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Brisbane 2016 Audio Described Schedule
Les Misérables
Based on the novel by Victor Hugo
Audio Described performance
Wednesday 13 January 2016 at 1pm
Lyric Theatre QPAC
Tickets phone 07 3840 7466
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Miserables is an
unforgettable story of heartbreak, passion, and the resilience of the
human spirit that has become one of the most popular musicals in
history. Featuring the timeless score and beloved songs such as I
Dreamed a Dream, On My Own, Bring Him Home, and One Day
More, Les Mis has been seen by over 70 million people, won over 100
awards and is still breaking box office records around the world.
This breathtaking new production features glorious new staging and
dazzling reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo.
CATS
Audio Described performance
Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 8pm
Lyric Theatre Phone 07 3840 7466
Based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Audiences here will see the 2015 Olivier Award-nominated revival, which
reunited the original creative team and brought CATS back to the West
End after a 12 year absence.
Based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the show is
alive with highly entertaining feline characters and wonderful witty verse,
as the Jellicle Cats come out to play in a larger-than-life junkyard on the
night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the
amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who
must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be
reborn into a new life.
One of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway
history, CATS has enchanted more than 73 million people in over 300
cities around the world, winning numerous awards including Olivier and
Tony awards for Best Musical.
Featuring a fantastical set, Andrew Lloyd Webber's magnificent score
that includes the poignant hit song 'Memory', dazzling choreography and
stunning costumes, CATS is a brilliant song and dance spectacular –
you won't believe your eyes!
QUARTET - QTC
Audio Described performance
Sat 13 February at 2pm &
Thursday 18 February at 7.30pm
Playhouse Qpac 07 3840 7466
After wowing the world, retired opera singers Reggie, Cissy and Wilf
have been put out to pasture in a country retirement home. Their chief
concerns are scatty Cissy’s wandering memory, flirty Wilf’s obsession
with dirty talk, and gentleman Reggie’s ongoing battle to get bloody
marmalade with breakfast.
What keeps the trio raging against the dying of the light is headlining the
annual gala concert marking composer Verdi’s birthday.
The serenity of their rehearsal room is shattered by the arrival of Jean:
diva, celebrated soprano, fourth member of their old quartet and
Reggie’s ex-wife.
Not that he’s thought about their horribly dysfunctional marriage in
years, of course. Can these four put aside old grudges and re-team for
one more show-stopping finale?
Quartet, also adapted as an acclaimed 2012 film, is a devilishly funny
journey into old age told with tenderness, grace, hope – and above all,
no self pity.
"Moving, amusing and truthful"
The Guardian
Secret River - QTC
Audio Described performance
Thursday 3 March at 7.30pm
Saturday 5 March at 1pm
Playhouse Qpac 07 3840 7466
The Secret River is the story of the bloody beginnings of colonial
Australia, when pardoned convicts clashed with the traditional owners of
the land they settled.
After a pitiful life as a petty criminal in the fetid slums of Dickensian
London, transportation to Australia was the best thing that ever
happened to William Thornhill. The penal colony represents not
imprisonment, but liberty, where he and his wife and children can buy
freedom and carve out a future filled with hope, dignity and peace, on
the banks of the Hawkesbury River.
But the Hawkesbury is already home to another family. A family from the
Dharug people. A family whose existence depends on that land. As
Thornhill’s attachment to the land deepens, he is driven to a terrible
decision that will haunt him for the rest of his life.
Winner of six Helpmann Awards, including Best Play, Best Direction and
Best New Australian Work, The Secret River was heralded as “a
stunning, shattering piece of theatre that goes to the heart of our history”
(The Sunday Telegraph)
The Sound of Music
By Rodgers and Hammerstein
Audio Described performance
Wednesday 6 April 2016 at 1.30pm
Saturday 9 April 2016 at 2pm
Lyric Theatre QPAC Phone 07 3840 7466
Cast includes Cameron Daddo, Marina Prior, Jacqui Dark, Lorraine
Bayly, and as Maria, Amy Lehpamer
This critically acclaimed London Palladium production tells the uplifting
true story of the von Trapp family’s flight across the mountains and
works its magic once again, for young and old alike.
With its unforgettable score, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The
Sound of Music touches the hearts of all ages and brims over with
some of the most memorable songs ever performed on the musical
stage including My Favorite Things, Do-Re-Mi, Climb Ev’ry
Mountain, The Lonely Goatherd, Sixteen Going on Seventeen, and of
course the glorious title song The Sound of Music. It’s the perfect family
treat
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING - QTC
Audio Described performance
Saturday 7 May at 2pm
Thursday 12 May at 7.30
Playhouse Qpac 07 3840 7466
For the bantering, bickering Beatrice and Benedick, love is a battlefield.
Once bitten and twice shy, the sharp-witted pair are locked in a verbal
fencing match with no quarter asked and none given. Is there any way
their friends can open their eyes to their true feelings for each other?
For the starry-eyed young couple Claudio and Hero, love is a manysplendoured thing – that’s if they can take their eyes off each other long
enough to avoid being deceived by bitter schemer Don John.
Welcome to Messina – the war is over, the celebration has begun, love
is in the air, and everything else is Much Ado About Nothing.
William Shakespeare’s rollicking, romantic comedy is the timeless tale of
two pairs of very different sweethearts, the people who want them to be
together, and the people who try to rip them apart.
"... Classic romantic sparring."
The New York Times
We will Rock you
Audio Described performance
Thursday 28th July 7.30pm at the
LYRIC THEATRE
Tickets call QPAC 07 3840 7466
Since 2002 over 15 million theatregoers in 17 countries have seen this
production which is based on the songs of Queen with a book by Ben
Elton (The Young Ones, Blackadder, Popcorn). Elton fashioned this
futurist comedy around more than 24 of Queen’s biggest hit songs
including We are the Champions, Radio Ga Ga, I Want To Break Free,
Somebody To Love, Killer Queen, Don’t Stop Me Now, Under Pressure,
Bohemian Rhapsody, Another One Bites The Dust and of course, We
Will Rock You.
WE WILL ROCK YOU reflects the scale and spectacle that marked
Queen’s live performances and earned the band its pinnacle position in
rock history. With Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor as music
supervisors and “a band without parallel in the theatre” behind the cast,
the audience can expect WE WILL ROCK YOU to rock as fiercely as the
best of Queen’s concerts.
SINGING IN THE RAIN
Audio Described performance
19th October 1.00pm
LYRIC THEATRE
Tickets call QPAC 07 3840 7466
Making a splash from the moment it premiered, this sensational
production of Singin' in the Rain is set to delight Brisbane audiences
from 22 September, 2016.
International sensation Adam Garcia will light up the stage in the role
made famous by Gene Kelly, joined by Gretel Scarlett (Grease), Jack
Chambers (Hairspray) and Erika Heynatz (The Rocky Horror Show).
This stellar cast will be joined by leading lights of the Australian stage
Mike Bishop, Robyn Arthur and Rodney Dobson.
This spectacular show is packed full of the charm, romance, comedy
and Tinseltown glamour of one of the world's best-loved movies. It tells
the story of the first Hollywood musical, when the silver screen found its
voice and left silent movies – and some of its stars, behind.
As well as glorious songs including Good Morning, Make 'em Laugh,
Moses Supposes and the classic Singin' in the Rain, the movie's
choreography is brought to life, and with the help of 12,000 litres of
water, the audience can enjoy one of the most iconic dance routines live
on stage.
Splash Zone Weather Warning: There is a strong chance of showers
and getting wet in the first three rows of the stalls. Make a splash and be
a part of the action by selecting these seats. However, if seated in the
Splash Zone, you will receive a special Singin' in the Rain poncho!
DISGRACED QTC
Audio Described performances
Saturday 29 October at 2pm
Thursday 3 November at 7.30pm
Tickets call QPAC 07 3840 7466
Pulitzer Prize-winning Disgraced is a stirring drama with veins of jetblack humour that poses challenging questions about identity, tribalism
and how deadly conflicts half a world away can rip apart seemingly
unrelated lives in a New York minute.
It’s a Manhattan dinner party that ought to be a stimulating night in. Four
intellectual friends – two high-powered lawyers, an artist and a gallery
curator – gather in a ritzy Upper East Side apartment to shoot the
breeze. But this will be a night when tensions mount, voices are raised
and friendships will lie in tatters by morning.
A lapsed Pakistani Muslim, his Caucasian wife, an African-American and
a Jew – none of them can agree on what it means to be American in a
New York where the wounds caused by Muslim terrorists on September
11, 2001 never really healed.
Disgraced is novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar’s dynamite theatrical
debut.
"Disgraced is just what a serious theatergoer craves these days: a
tough-minded inquiry that finds urgent dramatic connections in things
that divide us."
The Washington Post
TARTUFFE QTC
Audio Described performances
Sat 26 Nov at 2pm
Thur 1 Dec at 7.30pm
Tickets call QPAC 07 3840 7466
Con men don’t come any more brazen than Tartuffe. He’ll wheedle his
way into your life and before you know it, all you had was gone.
The slick swindler’s latest mark is the wealthy Orgon, head of a
household on the very top rung of society’s ladder. Orgon has worked
hard to make his fortune and live a lavish life, but something is missing.
Posing as a spiritual advisor, Tartuffe is selling salvation to the
successful but soul-sick socialite and has him wrapped around his little
finger. The creep intends to ruin Orgon and walk away with his fortune,
his wife and his daughter to boot! But fortunately, Orgon’s family can see
right through this devilish impostor.
Ribald and riotously irreverent, Tartuffe is about the war of wits between
a falsely pious fraud and a family conspiring to catch him with his pants
around his ankles.
When first performed in the 17th century, French playwright Molière’s
sinfully brilliant comedy was damned as such an attack on religious
hypocrisy that the Catholic Church called for anyone watching or
performing it to be excommunicated. The public, however, loved it – and
its pillorying of religious fanaticism and moral weakness will resonate
with modern crowds just as keenly.
"Tartuffe is a bawdy play about power, hypocrisy and gullibility."The
Guardian
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