SHOWTIME: Gypsy with Lizzie Matjacic and Mark Monroe

Showtime with Andrew G | Theatre Podcast Australia

🎭 Gypsy
📍The Round, Nunawading
🗓️ 11 to 20 October
🎟️ babirra.org.au
The jewel of Broadway's Golden Age, Gypsy boasts an incomparable score, a brilliantly conceived book, and one of the greatest leading roles ever to grace the Broadway stage. Regarded by many theatre professionals as the finest musical ever created, Gypsy is the ultimate tale of an ambitious stage mother fighting for her daughters' success - while secretly yearning for her own. Set all across America in the 1920s and 30s, when vaudeville was dying and burlesque was born, Arthur Laurents' landmark show explores the world of two-bit show business with brass, humor, heart, and sophistication.
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Lizzie Matjacic
Lizzie is excited and thrilled to take on the incredible role of Mama Rose in tonight’s performance, a role that has been on her wish list for a long time! Lizzie 's most recent stage roles include Ruth in Calendar Girls with Phoenix, Glory in Almost Maine with Eltham Little Theatre, and Dotty/Mrs. Clackett in Noises Off with Windmill Theatre Company. She was also delighted to play Donna in Mamma Mia with Babirra and Mae Tuck in Tuck Everlasting with Fab Nobs Theatre in 2022. Lizzie's favourite roles span a diverse range of productions over 30 years in theatre, including Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls and Mrs Potts in Beauty and the Beast (Windmill Theatre Company), Charlotte in A Little Night Music, Diana Goodman in Next to Normal, Drowsy in The Drowsy Chaperone, The Witch in Into the Woods (Fab Nobs Theatre), and Muzzy van Hossmere in Thorougly Modern Millie (Babirra). In addition to her extensive stage work, Lizzie has written and performed in two one-woman cabarets: Heartaches, Hang-Ups and Headcases: A Psychologist’s Cabaret and From Here to Maternity. She also co-wrote and performed in Broadway for Life, a concert fundraiser for the Cancer Council, which earned a Lyrebird award in 2016.

Mark Monroe
Mark boasts nearly four decades of experience in performance, direction, and choreography, with a resume spanning theatre, film, television, music videos, and fashion shows. He sailed the world performing on AIDA das Clubschiff based in Germany, appearing in multilingual musicals and cabaret shows under esteemed mentors from the Hamburg School of Entertainment. In June, Mark portrayed Bernadette in Priscilla: Queen Of The Desert with Babirra, reprising this role from CentreStage Geelong last year. Other music theatre highlights include Henry Higgins - My Fair Lady, Billy Flynn - Chicago, and Thenardier - Les Miserables (NOVA), Caratacus Potts - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (CentreStage), Lord Farquaad - Shrek (WAT), Leo Bloom - The Producers (ACT) & Frank 'n Furter - Rocky Horror (EKC). He also directed and choreographed High School Musical, Hansel & Gretel, and Robin the Hood (ACT), earning a Music Theatre Guild of Victoria nomination for his choreography of Grease. Mark's achievements extend offstage, with appearances on Neighbours and Big Girls Blouse, as well as being crowned the 1989 Prince of Moomba.