An Evening in Concert: with the third-year Musical Theatre students

AN EVENING IN CONCERT

With the third-year Musical Theatre students of Queensland Conservatorium

2-4 MARCH 2023

TONY GOULD GALLERY, QPAC

WELCOME

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to An Evening in Concert, featuring our 3rd year Bachelor of Musical Theatre students.

This concert marks the first of what we plan to be many performances in our new home here at QPAC.

Moving the Musical Theatre program from our old home in Woolloongabba to South Bank earlier this year has enhanced the training of our students incredibly. Spending all day in this magnificent building is giving them the fullest of industry experience every day. There is something very special about swiping into a theatre via Stage Door, it’s like you’re entering a world where magic happens, and where dreams can become reality – Musical Theatre students from the Queensland Conservatorium get to ‘play’, ‘experience’, and ‘enjoy’ that in every class, rehearsal, breaktime, walking the corridors to their next subject, chatting to other performers, creatives and technicians working on other productions – all of which we’re extremely proud to be able to provide our students. Special thanks go to John Kotzas AM, CEO of QPAC, and all his team for helping to make this happen.

The students performing tonight have beaten the challenges of the past two years and come out on top. They’ve fought lockdowns, COVID-19 outbreaks, and floods with a determination that nothing was going to get in the way of their training. I’m proud of each and every one of them, as well as the staff who have been behind

them. The saying ‘The show must go on’ has never been more apt than in recent times.

An Evening in Concert is a celebration of where the students are at this point in their training. They have all challenged themselves with the material they have chosen to perform this evening, and they look forward to sharing these beautiful songs with you.

Thank you to Penny Farrow (director), Megan Shorey (associate director), Heidi Loveland (musical director and pianist), Dr. Melissa Agnew (voice and speech coach) and all the staff and students who have contributed to this performance.

To you, the audience: thank you for your support and generosity, and I look forward to seeing you again at one of our future events.

Together we are creating tomorrow’s artists.

Paul

Professor Paul Sabey Head of Performing Arts Program Director - Bachelor of Musical Theatre

This performance runs for 90 mins with no interval

Seize the Day Newsies

Music by Alan Menken & lyrics by Jack Felmain, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland

Maybe It’s Me

Music & lyrics by Georgia Stitt

Just Breathe

The Prom

Music by Matthew Sklar & lyrics by Chad Beguelin

Come to a Party Dogfight

Music & lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul

There Are Worse Things I Could Do Grease

Music & lyrics by Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs

Disneyland

Smile

Music by Marvin Hamlisch & lyrics by Howard Ashman

Purpose

Avenue Q

Music by & lyrics by Robert Lopez & Jeff Marx

Izzi Kratz

Taylor Brown

Gemma

Part of Your World

The Little Mermaid

Music by Alan Menken & lyrics by Howard Ashman

Let It Go

Frozen the Broadway Musical

Music & lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez

This is the Moment

Jekyll & Hyde

Music by Frank Wildhorn & lyrics by Leslie Bricusse

All the Livelong Day (part 1)

Working! Localized

Meg

Music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland

In the Wrong Key

My Brilliant Career

Music by Mathew Frank & lyrics by Dean Bryant

Tenterfield Saddler

Eliza Vine

Music & lyrics by Peter Allen Benjamin Richards

All the Livelong Day (part 2)

Working! Localized

Music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland

Breathe In The Heights

Music by & lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda

I’m Not Afraid of Anything

Songs For A New World

Music & lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

In Case You Don’t Live Forever

Music & lyrics by Ben Platt, Nate Cyphert & Michael Pollack

Olivia Ayoub

It’s Not Gonna Rain

Music & lyrics by Michael Bruce

The Epiphany

Music & lyrics by Paul Gordon

Top of the World

Tuck

Everlasting: the Musical

Music by Chris Miller & lyrics by Nathan Tysen

And I Breathe

Next

Thing You Know

Music by Joshua Salzman & lyrics by Ryan Cunningham

Sophie Gulloch

Oliver Clisdell

Matthew Casamento

Spring Cleaning

Fugitive Songs

Music by Chris Miller & lyrics by Nathan Tysen

Calm

Ordinary Days

Music & lyrics by Adam Gwon

Birds

Ultimate Storytime

Music & lyrics by Thomas Sanders

I Will Run

Atlantis

Music & lyrics by Matthew Lee Robinson

Maybe This Time

Cabaret

Music by John Kander & lyrics by Fred Ebb

We Belong

Aimee Jones

Juliette Milne

Alexander Tye

Mackinley Brown

Sophie Montague

Music & lyrics by David Eric Lowden & Daniel Navarro, Arrangement by Heidi Loveland Company

Bachelor of Musical Theatre Class of 2023

Front row (from left): Emma Wilby, Gemma Dandie, Michael Jarrett, Taylor Brown, Aimee Jones, Olivia Ayoub, Meg Hargraves, Sophie Gulloch

Middle row: Matthew Casamento, Natasha Dyson, Charlotte Page, Juliette Milne, Sophie Montague, Izzi Kratz, Isabella Gaskin

Back row: William Kasper, Oliver Clisdell, Eliza Vine, Ben Peters, Benjamin Richards, Alexander Tye, Mackinley Brown, Bradley J Oakman

PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT 2023 SEASON

FESTEN

3rd Year Bachelor of Acting

28 March - 1 April

Burke Street Studio Theatre

WORKING! LOCALIZED

3rd Year Bachelor of Musical Theatre

27 - 29 April

Cremorne Theatre QPAC

CRY BABY

All Musical Theatre students featuring 3rd Years

3 - 12 August

Conservatorium Theatre

ORESTEIA

3rd Year Bachelor of Acting

22 - 26 August

Burke Street Studio Theatre

CLASS OF 2023 ACTING AND MUSICAL THEATRE SHOWCASE

3rd Year students

6 - 7 October

Cremorne Theatre QPAC

COMMON GROUND - A new Australian Play

2nd Year Bachelor of Acting

26-28 October

Burke Street Studio Theatre

URINETOWN

2nd Year Bachelor of Musical Theatre

14 - 18 November

Burke Street Studio Theatre

TICKETS: queenslandconservatorium.com.au

FOR THE PRODUCTION

Producer

Professor Paul Sabey

Musical Director / Show Pianist

Heidi Loveland

Voice and Speech Coach

Dr Melissa Agnew

Director

Penny Farrow

Associate Director

Megan Shorey Program

Dominique Fegan

FOR THE QUEENSLAND CONSERVATORIUM

Director - Professor Bernard Lanskey

Deputy Director (Engagement) - Associate Professor Peter Morris

Business Manager - Stuart Jones

Front of House Manager - Michael Hibbard

Technical Team Leader - Cameron Hipwell

Technical Officers - Keith Clark, Amy Hauser, Len McPherson

FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT

Head of Performing Arts

Program Director - Bachelor of Musical Theatre

Professor Paul Sabey

Program Director - Bachelor of Acting

Jacqui Somerville

Lecturer in Musical Direction

Heidi Loveland

Lecturer in Performance (Musical Theatre)

Megan Shorey

Administration

Dominique Fegan, Cathy Healy

QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

PO Box 3567, South Bank, Queensland 4101 T: (07) 3840 7444 W: qpac.com.au

Chair

Professor Peter Coaldrake AO

Deputy Chair

Leigh Tabrett PSM

Trust Members

Julian Myers

Georgina Richters

Susan Rix AM

Murray Saylor

Chief Executive: John Kotzas AM

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The Queensland Performing Arts Trust is a statutory body of the State of Queensland and is partially funded by the Queensland Government

The Honourable Leeanne Enoch MP: Minister for Communities and Housing, Minister for Digital Economy and Minister for the Arts

Director-General, Department of Communities and Housing and Digital Economy: Ms Clare O’Connor

We pay our respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestors of this land, their spirits and their legacy. The foundations laid by these ancestors – our First Nations Peoples – gives strength, inspiration and courage to current and future generations, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, towards creating a better Queensland.

QPAC warmly thanks our key donors who help us engage broadly across the state and continue enriching lives through performing arts.

Tim Fairfax AC and Gina Fairfax, Dr Lee and Professor Peter Coaldrake AO, Leigh Tabrett PSM, Susan Rix AM, Dr Sally Pitkin AO, Dare Power, Dr Cathryn Mittelheuser AM, Queensland Community Foundation, de Groots Charitable Fund, Sandi Hoskins, Klaus Beckmann, Barbara Snelling, Jill Hutchins, Leigh Wheeler, Frank and Karen Alpert, Alison Iverach, Jenny Morton, John Ryan, Margaret Heggie, Natalie Nelson, Ben Castleton, Helen Astbury, Anthony Wade-Cooper and several donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Patrons are advised that the Performing Arts Centre has EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURES, a FIRE ALARM system and EXIT passageways. In case of an alert, patrons should remain calm, look for the closest EXIT sign in GREEN, listen to and comply with directions given by the inhouse trained attendants and move in an orderly fashion to the open spaces outside the Centre.

Tel: 3735 3224

Email: performing.arts@griffith.edu.au