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CORONATION STREET ON STAGE! 28 March – 6 April | The Civic

MOSCOW BALLET LA CLASSIQUE IN THE NUTCRACKER

4 May | ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre

AN EVENING WITH JULIE ANDREWS

ALBARE ITD ON TOUR WITH LONG WAY

5 June | The Civic

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The Illusionists presented by Tim Lawson and Simon Painter

21 – 25 April | Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

11 & 12 May | ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre

BRYN TERFEL – A GALA EVENING WITH THE NZSO

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The ASB Theatre auditorium refurbishment is complete, giving us a more accessible, comfortable and better-sounding venue. It is now New Zealand’s premier lyric theatre for music, opera, ballet and drama.

We’re thrilled with the result – a revitalised space for Aucklanders to enjoy.

4 April | Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

Director’s pick Director of THE EDGE Robbie Macrae has spent his career immersed in performing arts and has seen every kind of show you can imagine. His pick for this issue is New Zealand Opera’s Madame Butterfly, not just because it is one of the most loved and famous operas of all time, but because it marks a milestone in a long-term project.

“Madame Butterfly will be the first opera performance in the newly refurbished ASB Theatre. The project was a long-awaited one for us and I’m very excited about hearing the voices and orchestra in the new acoustic environment as well as watching Aucklanders enjoy the more comfortable theatre.”

See our Madame Butterfly story on page 6.

MADAME BUTTERFLY 18 – 28 April | ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre

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Witness the

Impossible

Mark Kalin and Jinger Leigh

Dan Sperry

A magic show like no other promises to cast a spell on Aucklanders when it appears on The Civic stage. Dionne Christian talks to three of the hand-picked cast of The Illusionists about conjuring up excitement, inspiration and enchantment.

Andrew Basso

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hen Dan Sperry saw his first magic show – a David Copperfield spectacular – it scared him so much, his grandparents had to whisk the then four-year-old out of the auditorium, comfort him and take him home.

Buying him a Marshall Brodien Magic kit was one trick they used to show him that magic is enchanting, mysterious and fun. Little did they know, though, their grandson’s fear wasn’t borne out of fright but rather macabre wonderment.

With his new-found fascination and box of magic tricks, Dan was launched on a path that would change his life.

“They play off one another; they frequently seek to outdo one another – and that makes for even more thrilling performances.”

Twenty-two years later, he is world-famous illusionist the Anti-Conjuror who, because of his ghoulish make-up, tattoos, body piercings and Gothic-style garb, is frequently described as Copperfield meets Marilyn Manson.

Does his act – with its industrial musical score, knives, buzz saws, razor blades and hints toward voodoo – scare the kids in the same way master illusionist David Copperfield scared him? No, he chuckles, the kids seem to like him very much (he had been picking up his niece and nephew from school on the day he spoke from London to LIVE).

a lifetime creating and perfecting what they do. They are: The Anti-Conjuror (Dan Sperry), The Enchantress (Jinger Leigh), The Escapologist (Andrew Basso), The Gentleman (Mark Kalin), The Mentalist (Philip Escoffey), The Inventor (Kevin James) and The Trickster (Jeff Hobson).

Launched in January 2012 at the Sydney Opera House, it has become the biggest-selling magic show on earth and guarantees to alter your perception of magic and magicians forever. Creative producer Simon Painter says show-goers need to forget about men in suits pulling rabbits out of hats because The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible redefines magic.

It is fast-paced, contemporary, ever-changing and showcases different genres of magic the whole family will marvel at. New illusions have been devised especially for the Auckland shows.

“It’s the parents who look at me a little more warily,” he laughs.

Then again, they’re queuing up all over the world to snap up tickets to The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible which Dan appears in. It brings together seven hand-picked illusionists who are the very best of the best and have spent

“I absolutely love magic, it is a wonderful entertainment form but it needs to be done right,” says Simon. “I think it went out of fashion for a time because it became overexposed and much of it was being done in a really cheesy way. The Illusionists is different because it is cutting edge; the most contemporary acts around.

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“It was difficult to persuade each of the illusionists to join, because they’re used to doing their own thing in their own way, but when we explained our vision they were intrigued and could see how working alongside one another; would be engaging and inspiring. They play off one another, they frequently seek to outdo one another – and that makes for even more thrilling performances.”

Acts include grand illusions, Russian roulette, levitation, mind-reading, sleight of hand and a full-view water escape.

With a live band and 20 support performers, it might pay homage to the great illusionists of the past but this show is, as Simon explains, a 21st-century stage spectacular: “It makes people believe in magic again.”

Then again, some have never stopped. As Dan was perfecting his skills (and performing at the likes of private parties for Johnny Depp and David Copperfield, The Magic Castle, on TV show America’s Got Talent and at Las Vegas’ Halloween attraction Fright Dome), Jinger Leigh and Mark Kalin were making history.

In 2001, the couple made an American Airlines’ jumbo jet disappear on stage at the Reno Hilton. It became, and remains, the largest stage illusion in the world. They’re not bringing that particular trick to New Zealand – Mark jokes it’s a little bit big to travel easily – but they perform a logicdefying levitation routine.

Jinger Leigh, aka The Enchantress, says the trick with magic is to stay one step ahead of everyone else. This can be challenging given those working in the field seek to up the ante at all times.

“We are constantly developing new material. You need to be these days to stay one step ahead of the pack. We do not cover material that other people do; we are constantly thinking about the next trick.

“Doing this show is a lot of fun. It’s something we can all be proud of and that’s the trick with any sort of work: you don’t want it to be just for a pay cheque; you want it to be something you can be proud of.”

Mark, who portrays The Gentleman, says being part of The Illusionists offered the couple a rare chance to perform alongside other magicians. He says they are highly competitive, in a positive way, which inspires them to aim for new heights.

“As a magician, you might get the opportunity to be part of a variety-type show where you do a 15-minute act alongside other performers but no other magicians. This is the opposite. We all work together and share the stage. That’s an amazing experience for us and the audience.”

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One of the world’s greatest operas, and love stories to boot, Madame Butterfly hits Auckland this April. Sarah Illingworth speaks to soprano Antoinette Halloran about performing one of her most demanding and cherished roles.

Blockbuster bandwagon but saying, ‘actually, all that juice and sexy stuff is in opera and has been there for 300 years.’ I’m kind of exploring the sensual side of opera, and finding pieces in the operas that people mightn’t understand, because they’re in another language, but translating them and showing them how sensual they are.”

The Supper Club show is one example of how varied Antoinette’s career has been. Having first been wooed by the world of opera as a teenager – an old diva taught her key operatic techniques at high school – the enigmatic nowsoprano honed her vocal skills throughout her 20s via other forms of performance, including musical theatre, although she quips that “I would love to be able to sing jazz in a smoky bar, or some rock band, but my voice just sings opera.”

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elmed by award-winning director Kate Cherry, the New Zealand Opera production of Puccini’s classic opera avoids any major structural adaptations to the original, meaning local audiences will get to enjoy Madame Butterfly in its classic form. That said, Kate and designer Christina Smith can’t help but bring their own unique flavour to the work, and have compiled a similarly enigmatic cast that includes Italian tenor Piero Pretti (as Pinkerton), English baritone Peter Savidge (as Sharpless), American/English mezzosoprano Lucy Schaufer (as Suzuki) and, of course, Antoinette in the much-coveted lead role.

Not that she’s never dabbled in rock – a duet with Elvis Costello has been a highlight, as was a stint “[doing] some recording for a really great band in the late ‘90s, called The Avalanches.

I always add an opera element to rock and roll [though], rather than trying to sound like a rock and roll singer.”

Asked why she thinks Madame Butterfly has become one of the world’s most popular operas, Antoinette responds, “I think it’s dramatically one of the most coherent pieces.

I believe it [explores] issues that are contemporary, issues that we’ve all been through in our own lives. It’s about a real women, a real issue that did happen to women. It just makes it a lot more interesting, I think.”

The New Zealand shows will be the celebrated soprano’s fifth time as Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly), the next most recent being a run at the Sydney Opera House in late 2012. It’s not the first time Antoinette has performed with the NZO. She sang Mimi in the company’s 2008 season of La Bohème, up there for her with Butterfly as one of the world’s two greatest operas.

Describing the role of Cio-Cio-San as “the greatest female soprano role written”, she agrees that it’s also one of opera’s most challenging. “Butterfly just doesn’t breathe,” she explains. “She doesn’t sort of leave the stage… it’s almost like a triathlon or something. So yeah, it’s a matter of pacing, and shaping the way you do the role. And the more you do it, I’ve found, the more you understand how to shape it, so that you don’t blow a head gasket in the second act!

“It’s a lot to think about, although this is all in rehearsal too.

So, hopefully, by opening night you’ve trained your body and your mind, and you can actually just immerse yourself in the role and have a great time.”

Antoinette has just completed the inaugural run of her The Famous Opera Supper Club with Antoinette Halloran,

“This is a role that is so precious to me, and I never will skimp on it. I’ll give 150% every night.”

at the Famous Spiegeltent in Melbourne, the city she calls home. A cheeky performance of some of opera’s sauciest love songs, from Don Giovanni to Samson and Delilah to Rusalka, Antoinette wrote the show herself and explains that the show is “sort of jumping on the 50 Shades of Grey

Her passion for the role hints that New Zealand audiences will be in for a treat come April, and Antoinette herself is adamant on this point.

“The New Zealand audience can rest assured I will do my absolute best. This is a role that is so precious to me, and I never will skimp on it. I’ll give 150% every night.”

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omeone who has spent much of their career finding those conversations is the Australian writer and broadcaster Ramona Koval. As the former host of the world’s only daily radio show dedicated to books (the ABC’s much-loved The Book Show), Ramona would have platinum status in the frequent festival flyers‘ club if such a thing existed. So what does she look for in a festival?

Someone whose appearance is bound to prompt many conversations, but possibly more appropriately held over something a little more rock and roll than coffee, is the rock music journalist Sylvie Simmons.

Getting her start in 1970s’ LA, she’s been witness to, and written about, almost every significant musical movement and figure of the last 35 years. Her biographies of Serge Gainsborough and Neil Young are considered highpoints of musical biography.

“I would want them (writers) to be put together in a creative fashion, and I would want them all to have read each other’s work so they could have a serious conversation with each other, and not just be there spruiking their own book, and for me, that would be a fine thing to see.” She’s also adamant that festivals are still important, even in an age when readers can instantly access almost anything a writer has ever said: “We do need to talk about the ideas we read in books; we need to talk to the authors, we need to talk with each other, with critics... Some of the best things are the conversations after you’ve heard somebody talk. So, it’s the seeds and fertilisers of culture. I’m all for them!”

She’s spent three years documenting the life of another evasive musical colossus: Leonard Cohen. The genesis of the project was a threeday chat with Leonard held in 2001. However, she realised that what she thought was an illuminating interview was more smokescreen than insight: “He’s a very mysterious, elusive man – I got very intrigued, and read all the biographies on him. Some of them were very dry, almost unreadable, and it didn’t seem like the man I had met – very funny, very charming, hugely articulate. And I thought I’d write a biography of him, and kept putting it off like any sensible person.”

She finally stopped putting it off, and the book was released late last year to acclaim, and invitations to talk from places as diverse

“My primary driver is to put writers and readers in rooms together, so they can share ideas together, and provoke and challenge.”

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Sylvie Simmons and Leonard Cohen

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival Director Anne O’Brien is always looking to find “the conversation at the heart of the work”, and with this year’s programme including big names such as Pankaj Mishra, Anita Desai, Ben Goldacre, and William Dalrymple, there’s likely to be no shortage of fiery conversations that deliver what Anne hopes will add up to a programme “that is energetic, that is contemporary and that provides provocation and satisfaction,” writes José Barbosa.

as “very serious places” in the USA through to Jewish organisations.

Sylvie is also a ukulele player, and her uke is a faithful travelling companion: it’s been the catalyst for some great encounters, like a late-night jam session with the mandolinplaying monk at the “ugliest monastery on the ugliest mountain” Leonard lived at for five years. Anne says of Sylvie that she “has got access to the stories of someone who is one of the last century’s master craftsmen.”

This is fitting really, because the festival is all about the conversation. Says Anne: “My primary driver is to put writers and readers in rooms together, so they can share ideas together, and provoke and challenge.”

That’s something Ramona would be happy to hear. Quite reasonably, she suggests that new ideas only happen by “... sharing ideas, and airing them and challenging them.”

Where better to do that than at a festival for writers and readers?

AUCKLAND WRITERS AND READERS FESTIVAL 15 – 19 May | Aotea Centre

to miss

Jolisa Gracewood is a literary editor, and reviews books for Metro, Radio New Zealand and the New Zealand Listener. She will be chairing the Remarkable Women session (10am, Friday 17 May), featuring Aorewa McLeod, Jacqueline Fahey and Meme Churton. We asked Jolisa to highlight five sessions from this year’s Auckland Writers and Readers Festival Programme.

1. Kate Atkinson, in

conversation with Ramona Koval. I’ve loved Atkinson’s subversive, brilliant plotting for a long time, and am really looking forward to hearing her talk about her work.

2. Diego Marani,

interviewed by Guy Somerset. He’s the Italian author of New Finnish Grammar, a twisty novel in translation that pushes all my linguist-nerd buttons.

3. 50 Shades of WTF,

featuring Eleanor Catton, Sarah Stuart and Shehan Karunatilaka, chaired

by Nicky Pellegrino.

No idea what this session’s about, but I’m giggling already.

4. The AUP Anthology of New Zealand Literature. Let’s give this year’s local storm in a teacup another swirl, as the editors Mark Williams and Jane Stafford discuss their impossible task with Iain Sharp.

5. One True Sentence, a workshop with English author and writing teacher Scarlett Thomas. I’m not sure I could ever manage to crank out a whole novel, but a decent sentence?

That, I can aspire to.

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LIVE calendar

THE ILLUSIONISTS: WITNESS THE IMPOSSIBLE The biggest-selling magic show on earth comes to The Civic in May as seven of the world’s greatest magicians perform a mix of the most outrageous and unbelievable illusions.

22 May – 2 June, various times | From $69.90* The Civic

Tenacious D

APOCALYPSE Z Apocalypse Z is an immersive and interactive theatrical experience where audiences must make choices to ensure their survival in the world of a zombie holocaust.

12 – 27 April, various times | $28 – $40* Aotea Square

MUSIC The Civic ALBARE ITD ON TOUR WITH LONG WAY After his recent successful international tour, globally acclaimed Australian jazz guitarist Albare brings his mesmerising show to New Zealand for the first time.

4 April, 8pm | $39 – $45* Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre WILCO WITH MAVIS STAPLES Alt-country superstars Wilco and soul/gospel powerhouse Mavis Staples are teaming up for what promises to be one of the most essential shows of 2013.

6 April, 8.30pm | $82.50 – $90* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

CLASSICAL

OLIVIER LATRY Olivier Latry, Organist of Notre Dame, Paris, presents a concert of masterworks on the magnificent Town Hall Organ.

3 April, 7.30pm | Koha /Donation Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

Olivier Latry

APO: HEROIC CLASSICS In the first concert in the Bayleys Great Classics Series, the APO presents a programme of true cornerstones of the Classical era. Featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No.3, Eroica.

4 April, 8pm | $26 – $122* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall APO: UNWRAP BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO.5 Join Presenter Graham Abbott and the APO as they explore the strange and persuasive allure of this favourite work.

11 April, 6.30pm | $15 – $25* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

NZ OPERA: MADAME BUTTERFLY Love and honour resonate with thunderous force in this tender love story between a Japanese geisha and her naval officer in Nagasaki.

18 – 26 April 7.30pm, 28 April 2.30pm | $49.50 – $189.50* ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre NZIPF: BEETHOVEN RECYCLE PART ONE – WALDSTEIN CMNZ’s Beethoven reCYCLE Part One with Michael Houstoun includes three concerts.

Concert One features the Waldstein and four other sonatas. Part of the 2013 NZ International Piano Festival.

19 April, 8pm | $50* Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

NZIPF: KONSTANZE EICKHORST Award-winning German pianist Konstanze Eickhorst performs a Mozart and Schubert programme in the NZ International Piano Festival, including the great Wanderer fantasy.

21 April, 4.30pm | $50* Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall HANDEL’S MESSIAH Bach Musica NZ presents Handel Messiah (arr.

by Mozart) featuring Henry Choo (Tenor), Gina Sanders (Soprano), Anne Lamont-Lowe (Alto), Joel Amosa (Bass) Conductor: Rita Paczian.

21 April, 5pm | $30 – $65* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall NZIPF: BEETHOVEN RECYCLE PART ONE – HAMMERKLAVIER CMNZ’s Beethoven reCYCLE Part One with Michael Houstoun includes three concerts.

Concert Three features the Hammerklavier and three other sonatas. Part of the 2013 NZ International Piano Festival.

22 April, 8pm | $50* Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

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NZIPF: DÉNES VÁRJON Hungarian pianist Dénes Várjon performs Bartók, Haydn, Schumann and Jánac˘ek’s enchanting 1912 cycle of pieces In The Mists.

Part of the NZ International Piano Festival.

24 April, 8pm | $50* Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall NZIPF: ILYA RASHKOVSKIY Tipped as an up-and-coming star, Russia’s Ilya Rashkovskiy performs Chopin’s complete Études, as well as Bach and Prokofiev in the final concert of the NZ International Piano Festival.

25 April, 8pm | $50* Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall APO: LAST SONGS The APO and Soprano Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet in a concert to delight all Strauss fans, performed as part of The New Zealand Herald Premier Series.

2 May, 8pm | $26 – $122* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

NZIPF: BEETHOVEN RECYCLE PART ONE – TEMPEST CMNZ’s Beethoven reCYCLE Part One with Michael Houstoun includes three concerts.

Concert Two features the Tempest and four other sonatas. Part of the 2013 NZ International Piano Festival.

20 April, 4.30pm | $50* Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

BRYAN ADAMS The Frontier Touring Company is excited to announce the first Bryan Adams’ tour of New Zealand in over 15 years, the critically acclaimed Bare Bones acoustic tour.

23 April, 8pm | $98.58 – $147.45* The Civic THE SEVEN IRISH TENORS The Stetson Group welcomes the return of seven of Ireland’s favourite sons performing the entire show with songs of Ireland, pop hits and classical classics.

6 May, 7.30pm | $79* The Civic

NZSO: ECHOES OF HOME Magnetic and virtuosic cellist Daniel MüllerSchott performs Dvor˘ák’s glorious Cello Concerto. NZSO Music Director Pietari Inkinen also conducts Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances – a colourful crowd favourite.

12 April, 7pm | $32 – $126* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

NZSO: BRYN TERFEL – AN EVENING WITH THE NZSO Hear this Welsh musical megastar sing some of the finest operatic repertoire as well as sparkling Broadway gems in this highlight of the season.

4 May, 7.30pm | $74 – $155* ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre NZTRIO: OLD WORLD, NEW WORLD NZTrio mix the old and the new with works from New Zealand composer Claire Cowan alongside Bright Sheng, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Tchaikovsky. Part of CMNZ’s Kaleidoscopes season.

8 May, 8pm | $35 – $65* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall AUCKLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FREE FAMILY CONCERT: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Featuring favourite Russian classics including works by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, as well as the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto. Peter Reid – Trumpet.

Peter Thomas – Conductor.

12 May, 2.30pm | Koha/Donation Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall APO: MUSIC OF WARTIME The NewstalkZB Splendour Series opens with a programme of struggle and redemption as the APO and Conductor Michal Dworzynski explore the music of the 1940s.

16 May, 8pm | $26 – $122* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall AYO: LIFE OF A HERO Auckland Youth Orchestra presents Mahler Totenfeier and rising star Olivia Francis playing Beethoven’s legendary violin concerto.

18 May, 7.30pm | FREE / Donation Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

Olivia Francis

CORONATION STREET ON STAGE! The hysterical new comedy by Coronation Street scriptwriter Jonathan Harvey. The programme’s 50-year history of births, deaths, marriages and other dramatic events are condensed into one action-packed two-hour show.

28 March – 6 April, various times | From $59* The Civic

TENACIOUS D Comic rock geniuses Tenacious D are returning to our shores in May with very special guest Sasquatch.

20 May, 8pm | $95.10* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

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APO: EHNES PLAYS ELGAR James Ehnes returns to perform Elgar’s magnificent Violin Concerto with the APO and British conductor Garry Walker. Performed as part of The New Zealand Herald Premier Series.

30 May, 8pm | $26 – $122* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

FAMILY APO 4 KIDS: A DAY WITH TEDDY The APO presents a fun and interactive concert for preschoolers packed full of conduct-along, sing-along, dance-along fun.

27 April, 10am & 11.30am | $15* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

DANCE MISS BURLESQUE NEW ZEALAND Miss Burlesque New Zealand showcases local burlesque artists who compete for the coveted crown judged on skill by a panel who exude experience and knowledge.

13 April, 8.30pm | $30 – $45* Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

FESTIVAL AUCKLAND WRITERS AND READERS FESTIVAL Five days of good times and great ideas with over 100 of the world’s best writers and thinkers: fiction, politics, food, science, identity, travel, sport.

15 – 19 May, various times | $15 – $95* Aotea Centre and other venues

VISUAL ARTS DIGITAL ART LIVE: CORPS COMPLICES BY CATHERINE LANGLADE Be a part of an art work: Corps Complices by French dance artist Catherine Langlade fosters a relationship with the spectators, making them move and explore corporality.

16 March – 13 May | FREE BNZ Foyer, Aotea Centre AUCKLAND FESTIVAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY Features of China Exhibition by Chen Haiwen (Shanghai).

30 May – 7 June, 9am to 5pm | FREE Aotea Gallery, Aotea Centre Magnum Projections – Pakistan 2005 When the Earth Quaked and Japan 2011 Tsunami Streetwalk 1, Kesennuma by Chris Steele-Perkins (UK).

8 – 21 June, 9am to 5pm | FREE

THE GOOD GUYS An all-star line-up from home and abroad taking to the stage to benefit others. Joining host Ben Hurley is Dai Henwood, Jeremy Elwood, Michele A’Court, Steve Wrigley and more, a show NOT to be missed!

5 May, 7pm | $31* Comedy Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

DOCTOR BROWN IN BEFRDFGTH International sensation Doctor Brown presents Befrdfgth for anyone tired of winsome witticisms and predictable punch-lines. A wordless act of absurdist mime and delightfully bewildered audiences.

1 – 4 May, 7pm | $26 – $29.50* Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

WAYNE BRADY – STILL MAKING S%!T UP Multi-Emmy Award-winning comedian Wayne Brady will have you gagging with laughter as he makes a welcome return to the NZ International Comedy Festival.

5 May, 8pm | $79.90* ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre

DR BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN AND HIS SINGING TIGER Straight from sold-out, award-winning seasons at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Adelaide Fringe, Dr Brown serves up good old slapstick, silly noises and physical flights of fancy. Families beware: you might laugh so hard you hiccup a helicopter!

Created especially for 5 – 10 year olds.

1 – 5 May, 9.30am & 11.30am | $15 – $20* Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre DANNY BHOY – DEAR EPSON...

Letters. Funny old things? They can make you laugh or cry. This show features some of the letters you never got round to writing.

2 – 4 May, 8pm | $54.50* The Civic RAINER HERSCH’S VICTOR BORGE The man, the comedy and the music. In this brilliant show, Victor Borge’s extraordinary life is retold and re-imagined by British star of TV and BBC radio, Rainer Hersch. Total sell-out Edinburgh Festival and in London’s West End. 2 – 11 May, various times | $25.50 – $29.50* Comedy Chamber, Auckland Town Hall JARRED FELL IN XTREME Multi-award-winning comedy magician Jarred Fell brings you a show that’s too XTREME for words. Taking comedy magic to new heights. Be there. Don’t miss the fear!

4 May, 8.45pm | $25 – $28* Comedy Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

Miss Burlesque New Zealand

NZIFF AUTUMN EVENTS NZIFF presents a series of autumn events at The Civic. A magnificent restoration of Lawrence of Arabia; Brando and Sinatra in Guys and Dolls; The ABCs of Death and the New Zealand premiere of Kon-Tiki.

20 and 21 April, various times | $11.50– $17* The Civic SEMI-PERMANENT AUCKLAND Semi-Permanent combines speaker presentations, exhibitions and parties into a festival of creativity. A refreshing look at the current state of the art and design world – both educational and inspiring. A not-to-be missed event!

31 May and 1 June, 9am – 6pm both days $150 – $350* ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre

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THE BIG SHOW 2013 – AN INTERNATIONAL COMEDY SHOWCASE The festival party continues with five worldclass comedians packed into one Big Show with host Mickey D (Australia) and featuring the very best of British stand-up at this year’s festival.

6 – 18 May, 8.45pm | $44.50 – $48.50* Comedy Chamber, Auckland Town Hall RAINER HERSCH MEETS AUCKLAND PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA What do conductors actually do? What are they singing about in opera? Brit comic and madcap maestro Rainer Hersch, along with the APO, has the answers and a guaranteed laugh every four bars.

12 May, 3pm | $29.50 – $34.50* Comedy Chamber, Auckland Town Hall THE SECRET POLICEMAN’S BALL Amnesty International proudly presents a lineup of top comedians all standing up for freedom of expression at the 2013 Secret Policeman’s Ball NZ. All money raised will help Amnesty International’s work to protect humanity all over the world.

12 May, 7pm | $35* Comedy Chamber, Auckland Town Hall

Danny Bhoy

NZ POPS ORCHESTRA NZ Pops Orchestra presents Follow Your Dream, timeless music from U2 to Mozart.

Soloists Will Martin, Gina Sanders, Tina Cross, John Mackay, Eddie Giffney and a youth choir.

Conductor Rita Paczian.

26 May, 5pm | $10 – $65* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

COMEDY GALA HOSTED BY JEREMY CORBETT It’s the night of nights, the best of the best.

The Comedy Gala kicks off the festival with Jeremy Corbett hosting a sensational line-up of local and international talent at The Civic.

26 April, 8pm | $94.90* The Civic

Wayne Brady

NZSO: HEAR & FAR – MODERN MASTERS John Adams’ Harmonielehre and John Psathas’ Orpheus in Rarohenga. Tecwyn Evans conducts the NZSO with Jenny Wollerman, Paul Whelan and the Orpheus Choir of Wellington.

25 May, 7.30pm | $32 – $126* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

THE NEW ZEALAND DANCE COMPANY – LANGUAGE OF LIVING 2013 SEASON A programme of five exquisite works, NZDC’s Language of Living returns in 2013 featuring a new work, Faune, by internationally acclaimed choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

25 May, 7.30pm | $19 – $59* On sale 28 March ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre

Rainer Hersch meets Auckland Philarmonia Orchestra

NZSO: THE LARK ASCENDING – GLORIOUS MUSIC TO STIR THE SOUL A NZSO concert of all-time favourites.

Yevgeny Sudbin plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Mark Wigglesworth conducts Vaughan-Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Elgar’s First Symphony.

24 May, 7pm | $32 – $126* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

MOSCOW BALLET LA CLASSIQUE PERFORMING THE NUTCRACKER A traditional performance of the festive tale brings to life the fantastically popular Tchaikvosky score, featuring Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy and The Waltz of the Flowers.

11 May, 7.30pm & 12 May, 2.30pm | $55 – $95* ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre

Language of Living

APO: ORGAN SPECTACULAR After a year of workshops and collaboration, the APO and guest organists present six premieres written for the Auckland Town Hall organ and orchestra.

23 May, 8pm | $15 – $25* Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall

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Laughter – the instant vacation Recession, road rage, that mysterious rash – there’s plenty to forget in this life and for two short weeks in May there are some side-splitting ways to go about it. In 2013 the New Zealand International Comedy Festival comes of age – and 21 years of getting Kiwis to laugh themselves under the table is something to celebrate.

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rom the international line-up at The Big Show playing most nights at the Comedy Chamber, to the mute lunacy of acclaimed comedian Dr Brown, myriad quirky, surprising acts such as Danny Bhoy and the night-of-night‘s Comedy Gala, there is a lot going on – whether it’s belly laughs you are after or a more edgy experience.

Scott Blanks, director of New Zealand’s home of live comedy The Classic, has been picking acts for the festival for over 20 years.

Early successes included tempting the then lesser-known faces of Bill Bailey and Ed Byrne down to the land of the long wit crowd.

James Acaster

“I make a pilgrimage to the Edinburgh Fringe every couple of years where we see up to 50 shows over the two-week stay. First up I look for funny, of course. But I’m also looking for fresh perspectives and comedians who will embrace the festival spirit off-stage as well.

“After a visit to Edinburgh in 2012 I’ve got a feast of new faces in 2013 and The Big Show is a great place to find them – a line-up of comedians in a very audience-friendly two-hour

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show with cabaret-style seating and a licensed venue. It is a big ‘comedy club’-style experience.

“One of my favourite acts, Australian Mickey D, is coming back to host this year’s Big Show. He will be introducing a ‘best of British’ line-up including 2012 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee James Acaster, whose star is rising rapidly in the UK. There'll also be streetperformer-turned-comedian, Stuart Goldsmith whose skill set means he can really work the room, totally engaging the audience.

First up I look for funny, of course.

But I’m also looking for fresh perspectives and comedians who will embrace the festival spirit off stage as well.

“Two more experienced comedians, Markus Birdman and Andrew Bird, complete The Big Show in 2013. They have been regulars at Edinburgh over the past seven to eight years and I’ve had my sights on them for some time. Fortunately both were available this year so I ended up with a very strong mix.”

The New Zealand International Comedy Festival has grown out of hand since it opened its doors in 1990 – today it’s 10 times bigger than it was 21 years ago with upwards of 80,000 people expected to attend in 2013. And remember, like with a holiday, talking about the festival is always part of the fun. So don’t be left with a dry cough and no stories at the water cooler – get your tickets.

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Doctor Doctor Phil Burgers is the comedian’s comedian, an awardwinning comic who trained at École Phillippe Gaulier, the same renowned clown school as Sacha Baron Cohen. He’s best known as his absurdist alter-ego Dr Brown and is bringing two shows to the Comedy Festival – one for kids and one for grown ups.

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Wilco’s SOLID SOUND

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CHARACTERS

Wilco endlessly create music as a band and in side projects across the music spectrum. They even have their own music festival. Josie Campbell speaks to Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy ahead of the band’s down-under tour.

A great frontman is vital to creating a memorable live show that connects with audiences.

We asked our Twitter followers who their favourite frontman is.

There were multiple mentions of Dave Grohl – otherwise, picks included kings of rock, a local crooner and a Muppet.

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ilco last performed in Auckland at The Civic after the release of their seventh album Wilco (The Album) to a near-rapturous crowd. This time they’ll be at Auckland Town Hall on a tour supporting their last release The Whole Love. The band will be joined by soul legend Mavis Staples, who has just finished her second album with Jeff at the helm as producer.

“I feel very, very privileged to get to work with Mavis and have developed a real deep bond with her and Yvonne. She’s an angel, she makes people feel better, and it’s an amazing thing to get to be around.”

It’s too soon for the setlists to be finalised for the tour, so Jeff can’t say if there’ll be crossover between when Mavis is on stage and Wilco’s set, “but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if that happened.”

@YourUnintended: Matt Bellamy of Muse. Singer, composer, guitar and piano player of a band voted the best live act numerous times. @iChild: The phenomenal Sal Valentine from Sal Valentine & the Babyshakes.

He’s suave, has impeccable style & is a great singer! lot of stuff of the new record because we haven’t had the chance to play it there yet.”

The band’s lyricist, Jeff says it’s a general restlessness and curiosity that sparks his creativity.

“There’s always a new Wilco album coming eventually,” he says down the line with a chuckle. “We’ve just really started working to be honest so it’ll probably be some time.”

“I enjoy listening to music a lot but I tend to spend most of my free time reading.

I like almost anything and I’ll listen to almost anything. I think that’s a good way to stay inspired – just try to embrace more and try and understand more. Even music that I don’t quite get, I think it’s exciting sometimes to try to understand it, and the same with some fiction.”

“Generally we don’t play new things live because I’ve always found it more difficult to record those things, a song, once you’ve played it live. It just feels like the audience is missing when you get to the studio.

They’re a prolific group, with multiple side projects and the band’s Solid Sound Festival happening for a third time in June. I ask how it feels to be curators of a festival, instead of being booked by promoters to play.

“It’ll mostly be some things we haven’t played from the catalogue before and a

“It’s really creative. One of the big differences is we get to extend our concept

Like all fans, I want to know how the new album is coming along and if we’ll hear new material on the tour. The answer is yes, and no.

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of the band and our overall aesthetic to a festival and try and pick things that give a bigger, deeper picture of what inspires us.

It’s a pure luxury to get to do that.”

@Guinea6: Adam “Nergal” Darski from Behemoth. Such an amazing performer he could make anyone enjoy metal! Seriously awesome.

While a trip to Massachusetts for Solid Sound Festival sounds like an worthwhile travel goal, a night with Wilco and Mavis Staples at Auckland Town Hall promises to be an extraordinary night of music. And fans, keep an eye out for Jeff in Newton; he reckons he’ll probably have a shawarma around the corner from Neil Finn’s Roundhead Studios.

@ TraceyHayman: Has to be Bon Jovi. No explanation necessary.

It is self-evident! ;-)

WILCO with MAVIS STAPLES 6 April | Auckland Town Hall

@JewelNature: Still Jim Morrison of #DOORS Y? Talented poet, lived the lifestyle, outrageous, often shocking, but made unforgettable music. @rebsguy: Dr Teeth. He has the cool of James Brown with the face of a scary thingy. That’s a difficult combo to maintain. @King_Soph: JARVIS COCKER. Amazing.

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CLASSIC & QUIRKY FILM Auckland‘s movie buffs are in for a rare treat in April with the screening of four remarkable films at The Civic. The New Zealand Film Festival Trust director Bill Gosden shared his excitement about the event with Kerry Engelbrecht.

The special screening of two classic films – Lawrence of Arabia and Guys and Dolls – along with the New Zealand premiere screening of the Norwegian blockbuster Kon-Tiki and an offbeat The ABCs of Death will give audiences the chance to witness high-tech restoration work and fantastic filmmaking in a theatre that Bill describes as “beyond question the number one venue in the country for spectacular cinema”.

The other classic, showing on the big screen for the first time in New Zealand in the past 20 years, is the highly entertaining movie musical Guys and Dolls. Starring the “intensely charismatic” Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, this is another digital restoration that will, according to Bill, “turn audiences on to the splendours that are 50 to 60 years old with films that look like they were made yesterday”.

In sharp contrast to these two classics, The ABCs of Death is a quirky 26-chapter anthology in which producer Ant Timpson, in partnership with Tim League, called on directors noted for their “outrageous filmmaking” to each create a short film attached to a letter of the alphabet.

Finally, the New Zealand premiere of Norway’s most expensive ever film production, Kon-Tiki, combines high adventure with a fascinating

psychological portrait of one of the country’s national heroes, anthropologist/explorer/ filmmaker Thor Heyerdahl. A blockbuster on Scandinavian screens, it was one of the five finalists in the Foreign Language category at this year’s Oscars.

Bill and his colleagues are hard at work planning the 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival, scheduled for 18 July to 4 August and promising some “up-to-the-minute” debuts of films that haven’t even been finished yet.

The 1947 voyage of the Kon-Tiki has been described as “one of the greatest DIY experiments of the 20th century”. It involved six young scientists traversing the Pacific Ocean on a homemade balsa-wood raft, led by the charismatic experimental anthropologist Heyerdahl, portrayed by Pa˚ l Sverre Hagen. It’s a story that’s already been told in a bestselling book written

by Heyerdahl and will be coming to New Zealand’s mainstream cinemas later this year.

Movie lovers can in the meantime enjoy the classic, the quirky and the spectacular in this extraordinary autumn event.

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Lawrence of Arabia

The highly acclaimed 50th-anniversary digital restoration of Lawrence of Arabia, which received overwhelming response at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a top-end restoration, says Bill. “This 4K restoration gives movie geeks the opportunity to compare the highest level of digital restoration with the classic film experience they may remember,” he says.

“It’s one of those evergreens that people will always want to see,” he adds. “Aside from being the definitive spectacular action movie, the cinematography is amazing.”

Guys and Dolls

“I am very excited about the opportunity to take advantage of The Civic’s state-of-theart digital projection system and bring a movie-going audience in to experience it,” says Bill.

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Playing DEAD

With the Zombie zeitgeist in full swing, the undead are about to be unleashed on Auckland’s streets. Luke Oram talks to producer Charlie McDermott about the play that’s letting theatregoers write their own Zombie apocalypse.

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n the year 2013, a deadly virus will sweep this country like wildfire. A plague of apocryphal proportions will bring this country to its knees, transforming your neighbours and friends into undead denizens. Soon enough, your only hope will lie in a small, ramshackle military outpost in Auckland’s Aotea Square.

How do I know this? I’ve seen the future. It’s already been written. In fact, the fate of our country is currently in its seventh draft.

I’m talking about Apocalypse Z – and a word of advice to those of you tuning out at the thought of yet another franchise cashing in on pop culture’s current zombie zeitgeist; stick around, you’re gonna want to hear this.

Apocalypse Z is the brainchild of David Van Horn, Simon London and Charlie McDermott – once fledgling actors rising through the ranks of Silo theatre company, now architects of the end of the world.

So we’re talking about a play? Not really. At least not like you’ve ever seen. Charlie and co. call it “Immersive theatre”, an experiment in laying waste to the stage’s fourth wall

between actor and audience. Apocalypse Z is half flash mob, half role-play and not at all for the faint-hearted.

The month of April will see Aotea Square transformed into ground zero for a real-time zombie apocalypse. The project, which will take place within the purpose-built outpost thrusts audience members immediately into the action, cast as survivors and participators.

“We’re trying to put the audience into a 5D world, making them feel things, forcing them to make moral choices,” says Charlie of Apocalypse Z. “We want to seriously unsettle the audience and give them something completely different from the conventional theatrical experience.”

Each night, 100 audience members will find themselves thrown into the thick of the apocalypse, processed as asylum-seekers and forced to interact with the project’s crew. People will be asked to fulfil a variety of roles and characters, from stemming the blood flow of their stricken partner to repairing a damaged circuit-breaker, right down to banding together and ultimately deciding their final fate.

but you can be assured that there’ll be no dozing off during intermission – this is theatre at its fullest immersion. This is one play where you get to decide where the curtain falls.

“Why are video games so popular?” asks Charlie. “Why do they outperform Hollywood three to one? Because they’re immersive: people get to be a part of them, make decisions – everything’s interactive now. Every question we asked in the writing of the script was ‘What if this was to actually happen? How would people react?’”

Couch potatoes, part-time survivalists and Walking Dead aficionados – don’t say you haven’t been warned. The apocalypse is coming. It’s time to buy the ticket and play your part – literally.

APOCALYPSE Z 11 – 27 April | Aotea Square

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THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA 8 June Celebrate the golden swing era on the eve of the original band’s 75th anniversary with an evening of Big Band hits performed by 25 highly talented singers, dancers and musicians.

WICKED From 21 September The smash-hit broadway musical celebrated its 10th anniversary by announcing that the show is coming to The Civic in September.

THE LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 11 July Audiences aren’t encouraged to dress up and bring streamers to most classical concerts, but the annual Qantas Last Night of the Proms is an opportunity to cut loose and celebrate in true Proms’ style. This year’s concert features Conductor Benjamin Northey and Mezzo-Soprano Helen Medlyn.

SLAVA’S SNOWSHOW 10 – 14 July Escape into a winter wonderland with Slava’s Snowshow – a combination of clowning and theatre with real snow on stage. Slava is a former Cirque du Soleil clown who has created an all-ages masterpiece that has won multiple awards and travelled to over 80 cities from London to New York to Moscow.

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