"This consistently well-sung production, with its attractive costumes, settings, large chorus and orchestra, succeeds in providing a delightfully entertaining evening of musical theatre," says reviewer BILL STEPHENS.
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Front: Adam Best. Back, Dick Goldberg, Janelle McMenamin and David Cannell in âKiss Me, Kateâ.
EVEN as the ghost of âMe Tooâ hovered in the wings, it was obvious at a recent rehearsal of the famous Cole Porter musical âKiss Me, Kateâ that the Queanbeyan Players were having a thoroughly good time.Â
âKiss Me, Kateâ is the 1948 Broadway hit musical written by Bella and Samuel Spewack with music and lyrics by Porter, but itâs actually two plays, not one. Set on a tour to Baltimore, the plot hinges on the consequences of casting the leading lady Lilli and her recently-divorced husband Fred as Katherine and Petruchio in the same play â Shakespeareâs âThe Taming of the Shrewâ, where the wild and wacky Petruchio decides to âtameâ the shrewish Katherine to enrich himself through marriage.
Theatre / “Mamma Mia!”, Free Rain Theatre, at The Q, Queanbeyan, until May 8. Reviewed by
BILL STEPHENS.
FOR anyone who feels they couldn’t bear to listen to another ABBA song, that shouldn’t prevent them from going to see Free Rain Theatre’s exuberant new production of “Mamma Mia!”.
Although “Mamma Mia!” features about two dozen ABBA songs, they have been interwoven into an appealing story about a young woman, Sophie (Charlotte Gearside) who is about to marry. Sophie decides that she needs to know who her father is. Her attempts to glean this information from her free-spirited mother, Donna (Louiza Blomfield) have been unsuccessful. Having discovered her mother’s diary, Sophie invites three of the most likely suspects to her wedding in the hope of discovering which is her father.