Twilight Markets

Browse for a gift for someone special from the large range of arts and crafts on sale at Rockhampton’s Riverside Park Twilight Markets. You can also grab a bite to eat, sit back and enjoy the live entertainment. Twilight Markets are held on the first Friday of every second month.

Riverside Park, Rockhampton
Friday October 3 from 5.30pm.
Free entry.

Morning Melodies – Piccadilly Music Hall

Good old fashioned fun and entertainment is back in fashion at the Pilbeam Theatre with the return of The Piccadilly Music Hall at Morning Melodies. Kate Peters and her hilarious
Olde Tyme Music Hall troupe of crazy characters, will have you in stitches at their antics.
The Piccadilly Music Hall contains a healthy dose of comedy, dance numbers and fabulous costumes and features a brilliant piano accompanist/singer. You’ll be treated to good old fashioned entertainment at it best!

Pilbeam Theatre
Monday October 6, 11am.
Adults $15.50, Pensioners $13.50, Adult Friends of Theatre $14.50, Pensioner Friends of Theatre $12.50, Groups 10+ Pensioners $12, Groups 10+ Adults $14

Sweet Charity

If you enjoyed the performances of Chicago in 2007 your hearts will skip a beat when CQ University’s Bachelor of Performing Arts students present their foot-tapping, all-singing and all dancing production of the Tony Award-winning musical Sweet Charity at Rockhampton's Pilbeam Theatre in October.
Professional industry mentors Wayne Scott Kermond and Katie Kermond once again join with the student company to stage this popular story of Dance Hall Hostess, eternal optimist, and unlucky romantic, Charity Hope Valentine (played by Jenna Saini), as she searches for true love.
Sweet Charity is renowned for its snappy Neil Simon dialogue and dynamic choreography to the show’s ‘huge’ musical numbers - “Big Spender,” “Rhythm of Life,” and “If They Could See Me Now.”

Pilbeam Theatre
Friday October 10 at 7.30pm
Saturday October 11 at 2pm and 7.30pm

Adult$30, Pensioner $25 Junior $10 Family $70, Group 10+A $20

(Family ticket not available for internet purchase. Contact the Box Office on 4927 4111)

Friday October 10 at 7.30pm
Saturday October 11 at 2pm
Saturday October 11 at 7.30pm

deep blue

deep blue – the orchestra unleashed

deep blue are the mavericks of orchestral music. Their cheekiness is infectious. There’s no conductor, no music stands and no stuffy outdated rules. They truly engage with their audience, smiling, dancing, and moving around the stage. They even adjust their repertoire according to the SMS suggestions sent by the audience during the show! The performance is fun, movingly powerful and exciting and is an enjoyable experience for the entire family.

The repertoire ranges from the depths of Mahler, to evocative film music, to rock and pop classics such as The Beatles, the Stones and Muse. Composers from all around the world are also writing specifically for deep blue.

The group has sold out Theatres in capitals cities and is about to embark on a national tour of Australia beginning at the Sydney State Theatre on September 25th, and coming to Rockhampton on October 12.

DEEP BLUE according to recent audiences:

“The only orchestra we’ve seen that is actually FUN! It made us feel young again. We wish we’d taken our teenage kids!”

“ It’s hard to describe….you gotta check those guys out for yourself…..they’re just AWESOME!

“ Deep Blue is to orchestras what my iPhone is to my landline – a lot more colourful and totally addictive.”

“ If you go to the movies regularly: don’t when Deep Blue is in town. Go to Deep Blue instead”.

See and hear deep blue

Pilbeam Theatre
Sunday October 12 at 7.30pm
Approximate duration:100 mins
Adult$42, Pensioner / Student / Unemployed $37, Junior $30, Family (2A&2J) $125,
Adult Friend of Theatre $38.50, Pensioner / Student Friendof Theatre $34.50, Group 10 or more Adults $38, Group 10 or more Group of school Students $21

Note: Family passes available through the Box Office only (Dial'n'Charge 4927 4111)

This show is part of the 2008 See It Live Theatre Season. For more information on how to save Money on this and other shows in the season, click here.

Heath Franklin’s Chopper in Make Deadsh*ts History

After 2008’s record sell-out success, Harden the F**k Up Australia, Heath Franklin's Chopper (Network 10’s The Ronnie Johns Half Hour) is
back, head-butting his way across the country, tackling an issue bigger than world poverty or global warming - eradicating the
terminally stupid. In a world that is designed to protect people from their own stupidity, Chopper is worried that natural selection isn't getting a fair go. Finally there’s a cause we can all get behind, and a celebrity who has the moustache to pull it off.

Contains adult themes and coarse language. Mature audiences only.

Pilbeam Theatre
Tuesday October 14
Adult$32, Pensioner / Student / Unemployed $28

Patch Theatre’s Emily Loves to Bounce

If you loved Patch Theatre’s production of Mr McGee and the Biting Flea, you’re sure to love next year’s production from Patch Theatre, Emily Loves to Bounce.
Emily Loves to Bounce is an enchanting performance inspired by the books of best selling Australian author / illustrator Stephen Michael King, including Henry and Amy, Patricia, and Emily Loves to Bounce.
In keeping with the books, Emily Loves to Bounce is an enchanting, playful, imaginative and whimsical production. Balls and boxes, eccentricity and efficiency, spontaneity and organisation, all come together in the friendship of Henry and Amy. Through music, games, songs and dance this acclaimed Patch Theatre production inspires the creativity, imagination and exuberance of childhood.
Stephen Michael King has created six books – all of them expressing the mystery and wonder of creative
expression and how undervalued it can be.
Don’t miss Emily Loves to Bounce in 2008!

Pilbeam Theatre
Wednesday October 15 at 6.30pm
Adult $17.90, Junior $12.90, F (2A & 2J) $50, Pensioner $14.90

Note: Family passes available through the Box Office only (Dial'n'Charge 4927 4111)

Schools shows: Thursday October 16 at 9.30 am & 11.30am
School group of students $9.90each . Book through your school (using our form) or contact the Pilbeam Theatre Box Office 4927 4111.

Expressions Dance Company
Thin Ice

On Thin Ice

With superb new dancers joining the Expressions ensemble, the company proudly presents the electrifying new work choreographed by Maggi Siestma.

On Thin Ice fuses movement, film, text and atmospheric sound into a compelling, visually rich and physically exciting dance work, which looks at the mix of science, nature and humanity.

“… quicksilver turns and transitions…it’s exhilarating to watch.”
Cameron Pegg, Scene Magazine

“Whether your delight is in the visual joy of dance or the heady stimulation of being prodded to think, this is a production you should see.”
Jan Nary, Arts Hub

Photo by Keith Hawley

DANCE WORKSHOPS : Expressions Dance Company is also offering FREE workshops in Dance (Contemporary Technique, Classical Technique or Choreography) or Drama (Movement for Drama, Creating Character with Movement) for secondary schools and dance groups who have purchased tickets to see the performance. Please phone 3257 4222 or email education@expressions.org.au for more information.

Pilbeam Theatre
Saturday October 25 at 8pm

Adults $32, pensioner / student / unemployed $27.00, Junior $19, Family $90, G10+A $27, Group 10+ Students $12, Youth $27, Adult Friend of Theatre $27, QAC Adult $22, QAC Junior $12.

The Rockhampton Musical Union Choir presents

The Wizard of Oz

By Arrangement with Tams Witmark Music Library Inc

Dorothy Gale of Kansas, like so many girls her age, dreams of what lies ‘ Over The Rainbow’. One day a twister hits her home town and carries her away ….It is an undisputed fact that the Wizard of Oz is and will always be one of the greatest musicals for pleasing an audience. The story by L. Frank Baum was inspired by Grimm’s Fairy Tales. The Songs, with music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E. Y Harburg and background music by Herbert Stothart are:
Over The Rainbow
Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
If I Only Had A Brain
We’re Off To See The Wizard

The stage production uses much of the aura of the 1939 motion picture starring Judy Garland on which the show is based. It is an adaptation for live stage performance even while it strives to look and sound just like the famous film in telling the story.

Starring in the Role of Dorothy will be Elle-Lace Ambrose, The Scarecrow - Jakob Ambrose, The TinMan - Levi Burrows, The Lion - Riley Griffin, and with a special appearance by WIN Television's Paul Taylor as The Wizard.

Adult $35.50, P/S/U, $28.50, Child $25.00

Friday October 31 at 7.30pm
Saturday November 1 at 7.30pm
Sunday November 2 at 1.30pm

Book by L Frank Baum

Music and Lyrics by Harold Arlen and EY Harburg

Background music by Herbert Stothart

Adapted by John Kane for teh Royal Shakespeare Company from the classic motion picture screenplay.