Limelight — May 2017

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WHAT’S HAPPENING ON OUR WEBSITE?

These boots are made for walking

Jo Litson talks to Broadway director and

choreographer Jerry Mitchell, the man

behind hit musicalKinky Bootssashaying

itswayfromMelbournetoSydney.

Mark’s tribute to Mario

YoungAustraliantenorMarkVincent

talks toLimelightabout Italian families,

flexinghisvocalcordsandrecordinga

love letter to his hero Mario Lanza.

Being Benjamin

TheAussieconductoriscementinghis

placeasafixtureonsymphonyorchestra

programmes from Sydney to Melbourne.

Buthowdidhegethere from there?

Viva la Revolución

One hundred years after the Revolution

thatshookRussiaandtheworld,the

Canberra International Music Festival has

artistic shake-ups as its theme.

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Clive Paget

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Sam Grimmer

DEPUTY EDITOR

Jo Litson

SENIOR DESIGNER

Andrew Bennett

STAFF WRITER &

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Angus McPherson

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Justine Nguyen

EDITOR-AT-LARGE

Francis Merson

CONTRIBUTORS

Warwick Arnold, Andrew Aronowicz,

Paul Ballam-Cross, Lynden Barber,

Philip Clark, Alexandra Coghlan,

Jacqueline Dark, Stephanie Eslake,

Nick Fuller, Richard Gill,

Victor Gordon, Robert Andrew Greene,

Nancye Hayes, Simon Heighes,

Greg Keane, Sascha Kelly,

James McCarthy, Lisa MacKinney,

SteveMoffatt,TimMunro,

GuyNoble,SamuelSakker,

Phillip Scott, Tony Way,

Will Yeoman

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Andrew Batt-Rawden

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Carla Bird

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GAVIN DIXON

LOST&FOUND

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GavinDixonisamusicwriter

basedintheUK.Aswellas

Britishmusic,Gavinregularly

writes about Russian

composers, particularly Alfred

Schnittke, whose works he

is involved in editing. Dixon

wasaCuratorofMusical

Instruments at London’s

Horniman Museum.

Jason Blake

1984

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Afarmer’ssonwith

no aptitude for farming,

JasonisaVCADramaSchool

graduate (Directing, class

of 1993), and studied at NIDA

(Directing, 1998) before

veering into writing and

editing. He is currently

the theatre critic for the

Sydney Morning Herald.

Alexandra coghlan

POULENC

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Alexandra Coghlan is

the classical music critic

for theNew Statesman,

and also writes forThe

Independent,The Times,

Opera,Prospect,Gramophone

andThe Monthly.Shewas

formerly performing arts

editor atTime Out Sydney

and editor ofSinfini.

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