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Monash to host million-dollar music theatre residency

Once 'teeth, tits and tap', musicals are now being recognised and embraced in universities, as a new initiative demonstrates.

3 Jun 2016 12:00

Richard Watts

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‘Sticks and Stones’ Second Year Musical Workshop production; image via artsonline.monash.edu.au

Philanthropist Jeanne Pratt’s latest donation to Monash University is a $1 million gift to the University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance. It establishes the Jeanne Pratt Musical Theatre Artists in Residence Program, designed to provide mid-career and experienced musical theatre practitioners with the time to develop their own projects, while also enabling drama and music students at Monash to work with and learn from them.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts