My next project, coming up in Sydney for all of our Antipodean friends
cassandra
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New Musicals Australia has announced a plethora of exciting and diverse projects in its next installment of presentations and workshops for November and December 2011. My project "Transport" will be presented under the direction of Director, Stuart Maunder and Musical Director, Anne-‐Maree McDonald on Friday, 25 November and Sunday, 27 November at Sidetrack Theatre. “Transport” is a musical theatre project that arose from the imagination of world-renown novelist Thomas Keneally (“Schindler’s List”) and is based on the journey of his wife Judy’s grandmother from Cork to Australia in 1846. It was conceived as a musical but the ideal composer for the project remained elusive until Tom met Wexford's Larry Kirwan, founder of the iconic New York City band BLACK 47 and also a playwright and novelist.“Transport” tells a universal story of immigration, loss, hope and redemption combined with the rich historic detail of the Irish Protestant and Catholic conflict and the searing pain of the Irish Diaspora to the Australian penal colony. Its characters include the women of various ages being transported, the crew of the Whisper and an exiled priest. It is also a romance on a very human scale. The music is authentic (with elements of traditional Irish and Australian tunes) but also with a contemporary resonance that both anchors the story yet transcends time, place and character.
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New Musicals Australia has announced a plethora of exciting and diverse projects in its next installment of presentations and workshops for November and December 2011. My project "Transport" will be presented under the direction of Director, Stuart Maunder and Musical Director, Anne-‐Maree McDonald on Friday, 25 November and Sunday, 27 November at Sidetrack Theatre. “Transport” is a musical theatre project that arose from the imagination of world-renown novelist Thomas Keneally (“Schindler’s List”) and is based on the journey of his wife Judy’s grandmother from Cork to Australia in 1846. It was conceived as a musical but the ideal composer for the project remained elusive until Tom met Wexford's Larry Kirwan, founder of the iconic New York City band BLACK 47 and also a playwright and novelist.“Transport” tells a universal story of immigration, loss, hope and redemption combined with the rich historic detail of the Irish Protestant and Catholic conflict and the searing pain of the Irish Diaspora to the Australian penal colony. Its characters include the women of various ages being transported, the crew of the Whisper and an exiled priest. It is also a romance on a very human scale. The music is authentic (with elements of traditional Irish and Australian tunes) but also with a contemporary resonance that both anchors the story yet transcends time, place and character.
