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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1981

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Home Ball Returns to Social Calendar

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 March 1981 · page 22

The Montefiore Home Ball, long a high point in the communal social calendar is being revived with 15 debutantes being presented to the NSW Premier, Neville Wran, and Mrs Wran at a ball in the Chevron Hotel on March 21. The ball is being…

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Entertainment scene abounds with riches Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 March 1981 · page 16

The stage in Sydney has us again in an “embarrassment of riches’’ situation…

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Young girl’s play proves winner for English Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 March 1981 · page 16

LONDON: Susanna Kleeman, aged 10, of Sf John’s Wood, London, an entrant in the 1981 Young Writer’s Festival, will see her first play, “Perfect Pigs”, staged in a professional production at the Royal Court’s Theatre Upstairs this month…

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Popular Bill of Fare Opens Ballet Season Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 5 March 1981 · page 17

The Australian Ballet’s 1981 subscription season opens at the Opera House on March 18 with a triple…

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Home Ball debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 12 March 1981 · page 19

Fifteen young teenagers will be presented to the NSW Premier, Neville…

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Refreshing evening of song and dance Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 16

We still think An Evening is a lousy title for a program of dance and music; and Graeme…

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Home Ball debutantes

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 19

Funds raised this year at the Montefiore Home Debutante Ball, on March 21, will go towards…

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Madness Journey No Ordinary Trip Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 17

Dear Natalie Bate: Surely no one who witnessed your powerful performance as Mary…

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Synagogue concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 16

An evening of music by the Benson Trio was recently leld in the Parramatta Synagogue. Program ranged from operetta to gypsy melodies to contemporary Broadway musicals…

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Rare Music in Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 19 March 1981 · page 17

A rare piece of Jewish music was performed for the first time in Australia at a recent concert in the North Shore Synagogue. The music, “Variations…

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Accept the ‘Q’ and forget the ‘A’... Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 March 1981 · page 20

The Q Theatre’s production of the Peter Nichols-Denis King comedy with music,…

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Now is time to protest obscenity on the stage Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 26 March 1981 · page 19

The theatre scene was so crowded that we did not have the opportunity of catching the Griffin…

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Barn Dance

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 April 1981 · page 27

Many newly-arrived Russian youth participated in a recent barn dance, organised by the State Zionist Council’s Overseas Jewry committee, for the 20-30 age group at Beth Herzl…

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Standards are back at Nimrod Upstairs Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 2 April 1981 · page 29

Chekhov’s Three Sisters is just what the Simrod Upstairs needed to re-establish standards,…

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Welcome return to commercial theatre Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 April 1981 · page 19

Though there are many delights in Sydney for the more serious theatregoer (for instance, the…

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Troubles at Killara Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 April 1981 · page 18

Sadly, the Marian Street Theatre, Killara, seems to have on its hands no end of trouble,…

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Israel wins European b’ball title Tel Aviv Maccabi home by one-point

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 April 1981 · page 28

TEL AVIV: Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv, last week won the European Basketball Cup when it beat Sinudyne Bologna, the…

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Combined Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 9 April 1981 · page 9

ADELAIDE: Wizo combined with the Save the Children Fund to present a public concert at the Town…

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Iought to Be in Pictures

Tharunka · Sunday 12 April 1981 · page 24

Hello Darlings!!, Daphne and I recently ventured to the Ensemble Theatre Neil Simon's latest American…

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Theatre Times

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 23 April 1981 · page 12

CHOIR FOR SIMCHOT Great Synagogue choir and choirmaster, James…

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