With the right artistic director in Tyran Parke, the Australian Musical Theatre Festival is on an upward trajectory.
Audacious. That’s the word for this fifth edition of the Australian Musical Theatre Festival. The five-day celebration was capped by a full-blown show, thrown together during that time.
Parke included snippets of recorded interviews about lockdown challenges, and these worked without any sense of imposition because we physically shared the isolation of people in small spaces, while they sang of alienation or failed love.
Her version of being a musical theatre triple threat, she told us, was being fat, stoned and epileptic – yet she still bravely performed edgy cabaret in a police state. Life, she said, is partly about letting go of the need to be special. She might have let go, but she was the festival’s most potent performer.revue. His songs curl in the air like cigarette smoke exhaled by a recent divorcee, despite having musical touchstones ranging from Elton John to Sondheim.
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