Stellar cast for “Waratah”

PLAYWRIGHT Chris Dickins has assembled a stellar cast for Waratah, a musical Foster theatre company, FAMDA, will stage in April/May as part of the Prom Coast Seachange Festival.
The talented cast includes Nicole Cooper, Bruce Grainger, Joanne Street, Sarah Maclean and Noel Stringer, all of whom have performed regularly with both Leongatha Lyric Theatre and FAMDA.
In a remarkable change of pace, Terry Lay, last seen in a musical with the title role for Phantom of the Opera at Warragul, finds himself singing Australian rock songs from the 1960s as Nick Fisher in his debut FAMDA performance.
Also making their first appearance with FAMDA are Connor Epifano, Mungo Trumble, Evy Nye, Sean Webb and Daniel Watson.
On stage will be many young performers, including Leuca, Cas and Bon Maclean, Harley McDonald-Eckersall, Taliya Barker, Siobhan and Taj Cooper, Ben and Emma Fletcher, Amy and Brielle Tudor and Hannah Watson, who have enjoyed their previous experience in FAMDA shows.
Waratah is set in Sandy Point in the 1960s and the beach theme continues through to FAMDA’s promotional activities for the musical.
To decorate the Foster Arts Centre during the show, FAMDA needs colourful old beach towels which look as though they could date from the 1960s.
Donations of old beach towels can be left at Green Heart Organic in Inverloch, Venus Bay Community Centre, Revelations in Foster, Sandy Point Surf School or the RACV Shop, Wonthaggi.
Attach your name and contact details to your vintage towel and you could win a family pass to the show.
FAMDA now has a Waratah photographic competition up and running.
Your photographic entry must feature a beach towel somewhere.
Include with your entry the name of your photo, where it was taken, your name and contact details and a brief statement that the photo is your own and email it to [email protected] or enter it directly onto the Waratah the musical Facebook page as a single image post per entry.
Entries close on March 21.
Further details and entry conditions are available on http://famda.org.au/waratah-photographic-competition/ or our Facebook page, Waratah the musical.

Centre stage: rehearsing for “Waratah the musical” are, from left, Jo Street, Nicole Cooper and Bruce Grainger.

Taking shape: Chris Dickins, playwright/director of “Waratah the musical”.

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Posted by Laura Gibb on Mar 3 2015. Filed under Arts & Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry