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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1977

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Reviews CONCERT

Tharunka · Monday 8 August 1977 · page 11

It is nine years since that thunderous cover version of the Beatles 'With a Little Help from my Friends' made Joe Cocker…

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Successful ball From the Mayor’s Desk

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 9 August 1977 · page 7

BY courtesy of the president and members of Guildford Leagues Club, the Holroyd Mayoral Ball was held in the…

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THEATRE Boeing, Boeing

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 11 August 1977 · page 15

Boeing, Boeing, the Theatre Royal’s latest presentation, is funny second or even third time around. Whilst the plot may be as…

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Grand dance

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 16 August 1977 · page 3

HOLROYD residents who once hved at the Dundas Migrant Hostel are invited to a grand jubilee…

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Concert Helps Invalid Home

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 August 1977 · page 20

More than 300 music lovers attended a concert organized by Keren Mishpachot Hagiborim’s Sydney division recently. The concert featured…

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Wizo concert fills Hakoah

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 18 August 1977 · page 17

The second annual concert of WIZO Eilat at the Hakoah Club had once more the “House Full’’ sign out. The program, if somewhat overlong, contained much fine…

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CONCERT Bert Jansch & John Martyn

Tharunka · Monday 22 August 1977 · page 13

If ever a concert promised to be an epic affair, this was the one. All the right ingredients were there. The Town Hall was…

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THEATRE Norman Conquest

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 25 August 1977 · page 19

Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy was off to a good start with its first comedy “Table Manners," at the Seymour Centre. Each play of the trilogy…

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THEATRE Norman Conquests

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 September 1977 · page 19

Although the laughs are still there, the second play (Living Together) in Norman Conquests leaves…

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CONCERT Supercharge

Tharunka · Monday 5 September 1977 · page 20

Consider what would happen if you had Little Feat, Queen, The Average White Band, Frank Zappa, Buster Keaton, and the…

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Theatre ‘Going Home’

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 September 1977 · page 13

Alma de Groen’s play is good entertainment in patches, but fails in its attempt to make a lasting impact on audiences. The story of…

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Theatre Gilbert Shines

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 September 1977 · page 19

Gilbert and Sullivan enthusiasts have a rare opportunity to hear the words of Gilbert in pure dramatic form in a witty and quickly moving comedy “Engaged,” now playing in Penrith,…

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Orchestra Young Friends Are Active Socializing or Culture? Youth Scene

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 September 1977 · page 21

Young people today are often more interested in the social aspect of a youth…

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45 years of New theatre

Tribune · Wednesday 21 September 1977 · page 8

The Captain of Kopenick by Carl Zuchmayer, now showing at New Theatre King St…

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Jane St. Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 September 1977 · page 15

The Jane St. Theatre’s latest production — “Don’t Piddle Against the Wind, Mate” by Kenneth G. Ross combines crude comedy with intense pathos. It introduces a man who…

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THEATRE Norman Conquests

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 September 1977 · page 15

The third play in the highly successful trilogy by Alan Ayckbourn, at the Sermour Centre, (Old Tote Theatre Company), rounds up the concept cleverly. It ends with Norman…

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Apartheid waived for orchestra

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 September 1977 · page 14

JOHANNESBURG: For the first time in South African history, African, colored and Indian musicians are, with Government permission, this month joining white musicians to form a 100-member symphony orchestra — which will…

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Theatre "The Time Is Not Yet Ripe"

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 29 September 1977 · page 15

The latest Old Tote production at the Drama Theatre misses on a number of points. The storyline is contrived, the dialogues empty…

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Entertainment Scene Theatre Virginia Woolf

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 October 1977 · page 15

A brief season of an excellent version of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, has just concluded at the Australian Theatre in Newtown…

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Jethro Tull in Concert

Tharunka · Monday 10 October 1977 · page 12

Jethro Tull, superstar band were in attendance and played a thoroughly professional set, yet for all its excellence it…

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