I’ve been invited to be on a panel this coming Friday night (Aug 10) to discuss the relevance of the modern musical.
This page on the Adelaide Festival Centre site has the details. It’s at 6pm in the Space and it’s free. What more incentive do you need to come along? I’ll be there with the writer and director of the new musical ‘Everything’s Fucked‘, Sean Peter and Geoff Crowhurst as well as my fellow assassins David Mealor (director) and Michael Morley.
Below is the write up from the Festival Centre website…
The so-called “Golden Age of Musicals” ended 40 years ago. Yet whether it’s the early 80s phenomenon of Grease and Le Misérables, the more recent offerings from Baz Lurhmann, Keating the Musical, or stage-to screen productions such as Chicago and Dreamgirls, the musical has refused to die. What is it about the humble musical that continues to hold the interest of new generations, whether they are or Happy Feet or South Park fans?
We talk to the creatives behind two upcoming iNSPACE productions Assassins and Everything’s F**ked to see why they have chosen to develop musicals and what they see as the future of musicals in modern popular culture.
Panel includes: include Sean Peter (writer/director) & Geoff Crowhurst (musical director) from Everything’s F**ked, as well as David Mealor (director) and Matthew Carey (musical director) from Assassins, and professor Michael Morley of Flinders University Drama Dept.
…I’m want to and see Everything’s Fucked this week. My friends Johanna Allen and Ross Burford have previously been involved in presentations of Sean’s work, but I haven’t had the chance to see any of his shows yet. I’d really life to see it before doing this panel. Now I’ve got an excuse to spend some quality time with my couch this week watching ‘Happy Feet’ and ‘The South Park Movie’ as research…conveniently putting off doing any constructive creative work of my own. (Not that I’ve got a new show of my own to write, or anything – argh!)
