Gypsy Rose Lee’s tease transcends the years
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports that the "super-ambitious" Queanbeyan Players are embarking on a production of the musical Gypsy.
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"Audiences never seem to tire of the epic scale of its uplifting story nor of the glorious score in which every song is a classic." BILL STEPHENS reviews the Queanbeyan Players' new production of Les Miserables.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA rocks up to a Queanbeyan Players' rehearsal in a local church hall as they prepared for their coming production of Les Misérables.
The joint is jumping when HELEN MUSA turns up at the Queanbeyan Uniting Church Hall to see Queanbeyan Players rehearsing their next production, Dolly Parton’s musical 9 to 5.
Musical Theatre
Celebratory Pirates offers an unmissable opportunity
"Queanbeyan Players' celebratory production of The Pirates of Penzance, offers an unmissable opportunity to discover why this show continues to entertain and delight almost 150 years since its creation," says reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
Musical Theatre
Players turn back to the Pirates for a birthday buzz
Three silly sisters singing in close harmony and a major-general with a 21st century patter routine are just the beginning of what audiences can expect from Queanbeyan Players’ 60th anniversary production of The Pirates of Penzance.
Musical Theatre
Bubble Boy strives to find the ‘truth in the goof’
Continuing its impressive run of refreshingly lesser-known musicals, Queanbeyan Players is about to present an unlikely show about a boy who grows up in a bubble, reports HELEN MUSA.
"A clever production destined to be remembered as being among Queanbeyan Players' best." Reviewer BILL STEPHENS is quite taken by Nice Work If Your Can Get It!
HELEN MUSA finds herself in the centre of silliness when she sits in on a rehearsal for Queanbeyan Players’ production, Nice Work If You Can Get It, coming up at The Q.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews Queanbeyan Players' production of American Idiot, based on the seventh studio album by the American rock band Green Day, which was released released in 2004.
Reviewer BILL STEPHENS reports that Queanbeyan Players' production of the excoriating chamber musical Next to Normal received an almost hysterical reception at its opening in the Belconnen Community Theatre on Friday night.
"This consistently well-sung production, with its attractive costumes, settings, large chorus and orchestra, succeeds in providing a delightfully entertaining evening of musical theatre," says reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
“Footloose” will take its place among some of the Queanbeyan Players most successful productions, says reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
Essentially an all-singing, all-dancing revue built around songs popular in England during the '60s, “Downtown: The Mod Musical” is given a colourful, entertaining production by Queanbeyan Players, says reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
There's lots of arts events on the way. HELEN MUSA previews some of them this week in her "Arts in the City" column.
It’s “Arts in the City”, HELEN MUSA’S weekly wrap of what’s playing where in Canberra.
"IF an opening-night audience response is any indicator, the new production of 'Keating!' will be very successful, indeed," predicts reviewer LEN POWER.
From "Kiss Me, Kate" at The Q to a guided walk with Tim the Yowie Man and the return of the StoryFest festival at the south coast, it's all in arts editor HELEN MUSA's arts round-up.
The Queanbeyan Players will be singing some of their favourite things with “The Sound of Music" coming up at The Q later this week, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
