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- Honda Australia and Arts Centre Melbourne official partnership
- Honda Australia and Australia’s largest performing arts centre, Arts Centre Melbourne, have today announced a one-year Official Partnership.
The partnership is multi faceted, including activations in and around the major Arts Centre Melbourne venues, in addition to specific activities aligned to key Arts Centre Melbourne productions.
Arts Centre Melbourne and Honda will use the shared ideas of accessibility, innovation, passion and fun to develop imaginative activity that extends the Arts Centre Melbourne visitor experience and builds a robust customer base for both organisations.
- ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE’S MULTI-MILLION PROGRAM BOOST
- Arts Centre Melbourne welcomed the Victorian Government’s commitment of $2million per year for the next two years, announced as part of the 2013 State Budget.
The commitment will ensure Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia’s largest performing arts centre, is able to continue to deliver a diverse, year-round offering of performances and activities to the broadest possible audience. This will include main stage performances, regional and education programs, and low cost family events and programs.
- ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE TO ACQUIRE OPERA AUSTRALIA ARCHIVE
- Arts Centre Melbourne and Opera Australia have announced plans to ensure the preservation of Opera Australia’s substantial archive of production, performance and company material – including costumes from the Dame Joan Sutherland Archive – through a new ongoing donation agreement with Arts Centre Melbourne’s Performing Arts Collection. The new agreement will ensure that the history, repertoire and stage magic of Australia’s pre-eminent opera company will be preserved in perpetuity.
- Kristin Chenoweth Live in Concert at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall 8pm Wednesday 12 June
- Set to cast a spell over Australia, Glinda the Good Witch of the North, Kristin Chenoweth, comes south for her Australian debut in June. Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne in association with Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Kristin Chenoweth will take to the stage at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Hamer Hall at 8pm Wednesday 12 June as part of a national tour to Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane. Kristin Chenoweth will enchant audiences at this once-in-a-lifetime concert traversing pop, opera and the Broadway classics that have made her a star.
Best known on-stage for creating the role of Glinda in the original Broadway production of Wicked (2003), which tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, Kristin Chenoweth is one of Broadway's most celebrated stars. Most recently, Chenoweth starred opposite Sean Hayes from TV’s Will & Grace in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises (2010), a 1960s musical by Burt Bacharach and Hal David which features the hit songs I’ll Never Fall in Love and I Say a Little Prayer.
- Kat Stewart and Maude Davey Join Casts of New Play Readings in The Famous Spiegeltent
- Known for her exploits in Finucane & Smith’s The Burlesque Hour and ABC’s Summer Heights High, Maude Davey will join Jack Finsterer (Kokoda) in the rehearsed reading of Bright, Shiny. Written by Kit Lazaroo, whose previous body of work includes the Green Room-nominated Hospital of the Lost Coin, The Vanishing Box and True Adventures of a Soul Lost at Sea, Bright, Shiny takes place in an alternate reality where the human world has been turned into a series of interconnecting snow-domes.
Kat Stewart from Melbourne’s Red Stitch Actors Theatre and TV’s Offspring and Mr & Mrs Murder will lead the cast of Merman. Blending mythology and psychology, Merman is set in the mind of its protagonist Serena, a novelist suffering from writer’s block. As Serena’s psychologist begins to uncover the source of her troubles, it becomes apparent that writer’s block is just the tip of this Titanic-sinking iceberg.