Based on the 1990 cult-classic John Waters (Hairspray) film, CRY-BABY The Musical will be presented in the Opera House s Drama Theatre from 22 July - 15 August, 2021. Highly subversive and proudly irreverent, CRY-BABY The Musical, which won four 2018 Sydney Theatre Awards during its season at the Hayes Theatre Co, is a tongue-in-cheek homage to the teen rebel genre.
Writer and Director of the 1990 film CRY-BABY, John Waters, says: CRY-BABY celebrates the joy all bad little teenage boys and girls feel the first time they hear music that causes trouble in their own homes. Parents hate the new sound but the kids love it. Finally, the soundtrack of their young lives can begin.
Hamilton part of bigger diversity shift in Australian musical theatre as industry recalibrates during COVID-19
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Hamilton s Australian production is distinctive in the local industry for its diverse cast, paid cultural leave and on-staff cultural consultants.
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Musical theatre may have disappeared from Australian stages in the COVID-19 shutdown, but the industry has been anything but dormant.
In recent months, the culture of the industry has shifted: when something seems unfair or unjust, performers and fans alike are speaking up and their discussions are creating change.
It started in August this year, when the Rob Guest Endowment (RGE), an influential scholarship program for emerging talent in Australian musical theatre, announced an all-white cohort of 30 semi-finalists for 2020.Loading