Chamber musical.
Promoted as 'Lamont Cranston's Dingo Girl', the show is essentially a revue-style musical based on the theme of the disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain. The narrative is set in and around the fictional Hotel Hydro Electric at Ayers Rock, including the lobby and Goanna Bar. The characters include Lamont Cranston, Jane Deville-Marbles, Godfrey, Bitter, Twisted, Todd River, Darling River, Murray River, Stanley Chazzem/Max Bikecraves, Mezzanina Interflora, Sven D. Adventis, Wednesday, Kitty Walker, Gaucho Marks, Opal Essence, and Dirk Stare.
The work contains several numbers written for such previous Watkins/Harriott productions as Beach Blanket Tempest. The songs include 'Lament', 'Oh What a Funeral', 'We've all Gotta Go Sometime,' 'The Legend of Dingo Girl', 'I Could be Ruined', 'Beautiful Girls', 'Dingo Girl', 'Howling in my Heart', 'New Dingogo Music', 'Full Moon Romeo', 'No Probs', and 'Jealousy.'
1982: Footbridge Theatre, University of Sydney, 29 June - 10 July. Director Mark Daly ; Producer Dennis Watkins ; Music Director Chris Harriott ; Chorus John O'Connell ; Design Colin Mitchell ; Musicians The Dingo League (Chris Harriott, Peter Watson, Jim Manzie, Wayne Black).
Cast Joanne Campbell, Dennis Watkins, Meredith O'Reilly, Fiona Hornsby, Robert Jarman, Ian MacDonald, Jenny Lovell, Anne-Marie Gale, Luke Hardy, Jody Rose, Annie McClinchy, Carmen Jarrett, Peter Callan, Debbie Baer, Helen Gibbons, Martin Michael, Steve Cropper, Anthony Anderson, Sunny Vlaming, Peter Valencic, Julie Godfrey, Louise Fischer, Scott Morris, Rowena Greaves, Joccie Gale, John O'Connell, Shauna Phillips, and Mark Daly, with Vana Argyris, Margaret Burke, Kate Grusovin, Jacqueline Muir, Dianne Price, Sally Ross, Meg Rowe.
This entry has been sourced from on-going historical research into Australian-written music theatre being conducted by Dr Clay Djubal.
Also sound recording. Green Records, LRG 119 (1982). Original cast.
