Performances

The incredible life story and absolute Hits of Mario Lanza one of the
greatest Tenors of our time…
Morning Music
This brand new production coming from Promac Australia, who recently brought us The Mikado and Over There, will be packed with great highlights of the man once dubbed the greatest tenor in the world, MARIO LANZA.
Songs like “Be My Love”, “Because You're Mine”, La Donna E Mobile”, Strangers In Paradise”, Drink Drink”, O Sole Mio”, The Loveliest Night Of The Year”, You’ll Never Walk Alone”, and Granada”, are just some of the hits that will be sung in this production.
The show stars tenor Roy Best and soprano Alison Jones, accompanied by International Concert Pianist Len Vorster.

Portland Arts Centre
Wednesday 12 July 10.30am

Casterton Town Hall
Thursday 13 July 10.30am

ALL TICKETS: $15
Duration: 1 hour

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By Maude Davey - Nobody saw this happen so it may or may not be true.

Children / Families

Told by real life family, Maude Davey, David Pidd and their children, Alice (17) and Leo (10) in the tradition of travelling show biz troupes of old, The Crow Family shares an urban parable alongside songs, confessions, tales of famous and infamous families.
It’s about urban scavengers and what we can learn from them, about children growing up and leaving home, about taking care of the world we share with birds and beasts and about becoming whatever it is we want to become. The Crow Family is an insight into the delicate and difficult business of being a family. The stage will become the temporary home of the Pidd Davey family, where beautiful harmonies will be created as a family sings together. Featuring songs by Australian rock legend, Peter Farnan (Boom Crash Opera), The Crow Family is a gentle, intimate, and beautiful music performance event about remarkable creatures and what makes us human.

THE CROW FAMILY
Portland Arts Centre
Saturday 22 July 7.30pm

Adult: $25
Concession: $20
Family of 4: $70
Under 18s: $15

Duration: 60 minutes
Warning: The Crow Family contains some strong
coarse language and some depictions of dysfunctional
families. Recommended for ages 11 plus.

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Small Night In
A bespoke music event
Featuring
Tomato Tomato - Canada. Supported by Since Tuesday-Portland

Food truck and mulled wine available

The pride of New Brunswick, Canada - Tomato Tomato, are Lisa and John McLaggan. The duo use an old washboard; rigged up with tin cans and a cymbal, while bass and snare drums are foot powered. Harmonies, old-timey guitar, contagious songs and up-cycled percussion create an unmistakeable sound, endearing them to not just Atlantic Canada but the folk world at large.

The Winnipeg, Stan Rogers and Lunenburg Folk Festivals and Australia Music Week were 2016 highlights. This year they performed at Folk Alliance and are heading back to Australia for The Broadbeach Country Music Festival, touring the UK for two weeks in the fall, with appearances at The Regina and Vancouver Folk Festivals and much more. You just can’t keep a good washboard down!

“Husband and wife team combine their talents and voices to create a sound that’s one part Old Crow Medicine Show and some part Some Velvet Evening.” - Brian Rock, Turnstiled JunkPiled

“They’re an intoxicating pair to watch...give them a listen” - Larry Heath, Music – The AUReview

“Tomato Tomato exploded with talent and blew the room away” - Amanda Hather, Canadian Beats
Check them out HERE

Portland Arts Centre
Friday 4 August from 6pm
All tickets $30

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Presented By Erth - Visual & Physical Inc.

Children / Families

What does a Plesiosaurs skin feel like? How big are a Kronosaurus teeth? And do Kimberella even wear shoes? Deep below the surface, submerged below time, swam some of the world’s most amazing prehistoric marine reptiles. Following the
internationally loved and applauded show Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo™, the team at Erth have spent years scouring the seven seas,
collecting playful prehistoric creatures of the deep in their giant aquarium; and you can meet them. Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium invites children to step into the action of the performance; and some selected young divers will be able to join them on their quest to the bottom of the ocean to ‘swim’with an amazing array of aquatic creatures from bygone eras.

ERTH’S PREHISTORIC AQUARIUM

Portland Arts Centre
Pyjama Show
Tuesday 8 August 6.30pm

Portland Arts Centre
Wednesday 9 August 10.30am
stay for the Q & A after the show

Adult: $25
Concession: $20
Family of 4: $70
Under 18s: $15
Duration: 60 minutes. No interval
Recommended age: 5+

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THEY'RE BACK!
Three of the finest acoustic guitarists and singer songwriters in the land return to enthral with the 2017 “Acoustic Guitar Spectacular”. There will be wonderful solo performances from the artists as well as exciting and at times unpredictable magical guitar interplay! Once again it features the sublime skills of Geoff Achison, Nick Charles and Paul Wookey- a diverse range of fiery guitar magic, impassioned roots music and classic acoustic instrumentals and songs- a truly stellar evening with these world renowned musicians

Portland Arts Centre
Saturday 12 August 7.30pm

Adult: $40
Concession: $35
Family of 4: $80
Under 18: $15

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By Roslyn Oades & Collaborators
Drama / Comedy
Roslyn Oades’ 2014 Malthouse Theatre and Melbourne Festival hit Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday celebrates two milestone birthdays – eighteen and eighty – major transition points of adult life. One represents untold potential and opportunity; the other a lifetime of experiences, aspirations, fears and memories. Scripted from intimate real-life conversations with people either side of these milestones, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday is a beautifully warm and human new show from Roslyn Oades & Collaborators. Playful and affecting in equal measure, this show sees Oades continue her ground-breaking ‘headphone verbatim’ documentary theatre technique, to create extraordinarily immediate and vivid performances.

Duration: 65 minutes
Warning: Contains coarse language.

Portland Arts Centre
Thursday 17 August 7.30pm

Adult:$35
Concession:$30
Family of 4:$85
Under 18s:$15

“One of the most charming shows of the year” ABC Arts

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By Stephen Sachs

Drama / Comedy

Is the true value of art in the eyes of the beholder? Maude (Julie Nihill), an unemployed bartender, has bought a painting for a few bucks from an opp shop. Despite almost trashing it, she now thinks it’s a Jackson Pollock worth millions. In fact she’s certain it is. But when world-class art expert, Lionel Percy (John Wood), flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer park home in Bakersfield to authenticate the painting, he really has no idea what he’s about to discover. Based on a true story, Bakersfield Mist is a comedy set in the present day.

Cast: JOHN WOOD, JULIE NIHILL

Portland Arts Centre
Saturday 26 August 7.30pm

Adult: $45
Concession: $40
Family of 4: $105
Under 18s: $15

Duration: 85 minutes. No interval
Warning: Strong language

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By Finucane & Smith
Cabaret
From Patrick White Playwright Award Winner Jackie Smith and world famous cabaret stars Finucane & Smith (Caravan Burlesque) comes the true story of the wildest showgirl of the nineteenth century, Lola Montez. She horsewhipped the editor of
the Ballarat Times (for a bad review), swung down mineshafts on a single rope with champagne in hand, escaped arrest dressed only in her jewels, showered with gold nuggets and insults, swathed in scandal. Her erotic Spider Dance was “the most libertinish and indelicate performance that could be given on the public stage” (Sydney Morning Herald 1855). In 1855 the wildest showgirl of the nineteenth century, Lola Montez, toured Australia and its goldfields. The scandal is legend. It stars Caroline Lee (Miss Bronte) and Parisian dance siren Holly Durant and is directed by Moira Finucane.

Portland Arts Centre
Wednesday 6 September 7.30pm

Adult: $35
Concession:$30

Duration: 60 minutes. No interval
Warning: Contains mature themes and haze effects

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The cast of AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS features Ian Stenlake,
Pia Miranda and Grant Piro.

Children / Families

The bet is on! Travel AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS in this thrilling new production for all audiences - which takes you from London to Bombay, Yokohama to San Francisco, through typhoons, out-of-control trains and into the deepest reaches of
your imagination and it’s all done with just three actors playing a multitude of roles on stage. Phileas Fogg says he can race from London to London in a mere 80 days, but the pressure is on and time is running out. At his side, a band of quirky adventurers. At their heels, a relentless Scotland Yard detective. At stake, surviving utterly fantastic adventures across India, China, Japan and America - beating the clock - and winning the bet. This is no movie…this is theatre at its most magical and transporting.

Portland Arts Centre
Wednesday 20 September 7.30pm

Adult: $25
Concession: $20
Family of 4: $70
Under 18s: $15

Duration: 2 hours including interval
Warning: lots of excitement

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Wager Productions Michaela Burger & Greg Wain
Cabaret

An award winning cabaret tale of the legendary French star, Edith Piaf. Exposing Edith charts the tragic life of arguably the greatest French singer of all time, Edith Piaf. Experience her life, loves and losses through the songs that shot her to stardom
including La Vie en Rose, Milord and Non, je ne regrette rien. Created and performed by Michaela Burger [vocals] and Greg Wain [guitar], Exposing Edith is a stunning mix of authentic French chanson and contemporary sounds. The songs are punctuated with a collection of extraordinary stories of Piaf’s life which are recounted by Burger, who also takes on a multitude of key characters, from Edith’s half-sister Momone, to several of her lovers and, of course, Edith Piaf herself.

Portland Arts Centre
Wednesday 25 October 7.30pm

Adult: $35
Concession: $30
Family of 4:$85
Under 18s: $15

Duration: 70 minutes. No interval
Suitable for all ages

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Tony is the winner of the ‘Nancy Weir Best Australian Pianist Prize’ of the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition and one of the most highly awarded pianists in the country.

Music

He was the first Australian musician to be invited as a soloist in residence at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Belgium and continues to work with the renowned Portuguese pianist Maria-João Pires whilst completing a Master of Music in Performance at the Barratt-Due Institute in Norway with the German pianist Michael Endres. He has appeared as soloist with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Samara Philharmonic Orchestra, Queensland Symphony
Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly across Europe, China,
USA, New Zealand and Australia.

Portland Arts Centre
Monday 13 November 7.30pm

Adult: $35
Concession: $30
Family of 4: $85
Under 18s: $15

Duration: 60 minutes
No interval

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or call 5522 2263

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