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Take a musical voyage through South America and Cuba with high energy Latin-Jazz collective Descarga and Dance when they arrive in Geraldton!!
A veritable feast for the eyes, ears and soul, Descarga and Dance combines to intrinsic elements of Latin culture to produce a sultry and sublime stage show.
The performance pairs Latin-Jazz collective Descarga with one of Western Australia’s hottest contemporary Latin dance companies, the Kuerazo Latin Dancers.
Descarga, whose name means ‘jam session’ in Cuban, is a seven piece instrumental band consisting of some of Perth’s finest and most experienced jazz and Latin musicians.
The band consists of musical director and trumpet player Matthew Jodrell, Jeremy Grieg on trombone, Des White on bass, Carl MacKey on Saxophone, Freddy Poncin on congas (a tall, narrow single headed Cuban drum), Chris Tarr on drums and Konra Paszkudzki on piano.
The group performs Latin-Jazz, Salsa and Cha-cha-cha from the repertoire of Latin-Jazz legend Tito Puente, prolific Latin-Jazz musician Poncho Sanchez and colossal Cuban bands Irakere and Cubanismo.
Desgarga are joined on stage by three members of Kuerazo Latin Dancers. The vibrant and energetic group will thrill and excite as they rumba, mambo, samba and salsa their way through the two hour show.
The Ancient Art Of Genital Origami… From The West End of London to Broadway in New York the boys have been getting it out all over the world and now its your chance to see them in your town. Come and see the famous Hamburger, The Wristwatch and the Windsurfer just to name a few…..your NUTS if you miss it!!
They have performed their show to hoards of celebrities including Elton John, Bono, Posh and Becks, Jackie and Joan Collins, Jessica Simpson, Hugh Grant, Naomi Campbell, to name a few. And while in NYC, became a favourite of the infamous Howard Stern.
“True, touching and wonderfully funny…”
Mail on Sunday
Australia’s Premier Theatre Touring Company, HIT Productions is pleased to announce the 14 week 2008 national tour of Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine starring Glenda Linscott (Prisoner, Murder Call). Shirley Valentine, the award winning play (Best Comedy at the 1988 Laurence Olivier Awards), is a funny yet moving piece of theatre by award winning playwright, Willy Russell (the playwright behind the highly successful Educating Rita). Shirley Valentine is about escape. It takes the form of a monologue by a 42 year old Liverpool mother and housewife, Mrs Joe Bradshaw, before and after a transforming holiday to Greece. Inside Mrs Joe Bradshaw the former Shirley Valentine is longing to emerge. Her self esteem battered by school, marriage and life in general, she finds herself talking to the wall while her husband is out working. She feels that her terribly mundane life has stagnated as she compares scenes in her current life with how she used to live. When her best friend wins an all expenses paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley grasps the opportunity to head for the sun, leave her current drudgery behind, rediscover herself, follow her dreams and to get a new lease on life.
Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine boasts the accomplished talents of Director Jennifer Hagan (HIT’s Educating Rita), Designer Adam Gardnir (HIT’s Breath of Life) and Lighting Designer Michele Preshaw (HIT’s Barmaids).
“Shirley Valentine is about a slightly older woman kicking her heels (for good as it turns out) of British ignorance and insularity. It is a brilliant, funny, pathetic evening…Willy Russell has again managed to say something serious in a way that makes the audience fall over laughing.”
Daily Express
Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine is produced by HIT’s Founder and CEO, Christine Harris; award winning actress (Amy Carson in Carson’s Law) and recipient of the 1997 Victorian Entrepreneur of the Year Award and 1999 Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame inductee. Shirley Valentine is part of 70 weeks of national touring to be undertaken this year by this prolific company, HIT Productions, which has produced, as part of its 37 touring productions (1999 – 2008), such successes as Hotel Sorrento, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Love Child, Educating Rita, The Club and many more.
TICKETS:
Adults: $35.90
Pensioners: $30.00
Seniors: $30.00
Child Under 17: $15.00
Groups10+: $28.00
QPT CLUB: $28.00
EARLY BIRD 9 to 20/06/08: $25.00
Stephen Michael King's
Milli, Jack and The Dancing Cat
Monkey Baa will creatively develop their recent adaptation of this beautiful tale. Working with a dramaturge, the creative team, a musician and three actors, the company will craft the piece into a final draft ready for production.
Aimed at young people aged 3 to 7 years, this beautifully written and illustrated book explores the joy of being yourself. Monkey Baa will develop songs and music to accompany this whimsical tale.
Touring to theatres throughout Australia in 2008.
The Story
Milli is clever. She can take objects that have been forgotten or thrown away and transform them into amazing things. But the people in her village just aren't interested. They want sensible things in their lives and have no time for the wonderous.
So Milli spends all her time making for the villagers, good strong shoes and boots.
Every day is the same for Milli, until one day two strangers come into her shop. Jack and the Dancing Cat have no money to pay for new boots but in exchange they will give Milli dancing lessons.
Milli learns to do ballet and to tap dance. She learns jazz and two step and so many fabulous dances that she decides that she can't just make boring boots for Jack and the Cat. She makes them the most wonderful shoes, with clothes to match. She then makes some for herself and she can't stop there, soon her whole house and the shop look so amazing that the villagers flock to it.
Milli's imagination has been freed.
Rich in melodies which are familiar and toe tapping, La Travaiata is a timeless story of of a father who disapproves of his son's choice of a woman for social reasons, breaks up the relationship and then regrets it when he discovers that she really is honourable and tragically dying.
Co-Opera's production, featuring a chamber orchestra, is sung in English and set in the 1950's amongst the glamopur of exotic parties and the excesses of wine, love and living. This well loved opera is based on the novel La Dame Aux Camellies by Alexander Dumas. It is said that the heroine of the novel was based upon a real woman whom Dumas knew, Margareite Gautier, who was highly sophisticated and much sought after by aristocratic playboys.
La Traviata by Verdi, premièred to great applause at the Festival Centre… while the party scenes sparkle, they highlight the tragedy of a dying woman's search for love and acceptance.
Ewart Shaw, The Advertiser
Tao's performances upturn the traditional image that the word ‘wadaiko' typically invokes in the minds of most people in Japan and abroad. Rather than attempting to simply build upon the traditional Japanese arts, Tao is determined to produce modern entertainment that has the power to truly transcend national boundaries. Ever since the group's formation over ten years ago, Tao has consistently worked towards creating a new, previously unheard of world of wadaiko performance.
After years of hard work, Tao has now demonstrably reached the above goal and engaged the world in a continuing dialogue with wadaiko as the medium. The group has attracted massive praise from audiences, the media and promoters all around following its shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and elsewhere as well as the release of its debut album in Japan and abroad. This year, it is time for Tao to take on yet new regions and let the beat of wadaiko echo proudly in many great countries around the world.
Choosing to name itself Tao - written with a single Chinese character meaning ‘way' or ‘road' - the group has so far courageously treaded uncharted paths, paving its way where there had previously been none. As a reward of all its efforts, the road to the world as well as to the future of wadaiko now lies wide open before Tao.
TICKETS:
Adults: $74.90,
Concessions inc. Pensioners, Seniors, QPT CLUB & Health Care Card Holders: $64.90,
The Pitch is set in the apartment of Walter Weinermann an aspiring screenwriter, just before he is about to pitch his screenplay to a heavy hitting film industry panel. We watch as Walter practices pitching his film and tries to get his story straight in time for his one shot at the big time.
For Walter there is a lot at stake. Its a chance for immortality. Its a chance to prove to the world that he’s got what it takes and maybe, its a chance to win back his girlfriend who dumped him for a born again Christian.
As the The Pitch’s fat, cigar puffing Hollywood producer states- there are only four successful genres for movie making: 1) The mystery 2) The loser makes good 3) Love conquers all, and 4) Revenge.
Walter’s action, mystery, revenge, loser makes good, romance film is set in a few too many exotic locations including; 1936 India, war torn 2006 Iraq, Paris and London now, Hong Kong yesterday and Afghanistan two weeks ago. Its a classic tale of revenge, love, war, sniping, plane crashes, exotic accents and plenty of meaningful close ups.
Walters’ film pitch is an hilarious panic stricken desperate effort. It involves him demonstrating all the roles that he hopes will be played by Hollywood’s A-list actors, including a tough and clenched teeth Clint Eastwood, a debonair Sir Anthony Hopkins and a scintillating Catherine Zeta Jones. Not to mention a streetwise Chris Tucker, Robert De Niro playing an Afghani, Sean Connery playing a deranged British colonial soldier and one very surly Russell Crowe.
Peter Houghton’s The Pitch is one hilarious antidote for the many terrible and clichéd blockbusters that Hollywood keeps inflicting on audiences.
"Peter Houghton is funny. His play, The Pitch is really funny... a romp.... hilarious..... a riot."
Kate Herbert Sun Herald
"Every now and then in the theatre you get the pure pleasure of seeing an absolutely wonderful performance. I had that pleasure last night....the show is called The Pitch..." Amanda Smith, ABC radio National
The Pitch has recently won two 2007 Green Room awards for best new play and also for best male independent artist.
HOTEL CALIFORNIA
The Eagles Show
SET TO ROCK WA
KALGOORLIE – BUNBURY – GERALDTON – ALBANY
25 - 30 September 2008
From the ‘70s through to the ‘80s, The Eagles were a major force in the world music scene. They were heaped with Gold and Platinum Records, showered with awards, and struggled to keep up with demand for product and live appearances, a strain that many say led to their break-up in 1982.
Now The Eagles Show - Hotel California, featuring five highly respected, multi-talented musicians, fills the musical void left behind when the world’s much-loved rock superstars disbanded.
The Eagles Show – Hotel California, is a show that salutes the talent and musicianship of the original members with a faithful recreation of The Eagles’ timeless hits.
The Eagles Show - Hotel California focuses on The Eagle’s Hell Freezes Over Tour of the early ‘90s, capturing an era when The Eagle’s music undeniably transcended the boundaries of rock, R&B and country.
The Eagles Show – Hotel California is an exciting showcase of all the chart-toppers, such as Take it Easy, One of These Nights, Take it to the Limit, Heartache Tonight, Hotel California, Lyin’ Eyes, Witchy Woman, New Kid In Town, Tequila Sunrise, Desperado, Best of My Love and Life in the Fast Lane, as well as more recent releases, Get Over It and Love will Keep Us Alive.
The group also performs selected solo hits of 1971 founding members Don Henley and Glen Frey, and Joe Walsh, who joined The Eagles in 1975.
The music of The Eagles touched the hearts of a generation. If you enjoyed life in the fast lane in the 70s, or simply yearn for a night at the Hotel California, don’t miss this amazing multi media show.
KALGOORLIE THURS 25 SEPT GOLDFIELDS ART CENTRE
Book at the venue or phone 9088 6900
BUNBURY FRI 26 SEPT BUNBURY REGIONAL ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
Book at the venue, www.bunburyentertainment.com or
phone BREC Ticketing 1300 661 272. Groups available.
GERALDTON SUN 28 SEPT QUEENS PARK THEATRE
Book at the venue www.queensparktheatre.com.au
or phone 9956 6662
ALBANY TUES 30 SEPT ALBANY TOWN HALL
Book at the venue www.albanytownhall.com.au or
phone 9844 2222
TICKETS ON SALE: FRIDAY 27 JUNE
A Reserve: $49.90 inc BF & GST
Groups 8 or more: $44.90 inc BF & GST * (Buy 8 tickets and get the 9th Ticket free)
* (Group Ticket Offer is only available for the concert at the Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre on Friday 26 September)
Hotel California – The Eagles Show is proudly presented in WA by Mellen Events
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The Ancient Art Of Genital Origami… From The West End of London to Broadway in New York the boys have been getting it out all over the world and now its your chance to see them in your town. Come and see the famous Hamburger, The Wristwatch and the Windsurfer just to name a few…..your NUTS if you miss it!!
