STAGES with Peter Eyers show

STAGES with Peter Eyers

Summary: STAGES is the podcast that accesses a variety of people whose professional life is about connecting with an audience. A host of creative artists and practitioners reflect on their career, their process and what matters - to them. Some have made the arts a lifetime pursuit, some explain how their career became a happy accident ... but all describe the challenges and demands - and ultimately celebrate why there's no business like show business! STAGES talks to talent from front of house and backstage - directors, designers, drag artists and doormen ... performers, producers and publicists ... teachers, technicians and talent! Whatever stages it takes to engage and affect an audience - or whatever it takes to carve out a career in the arts - we'll examine it in STAGES. STAGES is the recipient of the Best New Podcaster Award at The Australian Podcast Awards in 2019.

Podcasts:

 'Open a New Window' - Writer, Director, Actor - Sheridan Harbridge | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:45

Sheridan Harbridge is a director, actor and author of plays and musical works. She authored the acclaimed musical Songs For the Fallen, which won Best Musical and Best Actress at The New York Music Theatre Festival 2015, and a Green Room award for Best Artist. This brilliant show has toured the major Australian and New Zealand arts festivals. Sheridan co-wrote and directed the musical bloodbath Nosferatutu (or Bleeding at the Ballet), for Griffin Independent and Glenn Street Theatres. She co-wrote and directed Reg: The Reg Livermore Retrospective for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. And she has directed The Blueberry Play, a Griffin Award finalist and The Sentimental Bloke for the Neglected Musicals series at The Hayes Theatre. Alongside creating her own work she has forged a career as an actor/writer having been part of the workshopping cast, dramaturgy, and premieres of many new Australian works such as the musicals Muriel's Wedding, Dream Lover, Melba, The Detective's Handbook, and the plays North By Northwest, The Speechmaker, The Sugar House, The Dog/The Cat, Prima Facie, Kill Climate Deniers and Jump For Jordan. As an actress, the NIDA graduate has appeared on the stages of all the major Australian companies, most recently to acclaim for her work in Prima Facie for Griffin Theatre, and Calamity Jane and Stop Girl for Belvoir Theatre. She soon returns to the stage with a return season of Suzie Miller's Prima Facie. This phenomenal work will play at The Seymour Centre from 23 June to 10 July. Later in the year she is at the helm of a new Australian musical with her direction of Dubbo Championship Wrestling to be staged at The Hayes. She is contagiously vivacious, hugely talented, ultra-insightful and terrific fun. She is, Sheridan Harbridge. The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Whooshkaa and Spotify. And from where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

 'Everything about it is Appealing' - Musical Theatre Performer, Director and Creative, Martin Croft | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:18:38

Martin Croft started his professional career at the age of 17 with appearances on Melbourne TV. Initially trained as a classical singer, his first major show was Jesus Christ Superstar for Harry M. Miller touring Australia and New Zealand. This led to a full career in music theatre and opera, first as performer and then adding director/musical director, writer, teacher, event manager and producer to the list. Martin has starred in most of the major shows of the last 25 years in Australia, the U.K. and USA including Les Miserables, Godspell, Cats, Miss Saigon, and The Phantom of the Opera. He has been a guest principal singer with Opera Australia and he produced and performed in Closer Than Ever, Putting It Together and the award-winning 3 Vile Men. Martin produced, co-wrote and starred in the highly successful Joe Starts Again which received the 2004 Green Room Award for Best New Musical and was invited to the inaugural New York Music Theatre Festival in September 2004. Martin's recent credits as resident director include: Come From Away (Melbourne), Jersey Boys (New Theatricals Australasian Production), Les Miserables (Asia/South Africa Tour), The Boy From Oz (Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth), Oliver (Cameron Mackintosh Australia/Singapore), and as director: Into The Woods In Concert at Melbourne's Regent Theatre, Hats Off 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 Hats Off To Sondheim, Chelsea Plumley - Live and Luscious, Nothing's Changed - Nehama Patkin, Alex Rathgeber - Momentary Act, Ship of Fools, Dutch Courage, Boxed In, Kim Smith is Madly Adored, Thrill Me - The Leopold and Loebe Story, Up, Is There Life After High School, Into The Woods, Company, and A Little Night Music. He has also directed numerous award ceremonies, concerts, workshops, cabarets and plays in Australia and overseas. STAGES caught up with Martin in his studio where he imparts infinite knowledge to a new generation of performers. His career has taken him around the world and he shares some of that in this insightful conversation. The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Whooshkaa and Spotify. Also from where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

 'With Cat Like Tread' - Performer's Agent & Manager - Mark Gogoll | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:58:46

Mark Gogoll has been involved in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. After majoring in Drama and Psychology at Melbourne University, Mark taught at primary, secondary and tertiary levels. He then went on to directing productions for The Adelaide Theatre Trust and The State Theatre Company in Perth. As a performer, he toured in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Gondoliers, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore. He then worked in theatre production, publicity and casting before joining an actor's agency in Sydney back in 1987. After returning to Melbourne, he was invited to join Performers Management and created the first Music Theatre branch of any agency in Australia. During this time, he worked on over 40 contracts of the original productions of Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera. Five years later he branched out on his own and opened his company Mark Gogoll Enterprises in 1994. Since then, he has personally managed high profile performers for stage and screen including Marina Prior, David Hobson and Silvie Paladino. Mark is charming and insightful. He is equipped with infinite knowledge of the demands and rewards presented to performers. From his unique vantage point he engages with an exciting industry and in recent times has observed the monumental impact of the Covid pandemic on stages and screens. He generously recounts a career in the entertainment sector and ponders the challenge and triumph it can deliver. The STAGES podcast is available from iTunes, Spotify and Whooshkaa .... or, wherever you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagepodcast.com.au

 'I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing In Perfect Harmony' - Composer, Choir Leader, Musical Director, Pianist and Vocal Coach; Vicky Jacobs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:47:09

Vicky Jacobs has developed a reputation for her ability to get anyone singing at their best - from Australia's top music theatre stars to the nervous novice. Vicky has worked in a broad range of roles contributing to the Australian entertainment and musical theatre industries. She recently served as Associate Musical Director on Come From Away, having also filled this role on Beautiful: the Carole King Musical. In 2016 -17 she toured Australia and Japan as Deputy Musical Director for Singin' in the Rain. Vicky toured Australasia as Assistant Musical Director for the critically-acclaimed Jersey Boys and has played for rehearsals and in the orchestras of some of the biggest shows to have graced the Australian stage in recent years: these have included Wicked, Xanadu, Les Miserables, Strictly Ballroom and Hugh Jackman's Broadway to Oz. She has been Musical Director of Motherhood The Musical, and Elegies: A Song Cycle, and been nominated for Greenroom Awards for her work on John & Jen and Thrill Me. She has thrilled as host of the City of Hobart's Big Sing Bonfire where she got the crowd of 3000 all singing as one! Vicky loves to get people singing. She is the founder and director of Glee Club, Melbourne's hippest sing-a-long choir with new chapters recently arriving in Hobart and Yarraville . She also hosts large-scale events, corporate choirs and workshops that guarantee to get everyone using their voice (and loving it!) Vicky writes and arranges choral music which you can find at www.sheetmusicplus.com and The Australian Music Vault Choir Project. The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify and Whooshkaa. Also where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

 'O Nature, thou art wonderful, thou shinest with eternal radiance!'- Actor, Keith Robinson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:16

Keith Robinson is one of our finest actors. His repertoire of characters include the great clowns of Shakespeare. He has been admired for his tremendous physicality in realising these endearing fools and jesters, and for his dependability to tell a good story. As a member of the ensemble at Belvoir Theatre, he has contributed to the success of milestone productions that include Hamlet, The Tempest, The Alchemist, Night On Bald Mountain and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Extensive theatre credits also include the epic Nicholas Nickleby with the Sydney Theatre Company and ventures into musical theatre with the premiere Australian production of Les Miserables. Another terrific accomplishment saw Keith co-write (with Tony Taylor) the silly, comic romp The Popular Mechanicals - a fond valentine to the determined amateur acting troupe of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 2006 his life upon the boards looked like being snatched away when he was diagnosed with a neurological condition, called Guillain-Barre syndrome. His personal expression as an actor became compromised with limited mobility and the necessity of a wheelchair. Keith is a determined thespian and in 2016 he returned to the Belvoir stage as Feste in a production of Twelfth Night. TV gigs have followed too. Next week he is once again on the Belvoir stage as Leonid Gayev in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. Keith is immensely entertaining and terrific company. He is passionate, funny and tremendously insightful in describing an eventful life on and off the stage. The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Spotify and Whooshkaa. Also from where you find your favourite podcasts! www.stagespodcast.com.au

 'A Life of Song' - Operatic Tenor, Gregory Dempsey | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:10:56

The Australian tenor, Gregory Dempsey, was born in Melbourne in1931. He originally trained as a baritone but made his debut as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni in 1954 with National Opera of Victoria, also appearing as Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pedro in d'Albert's Tiefland. In 1955 he won the £1,000 Lever Award (a commercial radio award) and in 1956 was a grand finalist in the Mobil Quest. When the Elizabethan Trust Opera was formed in 1956 he took part in its season of four operas. The following season, he appeared in their productions of Tosca, La bohème and The Tales of Hoffmann, and in the 1958 season sang principal roles in Carmen, The Barber of Seville and Fidelio. He became a permanent member of the chorus for the Channel 9 television singers. 1960 found him singing Monostatos in The Magic Flute, the First Jew in Salome, Goro in Madama Butterfly and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. During this season, Gregory Dempsey sang a matinee of Goro in Madama Butterfly, followed by Luigi in Il tabarro (replacing another tenor) followed by Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. Three roles, quite different roles, in one day! In Perth, he sang in both opera in a double-bill as Mundit - an aborigine - in the 1962 premiere of the Australian opera, Dalgerie and followed with Beppe in Pagliacci after interval. Gregory Dempsey joined Sadler's Wells Opera in London in 1962 and this was his main UK base for the next fifteen years. His roles there and the Coliseum included Tom Rakewell, Peter Grimes, Jimmy Mahoney, Albert Gregor, Skuratov, Don José, Erik, David, Mime (Das Rhinegold and Siegfried) and the Shepherd in King Roger. He created the role of Boconnion in Richard Rodney Bennet's The Mines of Sulphur after which one critic wrote "an heroic-villainous part of formidable challenge." Dempsey appeared as Dionysus in the British premiere of Henze's The Bassarids and the title role in the first British staging of The Adventures of Mr Brouček. Gregory Dempsey worked frequently with Scottish Opera, in roles including Britten's Albert Herring, Quint and Lysander, as well as Florestan, Aeneas in The Trojans, David and Števa. Later, with Scottish Opera, he created the role of Bothwell in Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots in 1977. He made his Covent Garden debut in 1972 as Števa, returning as the Drum Major in Wozzeck. In the USA he appeared in San Francisco from 1966, as Albert Gregor and Tom Rakewell. He returned to Sydney to become a member of Opera Australia singing David in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Herman in Queen of Spades, Dimitri in Boris Godunov, Jimmy in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Mime in both Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Trin in La fanciulla del West, Valzacchi in Der Rosenkavalier and Bob Boles in Peter Grimes. With Victoria State Opera he sang Nero in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, The Magician in The Consul, Monostatos in The Magic Flute, Benoît and Alcindoro in La bohème, Incredible in Andrea Chenier, Prince Populescu in Countess Maritza, Ajax l in La belle Hélène, Jamie in My Fair Lady and Borsa in Rigoletto. With the Adelaide Festival, he was seen as Nero in L'incoronazione di Poppea, Mark in The Midsummer Marriage, Gregor in The Makropulos Case, Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and The Adventures of Mr. Brouček. His clear, perfectly tuned tenor voice was suited to a plethora of different repertoire and styles. From Monteverdi to the most difficult contemporary compositions, Gregory Dempsey made them relevant to every audience. His charm and ever-ready...

 'When you get Caught between the Moon and New York City' - Actor, Model and Creative - Nick Atkinson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:04:59

Nick Atkinson is an Australian actor, singer, songwriter, writer & producer based in LA. He is a graduate of The West Australian Academy Of Performing Arts. Nick played the role of debonaire host Maximilian Martel at The McKittrick Hotel from its inception in 2011until August 2018. Nick emcee'd many of the fantastic events & performed in the legendary 'immersive defining off- Broadway show, Sleep No More, for almost a decade. Sleep No More won the New York 2011 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience & was awarded a special citation at the 2011 Obie Awards. Nick appeared in the 2014 US Open promotional TV spots as Maximilian, alongside the legendary duo - Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett. The vibrant commercial series was nominated for an Emmy. Nick has featured in immersive online projects through Little Cinema. The Alien test - Angel Of Darkness event won 3 awards for the 2020 BizBash Event Style Awards. Other events include the launch of TNT's Snowpiercer, & for director Patty Jenkins 'I Am The Night.' He also hosted a live streamed event for the launch of Jack Ryan Season 2. He appeared with Loic Mabanza in the pilot for Myles Raven playing an underworld drug lord. In New York he played Shamrayev in The Seagull at The East River Amphitheater. In Australia he appeared on Big Sky, Breakers & as Summer Bay 'bad boy' Rod Sutton on Home & Away and on film in Rebel Penfold Russell's Willful & Let's Get Skase starring Alex Dimitriadis. As a producer his work has been critically acclaimed. The brilliant short film 116 by Julia Campanelli has had huge success on the short film circuit, both domestically & abroad. Nick's production company Breakfield Entertainment, specialises in films & plays focussing on the LGBTQ experience. Nick's first play, Where Do You Plan To Spend Eternity? was an Official Selection for the 2019 LGBTQ Short & Sweet West Hollywood Festival.The play is based on Nick's personal experience at LA Pride parade in 2019. He is also excited to be collaborating on new projects with the Actors Theatre Of New York. The STAGES podcast is available from iTunes, Spotify and Whooshkaa .... or, wherever you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagepodcast.com.au

 'An Autonomous Artist' - Actor, Director, Performance & Script Consultant and Arts Educator, Lindy Davies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:07

Lindy Davies has worked as a Director, Actress, Actor Trainer and Performance Consultant, winning awards and nominations for performance, direction and inspirational leadership. Her contributions to our cultural heritage and stages are remarkable and many. Lindy Davies was a founding member of La Mama in Melbourne; a company that forged a new wave of theatre writing and performance in Australian theatre. Her work as an actress includes film and theatre. She was awarded the A.F.I as Best Supporting Actress for the film Malcolm. And on stages has mesmerised in Scenes from an Execution (Belvoir), The Seagull, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Wild Honey (SATC), Upside Down at the Bottom of the World, World is Made of Glass, Buried Child (Playbox); and with Rex Cramphorn's Actor's Development Stream: Antony and Cleopatra, Britannicus, Hamlet, Not Suitable for Adults and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour. Lindy Davies has worked extensively as a performance consultant in film in Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London and Sydney. She conducted Performance workshops for actors, writers and directors at the Canadian Film Centre from 2010 - 2019. Lindy worked with Julie Christie on Robert Redford's The Company You Keep and Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. Previously she worked with Julie on Stephen Poliakoff's Glorious '39 and Sarah Polley's Away From Her for which Julie won a National Board of Review Award, a Critics' Circle Award, a Screen Actor's Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Julie Christie was also nominated for an Academy Award for this performance. Lindy's work as a Director includes productions in Europe and Australia. For the National Theatre of Slovenia: Scenes From an Execution and The Changeling. Old Times at the Moscow Maly Theatre. At Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End: Old Times (with Julie Christie, Leigh Lawson and Dame Harriet Walter) and Hedda Gabler at Chichester Festival Theatre (with Dame Harriet Walter, Nicholas Le Prevost and Phyllida Law). At the Sydney Theatre Company she has directed Three Days of Rain, A Month in the Country and Old Times. With Bell Shakespeare; As You Like It and at Belvoir Street; Scenes from an Execution. Lindy has also been involved in Actor Training for thirty years. She was Head of the School of Drama at the former Victorian College of the Arts from 1995 to 2007 and also held the position of Head of Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1979 to1982. She is presently writing a book on her Approach to Performance: The Intuitive Actor... a path to Autonomy. The STAGES podcast is available from Apple podcasts, Whooshkaa and Spotify. Also from where you find your favourite podcasts. www.stagespodcast.com.au

 'In The Moment' - Actor and Artistic Director of Outhouse Theatre Company, Jeremy Waters | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:18

Jeremy Waters is the Artistic Director of Outhouse Theatre. As a theatre-maker he has nearly twenty years of performing, producing and teaching experience. He has appeared in national and international stage and screen productions and recent credits include Janet King (Season 3), Jade of Death, The Combination 2, Harvest (Richard Bean), Jerusalem (Jez Butterworth), 4 Minutes 12 Seconds (James Fritz), A Man With 5 Children (Nick Enright) and The Aliens (Annie Baker). He also works as a voiceover artist and is an ecstatic Dad. Outhouse Theatre was formed by Jeremy and Nick Stevenson, two Australian actors who stumbled over each other whilst living in New York City. The Company was created with "a mission of showcasing Australian theatre artists in New York, telling the stories that resonated with us and building a community of like- minded convict collaborators". With Jeremy returning to Australia and Nick staying put in the Big Apple, the cross- cultural spirit still drives the company. The backgrounds and experiences of the creators in the US and Australia have fused into a unique theatrical DNA, blending the strengths of both countries' theatrical traditions to produce muscular and vibrant work; with a big, beating, bloody heart at its core. Outhouse has presented an impressive repertoire of productions that have provided actors and audience vivid visceral and intellectual experiences. Plays have included John, The Flick and The Aliens by Annie Baker, Trevor by Nick Jones, The Rolling Stone by Chris Urch, Four Places by Joel Drake Johnson and Ride by Jane Bodie. Next week they present the ferocious comedy Ulster American by David Ireland. A long planned conversation finally came to fruition with Jeremy joining STAGES to record this insightful episode in which we cover a broad range of subjects that include Independent theatre, the craft of acting and fatherhood. The STAGES podcast is available from iTunes, Spotify, Whooshkaa or wherever you get your favourite podcasts.

 'Who Could Ask For Anything More?' - Publicist and Producer, Michelle Guthrie | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:59:29

A theatre foyer would not be complete without the presence of Michelle Guthrie. She has worked in the entertainment industry for over 30 years and has been present at a vast array of entertainments as a performer, publicist or producer. Since her youth she has been an avid participant in any experience involving the business called show. She was always destined to contribute to the making of theatre. Creating Neglected Musicals in 2010, Michelle has presented 21 musicals over the past 10 years. She is the Associate Producer of the critically acclaimed and Award winning Calamity Jane, which toured Australia in 2018 and Monty Python's SPAMALOT touring in 2020. Michelle is also a board member of Hayes Theatre Co. She has produced the Coogee Carols for Randwick City Council for 18 years and each year provides Christmas Entertainment events across Sydney . With over 20 years as one of Australia's leading Entertainment Publicists, Michelle has managed the media for Cyndi Lauper, Barry Humphries, The Dali Lama, CATS, The Graduate, The Phantom of the Opera, Guys & Dolls, Bernadette Peters, Kristin Chenoweth, The Helpmann Awards and more. Previously Michelle has been General Manager of Peter & Ellen Williams Presents at the Sydney Opera House, director of Australian Creative Management, Client Manager with the Harry M Miller Group, Publicist with Mollison Consulting and The Really Useful Company Australia before setting up MGM Publicity & Promotions in 2002. It is a wealth of opportunity that has garnered tremendous experience and placed Michelle at the top of her game. This year she oversees two more additions to the Neglected Musicals repertoire. STAGES was delighted to learn more and to be engaged by the effervescent and highly informed Michelle Guthrie.

 'That's Entertainment!' - Entertainment Reporter, Peter Ford | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:33

Peter Ford is one of Australia's pre-eminent entertainment reporters. For over 30 years he has been breaking the news and sharing insight on the people and product that grace an array of stages. Whether they be real stars or reality stars, legitimate legends or legends in their lunchbox, Hollywood royalty or House of Windsor, red carpet or red face; Pete keeps us informed using his vast sources and impeccable charm. Commencing his career as an office boy with Radio 3UZ in Melbourne, he had a valuable vantage point to observe a world he longed to be part of, and the many personalities that inhabited that world. Forays into producing for radio and then TV, at the age of 21, producing Good Morning Australia, then hosted by Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Gordon Elliott, quickly followed. In such experiences he was beginning to garner terrific insight to celebrity and the shenanigans, shine and schmooze of showbusiness. It was entertainment legend Bert Newton who first recognised Ford's potential as an on-air talent and provided the encouragement and opportunity to develop this skill. Other mentors have included comedienne Joan Rivers, who Peter met in the most surprising of circumstances. Entertainment reporters create a range of personas to take on the flamboyance and glitter of the industry they profile. Ford has maintained a mantle as a reporter who has investigated with integrity and honesty. Perhaps that's why he is the best and most widely heard entertainment reporter in Australia and NZ. "Allegedly". So says his twitter profile. A platform he inhabits for work and to satisfy his thirst for the news cycle. But navigation of the twitterverse comes with its share of personal attacks. He elaborates on recent attention. Peter rarely gives interviews but graciously agreed to this conversation, recorded in his studio at Channel 7 in Melbourne. He is a marvel to watch in action. A consummate pro who knows his content, knows his audience and knows how to share a story. Here's my breaking story, with Peter Ford. The STAGES podcast is available from iTunes, Spotify, Whooshkaa or wherever you get your podcasts.

 'Together, wherever we go' - Show Veterans, Lesley and Bruce Scott | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:18

Lesley and Bruce Scott are a dynamic duo. They have championed the careers of countless performers and guided them in the pursuit of career and craft; providing invaluable experiences on tours and on stages. They launched their own company, Dance Encore Productions in 1980, supplying professional entertainment to Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Japan and South Korea. Theatre productions of Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs contributed to their enormous output, with the two of them effectively completing many of the creative and producing tasks required. The pair were perfectly equipped as they came to the business extensively schooled as performers in the business! Bruce commenced his professional career in 1966 in J.C. Williamson's production of Funny Girl as a dancer, and followed this with the appointment as Principal Dancer in their next production, Fiddler on the Roof. A sojourn to the U.K followed with gigs that included Humpty Dumpty on Ice, several West End revues and two years at the Lido in Paris. Returning to Australia he danced in the musicals Charlie Girl and Pippin. At the age of 9, Lesley made her first professional stage appearance in The Johnny O'Keefe Show followed by numerous Australian tours of the pantomimes Snow White, The Flintstones and Peter Pan. Performing in the Australian and West End seasons of the musicals My Fair Lady and Irene added to her growing resume; and for the Australian Opera, Lesley was the Principal Dancer in productions including The Merry Widow, La Boheme and Nambucco. Soon after meeting, the pair formed an adagio/acrobatic/contortion act and toured the world performing in some of the most famous theatres, nightclubs and cabarets. It is a delight to feature Lesley and Bruce Scott in this episode of STAGES. Theirs is a life rich in experience, wisdom and so much more; gathered from a dedication and life traversing vast stages.

 'Super Trouper' - Actor, Nicholas Eadie | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:17:44

Nicholas Eadie's resume boasts an impressive list of high-profile television production that we affectionately embrace as key moments in Australian television consumption. He gained success and fame in Australian television series' such as Cop Shop, The Henderson Kids, A Country Practice and Medivac. He won The Australian Film Institute's Best Actor in a Mini-Series award in 1987 for Vietnam, in which he co-starred with Nicole Kidman. He played a dashing horseman in The Man From Snowy River 2 and was nominated again for his portrayal of World War II Academy Award-winning cameraman Damien Parer in John Duigan's Fragments of War, and in 2002 for Halifax f.p. He is the son of ABC radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, and is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Nicholas Eadie has worked with all the major Australian theatre companies with over 45 credits to his name. He has appeared in leading roles in plays as diverse as Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie as The Gentleman Caller and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick. He has played John Proctor in three separate productions of The Crucible. And partied hard as Don in David Williamson's Don's Party. In Sydney's Botanical Gardens, he performed for three seasons as Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He played Sam in the original cast of Mamma Mia! in Australia for two years. He has been in the world premiere productions of Michael Gow's Furious, Hannie Raison's Two Brothers, Tommy Murphy's Holding The Man and the highly acclaimed Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America by Stephen Sewell. It is a career of many triumphs but it has not been without its challenges. Nick talks candidly about the work he has navigated and reflects on a career that has often rewarded and sometimes disappointed. Here's my chat with the charming Nicholas Eadie.

 'Say My Name' - Actor, Writer and Broadway Composer, Eddie Perfect | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:18:53

Eddie Perfect is one of Australia's most diverse, respected and prolific writer/ composer/ performers. His most recent work as Composer of Beetlejuice - the Musical on Broadway won him a nomination for Best Original Score at the 2019 Tony Awards. He has made his mark in the fields of comedy, music theatre composition and book writing, playwriting, screenwriting, classical music, jazz and acting for stage and screen. He has won multiple awards for his work both as a performer and writer and has worked with top creatives from Baz Luhrmann and Global Creatures (Strictly Ballroom the Musical, King Kong on Broadway), Simon Phillips and Neil Armfield (Shane Warne The Musical, Keating! The Musical), Richard Maltby and David Shire, Jason Robert Brown, Andrew Lippa (Adelaide Cabaret Festival) to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO Town Hall Proms), Victorian Opera (The Threepenny Opera), Opera Australia (South Pacific), the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (Symphony Under The Stars), Malthouse Theatre (Babes In The Wood, Drink Pepsi Bitch, The Big Con) the Australian National Academy Of Music, Iain Grandage and UK's Brodsky Quartet (Songs From The Middle). In this captivating episode of STAGES, Eddie provides insight to the gestation of Beetlejuice - the Musical and generously shares his approach to composition. It is a fascinating process and a brilliant career. 'Say his name!" Here's Eddie!

 'Dressing Them Up' - Costume and Set Designer, Roger Kirk | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:20:36

Roger Kirk is a Tony Award-winning set and costume designer for theatre, film and television. He has designed costumes on world stages for productions that have included The Boy From Oz Arena Production with Hugh Jackman, The King and I, 42 Street, Jesus Christ Superstar and King Kong - the Musical. He began his career in television in Australia, working in the costume department of the Sydney ABC studios where he graduated to design television productions that included The Marcia Hines Show and The Norman Gunston Show. Prior to television he had worked in London's West End for three years managing the props. for stage productions. While working in the costume department at the ABC an opportunity lead to design costumes for the Sydney Theatre Company and their landmark production of Chicago; a production that boasted an entirely Australian creative team in the construction of the seminal Broadway musical. He has designed sets for Elton John's 1986 Australian tour, sets and costumes for the Australian TV version ofGladiators and awards shows such as the AFIs. Roger was the costume designer for the most recent filmed production of Jesus Christ Superstar, and has worked extensively on set and costume design for Opera Australia. Other credits include Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down The Wind in the West End; Silver Rose, Le Corsaire for Munich Opera House, Dusty - The Original Pop Diva, and Shout!. In 1996 Roger received the Tony Award for Best Costume Design for his work on the Broadway production of The King and I. He also received the Drama Desk Award, the Friends of New York Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for the same production. In 2001 the highly acclaimed production of The King and I took centre-stage at London's Palladium Theatre. For Opera Australia Roger has designed costumes for Manon Lescaut, The Gypsy Princess, Pirates of Penzance, My Fair Lady, A Little Night Music, Iolanthe, HMS Pinafore, Trial by Jury, Manon, and Graeme Murphy's production of Aida. Further credits include Sweeney Todd for Victorian Opera, and sell-out shows in Sydney and Melbourne for Hugh Jackman's Broadway to Oz: Hugh Jackman Live in Concert. It is a vast career and Roger shares terrific anecdote and insight in this fascinating episode of STAGES.

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