Audiences taken on a global tour
The Age
Monday March 21, 2011
TWO groups of singers are taking audiences on a journey around the world one for an Andrew Lloyd Webber production that features settings as diverse as Paris and Argentina, the other for a national day of harmony that celebrates our rich cultural diversity.Webber is royalty when it comes to musicals. After 40 years in the business, you would think the prolific composer would stop to smell the roses.Not so, says Stuart Maunder, director of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, that includes Webber's most popular works. According to Maunder, Webber continues to compose every day.Technology will take audiences from the Paris catacombs to the Argentina of Eva Peron.To celebrate national Harmony Day as well as the United Nations Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination singers from some of Melbourne's oldest and newest migrant groups lent their voices to the Black Harmony Gathering at the Fairfield amphitheatre. Melbourne's Aboriginal and Somali communities started the event seven years ago.Yesterday, there was entertainment by performers from the Congo, Senegal, Cook Islands and elsewhere.The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber endson March 30 at theRegent Theatre.
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