Category: Musical
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West Side Story (Handa Opera) ★★★★★
West Side Story is the musical theatre standard bearer for “all killer, no filler”.
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Zombie! The Musical (Hayes) ★★★★★
This show has my heart, and it can eat it too if it likes. So, chookas to the Apocalypse!
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Groundhog Day: The Musical (Princess Theatre) ★★★★★
This Australian production of Groundhog Day is the best the show has ever been, and that’s because of one brilliant performer… Elise McCann.
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& Juliet (Lyric Sydney) ★★★★★
& Juliet is pure joy in musical form and even after three viewings I can’t wait for more.
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35mm: A Musical Exhibition (Flight Path) ★★★★
35mm: A Musical Exhibition has the energy of noughties rock radio. So get ready for your girl-rock anthems, indie romance belters and quirky singer-songwriters all mixed with musical theatre storytelling.
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Bark of Millions (Sydney Opera House) ★★★★★
Full review up on The Queer Review.
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A Little Night Music (Hayes Theatre) ★★★★
There’s something thrilling about a chamber production of a Sondheim musical. Restricting the space and staging focuses everything on the music and performances. And with a score that can be as tricky as this, the performances need to be sharp.
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Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Belvoir) ★★★★1/2
Zahra Newman steps into the role that won Audra McDonald her 6th Tony Award and an Emmy nomination. These are big shoes to fill, and she is more than up to the task.
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Hayes Theatre) ★★★★★
Perfect. No Notes.
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Beauty & the Beast (Capitol Theatre) ★★★
Book by Linda Woolverton. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice. Capitol Theatre, Sydney. Jun 14 – Dec 24, 2023. Beauty & the Beast alternates between, well, being beautiful and being beastly. At times it’s full of wonder and at times it just plods its way through the story. But one…
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