Mountain Scene
By PHILIP CHANDLER
production of
Legally Blonde The Musical, hitting the stage in late May.
The dog, Bruiser Woods, will belong on stage to lead character Elle Woods, played by Pearly McGrath, and her stage sister Margot, played by Kim Shipley, who happens to be a
dog control officer.
In the movie versions, Elle was played by Reese Witherspoon, whose dog was a chihuahua.
McGrath says: ‘‘I don’t think it has to be a chihuahua, we’re just looking for something little
and cute and well behaved.
‘‘I have two dogs, I would love them to be Bruiser, but they are too big.’’
Mountain Scene
By PHILIP CHANDLER
A Queenstown music promoter says it’s costing him thousands of dollars extra to relocate a big-name DJ.
Bryce Wrigley had been due to put on Andy C (pictured) rated the world’s best drum and bass DJ over the past 11 years at the resort’s biggest live music venue, Loco, on March 14.
Loco, however, fell victim to Covid and shut its doors last weekend.
Andy C’s now playing that date at council-owned Queenstown Memorial Centre.
‘‘There’s really no venues in town that are already licensed for us to use that are big enough without going through the whole process of renting the [Memorial Centre] through council and doing all the licensing and that sort of stuff,’’ Wrigley says.
Mountain Scene
March 3, 2021
By PHILIP CHANDLER
The baton’s been passed on at Queenstown’s music school.
Sarah Lyttle is the first general manager of the Turn Up The Music Trust, replacing administrator Sue Marshall, who’s now become a trustee.
Lyttle a Queenstown Jazz Orchestra saxophonist and one-time New Zealand Youth Jazz Band player was for merly contracted to set up umbrella arts organisation, Three Lakes Cultural Trust.
Turn Up The Music, which took over from the Lakes Community Music School two years ago, last year had 113 students from pre-primary age to Year 13 and 13 teachers teaching a wide variety of instruments, and numbers are again looking good this year.
Mountain Scene
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Queenstown’s council says demolition of the Queenstown Memorial Centre won’t happen until an alternative venue is secured.
City Hall’s applied to the government for resource consent and a notice of requirement for its arterials project under the Covid-19 Recovery (fast-track consenting) Act 2020 after that project, and the Queenstown CBD upgrade, secured $85 million in government funding.
The council’s applied to the government for consent and to authorise construction and use of an urban arterial route from Melbourne Street to the intersection with the Queenstown-Glenorchy Road.
In time that’ll require the demolition of the Memorial Centre, which has raised the ire of users.
Mountain Scene
The Valentine’s Burlesque Ball’s on again this Saturday night at Queenstown Memorial Centre.
Organiser and burlesque dancer, Queenstowner Oblivion Westwood (left), says this year
‘‘it’s more variety show than just burlesque’’.
‘‘We’ve also got comedy, drag, circus and cabaret.’’
The ball’s attracted a record 16 performers, some doing two acts, from as far away as Auckland.
‘‘We’ve got some good talent this year,’’ Westwood says.
‘‘A lot of people obviously can’t travel so we’ve got a lot of people who have been performing overseas who are now back home.’’
The show starts at 8pm – tickets cost from $50, plus fees, from eventfinda.