After a long delay, we are proud to announce that tickets for ‘The Sound Of Music’ are back on sale!! Limited seating available so click the below link and book now – don’t miss out!

The Sound of Music

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Queanbeyan Players are excited to announce their musical theatre line up for 2021, a bumper three show schedule which will be played at home-theatre The Q – Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre in Queanbeyan: The Sound of Music (March), Kiss Me Kate (June) and Oklahoma (October).

“It is exciting to be able to start planning again and to announce a three-show year for the Queanbeyan Players is a wonderful first,” says Alison Newhouse, Queanbeyan Players President “three shows means we have more theatre opportunities for local actors and musicians and we can offer our audience a range of theatre experiences.” she said. “Queanbeyan Players enjoys a supportive and engaged community and, like everyone, we are all looking forward to reconnecting and getting back into rehearsals and production as soon as health guidelines allow. We can’t wait to get back on stage and see all those smiling faces again – on stage and in the audience!”

The Sound Of Music was already well into production when the global pandemic forced rehearsals to be postponed and the show has been rescheduled into early 2021. The cast has remained together and there will only be a couple of new faces joining the talented local cast/crew.
Notably after the unexpected passing of Musical Director Michael Politi, Musical Director Jenna Hinton (whose last QP show was Oliver! in 2019) will be joining the production team and continuing on the wonderful work Michael had started with the cast early in 2020.

Queanbeyan Players will announce final dates for The Sound of Music in the coming weeks and auditions and performances for Kiss Me, Kate and Oklahoma at a later date.

“Kiss Me, Kate” Production Team
Directors: Michael Moore and Joe Moores
Choreographer: Lauren Chapman

“Oklahoma” Production Team
Direction and Choreography: Christina Phillip and Belinda Hassall
Musical Direction: Jenna Hinton

For more information contact us through our contact page or queanbeyanplayersinc@gmail.com

The Queanbeyan players invite you to register your interest to join our Christmas Choir. We will be rehearsing* some fantastic songs in the lead up to December where we will perform on a one night only event (Date either 5th or 19th December 2020 TBC) and having just a good old fashioned sing.

Use the form on the page here to register your interest to participate in our Christmas Choir or email queanbeyanplayersinc@gmail.com for more information.
Please note, the Expressions of Interest applications will close Midnight Wednesday 29/07/20.

*Pending COVID Restrictions

It is with much sadness that we bring you the news that one of our long time QP family members Michael Politi passed away at the South Coast in his favourite place on the beach. It has come as a great shock to us all.

Michael was the Musical Director for QP’s next show The Sound of Music and over the years performed with QP in shows and was Musical Director for our last performance of Mikado.

He touched many lives and was a lovely, gentle man. Michael in all his wisdom would say let’s all keep going and enjoy life. He was a very special man and will be greatly missed.

What an unusual start to 2020 we have all had! In amongst it all Queanbeyan Players are still here!
We had a very successful AGM in early March and would like to introduce our new committee:
President: Alison Newhouse
Vice President: Christina Philipp
Treasurer: Benjamin Martin
Secretary: Janette Humphrey
Committee:
Carmel Bourke
Tony D’Abrera
Gail Giuliano
Anna Greenwood
Jenna Hinton
Janetta McRae
Joe Moores
David Tricks

Congratulations to all!

In 55 years this is the first time QP have had to postpone a show. The Sound of Music Commenced rehearsals in early February. With an amazing cast and dedicated production team we accomplished a great deal in six weeks of rehearsals, so much so we had had a run of Act 1. This was before everything came to a screeching halt with COVID-19.
We had stopped rehearsals 2 weeks prior to the official Social Distancing measures came into play. We made this decision for the health and safety of our cast and production team.
Then we got notice from the Queanbeyan Palerang Council that The Q was postponing all future shows for at least 6 months. All going well our new dates for Sound of Music is in October.
The whole cast were naturally disappointed but are all enthusiastically waiting to return to rehearsals and we are all looking forward to bringing Sound of Music to The Q stage.
Keep safe and healthy and we will be back soon!