tony Dal Masetto & Ewan Cole ~ Secret Bridesmaids’ Business (WTG)
Clive Sell ACS ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTG)

MOST OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
* The Whale Scene ~ My Sin Pinnochio  (LTC)
The Night Mares ~ Dreamboats  (FAMDA)

MOST OUTSTANDING PROGRAM
* Oliver Stubbs ~ Anything Goes (WTG)
PropaGANDA Workshop ~ Carmen – the Musical (WTC)
Wayne Musgrove ~ My Son Pinocchio (LTC)
Mercia Eva ~ Narnia ( LLT)
Jennifer Paragreen ~ The Shoe-Horn Sonata (FAMDA)

ALBY FISHER MEMORIAL AWARD FOR CREATIVE DESIGN
* FAMDA - The Night Mares in Dreamboats
.. The work of Amanda Mahomed and the puppeteers

JUDGES’ AWARDS

Jill Allen
FAMDA – Using local talent to write and produce a musical culminating in their production of Dreamboats

Mandy Clancey
FAMDA – Skilled integration of audio and video components into the production of The Shoe-Horn Sonata

Raymond Dunstan
Karen Jansen for playing Mrs Baker in A Month Of Sundays for Bairnsdale Production Line Theatre

Lawrie Fildes
FAMDA – The delightful transformation of the beds into boats in their production of Dreamboats

Peter Larsen
Sale Theatre Company – Red back lighting and set silhouette for The Crucible

Michelle Linahan
Maffra Dramatic Society for involving and entertaining the local community with its production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Jennifer Paragreen
BALT – Anthony Kennedy and the cast for the deadpan look when posing for the family photo in It’s My Party (and I’ll die if I want to)

Ann Roffe
John Crawford for his beautiful rendition of “More I Cannot Wish You” in Bairnsdale Production Line’s Guys and Dolls

GAT Flyer 2012

THEATRECRAFT AWARDS

The state awards for comedy and drama were announced in Melbourne on Sunday 2 December with Leongatha Lyric Theatre’s production of Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus garnering five nominations.

Gavin Dalrymple and Mike Pullar were nominated in the lead actor category while Alison McIntyre and Jack Millar earned supporting actor nominations for performances in a comedy.

Noel Stringer was nominated as a male in a minor role for his performance as Mr. Perdue.

David Tattersall and Alison McIntyre with Lyric’s nomination certificates for ‘Habeas Corpus’.

The other Gippsland company to do well at the VDL awards was MOaRTZ  with nominations for best drama, direction (Scott Millar), costumes (Michelle Linahan), lead actor (Annette O’Shea), and support actors (Sharon King and Kathy Ross) for their staging of Steel Magnolias.

Christine Skicko, Kathy Ross and Annette O’Shea at the Victorian Drama League awards presentation

Unfortunately FAMDA’s The Shoe-Horn Sonata missed out on achieving a nomination.

Williamstown Little Theatre was judged to have the best drama with their staging of Doubt by John Patrick Shanley.

Eltham Little Theatre won the comedy section with Moonlight and Magnolias.

For a full list of Victorian Drama League results 2012 visit www.theatrecraft.org.au

2012 Winners announced

Congratulations to two of the stars from Wonthaggi Theatrical Group’s production of  Anything Goes who found themselves on stage in Geelong on Saturday 8 December when the winners of the 2012 Victorian Music Theatre Guild awards were announced.

Jay Nelson won the Gladys Moncrieff Award for an actor in his first featured role for his performance as Moonface Martin.

The Dancer’s Award went to Will Hanley who played Billy Crocker.

CLOC ‘s staging of All Shook Up took out the prestigious Production of the Year award.

In an interesting twist, the tied award for Musical Director of the Year also went to CLOC Music Theatre to Andrew McCalman for Sunset Boulevard and to Danny Forward for   All Shook Up.

Congratulations to theatre people with Gippsland connections
acknowledged by the Music Theatre Guild Victoria 2012

WONTHAGGI THEATRICAL GROUP – Anything Goes
NOMINATIONS
Musical Direction – Kirk Skinner
Settings – Tad Hendry
Wardrobe – Isaac Lummis & Sophie Cuttriss
Male Performer in a Leading Role – Will Hanley as Billy
Gladys Moncrieff award for first performance in a featured role -
Jay Nelson as Moonface Martin WINNER!
Dancer’s Award – Will Hanley as Billy WINNER!

COMMENDATION
Male Performer in a Supporting Role – Jay Nelson as Moonface Martin

LATROBE THEATRE COMPANY – My Son Pinocchio
NOMINATION
Wardrobe – Christine Skicko

WARRAGUL THEATRE COMPANY – Carmen – the Musical
COMMENDATION
Female Performer in a Leading Role – Kate Taylor as Carmen

NEWHAVEN COLLEGE – Seussical – the Musical
JUNIOR PRODUCTION NOMINATION
 Junior Male Performer in a Leading Role – Callum Baker as Horton, the Elephant

JUNIOR PRODUCTION COMMENDATION
Junior Female Performer in a Leading Role – Karlee Hayes as Gertrude McFuzz

Another Gippsland connection
NOMINATION
Female Performer in a Leading Role
Amy Larsen, Janet Van De Graaff, The Drowsy Chaperone, Fab Nobs Theatre

Music Theatre Guild of Victoria
Nominations for Production of the Year 2012

Cats, Footlight Productions
Godspell, Horsham Arts Council
Avenue Q, JYM theatre co.
Sunset Boulevard, CLOC Musical Theatre
Into the Woods, SPX Waterdale Players
Hairspray, PLOS Musical Productions
All Shook Up, CLOC Musical Theatre WINNER!
Next to Normal, Williamstown Musical Theatre Company

For a full list of MTGV winners, nominations and commendations, visit www.musictheatreguildvic.org

2012
Dreamboats
One Act Play Festival
The Shoe-Horn Sonata

2011
One Act Play Festival – An Unreal Reality
Heroes
Cabaretro

2010
The 25th Annual  Putnam County Spelling Bee
One Act Play Festival – Living on the Edge

2009
Into the Woods
One Act Play Festival – Viva Juarez! / Love or Nearest Offer
Prom Coast Singers – Promontory Dreaming
Dinner at Hugo’s
Bush Magic

2008
Prom Coast Singers – 10th Anniversary Concert
One Act Play Festival – The ‘Ole in the Road
Blue Remembered Hills
Twisted Tales from the Woods

2007
The Producers
One Act Play Festival – The Bus Jumper / Open Call
Stringlines
Prom Coast Singers – Fire Up!
Prom Coast Singers – From Pop to Op(era)
Love Letters

2006
Ebenezer’s Dream
One-Act Play Festival – Pavane
Oedipus Rex
Prom Coast Singers – Stars and Maps Cantata

2005
Old Time Music Hall
Prom Coast Singers – Voices for Hospices – Cantata
One-Act Play Festival – Dinner for One
The Cemetery Club
Prom Coast Singers – Requiem & Polovtsienne Dances
Shadowlands
Alice in Wonderland

2004
Shirley Valentine
One-Act Play Festival – Chamber Music / Duchess on Thursday
Winter Warmers -Variety Concert
Prom Coast Singers – Essence of Folk

2003
FAMDA’s 50th Birthday Celebration
Old Time Music Hall
Prom Coast Singers – Mid-Winter Concert
One Act Play Festival – Barney
A Month of Sundays

2002
One-Act Play Festival – McGarrity Morgan
Guys and Dolls
Hotel Sorrento

2001
PCS – A Ceremony of Carols
One-Act Play Festival – Altered Egos
The Woman in Black

2000
A Christmas Cracker
Prom Coast Singers – Benefit Concert
Oliver!

1999
Love Letters
Educating Rita

1998
Round and Round the Garden
The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew

1997
Annie
Chinamen in Cabaret

1996
The Triple Treat – The Intruders / Mourning Tea / The Bespoke Overcoat
The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women

1995
The Music Man
Back to Famda

1994
Top Silk

1993
40th Birthday Celebrations
Fiddler on the Roof

1992
Barefoot in the Park

1991
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1990
Follow the Star
My Friend Miss Flint

1989
Love Marriage & Complications
Oklahoma!

1988
200 Not Out
The Removalists

1987
The Curse of an Aching Heart
Salad Days

1986
Foster Improlympics

1985
Felicity’s Fortune

1984
John Goodfella
High Infidelity
Kiss Me Kate

1983
FAMDA’s 30th Birthday Party
Broadway Memories
Arsenic and Old Lace

1982
The Piperman
Foster’s Larger Music Hall
Don’s Party

1981
Blush
Once Upon a Mattress
An Evening with Barbara Fleming

1980
A Threepenny Christmas
Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Jones?
Arms and the Man

1979
Ten Nights in a Bar-Room

1978
The Importance of Being Earnest

1977
Follow the Star
The Birthday Party

1976
Sleeping Beauty
The Gondoliers

1975
Caught in the Villain’s Web
The Book of the Month
The Pajama Game

1974
Revue 21
The Man who Came to Dinner
Calamity Jane
Boeing Boeing

1973
Pure as the Driven Snow
White Horse Inn
Toad of Toad Hall

1972
Pearls for the Poor / Grand Scandal / Trial by Jury
The Pirates of Penzance

1971
Love Rides the Rails
The Shifting Heart

1970
Aladdin
Goodnight Mrs. Puffin
The Great Uncertainty

1969
Jack in a Beanstalk
Trap for a Lonely Man

1968
But Once a Year
Salad Days
Sailor Beware

1967
The Winslow Boy

1966
Rapunzel
A Lady Mislaid

1962
Patience

1961
The Enchanted Waltz
Maid of the Mountains
Meet a Body

1960
Mother Goose
Our Miss Gibbs
Candied Peel

1959
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Feminine Touch

1957
FAMDA’s 1957 Presentation
One Act Plays – Home is the Haunted

1958
Foster FAMDA’s 1958 Presentation
One Act Plays – The Spider Ring / Without the Prince

1956
The Mikado
A Night of One-Act Plays – High Tea

1955
Presentation Night
Trial By Jury / Master Dudley

1954
FAMDA Frolics

1953
Foster Frolics

THEATRECRAFT AWARDS

The state awards for comedy and drama were announced in Melbourne on Sunday 2 December with Leongatha Lyric Theatre’s production of Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus garnering five nominations.

Gavin Dalrymple and Mike Pullar were nominated in the lead actor category while Alison McIntyre and Jack Millar earned supporting actor nominations for performances in a comedy.

Noel Stringer was nominated as a male in a minor role for his performance as Mr. Perdue.

David Tattersall and Alison McIntyre with Lyric’s nomination certificates for ‘Habeas Corpus’.

The other Gippsland company to do well at the VDL awards was MOaRTZ  with nominations for best drama, direction (Scott Millar), costumes (Michelle Linahan), lead actor (Annette O’Shea), and support actors (Sharon King and Kathy Ross) for their staging of Steel Magnolias.

Christine Skicko, Kathy Ross & Annette O’Shea at
the Victorian Drama League awards presentation

Unfortunately FAMDA’s production of The Shoe-Horn Sonata did not secure any nominations.

Williamstown Little Theatre was judged to have the best drama with their staging of Doubt by John Patrick Shanley.

Eltham Little Theatre won the comedy section with Moonlight and Magnolias.

For a full list of Victorian Drama League results 2012 visit www.theatrecraft.org.au

The Music Theatre Guild of Victoria awards will be announced at Geelong next Saturday with Wonthaggi Theatrical Group’s production of Anything Goes nominated in several categories.

Jay Nelson (Gladys Moncrieff Award winner) with Dot Parker (Guild Judge and committee member) and Will Hanley (Winner of the Dancer’s Award).

Congratulations to two of the stars from Wonthaggi Theatrical Group’s production of  Anything Goes who found themselves on stage in Geelong on Saturday 8 December when the winners of the 2012 Victorian Music Theatre Guild awards were announced.

Jay Nelson won the Gladys Moncrieff Award for an actor in his first featured role for his performance as Moonface Martin.

The Dancer’s Award went to Will Hanley who played Billy Crocker.

CLOC ‘s staging of All Shook Up took out the prestigious Production of the Year award.

In an interesting twist, the tied award for Musical Director of the Year also went to CLOC Music Theatre to Andrew McCalman for Sunset Boulevard and to Danny Forward for   All Shook Up.

Wonthaggi Theatrical Group Guild Winners – Jay Nelson (Gladys Moncrieff Award), David Wall (WTG President) and Will Hanley (Dancer’s Award).

Congratulations to theatre people with Gippsland connections
acknowledged by the Music Theatre Guild Victoria 2012

WONTHAGGI THEATRICAL GROUP – Anything Goes
NOMINATIONS
Musical Direction – Kirk Skinner
Settings – Tad Hendry
Wardrobe – Isaac Lummis & Sophie Cuttriss
Male Performer in a Leading Role – Will Hanley as Billy
Gladys Moncrieff award for first performance in a featured role -
Jay Nelson as Moonface Martin WINNER!
Dancer’s Award – Will Hanley as Billy WINNER!

COMMENDATION
Male Performer in a Supporting Role – Jay Nelson as Moonface Martin

LATROBE THEATRE COMPANY – My Son Pinocchio
NOMINATION
Wardrobe – Christine Skicko

WARRAGUL THEATRE COMPANY – Carmen – the Musical
COMMENDATION
Female Performer in a Leading Role – Kate Taylor as Carmen

NEWHAVEN COLLEGE – Seussical – the Musical
JUNIOR PRODUCTION NOMINATION
 Junior Male Performer in a Leading Role – Callum Baker as Horton, the Elephant

JUNIOR PRODUCTION COMMENDATION
Junior Female Performer in a Leading Role – Karlee Hayes as Gertrude McFuzz

Another Gippsland connection
NOMINATION
Female Performer in a Leading Role
Amy Larsen, Janet Van De Graaff, The Drowsy Chaperone, Fab Nobs Theatre

Music Theatre Guild of Victoria
Nominations for Production of the Year 2012

Cats, Footlight Productions
Godspell, Horsham Arts Council
Avenue Q, JYM theatre co.
Sunset Boulevard, CLOC Musical Theatre
Into the Woods, SPX Waterdale Players
Hairspray, PLOS Musical Productions
All Shook Up, CLOC Musical Theatre WINNER!
Next to Normal, Williamstown Musical Theatre Company

Commendations - Production of the Year 2012

Oliver!, BABIRRA Music Theatre
Urinetown, Players Theatre Company
Rent, BuSTCo (Burwood Student Theatre Company)

For a full list of MTGV winners, nominations and commendations, visit www.musictheatreguildvic.org

FAMDA PHONE: 0400 867 872

FAMDA COMMITTEE 2012 – 2013
President:  Edwin Coad – pandecoad [@] skymesh.com.au …. 5689 1305
Vice President:  Dianne Paragreen – raphoto [@] dcsi.net.au … 0407 883 600… 5682 2421
Secretary:  Jane Park – janeanndear [@] hotmail.com
Treasurer:  Andrew Oldroyd – aoldroyd [@] dcsi.net.au … 0428 315 397 … 5683 2313
Publicity Officer:  Jennifer Paragreen – sgas [@] dcsi.net.au … 5682 2077

General:  Marieke Ormsby – marieke [@] satalyte.com.au … 5682 1820
……………. Margaret Rudge – amrudge3960 [@] gmail.com … 5681 2247
……………. Norm Willoughby – normwill2 [@] bigpond.com. au … 5688 1562

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Music Theatre Guild of Victoria – www.musictheatreguildvic.org
Victorian Drama League – www.theatrecraft.org.au
Gippsland Associated Theatre – www.gat.asn.au   www.gat.org.au
Theatrepeople – www.theatrepeople.com.au
Shire of South Gippsland – www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au
Prom Coast Seachange Festival – www.promcoastseachangefestival.org
Regional Arts Victoria – www.rav.net.au
Clubs of Australia – www.clubsofaustralia.com/Acting/Clubs-in-Victoria

Theatre Companies

1812 Theatre – www.1812theatre.com.au
Altona City Theatre – www.altonacitytheatre.com.au
ARC (Amateur Repertory Company) – www.arc-theatre.com
Aspect – www.aspecttheatre.com
Babirra Music Theatre – www.babirra.org.au
Ballarat Lyric Theatre – www.ballaratlyrictheatre.com.au
Bairnsdale Productionline Theatre – www.bairnsdaleproductionline.com.au
Beaumaris Theatre Inc – www.beaumaristheatre.com.au
BLOC Music Thaetre, Ballarat – www.blocmusictheatre.com.au
Break A Leg Theatre – www.breakalegtheatre.com.au
Brighton Theatre Company – www.brightontheatreco.com
BuSTCo Theatre – www.bustco.com.au
Cardinia Performing Arts Company, Pakenham -  www.cardiniaperformingarts.com
Catchment Players of Darebin – www.catchmentplayers.org.au
Center Stage Geelong – www.centerstagegeelong.com
Class Act Productions – www.classactproductions.com.au
CLOC Music Theatre – www.cloc.org.au
Croydon Parish Players – www.croydonparishplayers.com
Dandenong Theare Company – www.dandenongtheatre.org.au
Dionysus Theatre, Skye – www.dionysustheatre.com.au
Eltham Little Theatre – www.elthamlittletheatre.org.au
Encore Theatre – www.encoretheatre.com.au
Essendon Theatre Company – www.essendontheatrecompany.com
Fab Nobs Theatre – www.fabnobstheatre.com.au
Footlight Productions, Geelong – www.footlightproductionsvic.com
Geelong Lyric Theatre Society – www.glts.asn.au
Geelong Repertory Theatre Company – www.geelongrep.com.au
Gemco Players Community Theatre (Emerald) – www.gemcoplayers.org
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria – www.gilbertandsullivan.org.au
Heidelberg Theatre Company – www.htc.org.au
Holiday Actors, Warnambool – www.holidayactors.com
JYM Theatre – www.jymtheatre.com
Kew Court House Arts Association – www.kewcourthousearts.com.au
Latrobe Theatre Company – www.latrobetheatrecompany.org.au
Leongatha Lyric Theatre – www.lyrictheatre.net.au
Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre Company – www.lilydaletheatre.com
Maffra Dramatics Society – www.maffradramatics.com
Malvern Theatre Company – www.malverntheatre.com.au
Melbourne French Theatre – www.mftinc.org
MLOC Productions – www.mloc.org.au
MOaRTZ, Moe – www.moartz.org.au
Mockingbird Theatre – www.mockingbirdtheatre.com.au
Mordialloc Theatre Company – www.mordialloctheatre.com
Mornington CEF Players – www.cefplayers.com
MUMco (Monash University Musical Company – www.mumco.org
Mountain District Musical Society – www.mdms.org
Nova Music Theatre – www.novamusictheatre.com.au
Off the Leash – Theatre with Teeth – www.offtheleashtheatre.com.au
Panorama Theatre Company – www.panorama.com.au
Park Players – www.parkplayers.com.au
People’s Playhouse – www.peoplesplayhouse.asn.au
PEP Productions – www.pepproductions.org.au
Peridot Theatre – www.peridot.com.au
Phoenix Theatre Company – www.phoenixtheatrecompany.org
Players Theatre Company – www.playerstc.net
PLOS – www.plos.asn.au
Purely Pensive Productions – www.purelypensive.com.au
Mordialloc Theatre Company – www.mordialloctheatre.com
The Mount Players - www.themountplayers.com
Saltpillar Theatre – www.saltpillar.org.au
Shepparton Theatre Arts Group – www.stagtheatre.com
Sherbrooke Theatre Company – www.sherbrooketc.org.au
SLAMS Music Theatre – www.slams.org.au
SPX Waterdale Players – www.waterdale.synthasite.com
Strathmore Theatre Arts Group – www.stagtheatre.org
Sunshine Community Theatre – www.sunshinecommunitytheatre.com.au
University of Melbourne Music Theatre Association (UMMTA) – www.ummta.org
Warragul Theatre Company – www.warragultheatrecompany.org.au
Werribee Theatre Company – www.werribeetheatrecompany.org.au
Whitehorse Musical Theatre – www.whitehorsemusical.com.au
Williamstown Little Theatre – www.wlt.org.au
Williamstown Musical Theatre Company – www.wmtc.org.au
Windmill Theatre Company – www.wtc-theatre.com
Wonthaggi Theatrical Group – www.wtg.org.au

Venues

Cardinia Cultural Centre, Pakenham – www.cardiniaculturalcentre.com.au
Clocktower Centre, Moonee Ponds – www.clocktowercentre.com.au
Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre, Preston – www.darebinartscentre.com.au
Doncaster Playhouse – www.manningham.vic.gov.au
Drum Theatre, Dandenong – www.drumtheatre.com.au
Esso BHP Billiton Wellington Entertainment Centre, Sale – www.wellington.vic.gov.au/entertainment 
Frankston Arts Centre – www.artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au
Gasworks Arts Park, Albert Park – www.gasworks.cog.au
Geelong Performing Arts Centre – www.gpac.org.au
Karralyka Centre, Ringwood East – www.karralyka.com.au
Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin – www.kingstonarts.com.au
Knox Community Arts Centre, Bayswater – www.knox.vic.gov.au
Latrobe Regional Performing Arts Centre, Traralgon – www.latrobe.vic.gov.au
West Gippsland Arts Centre, Warragul – www.wgac.org.au
Whitehorse Centre, Nunawading – www.whitehorsecentre.com.au
Wonthaggi Union Community Arts Centre – www.basscoast.vic.gov.au
Wyndham Centre, Werribee – www.wyncc.com.au

Two remarkably talented locals, Edwin Coad and Paddy Broberg, have created Dreamboats, a musical written especially for FAMDA to perform.

Edwin has written the libretto and Paddy has composed the music for this delightful musical fantasy designed to allow opportunities for people of all ages to work together on stage and so that it will also have audience appeal across the age groups.

The story concerns four students from the same school whose lives are being made miserable by the local bullies. Their toys (all played by adults) help them develop some strategies.

There are puppets and pirates, catchy songs, some good advice and lots of fun in store.

Experienced director, Beth Millar, is in charge in her first involvement with FAMDA.

CAST
OLIVER . .  Leuca Maclean
VANESSA . .  Isabella Standfield
JAKE . .  Tyler Bindloss
CATHY . .  Cas Maclean
EDWARD BEAR . .  Stephen Ormsby
MARY FAIRY . .  Marieke Ormsby
PIRATE PETE . .  Jack Millar
BANJO THE CLOWN . .  Cat Wheeler
BENNY FESTER . .  Louis Wheeler
BREWSTER BOYLE (BRUISER) . .  Will Pridham
CLOTHILDE CARBUNKLE (CLOTTIE) . .  Amy Tudor
LADDERMAN . .  Arie Bos
FAIRY QUEEN . .  Sue Dower
QUEEN BEEATRICE . .  Dianne Paragreen
PIRATE CHIEF . .  Geoff Harris
RINGMASTER . .   John Davies

THE TROUP
Anne Adams, Margot Bettles, Zoe Bettles, Jarvis Bindloss, Taylor Eady, Bon Maclean, Storm Maclean, Morgan Munson, Summer Munson, Amber Rerden,  Leah Ross,
Maddie Slaney, Bella Thorpe and Matilda Thorpe

THE BAND
FLUTE . . Joanne Drury, Kate Woodward
CLARINET . . Dianne Berryman
KEYBOARDS . . Pamela Coad, Cheryl Connor (Strings)
PIANO . . Paddy Broberg
DOUBLE BASS . . Ron Murley
PERCUSSION . . Jim Lowe

PIT SINGERS
Ruth Carson, Lyn Jamieson, Jo MacKenzie, Ros Wathen, Fleur Wheeler

PUPPETEERS
Chloe Bindloss, Tania Bird, Hannah Fletcher,
Sarah Maclean, Abbie Thomas, Tracey Standfield, Megan Williams

PRODUCTION TEAM
Director . . Beth Millar
Band Leader . . Paddy Broberg
Vocal Coach . . Pamela Coad
Choreographer  . . Louise Dower
Set Designer . . Gavin van Eede
Costume Designer . . Anda Banikos
Lighting Designer . .  Andrew Oldroyd
Sound Designer & Operator . . Brian Paragreen
Lighting Operators . . Josh Vitols, Don Roberts
Production Manager . . Edwin Coad
Set Construction Manager . .   Bruce Crowl
Set & Props Construction & Painting . . Bruce Crowl, Bert Fabel, Alan Locke, Kate Crowl,
…. Tania Bird, Arie Bos, Edwin Coad, Graeme Green, Ray Jones, Geoff Montague,
…. Dianne Paragreen, Bill Park, Don Roberts, Geoff Smith, Lorraine Taylor,
…. Will Taylor, Jocelyn Town, Louis Wheeler, The Men’s Shed
Costume Construction . . Anda Banikos, Tania Bird, Pamela Coad, Jocelyn Grant,
…. Joan Harfield, Cat Wheeler, Megan Williams
Puppet Construction . . Amanda Mahomed, Tania Bird, Lorraine Taylor, Megan Williams
Stage Manager . . Peter Clyne
Assistant Stage Manager . . James McIntyre
Props Manager . . Mohya Davies
Backstage workers . . Tania Bird, Louise Dower, Sue Dower, Sarah Maclean,
…. Julie Pridham, Raoul Pridham, Tracey Standfield
Hair & Make-Up . . Kim Ross
Rehearsal Prompt . . Jon Wathen
Foyer Decoration . .  Megan Williams
Tiered Seating Installation . .   Peter Clyne, Bruce Crowl, Bert Fabel, Larry Giddy,
…. James McIntyre, Phil Nightingall,  Brian Paragreen, Robert Paragreen,
…. Jon Wathen
Front of House Manager . .  Edwin Coad
Ticket Sales . . Main Street Revelations
Venue Box Office . .   Norm Willoughby
Publicity & Marketing . .  Jennifer Paragreen
Graphic Design . . Ros Wathen
Photography . . Yianni Banikos, Marieke Ormsby, Robert Paragreen
Programme . . Jennifer Paragreen

PERFORMANCES @ Foster War Memorial Arts Centre
7:30 Friday 28 September
7:30 Saturday 29 September
2:00 Sunday 30 September
7:30 Thursday 4 October
7:30 Friday 5 October
2:00 Saturday 6 October
2:00 Sunday 7 October

Ticket sales @ Main Street Revelations, 31 Main Street, Foster
0400 867 872

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….. A Fare with Nature @ Prom Road Farm B & B
…… Kerry Cripps

Windy Ridge Winery……… InsideOut Clothing …………. Glenn’s Sports & Gifts
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All photos supplied by John Banikos

The play is set in 1995, fifty years after World War II, when events in a Japanese prisoner of war camp come to light with the filming of a TV documentary.

In 1945 Sheila and Bridie were released from a Japanese POW camp deep in the jungles of Sumatra where thousands of women and children had lived and died virtually forgotten by their own gavernments.
Now, after being separated for half a century, the filming of a television documentary forces them to relive the past, contact the present and question the future.
Woven into their fifty yeards of separation are a shoe-horn and the threads of loyalty and love which form their ‘uncommon bond’.

Based on historical facts, The Shoe-Horn Sonata is a poignant drama laced with gentle humour and an uplifting ending.
In his play Misto cleverly interweaves visual representations and music to create a powerful and gripping tale which simultaneously provides a history lesson, emotional impact, food for thought and entertainment.

FAMDA staged this powerful award-winning drama in Foster between 20 and 28 July 2012.

The Cast
Bridie – Margaret Rudge
Sheila – Jean Moore
Rick – Peter Clyne

The Production Team
Director – David Baggallay
Set Design – Bruce Crowl
Lighting Design & Operation – Andrew Oldroyd
Sound Design & Operation – Brian Paragreen
Vision Design – Robert Paragreen
Technicians’ Assistants – Josh Vitols & Don Roberts
Stage Manager – James McIntyre
Production Manager – Jennifer Paragreen
Set Construction Manager – Bruce Crowl
Set Construction & Painting – Bruce Crowl, Bert Fabel, Alan Locke, David Baggallay,
……….. Leonie Clyne, Tansy Elso, Larry Giddy, James McIntyre, Bill Park,
……….. Phil Nightingall, Don Roberts & Cast
Tiered Seating Installation – Edwin Coad, Bruce Crowl, Larry Giddy, James McIntyre,
……….. Brian Paragreen, Don Roberts, Neil Roussac
Costumes, Hair & Make-Up – Jean Moore, Margaret Rudge
Front of House Manager – Edwin Coad
Publicity & Marketing – Jennifer Paragreen
Graphic Design – Loretta Bishop
Photography – Marieke Ormsby
Programme – Jennifer Paragreen

The Setting
A television studio & a motel room
Melbourne 1995

Performances
8pm Friday 20 July
8pm Saturday  21 July
2pm Sunday 22 July
8pm Wednesday 25 July
8pm Friday 27 July
8pm Saturday 28 July

Performance Venue
Foster War Memorial Arts Centre, Main Street, Foster

 Ticket Prices
Adults: $22 …… Concession (& Groups 10+): $18
Friday 20 July – Opening night followed by supper with the cast & crew:  All tickets $25
Wednesday 25 July – Mid-week theatre special:  All tickets $16

Bookings
Main Street Revelations, 31 Main St., Foster           0400 867 872 

Production Photos

Photos by Marieke Ormsby

Director, David Baggallay, with actors, Margaret Rudge and Jean Moore

Raffle Winners
Accommodation package at A Fare with Nature B&B
Bill Park

Windy Ridge Winery pack
Mike Street

2 x 3 month subscription for Prom Coast Film Society
Robyn Eva

2 x Festival passes to Foster One-Act Play Festival 11 & 12 August
Daisy Antonia

2 x tickets to Wonthaggi Theatrical Group’s Secret Bridesmaids’ Business
Amanda Mahomed

2 x tickets to FAMDA’s Dreamboats
Chris Dickens