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September 01, 1992

Vanilla Soda

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Theatre

Lost in Yonkers
Neil Simon

Sydney Theatre Company
Melbourne Theatre Company
State Theatre Company
and Sue Farrelly
Her Majesty’s

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Neil Simon has been a feature of the American stage for so long he’s almost become invisible. After twenty-seven Broadway productions his name is synonymous with smooth comedies of manners -odd couples, urban prisoners, goodbye girls and sunshine boys. Because his plays invariably become films his work is hugely well-known and actors like Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, …

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Celestial Solutions

Filed under: Adelaide Companies,Archive,Australian Texts,Theatre

Miracle
Tobsha Learner
Vitalstatistix
Waterside

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

Miracle, Vitalstatistix’ latest production at the Waterside, marks a further collaboration between writer Tobsha Learner and actor Rose Clemente. After Witchplay comes Miracle, a fantasy set in Triads Supermarket where long-time check out operator, Immaculata Santini hears the voice of God through the cash register. The play is centrally a vehicle for Clemente as Immaculata, a performance which not only propels the show but gives it considerable warmth and charm.

Again …

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Receding Temples

Filed under: Archive,Interstate,Music,Theatre

Hair
By Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt McDermott
Thebarton Theatre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

By the time Hair opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York in April 1968 many of the major happenings of Hippie history had already… happened. More than a year earlier in January 1967, twenty thousand turned up (and on) for the Human Be-In in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. That was the year of the Summer of Love, photogenically documented with lots of groovy …

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Receding Temples

Filed under: Archive,Music

1992

Hair
Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt McDermott
Thebarton Theatre

Reviewed by Murray Bramwell

By the time Hair opened at the Biltmore Theatre in New York in April 1968 many of the major happenings of Hippie history had already happened. More than a year earlier in January 1967, twenty thousand turned up (and on) for the Human Be-In in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. That was the year of the Summer of Love, photogenically documented with lots of groovy …

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