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Avigail Herman storms the stage - she's a dynamo with a marvellous
voice and loads of personality. - The Sun Herald
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CABARET SHOWS
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A funny, heart-warming show about all of us through the eyes of one of us. What really identifies us as individuals? What stories do we have to tell? Avigail tries to identify her own fingerprint ten years after her first one woman show.
Accompanied by her long time musical director Peter Bailey & through an eclectic array of songs written by composers as diverse as George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Jason Robert Brown, William Finn & Amanda McBroom, Avigail asks the question what is a fingerprint? An individual ID card, our own personal entrée into the world. It’s just like a heartbeat, unique yet universal.
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BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS - THE MUSIC OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN |
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Leonard Bernstein, brilliant,
flamboyant, composer, conductor, educator and author, he was
one of the 20th Century's greatest musicians. His compositions
range from the incomparable score from West Side Story,
to On the Town, Candide, Wonderful Town
the Chichester Psalms, Symphonic Dances et al.
Bernstein moves seamlessly
from the Concert Hall to the Broadway Stage. His eclecticism
is legendary. His rhythmical power in songs such as America
and New York New York is equally matched by the haunting
beauty of One Hand One Heart and Somehwere amongst
so many others.
Come and hear the fabulous
music of Leonard Bernstein in all its guises played and sung
by three of Sydney's best artists!
Simon Tedeschi: virtuosic pianist, a child prodigy
,who has played for the Dalai Lama & Luciano Pavarotti &
was the hands of the young David Helfgott in the movie Shine.
Kevin Hunt: jazz pianist extraordinaire, Mo award
winner , favoured pianist of such Australian jazz legends as
Don Burrows and James Morrison. He has also shared the stage
with such international greats as Mark Murphy and Larry Adler.
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THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD - A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH HAROLD ARLEN |
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Just who is Harold Arlen?..
Well actually, he's one of the 20th century's most gifted composers,
having written the scores to The Wizard of Oz and A
Star Is Born both starring Judy Garland!
He has written over 400 songs
for some of the best. Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne,
Tony Bennett, Bing Crosby, etc have all made sure that his songs
have entered into the realms of the popular classics.
Songs like Over the Rainbow,
Stormy Weather, That Old Black Magic, Get Happy,
It's Only a Paper Moon, Come Rain or Come Shine,
Acc-en-tuate the Positive, One For My Baby (and One
More For the Road ), the list is endless ...
So why is it we know so little
of the man ?....
George Gershwin said "He's the most original of all of us"
whilst Irving Berlin said "He wasn't as well known as some
of us, but he was a better songwriter than most of us."
Come and "follow the yellow
brick road " and journey through a magnificent musical world
and perhaps through this magical experience learn a little bit
of the genius that is Harold Arlen!
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (PDF)
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WORLD, HERE I AM - THE STREISAND STORY |
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For 40 years she has been a
star! Feisty, bold, a trail-blazer and a perfectionist. Her career
has spanned all aspects of the entertainment industry: recording,
film, TV , stage. She has produced, directed, written and acted.
But most of all, she has sung!
This show is a celebration
of Streisand through her music. Her story told through
her songs. All the favourites and then some! It's a chance
to explore the "funny girl "from Brooklyn who took
the world by storm!
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (PDF)
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Minute by minute, moment by
moment, we live our lives. Each moment brings with it a myriad
of sensations. We mark our lives by our dreams, desires, and
memories, by the rushing by of the seconds, minutes and hours
of our everyday existence, by the rites of passage we all undergo,
by milestones that we embrace. What if we dispensed with our
watches? What if we let time go? Would it change the moments
and feelings we experience...minute by minute?
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OF LIFE |
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This show is about people,
places and times... it's about individuals and their stories...
Every story, just like a painting, gives us an insight into a
world that might be familiar, or perhaps very different to our
own; one where we can take comfort or see things through new
eyes.
Using the songs of a variety
of composers from Gershwin to Simon and Garfunkel, from Sondheim
to Bucchino, from jazz to showtunes, from folk to pop and with
her own unique sense of humour, Avigail will explore life through
all its facets.
There are lots of GOOD songs,
but it seems that the really GREAT songs are the onres that tell
us a story and that's what this show is all about - Portraits
of Life.
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| IF |
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If - an enigmatic word full
of possibilities, hopes and dreams, of what might or could be
fulfilled. What fun to be able to change one's world on the premise
of an if.
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