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Rush takes 'Chaperone' seat
Geoffrey Rush will topline the Australian premiere of "The Drowsy Chaperone," the first show of the Melbourne Theater Company's 2010 season, opening in January.
Rush will play Man in Chair, the musical theater aficionado who both narrates and enters into the action of his favorite vintage tuner.
The role is one of two stage commitments for Rush next year. In December, he will reprise his role in director Neil Armfield's 1989 production of Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" in a revival for Sydney's Company B.
Rush won a Tony in June for his work with Armfield in "Exit the King."
MTC artistic director Simon Philips will helm "Drowsy," which will also star Shane Jacobsen ("Kenny") and former Sydney Theater Company topper Robyn Nevin.
In a self-confessed "populist" season, the MTC will also stage the Down Under bow of Samuel Adamson's adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" and the world preem of Tony McNamara's satire "The Grenade," starring vet Aussie thesp Garry McDonald.
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Geoffrey Rush will topline the Australian premiere of "The Drowsy Chaperone," the first show of the Melbourne Theater Company's 2010 season, opening in January.
Rush will play Man in Chair, the musical theater aficionado who both narrates and enters into the action of his favorite vintage tuner.
The role is one of two stage commitments for Rush next year. In December, he will reprise his role in director Neil Armfield's 1989 production of Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" in a revival for Sydney's Company B.
Rush won a Tony in June for his work with Armfield in "Exit the King."
MTC artistic director Simon Philips will helm "Drowsy," which will also star Shane Jacobsen ("Kenny") and former Sydney Theater Company topper Robyn Nevin.
In a self-confessed "populist" season, the MTC will also stage the Down Under bow of Samuel Adamson's adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's "All About My Mother" and the world preem of Tony McNamara's satire "The Grenade," starring vet Aussie thesp Garry McDonald.
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