Allan Chapple has done over three thousand performances, including the series director in 2005 Tele movie “Dynasty – Behind the Scenes”, two thirds of which involved singing, and has produced a dozen or more dramatic and comic plays, 2 full scale musicals, 6 theatre restaurant shows, 20 pantomimes and children’s shows, 2 short films and written and directed some 60 corporate and training videos.
He has taught acting for TV and Film at Ensemble Studios as well as acting for theatre at Brent Street and many other schools, and corporate communication skills for many top leaders in the public and private sectors.
Nearly a month ago I watched a rehearsal of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, the new musical based on the movie of the same name, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin. With performances at that rehearsal by musical luminaries as Tony Sheldon, …
Elvis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, stars of Rock and Roll, have one thing in common: a start at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Last night at the Bridge Hotel, Roselle, a rare insight into the …
In the spirit of eight degrees of separation, I once did a play with an old actor called Alton Harvey, who once did a show with Noel Coward. When I asked what he was like to work with, he told …
On Thursday last I had the great pleasure of watching a rehearsal for the upcoming season of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – and, if I can take the popular modern liberty of inventing a new word, it promises to be ‘scoundralously‘ …
Briana Bluebell, Miss Burlesque Australia 2012, has brought to the Slide Lounge a cheeky little cabaret show with an enthusiastic cast of two of each gender. But it was more than a fairly traditional version of burlesque. (I once visited …
Proudly announcing the Sydney amateur premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA the Miranda Musical Society take up the challenge of this lavish musical. Can they pull it off? You bet your sweet opera glasses, which is what …
Delighted, intrigued, mesmerised, astounded. These were the gamut of emotions I shared with the opening night audience at HAPPY AS LARRY last night at the Seymour Centre. It started fifteen minutes late due to a technical hitch, but it was …
When I learned that JERUSALEM ran for two hours and forty minutes with two intervals I groaned inwardly and steeled myself for a marathon. When the curtain came down on the opening performance I didn’t want it to end and …
The Workers in Darling Street Balmain is a venue steeped in history, specifically as the birthplace of the Australian Labour Party (Balmain was the first of 45 Labor Electoral Leagues established by the NSW Trades and Labor Council in 1891) …
According to the “Athens” Merchant of Venice website, “Shakespeare and Anti-Semitism: The Question of Shylock,” there are two views on the plays alleged anti-Semitism. First, the text presented strong evidence of Shakespeare’s purpose to portray Shylock as an “inhuman” villain …