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Showcasing Sydney's current and upcoming hit musicals
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Dear Six
Oh you are so cheeky. With your catchy, kick-ass anthems, dazzling punk rock costumes, and punchy dance moves. Your creators, Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow, described you as being all about ‘the six wives of Henry VIII, but – like – a pop group’. And that’s all that needs to be said, really. You give…
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Dear Jesus Christ Superstar
Have we ever really seen musical theatre if we haven’t seen you? For 50 years, you’ve been the godfather of musicals. When it comes to describing you in this latest production, sentences fail. We can only really conjure up a string of adjectives. Seismic. Intense. Emotive. High-energy. Loud. Brilliant. You’re also weird. So very weird.…
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Dear…Dear Evan Hansen
Holy dooly, are you trying to scare the bajeezus out of parents everywhere? If so, you’ve thoroughly succeeded. Right from your opening number, Anybody Have a Map? you’ve left us all slightly shell shocked. Is this what we have to look forward to? The summary of your plot line doesn’t sound like a great fit…
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Dear Sunset Boulevard
You’re the musical theatre equivalent of a luxury day spa. Everything about you is lush and extravagant – with your decadent score, glitzy costumes, grandiose sets, and talent that is other-worldly. You’ve completely swept us away into a universe of Hollywood golden age glamour. We’ve come out the other end feeling rejuvenated and admitting, begrudgingly,…
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Dear Titanique
You. Are. Ridiculous. You are so shamelessly ridiculous. That summarises it really. Though if we needed to elaborate, we’d explain to our friends that you’re a recreation of the Titanic movie, set against a Celine Dion soundtrack. And if they wanted to know more, we’d admit that actually you tear James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster completely…
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Dear Hamilton
You’re not just a musical, you’re a global phenomenon. We’d be hard-pressed to find anyone – even non-theatre goers – who haven’t heard of your creator, Lin Manual Miranda, or American Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, because of you. You’re a Grammy, Olivier, Pulitzer and Tony Prize winner. Show-off. Yet we can’t begrudge you. You took…
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Hamilton: Cheat Sheet
Hamilton we love you, but you’re complicated. It’s not us – it’s you. At 144 words per minute, you cram in double the words of a normal musical (and average 6 words per second in your fastest song). Also – none of us grew up learning American history (we can barely remember Australian history). So…
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Dear Sister Act
You are a musical of contrasts! You set a moody, gothic, cathedral against a thousand shiny disco lights. You present us with the drab Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow, and then give us dancing policemen who could have come straight from a Village People concert. And you pit the sombre Mother Superior (Genevieve…
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SIX: The Real Stories of the Tudor Wives
Divorced. Beheaded. Died… The stories behind the wives of King Henry VIII that feature in the smash hit musical SIX are filled with the kind of drama and intrigue you just can’t make up. We summarise all you need to know prior to SIX rolling into the Theatre Royal this October. 1. The ‘True Queen’:…
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Dear In the Heights
You brought New York’s Washington Heights to the Sydney Opera House for 4 weeks, and now it’s almost your finale! We need to thank you for warming us up for our Hamilton run with another of Lin-Manual Miranda’s hit musicals – his first in fact – written when he was still in college. You promised…