For theatre lovers, 2017 has been a rare year in the Bega Valley Shire. As part of the campaign to build a Performing Arts Centre next to Twyford Hall in Merimbula, the community has been treated to some wonderful performances, ranging from ‘Shirley Valentine’ to ‘Always Patsy Cline’, and most recently, Noni Hazlehurst in ‘Mother’.
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This season’s final production will star the legendary Geraldine Turner in ‘Turner’s Turn’.
Geraldine Turner is a true icon of Australian show business. Throughout a career that spans four decades, she has earned a place as one of this country's most legendary leading ladies.
Amply endowed with both star power and staying power, she has been a redoubtable figure in the national footlights.
"The all-singing, all-dancing woman in the fabulous frocks," is how she once summed up her showbiz persona. "The buxom lead who's gonna lay 'em in the aisles … The girl with the great big voice and the red hair."
Musical theatre is Turner's natural milieu: she made her name with razzle-dazzle performances in Chicago, Anything Goes, Call Me Madam, Guys and Dolls, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, Cabaret and A Little Night Music. Turner has stolen scenes in straight plays (Steel Magnolias, Present Laughter, The Forest) as well as movies and assorted television shows – House Husbands and Home and Away.
And it isn't just Turner's singing voice that is big; she speaks as if projecting to the back stalls, especially when making one of the arresting statements that pepper her reminiscences such as: "I don't think I ever really loved my first husband," and: "Gough Whitlam once drank champagne out of my shoe."
“Turner’s Turn” is a celebration of Geraldine’s incredible life on stage.
It’s an evening of songs from the great musicals, peppered with show business anecdotes and stories, and there are some great stories to tell.
It’s also a rare opportunity to see one of Australia’s most beloved stage performers, up close and personal, in an intimate setting.
There are two shows; Saturday, December 2 at 7.30pm will be in a cabaret setting, BYO drinks and nibbles, an ideal night to commence your end of year celebrations with workmates, friends and family.
Sunday, December 3 is a matinee at 2pm with theatre style seating.
Tickets through trybooking.com or at the Merimbula Newsagency.