Barry Lenny - Page 48

The Goodbye Girl, is the 1993 musical based on the film from 1977, with a book by Neil Simon, music by Marvin Hamlish, and lyrics by David Zippel

The performance spanned the decades, with so many landmark songs marking the way.

The marvellous Opening Night Gala Performance, like the whole Cabaret Fringe, has found audiences continually increasing. Even this much larger venue was sold out.

The original production received critical acclaim but, by comparison, this production makes that one look rather tame.

The Moon is in love with the Sun and sends her servant, Jack Hare, to deliver her message of love, but he is not the most reliable of creatures.

Fittingly, for the first Unseen Theatre Company production since Sir Terry Pratchett's death, Small Gods shows us one of his darker pieces.

Anybody who enjoys full throated singing, and a swirling orchestral backing, would have been as a delighted as I was.

In an intense hour we meet two damaged and dysfunctional young people, Chloe and Chris, the 'odd boy', as she describes him.

The songs in this show are not based on the poems, they are the poems, word for word.

The third and final production in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's Festival at the Arts Theatre is G&S Fest: Princess Ida.

The University of Adelaide Theatre Guild has turned, once again, to the multi-award winning director, Megan Dansie, to tackle Shakespeare's comedy, Much Ado About Nothing.

Tissues were definitely used by some members of the audience to wipe away tears during the most moving sections of this performance.

In typical Neil Simon fashion, there is more to this play than mere superficial comedy.

Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, was first performed in 1955, and is considered an Australian classic.

This is a sensational piece of theatre, unlike any other, moving, informative, enlightening, funny, sad, and poignant,

Once upon a time the then holder of the Murgatroyd baronetcy was cursed by a witch. He was burning her at the time.

Director, Peter Hopkins, who plays King Hildebrand in Princess Ida, is blessed with a first-rate cast.

From 1950 to 2000, Charles M. Schulz made the world laugh, and think, by way of his cartoon strip, Peanuts.

These are some of the fittest and most skilled people that you are likely to meet.

There is just so much to like about this production and, even if you don't have children to take, get yourselves some tickets.