Jack Bradford
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Jack Bradford is an American / Australian stage actor and director. He is perhaps best known by many in Brisbane for founding the Brisbane Junior Theatre company which presented its first production - The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...

 in April 2001. He also loves a good sneaky wink ;)

Bradford, the son of Gerald and Rose Bradford, was born in 1959 at Milton, Florida
Milton, Florida
Milton , or Milltown, because Milton had the largest mill around) is a city in Santa Rosa County, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated in 1844 and is home to Naval Air Station Whiting Field. The population was 7,045 at the 2000 census. In 2004, the population recorded by the U.S...

 USA. Jack's Dad was a Navy Captain which meant that Jack and his seven siblings were regularly on the move. His first stage role was taking the part of Jesus in Godspell
Godspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

 working alongside Kathy Najimy
Kathy Najimy
Kathy Ann Najimy is an American actress, most notable as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica's Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill. Prior to her film work, she was best known for two Off Broadway shows...

 in 1975. After completing his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre, Jack moved to Brisbane, Australia in 1988, having married an Australian, Deborah Onions, whom he had met on a visit to Australia in 1986. From 1989 to 1993, Jack was the Senior Pastor of the Christian Praise Centre in Glen Innes, N.S.W.

In 1993, Jack, Debbie and their 3 boys moved back to Brisbane, which is where they currently live.

Stage

Year Title Role Location
1975 Godspell
Godspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

Jesus Helix Summer Theatre, La Mesa CA. alongside Kathy Najimy
Kathy Najimy
Kathy Ann Najimy is an American actress, most notable as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica's Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series King of the Hill. Prior to her film work, she was best known for two Off Broadway shows...

1976 The Roar of the Greasepaint Cocky Monte Vista High School. Director Ron Ray.
1977 Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang.Kiss...

Hortensio Grossmont College
Grossmont College
Grossmont College is a community college located in El Cajon, California, in the county of San Diego. The campus sits in the Fletcher Hills community of El Cajon and is bordered by the cities of San Diego and Santee. Grossmont College is one of the two colleges that make up the Grossmont-Cuyamaca...

 Summer Theatre, El Cajon CA.
1977 Equus
Equus (play)
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses....

Alan, Strang Grossmont College, San Diego, CA. working alongside John Castellanos
1978 Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for Nights of Cabiria...

Herman Cajon Performing Arts Center
1979 The Roar of the Greasepaint Cocky Patio Playhouse, Escondido, CA.
1979 How to Succeed in Business
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....

Bert Bratt Grossmont College
Grossmont College
Grossmont College is a community college located in El Cajon, California, in the county of San Diego. The campus sits in the Fletcher Hills community of El Cajon and is bordered by the cities of San Diego and Santee. Grossmont College is one of the two colleges that make up the Grossmont-Cuyamaca...

 Summer Theatre, El Cajon, CA.
1979 Zoo Story Director, Jerry Central Wyoming College
1979 All the World’s a Stage Writer, Editor and Principal Central Wyoming College. (A Shakespearean Review).
1980 Butterflies are Free
Butterflies Are Free
Butterflies Are Free is a 1972 film based on a play by Leonard Gershe. The 1972 film was produced by M.J. Frankovich, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Milton Katselas and adapted for the screen by Gershe. It was released on 6 July, 1972 in the USA.Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert starred...

Donny Dark, Set and Light Designer Central Wyoming College.
1980 Camelot
Camelot (musical)
Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe . It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King....

Arthur Central Wyoming College.
1980 My Partner and Olio
Olio (musical number)
An olio is a Vaudeville number, short dance or song performed as musical encore after the performance of a dramatic play. It can also be defined as a collection of various artistic or literary works or musical pieces used between acts in a burlesque or minstrel show. This was common on showboats in...

 by Bartley Campbell
Bartley Campbell
Bartley Theodore Campbell was an American playwright of the latter 19th century.-Early years:Campbell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1843 to parents who had emigrated from Ireland. His writing career began at the age of fifteen in 1858, when he took a job as a reporter for the...

Sam Bowler, Imperial Players Cripple Creek, Colorado. Professional Summer Stock, 150 Performances.
1983 Waiting for Lefty
Waiting for Lefty
Waiting for Lefty is a 1935 play by American playwright Clifford Odets. Consisting of a series of related vignettes, the entire play is framed by the meeting of cab drivers who are planning a labor strike. The framing situation utilizes the audience as part of the meeting.While this was not the...

Irv Wright State University, Professional Actors Training Company, Ohio.
1983 Two by Two
Two by Two (musical)
Two By Two is a Broadway musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and music by Richard Rodgers.Based on Clifford Odets's play The Flowering Peach, it tells the story of Noah's preparations for the Great Flood and its aftermath....

Japheth Dayton Playhouse, Ohio.
1984 Equus
Equus (play)
Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses....

Dalton Wright State University, Professional Actors Training Company, Ohio (with George Grizzard
George Grizzard
George Cooper Grizzard, Jr. was an American actor of film and stage. He appeared in more than 40 films, dozens of television programs and a number of Broadway plays.-Life and career:...

.)
1984 Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss Me, Kate is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It is structured as a play within a play, where the interior play is a musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The original production starred Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Lisa Kirk and Harold Lang.Kiss...

Petruchio, Fred Dayton Playhouse, Ohio.
1984 Princess Ida
Princess Ida
Princess Ida; or, Castle Adamant is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5, 1884, for a run of 246 performances...

Cyril Center Stage, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
1984 Royal Hunt of the Sun De Candia Fairborn Playhouse, Ohio.
1985 Amadeus
Amadeus
Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer.It is based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, highly fictionalized.Amadeus was first performed in 1979...

Baron Van Swieten Wright State University, Professional Actors Training Company, Ohio.
1985 Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

Director Fairborn Playhouse, Ohio.
1985 Antigone
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 442 BC. Chronologically, it is the third of the three Theban plays but was written first...

Creon Yellow Springs Amphitheater, Ohio.
1989 Godspell
Godspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

Jesus Ballarat Light Opera Company, Ballarat Victoria Australia.
1995 Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote...

Sancho Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
1996 Godspell
Godspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

Director Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
1997 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

Director Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
1999 Guys and Dolls Nicely Nicely Johnson Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
1999 The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...

Director Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
2000 Godspell
Godspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

Director Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
2001 Bye Bye Birdie Harry MacAfee Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
2001 Oliver
Oliver!
Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....

Director Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
2002 Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables...

Savoyards Theatre Company, Brisbane Australia. Winner of the 2002 4MBS Perform Award
4MBS Perform Award
4MBS Perform Awards are awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, drama, fringe theatre, music, musical theatre and opera in Brisbane....

 for best actor in a musical.
2002 Wit
Wit (play)
Wit is a play written by American playwright Margaret Edson. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play. Wit received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California, in 1995...

Director La Boite Theatre D-Lab, Brisbane Australia.
2002 The Music Man
The Music Man
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...

Harold Hill Queensland Musical Theatre, Brisbane Australia.
2004 West Side Story
West Side Story
West Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...

Director Savoyards Theatre Company, Brisbane Australia.
2004 Wit
Wit (play)
Wit is a play written by American playwright Margaret Edson. Edson used her work experience in a hospital as part of the inspiration for her play. Wit received its world premiere at South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, California, in 1995...

Director Bunbury Theatre Company, Brisbane Australia. In the 2004 Matilda Awards
Matilda Awards
The Matilda Awards are awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, theatre, and performance in Brisbane, the Australian state capital of Queensland and are the only awards to do so in that state...

 Caroline Kennison was a joint winner of Best Female Actor in a lead role for her role as Professor Vivian Bearing.
2004 Arsenic and Old Lace
Arsenic and Old Lace (play)
Arsenic and Old Lace is a play by American playwright Joseph Kesselring, written in 1939. It has become best known through the film adaptation starring Cary Grant and directed by Frank Capra. The play was directed by Bretaigne Windust, and opened on January 10, 1941. On September 25, 1943, the...

Teddy Brewster Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
2005 Les Misérables
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....

Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean
Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables...

Ignatians Theatre Company, Brisbane Australia.
2006 Rent
Rent (musical)
Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème...

Director and Joint Producer Schonell Theatre, University of Queensland Brisbane Australia.
2006 Parade
Parade (musical)
Parade is a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry and music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. The musical was first produced on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on December 17, 1998. The production was directed by Harold Prince and closed 28 February 1999 after only 39 previews and 84 regular...

Tom Watson, Old Soldier Warehaus Theatre, Brisbane Australia.
2006 Godspell
Godspell
Godspell is a musical by Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak. It opened off Broadway on May 17, 1971, and has played in various touring companies and revivals many times since, including a 2011 revival now playing on Broadway...

Jesus, Director and Joint Producer Schonell Theatre, University of Queensland Brisbane Australia.
2007 Children of Eden
Children of Eden
Children of Eden is a two-act musical play with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by John Caird. The musical is based on the Book of Genesis. Act I tells the story of Adam and Eve, Cain, and Abel, and Act II deals with Noah and the Flood...

Father Harvest Rain Theatre Company
Harvest Rain Theatre Company
The Harvest Rain Theatre Company is a theatre companies which operates a training and rehearsal facility in Brisbane, Queensland. Since the beginning of 2009, they have been a resident theatre company at The Queensland Performing Arts Centre....

, Brisbane Australia.
2007 The Witches of Eastwick
The Witches of Eastwick (musical)
The Witches of Eastwick is a 2000 musical based on the novel of the same name by John Updike. It was adapted by John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe , directed by Eric Schaeffer, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh....

Director and Joint Producer Schonell Theatre, University of Queensland Brisbane Australia.
2008 The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...

Director Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2008 Songs for a New World
Songs for a New World
Songs for a New World is a work of musical theater written and composed by Jason Robert Brown. Its original off-Broadway production ran for 28 performances at the WPA Theater in New York City in 1995. The show sits on the boundary between musical and song cycle, but it is neither; it is an abstract...

Director (Qld Premiere) Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2008 Proof
Proof (play)
Proof is a play by David Auburn originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on 23 May 2000. It then went to Broadway on 24 October 2000 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, and was directed by Daniel J. Sullivan, with Mary-Louise Parker as Catherine, Larry Bryggman as Robert, Ben Shenkman as Hal, and...

Robert (professor) Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2008 Suds Director (Australian Premiere) Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2009 An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...

Earl of Caversham Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2009 Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2009 Speed the Plow
Speed-the-Plow
Speed-the-Plow is a play by David Mamet which is a satirical dissection of the American movie business, a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films Wag the Dog and State and Main ....

Charlie Fox Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2009 Forbidden Broadway
Forbidden Broadway
Forbidden Broadway is an Off-Broadway satirical revue conceived, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini. The original version of the revue opened on January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York City and ran for 2,332 performances. Alessandrini has rewritten the show over a dozen...

Director Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2010 Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

Director, Tevye Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2010 13
13 (musical)
13 is a musical with lyrics and music by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Dan Elish, with Robert Horn newly joining as co-librettist. The story concerns the life of 13-year-old Evan Goldman as he moves from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, and his dilemma when the move conflicts with the...

Director Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.
2010 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....

Director, J.B. Biggley Starlight Theatre, Centre Stage Spring Hill, Brisbane Australia.

Brisbane Junior Theatre Productions

Year School Holiday Title Location
2001 Easter The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...

RiverCity Family Church, The Gap
2001 September Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

RiverCity Family Church, The Gap
2002 Easter H.M.S. Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...

RiverCity Family Church, The Gap
2002 September Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

RiverCity Family Church, The Gap
2003 Easter The Mikado
The Mikado
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations...

Centenary Uniting Church, Middle Park
2003 July The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...

Bracken Ridge Baptist Church
2003 September Guys and Dolls Centenary Uniting Church, Middle Park
2004 July Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

Bracken Ridge Baptist Church
2004 September Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

Bracken Ridge Baptist Church
2005 June–July The King and I
The King and I
The King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...

Bracken Ridge Baptist Church
2005 September The Music Man
The Music Man
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...

Bracken Ridge Baptist Church
2006 July Aladdin Bracken Ridge Baptist Church with performances at Redcliffe Cultural Centre
2006 September Guys and Dolls Clontarf Baptist Church with performances at Redcliffe Cultural Centre
2007 January Oklahoma
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2007 Easter Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story is based on the "coat of many colors" story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis. This was the first Lloyd Webber and Rice musical to be performed publicly...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2007 July Mulan Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2007 September Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters by Sholem Aleichem...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2008 January Cinderella
Cinderella (TV)
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical written for television, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based upon the fairy tale Cinderella, particularly the French version Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de Vair, by Charles Perrault...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2008 January Into the Woods
Into the Woods
Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...

Centre Stage Theatre, Spring Hill
2008 Easter Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based primarily on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a few additional elements from Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was released in New...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2008 July Annie
Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2008 September Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2009 January Aladdin Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2009 January H.M.S. Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical...

Centre Stage Theatre, Spring Hill
2009 Easter King and I Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2009 July Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast (musical)
Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2009 September High School Musical
High School Musical
High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2010 January High School Musical 2 Albany Hills Christian Church with performances at Ferny Grove High School Theatre
2010 Easter The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The opera's official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City on 31 December 1879, where the show was well received by both audiences...

Albany Hills Christian Church with performances at Centre Stage Theatre, Spring Hill
2010 June–July Mulan Albany Hills Christian Church with performances at Centre Stage Theatre, Spring Hill
2010 September Seussical
Seussical
is a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty based on the books of Dr. Seuss that debuted on Broadway in 2000. The play's story is a rather complex amalgamation of many of Seuss's most famous books. After a Broadway run, the production spawned two US national tours and a UK tour...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2011 January Oklahoma!
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! is the first musical written by composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2011 June The Music Man
The Music Man
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naive townsfolk before skipping town with...

Albany Hills Christian Church, Warner
2011 September Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay by Richard Morris focuses on a naive young woman who finds herself in the midst of a series of madcap adventures when she sets her sights on marrying her wealthy boss.The...

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