I have appeared in about 40 productions over the past forty years. Favourite roles include Eugene Fodor and Junior in (separate productions of) Crazy for You, Mr Fox in Mack and Mabel, Max in The Sound of Music, Freddy in My Fair Lady, Julio in Paint Your Wagon, Marcellus in The Music Man and Grantaire in Les Miserables.
I have directed several school productions. I choreographed Urinetown and Little Shop of Horrors, then went on to direct Hot Mikado and the Australian premiere of 13. I have since gone on to direct/choreograph The Music Man Jr and Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr.
At my next school, I was Head of Productions, overseeing up to a dozen productions each year and directing another seven musicals, including The Music Man, Brigadoon and How To Succeed in Business Without really Trying.
I reviewed music theatre and opera for Theatre People and the Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne). I served on the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria Committee for five years as Treasurer and was on the Board of The Opera Studio Melbourne.
I am a keen audience member, having seen 58 shows in six weeks in a 2012 trip to New York, as well as 57 shows during 6 weeks in London/Europe earlier the same year.
I hope you enjoy reading the news and reviews at Man in Chair. I would love to hear your thoughts on the shows covered here so please feel free to leave your comments.
A world premiere of an original Australian musical is a rare event indeed, and is all the more special when the musical is as intelligently conceived, strongly performed, and confidently produced as […]
Brimming with searing humanity, the Melbourne Shakespeare Company production of The Whale elegantly naturalises the play’s inherent pathos to achieve an affecting level of emotional truth.
Joyful extravaganza Beauty and the Beast the Musical makes a wonderfully welcome return in a slickly streamlined production boasting a brightly polished young cast.
Thrilling Melbourne musical theatre aficionados once again, Broadway grand dame Patti LuPone returns with her latest intimate and inimitable musical celebration, A Life in Notes.
“Love, sweet love” is certainly What the World Needs Now, and there was an abundance of love traveling back and forth across the footlights as a terrific featured cast of singers joined […]
By turns funny and fearsome, theatrical thriller The Woman in Black returns in a sharply directed, expertly performed revival.
Decadently staged and intriguingly cast, the eagerly anticipated new production of Sunset Boulevard makes its Australian premiere in scintillating form.
Just shy of sixty years young, Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple returns in a brightly polished, perfectly cast, utterly hilarious revival.
Saving the last night of her current Australian tour for musical-loving Melbourne, Audra McDonald thrilled, charmed, and moved the adoring crowd with a glorious evening of song and story.
With the provocative punch of a newspaper editorial, new Ron Elisha play Rootless Cosmopolitans arrives promptly on stage with the timeliness and relevance that subsidised theatre could only dream about.
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