Entertainment
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Music and movement
This weekend Woodend will be bursting with colour, music and movement as the Woodend Winter Arts Festival launches with the much-loved free fireworks on Friday night. It will be the biggest Friday night for entertainment in Woodend for the year as the town is set to triple its population with visitors from Melbourne, interstate and…
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A joyous experience
The storm-shattered Friday May 11 had me drive a three-and-a-half-hour trip from Apollo Bay to Malmsbury in central Victoria. I drove this potentially hazardous journey clutching a coveted ticket to an amateur theatre show in Kyneton. I usually avoid amateur theatre, but I had a rare opportunity to see Ms Tiffany Speight in the role…
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A family affair!
In a ‘perfect in every way’ coincidence, Sprout Theatre Company’s upcoming production of Mary Poppins the Broadway Musical boasts a host of performing families. Artistic director Billy-Jo Royle’s vision was to bring high-quality family entertainment for locals, by locals. Billy-Jo’s vision was shared by Green Room and Helpmann Award singer Tiffany Speight who came on…
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Classic musical thriller comes to Castlemaine
Local theatre troupe Three’s A Crowd are in the thick of rehearsals as they prepare to present Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Castlemaine’s Phee Broadway Theatre. The musical classic opens on April 20, running through to April 28, with both evening and matinee performances. The two…
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Bringing the quartets to life
Regarded by many critics as the great last work of acclaimed 20th century poet T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets is about to be brought to life in Castlemaine in a very literal sense this Sunday. Four Quartets is a set of four poems which Eliot published over a six-year period and this Sunday the work will…