musicals Archives – J-Wire https://www.jwire.com.au/tag/musicals/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:42:36 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 6446428 Tradition revisited: Fiddler on the Roof returns https://www.jwire.com.au/tradition-revisited/ https://www.jwire.com.au/tradition-revisited/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:42:36 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=179696 Few musicals have endured like ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, but its staying power has never relied on nostalgia alone. Since opening on Broadway in 1964, the story of Tevye and his family has travelled across continents and cultures (it ran for more than 50 years in Japan), returning again and again because its central questions […]

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]]> https://www.jwire.com.au/tradition-revisited/feed/ 0 179696 Mary Poppins: a Melbourne theatre review by Alex First https://www.jwire.com.au/mary-poppins-a-melbourne-theatre-review-by-alex-first/ https://www.jwire.com.au/mary-poppins-a-melbourne-theatre-review-by-alex-first/#respond Sun, 05 Feb 2023 02:22:42 +0000 https://www.jwire.com.au/?p=144497 In a word, Mary Poppins is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! The theatrics – the staging, set design and magic introduced into this Disney and Cameron Mackintosh production are sublime. I speak of everything from the doll’s house that opens up to the Banks’ family home to the appearance of Poppins’ iconic large-scale brolly towards the end of the […]

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