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Thursday, 30 May 2013 | Term 2, Week 5
Artist-In-Residence:
Max Lambert
Max Lambert is a name that is well-known and highly respected in the world of Australian theatre and
from June to October he will be in residence at Cranbrook to work with drama and music students. His
achievements are many. Here are just some of them:
Those who recall the Sydney 2000 Olympic
Games will have no trouble remembering the
spectacular opening and closing ceremonies.
Max Lambert was responsible for the music
for these events. So successfully did he manage
these events, that he was invited to direct the
music for The Manchester Commonwealth
Games and the Asia Pacific Games in Doha.
His achievements on the stage in Australia,
on Broadway in New York and on London’s
West End have been equally applauded and
awarded. A small sample of the recordbreaking
shows for which he directed the
music includes Boy from Oz, Two Weeks
With the Queen, Hot Shoe Shuffle, How to
Train a Dragon to name just a few. On the
screen, his name is associated with the music
for Happy Feet and that icon of children’s
television, Play School. At the moment,
he is Musical Supervisor for the most
expensive and technologically advanced
theatrical performance ever to be performed
in Australia, King Kong, which opens in
Melbourne in just a few weeks. At the
conclusion of his time at Cranbrook, he will
take up the position of Musical Supervisor of
the highly anticipated stage production of the
hugely successful film, Strictly Ballroom.
Music and Drama students can take advantage
of his time at Cranbrook in two ways: as an
Elective Music student and as a member of
the cast of our forthcoming production of the
timeless musical, The Boy Friend.
Max Lambert’s time at Cranbrook has been
generously sponsored by Cranbrook’s Music
and Drama Friends and the Cranbrook
Parents’ Association.
Auditions for
The Boy Friend
Cranbrook will be performing The Boy
Friend with girls from Ascham, Kambala,
Kincoppal and SCEGGS Darlinghurst.
Auditions will take place on Sunday, 16
June from 9.30 am in the War Memorial
Hall.
Auditions are open to all students – not just
to students of Music and Drama – in Years
9, 10 and 11.
Full details about the auditions, rehearsals
and performances are available on the
co-curricular Drama page of the portal.
Students should read these pages carefully
and learn the auditions song before
attending the auditions.
Drama
Production
Opening
Kambala’s senior production If Only
The Lonely Were Home, by Finnegan
Kruckemeyer, will open on Thursday 30
May, with subsequent shows on Friday 31
and Sunday 2nd June.
It is a play for young people (from
Kindergarten upwards) that uses movement,
song and visual imagery to tell a delightful
tale about the importance of appreciating
the things and people that we love.
Kambala girls have collaborated with a
number of talented drama students from
Cranbrook to produce this imaginative play.
Please see the poster for further booking
details.
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