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- Daniel Morgan Potts
Justin Burford doesn’t simply cover Cobain, he embodies him in a mimetic show which fuses storytelling and music to extraordinary effect.
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- Ashley Walker
What do you do when you’ve outgrown Sesame Street, where each day is brought to you by a different letter of the alphabet with upmost certainty? You move to the ambiguous adult world of Avenue Q.
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- Emily Shaddick
Sharing the stories behind the song choices allows her to make a strong connection with the audience but it is when Lane sings that we are captivated.
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- Emily Shaddick
With minimal staging, props and lighting changes, it is the vocal talents of the six performers that carry the show. The voices were beautiful and the character driven songs by far the most worthwhile.
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- Richard Cotter
Directed with a fluid panache by Susanna Dowling, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie is an enchanting entertainment that enhances the literary legacy left by May Gibbs.
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- Penny Spirou
Translating a non-musical film to a stage musical is always risky business. Sometimes it works and sometimes it really doesn’t. Luckily Bring It On the film already had a lot of musical characteristics to work with, so its stage counterpart needn’t have strayed too far from the original incarnation.
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- Emily Shaddick
Making people laugh is harder than making people cry but not for Aunty Donna who make the whole audience laugh while making it look easy.
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