Prior to that, she appeared as Elphaba in Wicked (HOTA/Matt Ward Productions), as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Gordon Frost Organisation/Suzanne Jones), and as the title role in Violet (Blue Saint Productions), for which she received a 2015 Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. Most recently, Samantha (She/Her) appeared in the Australian tour of Chicago (u/s Roxie Hart, Gordon Frost Organisation/Suzanne Jones). Film: Happy Feet 2, The Great Gatsby, Goddess. Gypsy (Resident Choreographer) Young Frankenstein (Associate Choreographer) American Psycho (Associate Choreographer). Sydney Symphony Orchestra credits include Eddie Ryan in “Funny Girl in Concert” and “The Bernstein Songbook.” Additional theatre credits include the one-man cabaret show, ¡Hispanic Attack! Angel in Kinky Boots Wayne Burns/understudy Scott Hastings in Strictly Ballroom the Musical King Kong Live on Stage Legally Blonde Virgil in Violet Opera Australia’s Carmen They played Freddy in The View Upstairs and Charles Guiteau in Assassins. They performed to critical acclaim as Usnavi De La Vega in Blue Saint’s In the Heights, winning a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Home (Sydney Theatre Company), and Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys (Newtheatricals). Recent credits include “To Barbra, With Love” (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), Roy in Fun. Ryan is a true triple threat nonbinary performer with a career in theatre, cabaret, and film. In 2015, Simon was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to the performing arts as an actor, singer and producer. Five Minute Call, a comedy web series set backstage of a big musical that he produced, co-wrote and co-starred in with Helen Dallimore premieres in 2022. His countless screen credits range from The Devil’s Playground (1976 AFI Best Actor Award) to Devil’s Playground (Executive Producer/Lead Actor2015 AACTA and Logie Awards for Best Mini-Series), and 25 years as one of ABC TV’s favourite Play School presenters. Other stage credits include three Wharf Revues, Mary Stuart (STC), The Homosexuals (Griffin), The Misanthrope (Bell Shakespeare) and Noises Off (MTC). Australian musical theatre credits include Marius in Les Misérables - original Australian cast, Billy in Anything Goes (Green Room Award Best Actor Musical), Billy in Chicago, Mr Banks in Mary Poppins, Edna in Hairspray, Frank Snr in Catch Me if You Can and Charlemagne in Pippin. Simon’s (He/Him) starring roles in London’s West End include Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, Carl-Magnus in A Little Night Music with Dame Judi Dench, Georges in La Cage Aux Folles with John Barrowman and the UK premiere of Holding the Man. Screen credits include Wentworth, Winners and Losers, The Frontier, The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Neighbours. She performed the national anthem at the Australia Open and the State of Origin. She’s released the albums Jazz and the Silver Screen with Hook Turn Orchestra and her original music with Alinta and the Jazz Emperors, titled I Got You. Alinta is a concert performer and songwriter. Other stage credits include Petra in A Little Night Music for Victorian Opera, Mamma Mia!, Mickey in Leader of the Pack (Green Room Award), Dusty: The Original Pop Diva, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Demeter in Cats, Alice in Closer, Mary Poppins for Free Rain Theatre and the Netherlands season of Dirty Dancing. She performed alongside Hugh Jackman in his Broadway to Oz tour and was a fixture on The Production Company stage, playing Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar, Magnolia in Show Boat, Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain, Svetlana in Chess (Green Room Award), Niki Harris in Curtains and Sibella Hallward in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. She recently starred as Velma Kelly in Chicago and Anita in West Side Story (2010), which saw her nominated for several awards, including a Helpmann, Green Room and Sydney Theatre Award, and won the Australian Dance Award for Most Outstanding Performance. Alinta (She/Her) is one of Australia’s most captivating leading ladies.
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This song alone is worth the price of the album as Haycock’s slide guitar and Wood’s organ drive the tune home in fine fashion. Wood’s celeste and Haycock’s slide give the song a ‘Loan Me A Dime’ feel, with Haycock coming to dominate the tune’s sound as Duane Allman did on Boz Scaggs’ cover of the Fenton Robinson classic. The album’s tour de force is the nearly nine-minute band original ‘And Lonely’ which features Wood’s organ and harmonium intro and deeply echoed vocals by Cooper with Haycock’s slide guitar just underneath before he begins a slow burn guitar solo at the two minute mark. Band original ‘Looking For My Baby’ features an Elmore James inspired slide intro, with Wood’s piano supplementing Haycock’s fine slide guitar on the snappy number. A tasty cover of Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘How Many More Years’ features a piano intro, before Cooper’s mouth harp joins in along with Wood’s boogie woogie style piano. ‘A Stranger In Your Town’ co-written by Cooper and Lee Hazelwood is another prime Chicago blues song led by Haycock’s slide guitar, Cooper’s mouth harp and Holt, Jones and Newsome locked into a groove, once again rendering a John Mayall vibe. Side two opens with the band original ‘Twenty Past One’ the band returning to its Chicago blues roots with Haycock’s slide guitar and Wood’s piano dominating the sound. Side one of the album closes with the band’s take on Big Joe Turner’s blues shouter ‘Wee Wee Baby’ done gently,given a Canned Heat/John Mayall feel with lots of harp and acoustic guitars. A fine cover of Sonny Boy Williamson’s ‘Don’t Start Me To Talking’ features Haycock’s guitar leading the way to Cooper’s inevitable mouth harp work which do the tune’s writer justice. Another band original ‘You’ve Been Drinking’ is a shuffle style blues number, with Cooper’s vocals the center of attention and lead instrument. ‘Going Down This Road’ a band original carries on the traditional Chicago blues feel thanks to Haycock and Wood, who contributes piano and organ. ‘Insurance’ is a traditional Chicago electric blues style tune, with Haycock’s guitar and Wood’s piano to the fore. The album opens with ‘Mean Old World’ somehow credited to the band, featuring Colin Cooper’s mouth harp and wonderful slide guitar by Pete Haycock, whose solo takes center stage. Esoteric Records has compiled the group’s first five albums in a clamshell box set, supplementing the albums’ original 49 tunes with 18 bonus tracks, making this the definitive collection of the band during their earliest period.ġ969’s ‘The Climax Chicago Blues Band’ is a twelve track mix of band originals and well known blues standards. Climax Blues Band – ‘The Albums 1969-1972’ (2019) Formed in Stafford, England in 1967 by vocalist and harmonica player Colin Cooper, guitarist and vocalist Pete Haycock, guitarist Derek Holt, bassist and keyboardist Richard Jones, drummer George Newsome and keyboardist Arthur Wood, the band which came to prominence and commercial success in the mid-1970’s as the Climax Blues Band, began life as the Climax Chicago Blues Band, and their first several albums stayed true to their name. |
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