Nambour Christian College is renowned for their professional stage productions, and this year are proud to bring to the Nambour Civic Centre stage, for the first time on the Sunshine Coast,  the award winning Broadway musical THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. This high energy show set in 1922 New York is about a modern, Kansas girl seeking wealth but finding love. Full of laughs, spectacular dance numbers and toe-tapping songs, this delectable show is not to be missed. Four performances only: from Thursday the 3rd to Saturday the 5th of May 2012.
This production of Thoroughly Modern Millie is the Sunshine Coast debut, as the rights have never previously been released to any company on the coast. Be sure not to miss this exciting, award winning show. 

Direct from sold our seasons in London and Los Angeles, the Australian made, international hit show Busting Out! is touring Australia in 2012.
With more front than Myer, our bosom-buddies return in their own laugh-out-loud and totally liberating show which has been seen by over 400,000 adoring fans throughout the world.

In the words of the UK's Leicester Mercury this show is "Absolutely brilliant." Follow our ladies as they unleash their playful puppies and walk abreast down mammary lane. It's an uplifting celebration of bouncy songs, wobbly jokes, thigh-slapping sketches, and of course, practical demonstrations of the fascinating lesser-known uses of your drooping assets. 

"Tasteful, clever, liberating and laugh out loud funny!" DAILY TELEGRAPH 

Come along with Elmo and the Sesame Street gang as they circle the globe in this all-singing, all-dancing stage show touring Australia in 2012. Abby Cadabby, Big Bird, Grover, Zoe, Cookie Monster and Elmo use the letters of the alphabet to navigate a voyage through imagination that sees the gang visiting China, Zambia, France, India and Australia! Elmo and his friends have fun learning how people sing and dance and say hello in different places, but things don’t go to plan when Cookie Monster eats a letter of the alphabet. Can Abby Cadabby find the right spell to help? Along the way, audiences will also delight in hearing a sensational tale from The Count and will help some back-packing rubber-duckies find a place to stay with Bert and Ernie. Featuring a bunch of classic Sesame Street songs alongside catchy new tunes, SESAME STREET PRESENTS ELMO’S WORLD TOUR will delight Sesame Street fans of ALL ages.

A true story of love, family, strength…and the choices we make. In April 2009, two weeks short of his nineteenth birthday Toowoomba teenager Kristjan Terauds died due to complications from illicit drug use.   Inspired by ‘April’s Fool’, an account of his son’s death by Kristjan’s father, the Empire Theatre commissioned award-winning playwright, David Burton to bring this story to the stage.

Running Time: 75 minutes  / Suitable for Secondary Students
Teachers Notes & resources available

Optional Activity: Post Performance Debriefing Workshop. Duration is 60 minutes with a maximum class size of 20 participants. This workshop is best suited to older students, ages 14-18 years.

 

UP CLOSE & PERSONAL, WHERE IT ALL BEGAN

In 1992, John Waters and Stewart D’Arrietta took to the small stage at the Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo, Sydney with their debut production of “Looking Through A Glass Onion”.  What was an initially a one week booking quickly sold out and extended into a six week, sell out season.  Thus the original seed of “Looking For A Glass Onion” was born.

Fast forward 20 years and after many successful and sold out Glass Onion tours, John and Stewart have decided to return to their ‘up close and personal’ intimate 2 man show tour.

John says he wants "to take the show back to its roots” . “This is a last chance opportunity for regional Australia to see this show as we’ll be taking it to Broadway in New York in 2013 and are in discussion with Yoko Ono on aspects of the New York shows”.

The National Tour of “Looking Through A Glass Onion” commenced in November 2010 at the Sydney Opera House, with a sell out 2 week season the production quickly extended throughout 2011 taking in over 30,000 ticket sales nationally to be the ‘highest selling Australian Artist tour thus far in 2011”.

“Its been fantastic the response the show is receiving, especially from the younger audiences that are coming along, some of whom were not even born when Lennon and The Beatles were recording and releasing their music, it’s a testament to the legacy of the man and his music that still excites and intrigues people to this day” says Waters.

“Although we’ve done two tours with the full band we were constantly inundated with requests from areas we had yet to tour to come and perform, so we’ve yielded to the call and decided to go back out of the road with the original 2 Man show” cites Waters.

A homage to the music, mystery and memory of John Lennon.

The show is not a cut-and-paste biography of Lennon or an emulation of the original recordings.  On stage, with shadows from the lighting arrangement fluttering over his face as he explores the essence of the man through song and spoken word.  Waters, becomes synonymous with Lennon.  He shies away from imitating the artist, but so emotive is his performance, it lulls the audience into believing anything is possible.  It’s part concert and part biography, though it doesn’t seek to tell the full story of Lennon’s life.

“Rather than to impersonate, I wanted to evoke his honesty, bitter-sweet humour, self criticism and disdain for pretentiousness and pomposity”, says Waters.

“The song Glass Onion was John Lennon’s postscript to The Beatles.  It had such a strong image of crystal ball-gazing and peeling away the layers that it inspired the format for this show – a kaleidoscope collage of song, word, emotion and image”, agrees D’Arrietta with Waters.

For the audience this is either an emotional trip down memory lane or a wonderful introduction to the life and times of one of the most fascinating icons of our time.

With 31 songs performed including to name a few, ‘A Day in the Life’, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, ‘Revolution’, ‘Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds’, ‘Woman’, ‘Jealous Guy’, ‘Imagine’ and more, this is a show for all ages.

Stuffing one of the world’s largest comedy festivals into the one show is no easy feat, but the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has done just that with Roadshow 2012. Local and overseas comedians will be travelling across Australia – and Singapore and Hong Kong – with an ‘all killer, no filler’ event. Roadshow 2012 – coming to a town near you!


Warning: Performances may contain coarse language, sexual references and material that can offend. It is recommended for for people aged 15+

Making their World Premiere season in Australia, LES BALLETS ELOELLE are bringing their new production “Men In Pink Tights” – the most spectacular, talented and hilarious all-male comedy ballet ever.

From the thrilling pirouettes of the male dancers (in male and female costumes) with brilliant choreography to the side splitting humour, LES BALLETS ELOELLE new show “Men In Pink Tights” is a show designed for the young and old.

The greatest troupe of it is kind around the globe; Les Ballet Ballet’s Elolle features over fifty ballets in its repertoire and an array of the best international professional male ballet dancers from thirteen nations.

These fine-looking and gorgeous soloists have executed with celebrated ballet company¹s including New York Ballet, The American Ballet Theatre, the prestigious Royal Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Swedish Ballet, Berlin State Opera Ballet, English National Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and Hong Kong Ballet.

The New York-based Company is led by creative Director and lead dancer Victor Trevino, who was artistic Director and Lead Dancer in 2007 with the hugely successful Australian and New Zealand tour of “Men in Tutu’s”.

Les Ballet’s Elolle “Men In Pink Tights” personifies the elemental parody of both classic and present-day ballet. “Men in Pink Tights” Produces bang-up amusement and LOL “Lough Out Loud” family entertainment for all. Be truly amazed.

Five women find themselves back in their infants classroom plying their needles in a good old fashioned session of "stitch and bitch". Their confessions are frank,  their rivalries intense and their jokes outrageous. They discover a common frustration with the limitations of being female and mature in a world still largely defined by men. Released from their own constraints, they rediscover their capacity to love, forgive and take control. An exceptional cast including actors Maggie Blinco, Annie Byron and Jeanie Drynan, perhaps best known for her critically acclaimed role of Muriel's mum in Muriel's' Wedding.

BOY GIRL WALL  This is not a love story, it’s a story about love.  
Thom & Alethea, two neighbours in a West End apartment block try desperately to keep their lives from falling apart. But the wall that stands between them has decided they belong together.
 Following  sell-out seasons across Australia, this smash hit production by The Escapists is a stunnining celebration of  theatricality, imagination and the joy of play .

Nominated - 2011 Helpmann Award - Best Actor

Winner  - 2010 Matilda Award - Best independant Production


Contains strong coarse language and adult themes
Suitable for audiences over 15 years

On the back of four top 10 albums featuring tracks from Broadway through to ‘60s pop, David Campbell is excited to release his next album and labour of love  - ‘Let’s Go’!  

Featuring David’s signature fresh twist on some of the most exciting tracks to come from the early eighties, Let’s Go! was initially inspired by the revolutionary ‘second British invasion’ of the early ‘80s and features hits including Let’s Go, Shout To The Top, Come on Eileen, I’m Your Man and Tainted Love.  David is one of the country’s most popular entertainers. Known for his energetic LIVE shows, and selling out tours from coast to coast – expect nothing less from this tour.

The Housekeeper 
directed by Lucy Freeman 

A slightly black love story. 
 
Floundering a bit after his mothers death, Manley, a self-styled literary artist, engages a housekeeper to look after his large Victorian house (and himself). When Annie first arrives,  wearing sneakers and carrying her belongings in a shopping trolley, Manley is taken aback - after which their relationship progresses rapidly from inital reserve to active hatred. The play covers unlikely life events with lively wit and biting humour.

An offbeat, delightfullly zany comedy of a middle-aged bachelor and the eccentric bag lady he hires as a housekeeper.

The Rock Revolution

The Harbour Agency and the producers of the phenomenally successful ‘Rock Show’ – Sound One – proudly present Jon English, back bigger and better in 2012!

Jon English has been working tirelessly to unearth, refine and rediscover a whole lot more from the great rock’n’roll archives to bring you … ‘Rock Revolution’!

Experience more of your favourite classics, remember the songs you thought you’d forgotten, and breathe a sign of relief when you hear the one you believed was gone forever.

You won’t want to miss this great evening of 60’s and 70’s rock’n’roll, so get out your diary, phone your friends and get ready for a rollicking good time … fabulous music, lots of laughter, and multi-talented musicians all wrapped up into one unforgettable theatrical concert!

Rhinestone Rex and Miss Monica
by David Williamson
 
What do a classical musician and retired country and western singer have in common?
Not a lot according to Monica who really just wants Gary, aka Rhinestone Rex, to do the job he’s being paid for and renovate her kitchen. She hates his taste in music, his attitudes to women and the columns he wants to put on her kitchen cabinets. Gary can’t find much about Monica to recommend to anyone but still finds her attractive in a cold, rigid and inflexible kind of way. Can they find a way past all their conflicts towards a harmonious and fulfilling relationship? Or will their differences keep them from making beautiful music together? Starring Ally Fowler and Glen Hazeldine.

The Flood by Patrick White Playwrights Award winner Jackie Smith

From internationally acclaimed, multi award winning creators Finucane & Smith comes the  haunting and electrifying work hailed as “masterful… an Australian Gothic that defines the genre”. The dilapidated farm house, sits by the river, sheltering a mad old lady, and her isolated hard-drinking daughter. As the sun sets, the flood waters rise. The screen door bangs open in the rain and wind;
Catherine has returned after 20 years.   Through the mesmerising friction between estranged sisters, fuelled by alcohol three women are trapped with a past no one wants to remember. Bristling with dark humour and edge-of-the-seat performances by three of our finest actresses, The Flood is startlingly authentic writing, plunging audiences into the lives of characters so real you feel you know them; a web of family intrigue against the haunting Australian outback.

“Smith’s handling of the gothic form is masterful. You have to see this, it’s Australian theatre that speaks from the heart of the country.” MCV