For every home grown work of musical theatre that receives critical or commercial acclaim, such as Mathew Frank and Dean Bryant’s Prodigal or Peter Fitzpatrick’s jukebox musical Flowerchildren – The Mamas and Papas Story, there’s several more commercial failures waiting in the wings. Some, like Manning Clark’s History of Australia The Musical make it to a mainstage season and are never seen again. Others, like Strange Bedfellows have an out of town tryout (in this instance, Albury) only to see future mainstage seasons cancelled.
Is there a secret to success for new Australian musicals?
With a new musical theatre production based on the life of Ned Kelly set to open this week, we look at the challenges of mounting new works of this nature.
19 May 2015 12:00
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