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Company B's production of Keating!, by Casey Bennetto, is returning for another season at the Seymour Centre from Wednesday 7 November to Thursday 13 December 2007. For further info, check out the Belvoir St Theatre website.

Following are some extracts from the lyrics (from the CD jacket). The soundtrack is available for $30 from the Belvoir box office


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Jesus hopped the A train - Stephen Adly Guirgis - Belvoir - 2007


It begins with a character mumbling in the dark, stumbling over the words of the Lord's Prayer, but pushing himself to keep going, while prisoners around him yell at him to shut the fuck up. You soon discover the man's name is Angel Cruz (played by Ryan Johnson), that he's 30-years-old and Puerto Rican, that he tried to save his friend from a religious group, and that he's charged with attempted murder of the preacher ("But I just shot him in the ass



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Cultural_philistine interviews HAL_9000 for thoughts on The Small Things, which has just finished its run at Belvoir Downstairs.

The Small Things - Splinter Theatre Company - Belvoir St Theatre

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Exit the King - Geoffrey Rush - Belvoir St Theatre
The first thing to note is that Geoffrey Rush is fucking good. Rush blows 'em away. He has more scope on stage than in film, and in full flight he's remarkable -- continually interesting, inimitable physical life and vitality, resonant and flexible voice, and with a different action every moment -- flirting with an audience member, being childish, being feminine, dishing out insults, dancing amusingly, expressing with his whole body. One has to be perfectly relaxed for this sort of work and perfectly in sync with the audience -- and, believe me, all of this is even harder than it looks.

You're unlikely to see a more virtuoso performance this year (emotionally bigger, sure -- but not better). The guy has gone through what must have been a punishing run of seven shows a week, for nigh on two months, and yet even such gags as drinking out of a hot water bottle, spitting it at the front row, and then apologising ("I shouldn't have done that. That's what you get for booking so early"), come across as fresh and spontaneous


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