Caroline is an amazingly versatile talent and having a very busy year.
She will soon be playing one of many Fanny Brices' in a 3 night concert version at the Sydney Opera House and then Judy Garland in The Boy from Oz for The Production Company in Melbourne in August.
I'm arguing with myself here. I lived for 25 wonderful years in Melbourne, loving the season changes[and the clothes that brought] the abundant theatre life, the architecture, the trams, the bogs, everything.
Now I live in Brisbane and this wonderful city on the river is emerging from a quiet country style city to a thriving metropolis that has now just announced another major theatre is to be built---what's NOT to like; and when the jacarandas are in full purple bloom-breathta
I have 'show girl legs' for a male so can carry off a pair of shorts reasonably well but would only wear them to a matinee with a slim tailored long sleeve shirt.
Casual slacks/jeans and a light jacket or blazer for evening performances always, and an open necked shirt.
Sightlines at The Princess Theatre Melbourne are very good but there are posts supporting the dress circle--one either side I think in the back stalls.
The seats on the other hand are THE WORST. Flip down to sit, stand and they flip back and anything you have on your seat falls to the floor. Absolutely NO leg room, you MUST stand to let a person pass; no delicate knees to one side.
An absolute fortune is being spent on the stage but nothing on the auditorium.
RJ14 said: "Damn. Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, and Cher. Britney's in the work too. Who else"
I think Kylie is in there somewhere as well. Someone else might have mention this later on but couldn't be bothered reading through to find out---I stopped here.
God, I must have won the Gay trifecta--gay face, gay voice and dance like a gay. What's the prize?
73 years of absolute joyous living.
PS..I was supposed to SMOKE in a play and be serious [be serious!] and actually TALK with the thing hanging off my lip ! Smoke in my eyes, up my nose, spluttering, not pretty, and certainly NOT butch though I tried. But you should have seen the way I put that cigarette out--applause every performance.
My 2 bits worth. This is a play with 8 actors[don't know,guessing] and the understudies are not part of the onstage cast.
When either reading around a table, rehearsing in a room or finally in the theatre, why aren't the understudies not always included?
Surely as they are professionals[there's that dreaded word again] they should be able, having learnt the script, be able to watch and learn the blocking from a distance.
Dave28282 what you said was very interesting[and very well put]. I am Australian and watch a lot of DVD TV series.
Without understand[until I read your post] that there seemed to be in almost all that I watched an unproportionate number of black actors entering as new characters, and to a lesser degree, Asian.
Really hadn't given the situation much thought other than to think that the ratio of black to white was tipping the scales to the black side of casting.
