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May 06
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Samuel the Brave

[by Blair Edgar]

The emerging career of bass baritone Samuel Dundas has taken a major leap forward.

Arts Centre regulars over the past few years would have seen him working the bars and generally being useful in the foyers.  What they didn’t know was that all during that time he was working on his music degree and on his voice.

He will shortly be seen, kilts akimbo, with skirling pipes and orchestral backing in “Scotland The Brave” at the Hamer Hall.

Last year he surprised and delighted when he sang and pulled coffee in the Spiegel Tent in Melbourne and Adelaide and cranked audiences up in the Scottish program.
But that is not the end, he has been contracted by the new Vic Opera as one of their young artists.

It is exciting times for the Melba Conservatorium graduate and those ‘in the know’ are already saying that he has a great future ahead of him.

Alongside him on the same Scottish program and throughout the ensuing tour will be the delightful soprano Annalisa Kerrigan.

This amazing young lady has enchanted and entranced wherever she has appeared.
Audiences should expect her to come swinging onto the stage exploding with vitality. “I wear some plaid, pronounced ‘plad’”, she says.

Life with Annalisa can get hectic.

She once said to me, “I’m doing a little ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’. I’d love you to see it.”

“Where is it?” I asked.

“Venice. But you could stay with us.” She was playing a cockatoo at the time.

Annalisa Kerrigan and Samuel Dundas are just what audiences need. Young, vital, immensely talented, good looking young people, who can put verve and energy into their work. And give a lyric a lift.

We have to follow the careers of the young otherwise we will lose them to where they can get work.

 Albert Hall Showboat 

The vast expenses of London’s Albert Hall will soon be prepared for the first arena production of “Showboat”.

Tickets are selling like hotcakes as London gets interested in this adventurous move.
Slap bang in the middle of it all will be Melbourne born actor and singer Jarrod Carland, playing Steve, Julie’s sad husband.

Jarrod has just toured to Rhodes and England’s Lake District before rehearsals start on the Jerome Kern / Oscar Hammerstein masterpiece.

Not the First Actually 

After the Nancye Hayes / Todd McKenney “Six Dance Lessons”, the thriller “Woman In Black” will arrive in the Comedy Theatre.

This is not the first Australian production of the spookey play that had what seemed to be a never ending run at London’s Duchess Theatre.

It was performed in Sydney several years ago with former British movie star Richard Todd and Lewis Fiander.

People did scream and faint. Not at the acting, at the play.

Not Bad for a Camberwell Boy 

Face on stamps, “Lickable and self adhesive”.

A true mega star, mega rich, a brilliant performer. I wonder what Barry Humphries really thinks in the quiet of his own mind when he contemplates a statue of Edna being unveiled in his home city.

The illustrious career and the incisive characters that comment so rightly on the stupidity of our lives have crowded into his life and suitcases sweeping him along from continent to continent.

But I think there may be a little twinkle left in the eye and perhaps a little sigh at the wonderment of it all, when he contemplates the sculptor’s realisation of his most horrendous creation.

By Blair Edgar

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