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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1983

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Theatre Times There’s some splendid dancing in these Tales

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 November 1983 · page 26

Poor old Hoffmann, so long familiar through the gloriously melodic and fantastic Offenbach opera, takes the boards again in the Australian Ballet’s new full-program production of the same…

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Choir in Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 November 1983 · page 9

The North Shore Synagogue choir will join Willy Lederinan and the Katmandu Band…

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Warumpi Band: "Black is Black and the music is different"

Tribune · Wednesday 30 November 1983 · page 16

The Warumpi Band hit Sydney with four boomerangs, one didgeridoo and two guitars. They were met at the…

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Theatre Times Rooms: Exciting theatre in more ways than one

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 December 1983 · page 20

We are marvellous fellows, we reviewers, who in the face of our own personal predilections and under the weight of all kinds of subtle and blunt external pressures, manage to retain our impeccable objectivity…

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Theatre Times Motivators Is New Venture at Stables

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 1 December 1983 · page 19

Hope springs eternal and enthusiasm, one might say “dedication” for the cause of live theatre continues to flourish in this city of teaming artistic endeavour…

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THEATRE Bourgeois principles versus direct action Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, a play by Dario Fo, directed by Lois Ellis. Playing at Melbourne's Universal Theatre until Dec 18

Tribune · Wednesday 7 December 1983 · page 12

This play examines in a hilarious yet probing manner two differing responses to the current…

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THEATRE Stephen Sewell's new play -- A critical but committed eye This week, Keith Preston assesses the significance of Stephen Sewell's new play The Blind Giant is Dancing, and discusses its recent production by the South Australian Theatre Company

Tribune · Wednesday 7 December 1983 · page 12

The Blind Giant is Dancing, Stephen Sewell's latest play depicting political battles in the NSW Labor Party,…

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Theatre Times Romeo and Juliet as ballet still enchants

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 December 1983 · page 20

John Cranko’s full-program ballet of the Shakespeare story, Romeo And Juliet, to Prokofiev’s superbly lyric and dramatic score, is as enchanting as…

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Netzer’s Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 December 1983 · page 19

North Shore Temple Emanuel turned impressario recently when it presented a classical…

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Contrasting concerts

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 8 December 1983 · page 20

It was just a coincidence that two concerts a few days apart last week should be presented by organisations with almost opposite titles — Musica Viva and Musica…

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Basket-ball

Le Courrier Australien · Saturday 10 December 1983 · page 16

Les matches retour des quarts de finale de la Coupe de France de basket-ball ont été marqués, mardi novembre, par la surprenante…

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Brass Band wows ’em at Kinselas

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 December 1983 · page 12

The Brass Band, a quintet of superb American musicians, wowed the press night audience at Kinselas with their hilarious clowning as well as thrilling instrumental virtuosity and flawless…

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Theatre Times Snoopy is a ‘must’ for all audiences

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 December 1983 · page 12

If you are intelligent, literate, sensitive, a fun-loving person with a benignly off-beat sense of humor and if you have a soft spot for dogs, particularly underdogs and children, particularly little ones out of their emotional depth and subject to harassment from not only the slings and arrows of outrageous…

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Temple School stars Chanukah concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 15 December 1983 · page 15

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats, a huge success on the London stage, had an Australian “premiere” when senior pupils at The Emanuel…

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Theatre Times Entertainment Bloody good fun at Penrith show!

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 December 1983 · page 14

Doreen Warburton’s Q Theatre, which has established itself in recent years as a notable survivor in the uncertain world of “alternative” stage entertainment, is offering the fruity old…

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Theatre Times a day in the life of Nick Nickleby is achievement

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 22 December 1983 · page 13

What can be said about the Sydney Theatre Company-Australian Opera production of The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby at the Theatre Royal except to confirm that it is a towering achievement…

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