Sydney nabs Australian premiere of Elegance and the Beast
We’re sorry, this characteristic is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please strive again later.
Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerSydney has nabbed the Australian premiere of Disney’s musical theatre blockbuster Elegance and the Beast, which is able to open at the Capitol Theatre subsequent 365 days.
The manufacturing is currently taking half in on London’s West End earlier than heading to Bristol and Eire later this 365 days. NSW Arts and Tourism Minister Ben Franklin is anticipated to order the display veil’s arrival date in Sydney on Thursday morning after flagging a “essential announcement” about an international manufacturing. He will seemingly be joined by Disney’s senior vp and managing director for Australia and Fresh Zealand, Kylie Watson-Wheeler.
Disney’s blockbuster musical Elegance and the Beast will maintain it’s Australian premiere in Sydney.Credit:Disney
Authorities and theatre alternate sources confirmed the display veil modified into Elegance and the Beast and talked about first auditions had already been held. A Disney spokesperson declined to comment on Wednesday night, and Franklin didn’t return messages.
Predominant musical theatre openings are hotly contested between NSW and Victoria; the Herald and The Age maintain previously reported mature NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian had for my half intervened to stable the premiere of Broadway fracture hit Hamilton for her affirm’s capital.
“They [Victoria] issue very laborious and we pipped them to the put up and I apologise if [Victorian Premier Daniel] Andrews is upset with me as a consequence,” Berejiklian talked about in 2019. The display veil modified into within the fracture delayed by COVID-19.
Landmark cultural occasions fair like this premiere are regularly secured after fundamental financial contributions from affirm governments and their respective tourism our bodies, on this case Destination NSW.
The real Australian manufacturing of Elegance and the Beast opened in Melbourne in 1995 earlier than shifting to Her Majesty’s Theatre in Sydney in 1996, about a years earlier than the theatre closed. It is a long way now a parking lot.
The fresh West End manufacturing is a reimagining of the everyday epic with a younger and extra various solid, and is due to realize its traipse in September.
Most Viewed in CultureLoading