Synopsis
“My songs are my biography”…Peter Allen
The Boy From Oz is the most successful Australian musical ever and the first to make it to Broadway. It is a musical biography/tribute to the late great Peter Allen.
Peter Allen was born in the outback Australian town of Tenterfield in 1944. He made his entertainment debut at the age of 5 impersonating Al Jolson. As a teenager he became a pop star and then toured Asia. There he met Judy Garland who took him to Londonwhere he met and become engaged to her daughter Liza Minnelli. In the US Peter enjoyed the highs of success by winning an Oscar, selling out performances in Radio City Music Hall, and receiving adulation when he returned to Australia. There were also plenty of lows … breaking up with his wife, staging a Broadway flop, the death of his partner and his own battle with illness. Peter Allen had an extraordinary life which producer Ben Gannon realized had the potential to become a magnificent musical and with Robert Fox they turned it into the smash hit it became.
ABOUT THE SHOW
The Boy From Oz is a class above all other ‘jukebox’ musical. The late Nick Enright. skillfully weaved his plot around the life and complexities of Peter Allen. The songs and lyrics sit easily with the rhythm of the piece and with the characters as they enter and re-enter his life, be they dead or alive. It leaps, as does Peter himself, from past to present and back to past all within the familiar context of one of his energy packed concerts.
Creatives
Directed by
Lachland Dodd
Musically Directed by
Nate Stevenson
Choreographed by
Jennifer B Ashley
Credits
TBA
The Company
Jaya Fisher Smith
Peter Allen
Sarah Lea
Judy Garland
Ashleigh Mitchell
Liza Minnelli
Janice Hancock
Marion Woolnough
Patrick Lockyer
Greg Connell
Jeremiah Rees & Koby Walsh
Young Peter
Phoebe Imberger
Sheena
Anna Ryan
Linelle
Ruby Thompson
Karen
Joshua Bird
Chris Bell + Ensemble
Jo De Goldi
Josie Mann + Ensemble
Elizabeth Brown
Valerie Anthony + Ensemble
Andrew Mcarthur
Dee Anthony & Dick Woolnough
Nikki Bovey, Clayton Eltis & Nicholas Joy
Ensemble
Jemma Crowhurst, Cerys Downing, Emily Fuller, Jaide Plaistow, Meggie Ryder (DC) & Jemma Skelly
Featured Dancers
The Orchestra
Nate Stevenson
Cam McConville
Jared Lehman
Benjamin Tubb-Hearne
Jeff Wecker
Louise Emery
Kara Williams
Ryan Taylor
Tamara Gibbs
Lucas Fisher
Ian Ahles
Callum Kennedy
Phil Kan
David Chiu
Julie Whiting
Jen Wilson
The Crew
CJ Avery
Ethan Houley
Tom O’Driscoll
Blake Russell
Jennifer B Ashley
Meggie Ryder
Ruby Thompson
Glen Heriot
Bradley Chapman
Lachlan Dodd
Douglas Berry
Timothy Avery
Haylee Barnett
Trinette Avery
Tammy Richards
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