SHOWTUNE PRODUCTIONS

MEDIA 2005

LILLIAS WHITE

Tony-winning actor-singer Lillias White has been a fixture of New York's Broadway musical scene since the early 1980s, her credits including Barnum, Dreamgirls, Once on this Island, How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and The Life. Her autobiographical cabare, From Brooklyn to Broadway, offers a rare oppurtunity to hear her magnificent voice in an intimate club setting. - The Sun Herald

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LILLIAS WHITE

"She's alive" despite her success, Lillias White remains generous and level-headed.

A queen of Broadway wants the young to know that dreams come true, writes Bryce Hallett.

Even off stage Lillias White has that special, indefinable something. Ebullience and ease are part of the equation, so too her curiosity and laughter.

The award-winning music-theatre performer from New York is neatly summed up by the French waiter in the cafe where we meet for this interview. "She's just great. I like her - she's alive!" - The Sydney Morning Herald

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LILLIAS WHITE

Singer Lillias White says she never experienced a revelation she would be a performer. "I didn't realise it, my family did," White says. Now White is in Australia for a series of cabaret-style shows, showcasing the entire journey from "grandmother's table to Broadway stardom and beyond," along with some great jazz tunes. - The Daily Telegraph

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LILLIAS WHITE

Broadway Diva Lillias White, who is about to make her Sydney debut, is keen to recreate her most famous role in the new movie of Dreamgirls.

Legendary Broadway musical Dreamgirls, based on the story of Motown supergroup The Supremes, is heading to the big screen early next year with a star line-up already confirmed in the cast.  - Sydney Star Observer

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LILLIAS WHITE

Together with her Tony, White also received the Drama Desk Award, Peoples Choice Award and The Outer Critics Award for Best Actress in a Musical -- Broadway's prestigious quadruple crown -- for her 1997 role as Sonja in The Life. She also won the Obie for her role in Romance in Hard Times and a Drama-Logue Award for her role in Dreamgirls.  - About Sydney Theatre Directory

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MICHELINE VAN HAUTEM

A year on from her memorable first Sydney visit, Belgian singer Micheline Van Hautem returned with her muse, Jacques Brel, and her miraculous musical partner, Frederik Caelen. What ensued may have been less intense than it was in the more intimate Sound Lounge, but she still lit a slow blue flame under Brel, and made his songs writhe a little. - Sydney Morning Herald

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 IT AINT A GAMBLE. IT'S A SURE BETTE

"Tradition" was the first song Bette Midler sang on Broadway in 1966 in the ensemble of "Fiddler On The Roof" and last night thirty nine years later she once again gave us a huge serve of tradition. The kind of tradition that one could think has been forgotten in our crazy fast paced modern world, I am talking of the good old fashioned tradition called SHOWBIZ. To see a woman in her 60th year rip up a packed arena of over 20,000 people using every trick in the trade is really an experience no living human should miss. - David Hawkins

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COUNCIL CANS SYDNEY CABARET CONVENTION

Hot off the press, Arts Hub has learned that the Sydney City Council has officially ceased its support of the Sydney Cabaret Convention.

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LIFE'S NOT A CABARET, OLD CHUM, IN MOORE'S NEW CITY OF VILLAGES

They stormed the barricades in Les Miserables and now many of our music theatre stars plan to protest at the demise of the annual Sydney Cabaret Convention, on the Town Hall steps.

They are incensed that the City of Sydney has scrapped the event without consultation or an appreciation of its cultural worth.

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SYDNEY CABARET CONVENTION

The Sydney City Council has today officially stopped supporting the Sydney Cabaret Convention. In a letter to cabaret producer, David Hawkins, the council has blamed the amalgamation of South Sydney and the City of Sydney councils for its failure to continue its support.

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - FOLK IN THE FAMILY

RUFUS Wainwright is not your conventional pop or folk star. He is both, yet much more: a purveyor of everything from opera to punk. He also believes the family that plays together stays together.

The openly gay singer-songwriter son of Loudon Wainwright III of Dead Skunk fame tours Australia this week with his mother and aunt, acclaimed 1970s folk duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and his sister Martha Wainwright, who is about to release her debut album. - The Adelaide Advertiser

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - RAISING THE RUFUS - CANADAIAN DRY

Singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright brings his unique sound and family to Sydney Festival. The family that plays together, stays together ... or so says Canadian troubadour Rufus Wainwright - The Daily Telegraph

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT: THE GAY MESSIAH IS COMING

Singer Rufus Wainwright speaks to Myles Wearring about his traumatic coming out, battling crystal meth, believing in God and his new album. - The Sydney Star Observer

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RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - KABARETT VOLTAIRE

It is so easy to hate Rufus Wainwright. And surely Wainwright, who confessed to once briefly having an irrational hatred of Jeff Buckley born of artistic jealousy, would understand. After all, there's just too much to complain about with this Canadian singer/songwriter. - The Sydney Morning Herald

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