DUBBO CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
Book& Lyrics by Daniel Cullen
Music by James Cullen & Daniel Cullen
Opens Next Week
Starring
Zoe Iannou, Genevieve Lemon, Luke Leong-Tay,
Noni McCallum, Terry Serio, Justin Smith, Aaron Tsindos,
and Bishanyia Vincent
FROM Friday 13 MAY 2022 at HAYES THEATRE CO
FROM THURSDAY 16 JUNE 2022 at RIVERSIDE THEATRES
Official openings 17/18 May at Hayes Theatre Co
Director Sheridan Harbridge
Musical Supervisor & Co-Arranger Joe Accaria
Musical Director Glenn Moorhouse
Choreographer Ellen Simpson
Set & Costume Designer Ella Butler
Lighting Designer Trent Suidgeest
Sound Designer Dave Bergman
Assistant Director Daniel Cottier
Fight Director Tim Dashwood
Executive Producer Michelle Guthrie
Rehearsals were held over the past three weeks with the actors having to learn how to wrestle while they sing, act and dance.
“At the end of the third week of rehearsals and I’m on the floor laughing on a daily basis,” said co-writer Daniel Cullen. “Sheridan’s assembled a crack team of actors who are elevating the jokes and finding laughs we didn’t even know were there.”
There is not a spare seat in the Dubbo Dome; Ozzy the Aussie Battler flicks his cape and steps into the ring, and the crowd go troppo. This is Dubbo Championship Wrestling, the hilarious new Aussie rock musical that will change everything you thought you knew about professional wrestling, regional Australia, and musical theatre itself.
Rose, a young girl who grew up in Dubbo with wrestling in her blood, has long ago turned her back on the family business and Dubbo’s stifling small town ways. When circumstances lead to her returning to her hometown on the eve of Dubbomaina, the biggest wrestling tournament of the year, Rose is drawn into a monumental battle over family and identity, featuring capes, choreography, and some of the most colourful characters you’ll ever meet.
The violence, the joy, the costumes, the thumbtacks.
Will there be blood? We Bloody hope so!
Dubbo Championship Wrestling has been in development for several years under the helm of Sheridan Harbridge
“It’s been a monumental effort from everyone involved in Dubbo Championship Wrestling,” said director Sheridan Harbridge. “We can’t wait to show everyone this raucous and joyful new rock musical.”
Sheridan Harbridge, Glenn Moorhouse, and Dan Cottier
Behind the scenes footage
The Fight Workshop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Leading Lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Rehearsals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Dubbo Championship Wrestling is full of amazing character and stars musical theatre greats alongside a few newcomers that we have been dying for audiences to meet.
Bookings:
HAYES THEATRE CO www.hayestheatre.com.au or phone 02 8065 7337
RIVERSIDE + 61 2 8839 3399 online https://boxoffice.
Dubbo Championship Wrestling proudly makes FULL use of our filthy national lingo. Language may offend others
The Concept Studio Album
During 2020 the Dubbo Championship Wrestling music team Joe Accaria & Glenn Moorhouse assembled an inspired group of established pop, country and musical theatre singers to record a Studio Concept Album.
The recording is available through all streaming services.
https://gyro.to/
“A few decades ago, there was a great tradition of concept and studio albums for new musicals in order to get the music out there,” said Musical Supervisor Joe Accaria. “We are bringing it back with this great music by recording a few songs from the musical with a slight tilt on the arrangements recorded by some of the best voices in the business.”
“We recorded vocalists and musicians during the first lock down across three states and we can’t wait for people to hear these great songs from an exciting new Australian musical to rock living rooms and theatres in synchronicity”
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