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October 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 190: Cassandra Tse

Welcome to episode 190 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Acast, Apple, BATS, Cass Tse, Cassandra Tse, Chat, Circa, Comedy, ep.190, Four Nights In The Green Barrow Pub, Improv, Interview, iTunes, JJ Murphy & Co., La Petite Chocola, Mixed Bag Podcast, MOODPORN, Musical, Musical Theatre, New York, Red Scare, Red Scare Theatre Company, Simon Sweetman, Soundcloud, Spotify, Sweetman, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 190: Cassandra Tse, T Leaf T, The Aliens, Theatre, Wellington, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 14, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Cringeworthy: Theatre

Cringeworthy  Direction: Andrea Sanders (devised by Andrea Sanders)  Circa Theatre; Circa Two (August 10 – September 7)  Cringeworthy comes to us from Andrea Sanders – creator/leader of The Beat Girls. She’s created musical shows before (usually for The Beat Girls to act and sing in) here she stars alongside Tom Knowles, Carrie McLaughlin and Jeff Kingsford-Brown in a knowingly kitsch (but utterly clever and classy) tribute to the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1970s, Andrea Sanders, August 10, Carrie McLaughlin, Circa, Circa Two, Cringeworthy, Cringeworthy: Theatre, Jeff Kingsford-Brown, Kiwiana, Musical, NZ, Play, Play Review, Review, September 7, Songs, Theatre, Theatre Review, Tom Knowles, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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November 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 142 – Bronwyn Turei

Welcome to episode 142 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FMyou can get the […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged Act, Acting, Actor, Anchor, Anchor/FM, Apple, Bronwyn Turei, Chat, Circa, Circa Theatre, Cody, Comedy, Conversation, Drama, Emily Writes, Episode 142, Go Girls, Interview, iTunes, La Petite Chocolat, Music, Musical, Off The Tracks, Podbeam, Podcast, Rants In The Dark, Singing, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 142, Sweetman Podcast: Episode 142 – Bronwyn Turei, T Leaf T, Theatre, Training, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Songs For Nobodies: Theatre

Songs For Nobodies Direction: Ross Gumbley (written by Joanna Murray-Smith) Circa Theatre; Circa One (July 7 – August 4) [Ali-Cat Productions Ltd] Ali Harper here performs ten roles, a dozen voices, as – variously – the famous singers Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Maria Callas. But she is also the “nobodies”, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ali Cat Productions Ltd, Ali Harper, Billie Holiday, Circa, Circa One, Circa Theatre, Country, Daniel Hayles, Edith Piaf, Jazz, Joanna Murray-Smith, Johnny Lawrence, Judy Garland, Lance Philip, Marias Callas, Music, Musical, NZ Tour, Opera, Patsy Cline, Play, Review, Ross Gumbley, Songs For Nobodies, Songs For Nobodies: Theatre, Theatre, Theatre Review, Wellington, Wgtn, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Coco: Film

Coco Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molna Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures “This is Pixar at its best – somehow both visually stunning and straightforward. There’s something deceptively dazzling about Pixar at its best. It’s a return too to the brand’s very best version of the storytelling about feelings (rather than just storying with feelings)…” I […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Animation, Cartoon, Coco, Coco: Film, Day of the Dead, Film, Film Review, Inside Out, Mexican, Mexico, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Musical, Pixar, Spanish ·

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November 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Peter Pan – The Pantomime: Theatre

Peter Pan – The Pantomime Direction: Susan Wilson (written by Pinky Agnew & Lorae Parry) Circa Theatre; Circa One (Nov 18 – Dec 23/Jan 2-13) The Circa Theatre end of year panto has been a mainstay across the last year – however last year’s romp through Jack And The Beanstalk felt phoned in, stale. The […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Ben Emerson, Bronwyn Turei, Camilla Beasley, Cary Stackhouse, Chilrdren, Circa, Circa One, December 2017, Family, Gavin Rutherford, January 2018, Jeff Kingsford-Brown, Kids, Lorae Parry, Manuel Solomon, Michael Nicholas Williams, Music, Musical, Nov 18 – Dec 23/Jan 2-13, Panto, Pantomime, Peter Pan, Peter Pan - The Pantomime: Theatre, Pinky Agenw, Play, Simon Leary, Susan Wilson, The Lost Boys, The Pantomime, Theatre, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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October 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Opening Night: DVD

Opening Night Director: Isaac Rentz Wolfe Video If watching Topher Grace playing a failed Broadway performer-turned-stage-manager wrangling talent backstage for the titular opening night of a musical called “One Hit Wonderland” sounds like fun to you. Then I guess it will be. An eccentric cast (Rob Riggle in full-yell mode, Anne Heche looking bored and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Comedy, DVD, DVD Review, Film, High School Musical, Movie, Musical, Opening Night: DVD ·

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October 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 489

Shelly Manne, Plays Richard Rodgers: REX (1977) If I have a weakness – in a guilty-pleasure/Achilles heel sense – it is solo albums by drummers. I don’t just mean when the drummer is a bandleader (as Shelly Manne was) or when they’re a singer/songwriter too or multi-instrumentalist. Though bring all that on also. But if […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1977, Buddy Rich, Concept Album, Drummer, Drums, Ease On Down The Road, Guilty Pleasure, LP, Musical, Record, REX, Richard Rodgers, Shelly Manne, The Vinyl Countdown # 489, Vinyl ·

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July 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: My Westside Story

I remember thinking that people never really burst into song in real life – you know like in the musicals; in the movies…and it was at that exact point, thinking that, when my father just piped up, out of nowhere, “maria, Maria, MARIA!” each version of the name louder and longer than the one before […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Family, Maria, Musical, Short Story, Short Story: Westside Story, Singing, West Side Story, Westside ·

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June 30, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: We MUST Be The EGGS

He can still recall the moment – the moment he knew when he’d fallen as far as he was supposed to fall. You never know – until you do. He remembers that too. Remembers thinking that he never expected to know that it was his time to stop falling, to get up, to pick himself […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged CATS, Eggs, Jail, Musical, Short Story, Short Story: We MUST Be The EGGS, We MUST Be The EGGS ·

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February 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

La La Land: Film

La La Land Director: Damien Chazelle Black Label Media/Gilbert Films/Imposter Pictures If there is one thing the Academy loves it’s a film that celebrates Hollywood and the Hollywood Dream – so La La Land is up for a bunch of awards. Ludicrous really, and if it sweeps as many as predicted it’ll be like that […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Damien Chazelle, Emma Stone, Film Review, John Legend, La La Land, La La Land: Film, Movie, Movie Review, Musical, Ryan Gosling, Whiplash ·

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January 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 14: The Blues Brothers

I have had the double-pack DVD of The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000 on my shelf for quite a few years. I didn’t need Blues Brothers 2000 but it was cheaper to buy the double-pack than just the original movie… The Blues Brothers had a profound influence on me. It is possibly the movie […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Aretha Franklin, Blues, Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000, Comedy, DVD, Film, Movie, Movies of My Life, Movies of My Life # 14, Movies of My Life # 14 – The Blues Brothers, Musical, Phantom Billstickers, Ray Charles, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Soundtrack, The Blues Brothers ·
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