Hat Trick single work   musical theatre   revue/revusical  
Issue Details: First known date: 1955... 1955 Hat Trick
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Intimate revue.

Compèred by Max Oldaker, this third and final installment of the Phillip Street Theatre revues by McKellar, Donovan, and Mulcahy (prior to their departure for England) was favourably reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald. 'Last night was hearty fun from start to finish', writes the paper's theatre critic, L. B., 'and quite excelled all its predecessors in matters of pace, variety, well-placed surprise, and consistent sparkle of wit' (20 January 1995, p.4).

The sketches included 'Twelve Shopping Days to Christmas', 'Cinderfella on Ice', and two skits by Lyle O'Hara: one in which she, as a daisy-munching centaur, urged all the underpaid animals of Hollywood to unite behind her leadership and one in which she was married to herself before a congregation of herselves ('all piercingly clever, and the house was in uproar!' writes L. B.).

Production Details

  • 1955: Phillips Street Theatre, Sydney, 19 January - 7 May.

    • Producer William Orr.
    • Cast incl. Max Oldaker, Lyle O'Hara, June Salter, Paula Langlands, Shirley Sunners, Sheila Helpmann, Aileen Britton, Diana Davidson.

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Works about this Work

Merriment in 'Hat Trick' L. B. , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 January 1955; (p. 4)

— Review of Hat Trick John McKellar , Gerry Donovan , 1955 single work musical theatre
Merriment in 'Hat Trick' L. B. , 1955 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20 January 1955; (p. 4)

— Review of Hat Trick John McKellar , Gerry Donovan , 1955 single work musical theatre

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Note:
This entry has been sourced from research undertaken by Dr Clay Djubal into Australian-written popular music theatre.
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