TSO to star in the Australian Musical Theatre Festival
1 December 2024.
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra will perform in Launceston in May 2025 as part of the Australian Musical Theatre Festival.
The TSO will be joined by legendary singer, dancer and actor Caroline O’Connor, music theatre star Alinta
Chidzey and much-loved Australian tenor, Mark Vincent.
Titled Some Enchanted Evening, the concert will deliver lush orchestral arrangements of Broadway and West End classics, under the direction of musical composer and conductor, Guy Noble.
The festival's artistic director, Tyran Parke says the collaboration with the TSO 'takes the festival to new levels'.
'Some Enchanted Evening will be a pinnacle event in a program that encompasses five days, many venues, a range of engagements with many of our greatest stars and emerging talent, all set alongside an international city of gastronomy that serves the best food and wine I know,' he says.
Music theatre star Alinta Chidzey.
The repertoire on the night will include favourites from Rodgers and Hammerstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim and others.
'Over the past five festivals, the program has grown to include new works and classic musicals re-interpreted in modern contexts and unusual spaces, alongside concerts and forums, created especially to celebrate the unique culture of a city that keeps
delighting one and all,' Parke says.
In 2024, the Sydney Morning Herald theatre critic John Shand described the festival, as 'wildly imaginative and ambitious'.
'A gathering of storytellers: of young people honing their craft, and stars revelling in the virtuosic lyrics that define the idiom’s best songs. Music festivals of all stripes have always been about the shared experience as much as the art … Launceston’s ideal for the purpose,' Shand wrote.
Limelight editor, Jo Litson says Launceston 'works a treat as a festival centre'.
'It’s a small, attractive city, so getting from one venue to the next is an easy walk, while the Grand Chancellor Hotel, which backs onto the Princess Theatre, became something of a festival hub, with performers and audience members gathering to eat, drink and chat in the lobby bar,' Litson reported.
Experience the magic of musical theatre in a breathtaking concert with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as part of the Australian Musical Theatre Festival! Saturday 24 May 2025 7:30pm, Princess Theatre, Launceston. Book now.
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