Author : Frank Van Straten
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1743052294
This unique book raises the curtain on the history of Adelaide's most remarkable playhouse - Her Majesty's Theatre. For 100 years 'the Maj' has hosted a cavalcade of entertainment. With a treasure-trove of rare photographs, posters and costume and set designs, this book will delight anyone who loves show business and who loves Adelaide.
Author : Frank Van Straten
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 9781925801408
This spectacular book is an affectionate celebration of Melbourne's Her Majesty's Theatre. Packed with evocative text and hundreds of rare, nostalgic images, it documents the shows and stars who've entertained Melburnians over the past 14 decades. Her Majesty's great stage has housed everything from Show Boat, Oklahoma! and Fiddler on the Roof to Les Miserables, Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins and The Rocky Horror Show - hundreds of shows, including an intriguing few that were not exactly box office bonanzas! Its dressing rooms have been home to Dame Nellie Melba, Anna Pavlova and Dame Joan Sutherland as well as Peter Allen, Dame Edna, Jerry Hall, and even Bananas in Pyjamas. It hasn't always been easy. Her Majesty's has survived two world wars, two serious depressions, the introduction of talkies and television, and a disastrous 1929 fire. Seventy years later it escaped almost certain demolition when it was purchased and completely refurbished by entrepreneur Mike Walsh. Your guide on this nostalgic ramble is noted Australian entertainment historian Frank Van Straten. He's mined not only the treasures in the theatre's extensive archive, but also the memories and memorabilia of many showbiz veterans. The result is a landmark publication that will delight everyone who loves the magic of the theatre - and, especially, The Maj.
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Michael Tallis
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781862547353
George Tallis arrived in Australia as a 17-year-old immigrant in 1886, and rose to become head of J.C. Williamson Ltd, the world's largest entertainment organisation. This book is his story, an intriguing view of Australian entertainment between 1886 and 1938.
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Publisher : Hal Leonard
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1705103928
(Vocal Selections). Six has received rave reviews around the world for its modern take on the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII and it's finally opening on Broadway! From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an exuberant celebration of 21st century girl power! Songs include: All You Wanna Do * Don't Lose Ur Head * Ex-Wives * Get Down * Haus of Holbein * Heart of Stone * I Don't Need Your Love * No Way * Six.
Author : Paul Matthew St Pierre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,21 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0773571620
A Portrait of the Artist as Australian offers the first critical assessment of Barry Humphries' entire career - as a daring postmodern deconstructionist on stage, film, and television, with sixty-seven stage shows, twenty-four film and thirty-four video appearances, thirty-four television series and seventy-one television appearances, and seventy-two audio recordings, but especially what he calls his "second career" as author of twenty-nine books. With an oeuvre that includes novels, biographies, autobiographies, editions, compilations, comic books, poetry, dramatic monologues, sketches, film scripts, and several unclassified works, Humphries is a literary and dramatic artist of considerable significance. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, Paul Matthew St Pierre reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in music halls, Dadaism, and his identity as an Australian.
Author : Alan Brissenden
Publisher : Wakefield Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1862548021
Illustrated with a wealth of photographs and designs for decor and costumes, most never before published, AUSTRALIA DANCES: CREATING AUSTRALIAN DANCE 1945-1965 surveys the major companies, the many smaller groups which flourished, modern dance, the beginnings of Aboriginal theatrical dance and the various teaching codes which became established. Selected works from company repertoires are discussed, making the book a rich and valuable resource for students and scholars as well as an essential addition to every dance lovers library.
Author : Anita Callaway
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780868406343
Tracing the history of theatrical arts in 19th-century Australia, this book documents varieties of visual culture that until now have remained unrecorded or been dismissed as irrelevant to the history of Australian art.
Author : Charles Smith Cheltnam
Publisher :
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Actors
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