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Privates On Parade
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Privates On Parade

Event Date: 12/02/2014, 07:30 pm

Young and innocent Private Steven Flowers is posted to Singapore to entertain the British troops.
Young and innocent Private Steven Flowers is posted to Singapore to entertain the British troops during the Malayan Emergency in 1948. As part of the ‘Song And Dance Unit South East Asia’ (SADUSEA), he finds himself in a company of military misfits.

The star of the troupe is flamboyant Captain ‘Auntie’ Terri Dennis, a civilian soldier who much prefers lipstick and a feather boa to a rifle and fatigues and delights in running the gamut of drag from Carmen Miranda to Marlene Dietrich to Vera Lynn. With a penchant for sailors and a heart of gold, he benevolently guides this group of shy, sexually inexperienced young lads, straight and gay, as they journey from boys to men, far from home fighting a ruthless enemy in a jungle guerrilla war.

Peter Nichol’s delightful coming-of-age comedy is underpinned by a darker and more poignant reality. Political themes of colonialism, revolution, homophobia and racism and personal stories of fear, loneliness and falling in love, are all served up in a camp concoction of songs, dance, blokes in frocks and very naughty laughs.

“Privates on Parade is like Apocalypse Now given the Kenneth Williams remix or Cabaret retold by Noël Coward … incredibly good fun” Time Out, London

PRIVATES ON PARADE is based on Peter Nichol’s own experiences of doing his National Service as part of an entertainment unit in Singapore (a unit which included Kenneth Williams of Carry On fame). The play won the prestigious Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy when in debuted in 1977. A film, starring John Cleese, soon followed, and it has enjoyed many revivals over the years since. New Theatre first produced the play in 1989; and in 2012, it was the inaugural production for the new Michael Grandage Company in London, with Simon Russell Beale in the bravura role of ‘Terri Dennis’.

Director Alice Livingstone has been involved in a number of past Mardi Gras productions, as either director, actor or producer, including Mother Clap’s Molly
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New Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
Location:
New Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
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Phone Number: 1300 347 205
Divergence Jazz Orchestra - CD Launch
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Divergence Jazz Orchestra - CD Launch

Event Date: 12/02/2014, 08:30 pm

Conducted by Jenna Cave
Led by Jenna Cave and Paul Weber, Divergence Jazz Orchestra is made up of 18 of Sydney’s most accomplished young jazz musicians.
This special concert will mark the official launch of their debut album The Opening Statement, which is a showcase of music composed by Jenna Cave.

Since its release in late 2013 the album has received critical acclaim; listed twice in the ABC Jazz presenter picks of 2013, featured as album of the week on Eastside Radio and reviewed with four stars in The Australian.

“A highly listenable album…Cave has established herself as a top-level composer, arranger and conductor in Australian contemporary jazz.” – John McBeath, The Australian

“Superb playing and compositions…A beautiful recording”
- Ivan Lloyd, ABC Jazz

“The Opening Statement is, all up, one hell of an opening statement from a group that – it is apparent – has a hell of lot more to say”
– John Hardaker, Australianjazz.net


CONDUCTOR AND COMPOSER – Jenna Cave

TROMBONES – Paul Weber (Co-Musical Director, lead), Brendan Champion, Tim Coggins, Jono Ramsay (bass)

TRUMPETS AND FLUGELHORNS- Dane Laboyrie (lead), Matthew Collins, Luke Stephens, Paul Meo, Will Gilbert

SAXOPHONES AND WOODWINDS- Justin Buckingham (lead alto, soprano, flute), Joshua Willard (alto, clarinet), Evan Harris (tenor, soprano, flute), Louis Klassen (tenor), Chris O’Dea (baritone)

RHYTHM- Luke Liang (guitar), Andrew Scott (piano), David Groves (bass), James McCaffrey (drums)


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This double-pass is for the event only. You can upgrade your ticket to include the dinner special. Please call the venue if you wish to do so.
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616 Harris St.,
Ultimo New South Wales,2007
Location:
616 Harris St.,
Ultimo New South Wales,2007
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Phone Number: 02 9211 9442
Short Sweet And Theatre
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Short Sweet And Theatre

Event Date: 13/02/2014, 07:30 pm

Short+Sweet - the festival of tasty short theatre bites
The annual festival of 10-minute plays opens 8 January running through to 3 March at the King Street Theatre, Newtown. The program changes weekly and plays Wed - Sat 7.30pm plus Sun 5.15. Plus the Wildcard performances: Sat 2:30pm, Sun 1pm and Mon at 7:30pm.

Theatre festival director Pete Malicki – taking the helm of his 3rd straight fest - said Short+Sweet was the biggest of its type in the world. This year it boasts 170 short plays – chosen from more than 1200 entries from all over Australia and internationally – and showcasing the talents of 320 writers and directors and more than 450 actors.

On display is the work of both seasoned professionals and talented newcomers – often in an explosive alchemical mix. This year Sydney also welcomes companies visiting from Malaysia and India where the international arm of Short+Sweet is already well-established.

Pete enthused about the networking opportunities such a festival offers artists as well as a door way to further fame - and sometimes even fortune!

"In 2009 when presenting my first Short+Sweet play I saw an amazing monologue by a young woman wrapped in bandages while talking about having sex with super villains.

“That actress was Steph Dawson who just recently landed herself a lead role as Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games."

Other Short+Sweet alumni include Rose Byrne and Brendan Cowell.

This year, the theatre festival runs in parallel during January to a Cabaret and Dance festival, just up the road at the New Theatre.
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King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
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King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
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Short Sweet And Theatre - Quick Tix Last Day
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Event Date: 13/02/2014, 07:30 pm

Short+Sweet - the festival of tasty short theatre bites
The annual festival of 10-minute plays opens 8 January running through to 3 March at the King Street Theatre, Newtown. The program changes weekly and plays Wed - Sat 7.30pm plus Sun 5.15. Plus the Wildcard performances: Sat 2:30pm, Sun 1pm and Mon at 7:30pm.

Theatre festival director Pete Malicki – taking the helm of his 3rd straight fest - said Short+Sweet was the biggest of its type in the world. This year it boasts 170 short plays – chosen from more than 1200 entries from all over Australia and internationally – and showcasing the talents of 320 writers and directors and more than 450 actors.

On display is the work of both seasoned professionals and talented newcomers – often in an explosive alchemical mix. This year Sydney also welcomes companies visiting from Malaysia and India where the international arm of Short+Sweet is already well-established.

Pete enthused about the networking opportunities such a festival offers artists as well as a door way to further fame - and sometimes even fortune!

"In 2009 when presenting my first Short+Sweet play I saw an amazing monologue by a young woman wrapped in bandages while talking about having sex with super villains.

“That actress was Steph Dawson who just recently landed herself a lead role as Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games."

Other Short+Sweet alumni include Rose Byrne and Brendan Cowell.

This year, the theatre festival runs in parallel during January to a Cabaret and Dance festival, just up the road at the New Theatre.
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King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
Location:
King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
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Short Sweet And Theatre
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Short Sweet And Theatre

Event Date: 13/02/2014, 07:30 pm

Short+Sweet - the festival of tasty short theatre bites
The annual festival of 10-minute plays opens 8 January running through to 3 March at the King Street Theatre, Newtown. The program changes weekly and plays Wed - Sat 7.30pm plus Sun 5.15. Plus the Wildcard performances: Sat 2:30pm, Sun 1pm and Mon at 7:30pm.

Theatre festival director Pete Malicki – taking the helm of his 3rd straight fest - said Short+Sweet was the biggest of its type in the world. This year it boasts 170 short plays – chosen from more than 1200 entries from all over Australia and internationally – and showcasing the talents of 320 writers and directors and more than 450 actors.

On display is the work of both seasoned professionals and talented newcomers – often in an explosive alchemical mix. This year Sydney also welcomes companies visiting from Malaysia and India where the international arm of Short+Sweet is already well-established.

Pete enthused about the networking opportunities such a festival offers artists as well as a door way to further fame - and sometimes even fortune!

"In 2009 when presenting my first Short+Sweet play I saw an amazing monologue by a young woman wrapped in bandages while talking about having sex with super villains.

“That actress was Steph Dawson who just recently landed herself a lead role as Annie Cresta in The Hunger Games."

Other Short+Sweet alumni include Rose Byrne and Brendan Cowell.

This year, the theatre festival runs in parallel during January to a Cabaret and Dance festival, just up the road at the New Theatre.
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King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
Location:
King Street Theatre,
Newtown New South Wales,2042
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Shakespeare In Opera
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Shakespeare In Opera

Event Date: 13/02/2014, 10:30 am

5-week course presented by Opera Historian Murray Dahm
Opera Historian Murray Dahm has been providing Sydney with informative and entertaining opera lectures since 2003. Join him as he explores a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera history.

Combining his love of opera and history (and his insatiable CD and DVD collecting), Murray’s lectures examine various aspects of opera, its history, culture and (of course) its music. His lectures are accessible and informative and copiously illustrated with recordings of the material being examined.

This double pass allows you and a friend to attend Murray's next course:
SHAKESPEARE IN OPERA, a 5-week course running each Thursday morning from 10.30am to 12.30 pm.

See www.operabites.com.au (lecture tab) for further information.
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Location:
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
Location:
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
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Phone Number: 0403 780 107
Silk Road Changan In Concert
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Silk Road Changan In Concert

Event Date: 08/02/2014, 07:30 pm

The internationally renowned Shaanxi Folk Culture Troupe will enthral Sydney audiences
To celebrate CHINESE YEAR YEAR 2014, a spectacular event direct from China will be staged in Sydney as part of the official program for the City of Sydney’s Chinese New Year Festival 2014.

The internationally renowned Shaanxi Folk Culture Troupe will enthral Sydney audiences with a feast of Chinese ethnic music for one night only at City Recital Hall on Saturday 8 February. Silk Road Chang’an will feature a selection of Chinese ethnic masterpieces including Qing dynasty’s Style and Legend, Silk Road and Shaanxi local and Urgel ethnic music.

Founded in 1959, Hunan Acrobatic Art Theatre has performed in more than 40 countries and regions taking their traditional folk art and distinctive culture to the world. The company has also won more than 30 awards in national and international acrobatic competitions. Shaanxi Folk Culture Troupe was founded in 2012 and works with director Mr Zhao Jiping, Chair of China Musicians’ Association and president of Xi’an Conservatory, and artistic advisor Mr Pu Dongsheng, honourable president of the Chinese Orchestra Society.
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City Recital Hall, Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
Location:
City Recital Hall, Angel Place,
Sydney New South Wales,2000
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Phone Number: 02 9186 1588
Imogen Clark & Joe Mungovan The Mountains To The Sea Tour
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Imogen Clark & Joe Mungovan The Mountains To...

Event Date: 07/02/2014, 07:00 pm

Experience Australia's new folk/pop sensation
Imogen Clark and Joe Mungovan will embark on The Mountains to the Sea Tour in early 2014, sharing their acoustic stories with audiences spanning the east coast of Australia. The two folk-inspired singer/songwriters have respectively performed at some of this country’s most renowned venues, including Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney Convention Centre, Forum Theatre, Tamworth Regional Entertainment Centre and Sydney Cricket Ground.

With Imogen Clark having supported the likes of Matt Corby and The McClymonts, and Joe Mungovan having opened for Ian Moss (Cold Chisel) and Mark Seymour (Hunters and Collectors), the two have racked up an impressive performance history, a history which also includes having gained fantastic audience and industry feedback from their respective performances at the Blue Mountains Folk Festival, Northern Beaches Music Festival, Culburra Beach Festival and Kiama Jazz Festival. Imogen was also shortlisted in the top 35 out of 3,300 entries for the 2013 Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition.

As well as presenting their individual sets on tour, these two 2012 Talent Development Project graduates will also join forces to captivate audiences across NSW.
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The Corner Store at The Imperial Hotel, 35 Erskineville Rd ,
Erskineville New South Wales,2043
Location:
The Corner Store at The Imperial Hotel, 35 Erskineville Rd ,
Erskineville New South Wales,2043
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Phone Number: 0403 630 745
Become A City Explorer!
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Become A City Explorer!

Event Date: 07/02/2014, 03:00 pm

Upgrade your account and a friends account for one month!
This is a special giveaway for all Discovery Members.



Enter this draw to become a City Explorer for one month at no cost!



Some special rules - If you win, in order to be eligible for this double-pass, you have to invite a friend (not a family member!) to join Ticket Wombat.


Once your friend has signed up, both of you will be upgraded for 30 days.


After 30 days both of you will be automatically downgraded to your previous free Discovery membership.
Current City Explorers are excluded from this draw.
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All of NSW,
All of NSW New South Wales,2000
Location:
All of NSW,
All of NSW New South Wales,2000
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Phone Number: 9940 3649
Java Quartet
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Java Quartet

Event Date: 06/02/2014, 08:30 pm

The band's late summer program at Foundry616
"The Java Quartet is well schooled in the Jazz tradition and has built on those concepts in presenting music with dash and a contemporary flair… These Aussies seem to have something brewing". Frank Rubolino, Cadence Magazine, New York

A band with a pedigree and a band with staying power. Bandleader and bassist Michael Galeazzi formed the Java Quartet in 1994. Using the modal jazz styling of Miles Davis and John Coltrane as a starting point, the group has since defined its own ambience through six albums, focusing upon ensemble improvisation to manifest their sound. At once driving, trance-like and reflective, The Java Quartet establishes their own corner of sonic territory.

2010 found the group extending its musical palette with Rejavanation, a collection of remixes and new material incorporating the meditative aesthetics of contemporary dj/dance culture and Hindustani ragas. Started as a part of Michael Galeazzi’s postgraduate research at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the group has invited guests of note (including virtuosos Bobby Singh on Tabla, Adrian McNeil on sarod, lap top performer Jonathan Palmer and Hip Hop producer Morganics) to explore notions of hybridity through contemporary hypnotic landscapes.

In 2014 a new album of original compositions will be released, taking the next step beyond Rejavanation. Once again including guests Bobby Singh and Morganics, this album returns to the acoustic (and organic) nature of the group, blending exotic grooves and spoken word into the jazz harmonic world that is The Java Quartet.

With this new release in the pipeline for 2014 and a new buzz around the band, we are delighted to present the band in late summer program.


NOTE:
This double-pass is for the event only. You can upgrade your ticket to include the dinner special. Please call the venue if you wish to do so.
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Location:
616 Harris St.,
Ultimo New South Wales,2007
Location:
616 Harris St.,
Ultimo New South Wales,2007
Contact Information:
Phone Number: 02 9211 9442
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