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DANCELIFE INTERVIEWS MATT LEE (BERT IN MARY POPPINS)

Musical Theatre 3 May, 2011

DanceLife reporter Emma Bell caught up with Matt Lee to chat about his role in Mary Poppins as well as what skills make a performer employable and valuable. Watch the interview above. Australia’s leading dancer and choreographer, Matt is best known as a judge on Ten’s ̶… Read Article

DANCELIFE INTERVIEWS VERITY HUNT-BALLARD (MARY IN MARY POPPINS)

Musical Theatre 27 Apr, 2011

DanceLife writer Emma Bell caught up with the cast of Mary Poppins in Sydney the other week before the start of the Sydney season. Above is an interview with Verity Hunt-Ballard who plays Mary in the production. Verity graduated from WAAPA in 2003. She is currently starring in the Disney s… Read Article

TIME TO STEP IN TIME! By Callum Mansfield

Dance 6 Jun, 2010

The time has come for me to pack my bags and fly to Melbourne to work as the dance secondment to choreographer Geoffrey Garratt, on Disney’s Australian Tour of Mary Poppins. It was nearly three years ago that I found myself choreographing a production of CATS with Harvest Rain Theat… Read Article

AUSSIE MARY POPPINS ANNOUNCED

Musical Theatre 9 Mar, 2010

VERITY Hunt-Ballard is literally a woman in a thousand. She was among more than 1000 performers who auditioned for the leading role in the $16 million production of Mary Poppins, which opens in Melbourne in July. She has just been offered the career-defining role by legendary producer S… Read Article

MATT LEE TO FILL THE SHOES OF BERT IN MARY POPPINS

Musical Theatre 17 Nov, 2009

That’s right! It was announced yesterday that SYTYCD Judge Matt Lee will be playing the role of Bert in the upcoming production of Mary Poppins. Being no stranger to musicals Matt has been part of the ensemble crew in Miss Saigon, We Will Rock You, Witches of Eastwick, RENT, Grease,… Read Article

KNOWING WHEN TO BREAK THE RULES

AuditionsMusical Theatre 8 Oct, 2009

Whether auditioning for Mary Poppins the Musical, Fame the Musical or any of the other abundant Australian productions this week, one thing is certain, few other industries ask as much of their job applicants as the entertainment industry demands of performers. High hopes end in disap… Read Article

AUDITIONS! BE PREPARED!

Auditions 25 Sep, 2009

With the FAME and MARY POPPINS AUDITIONS coming up next month it’s really important that you’re prepared. I was chatting with an icon in the musical theatre world last week about auditions and how some performers go into an audition with a “if it’s meant to happ… Read Article

THE AUDITION GURU

Auditions 13 Sep, 2009

Sydney performer Scott Morris has been cast in the role of Ernst in the Sydney Theatre Company’s upcoming production of the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Spring Awakening. In June Scott attended AuditionGuru’s audition preparation workshop which dealt specifi… Read Article

AUDITIONS FOR MARY POPPINS

Auditions 27 Aug, 2009

Finally after nearly a year of announcing that Ms Poppins would be coming to Australia we finally have a July 2010 opening date in Melbourne and audition information! Woohoo! Based on the beloved books by Australia’s P.L. Travers and the classic 1964 Walt Disney film, MARY POPPIN… Read Article

MARY'S COMING TO MELBOURNE

Musical Theatre 14 Jul, 2009

MARY Poppins might be the story of a stern but magical London nanny charged with raising two mischievous children in a well-to-do Edwardian home, but at the announcement of the Australian premiere of the stage musical version the talk was of Poppins’ Australian roots. “We… Read Article