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Product Description:
Casey Bennetto’s Keating! burst into life at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in March 2005. The comic genius of the lyrics, the audacity of the conception, the beat and swing of the music sent its sold-out audiences spinning into the night. The production won the Barry Award, the Golden Gibbo and The Age Critic's Award at the Festival and was nominated for Best Musical at the inaugural Sydney Theatre Awards following its short, five-night season at the Sydney Opera House in August 2005. Casey Bennetto’s scathingly hilarious lyrics tear through the reign and tragic fall of the Placido Domingo of Australian politics. Part French farce, part Greek tragedy, and all Australian history, “the country soul opera we had to have” transports you back to a time less politically grey as it charts the rise, fall and rise again of an antique clock collector from Bankstown and his battles against assorted mugs, dummies, dimwits, gutless spivs and scumbags.
Featuring Mike McLeish as Paul Keating and Casey Bennetto as Bob Hawke, John Hewson and John Howard, with Enio Pozzebon (Gareth Evans), Cam Rogers (Alexander Downer), Justin Ludowyk (Cheryl Kernot) and Jason Cleeland (The Messenger). Recorded Live at the Sydney Opera House, 13 August 2005.
"This extremely clever and superbly funny production requires little knowledge of the time, but either a respect, or an ability to laugh at, the Placido Domingo of Australian politics." - The Age
Tracks:
1. Overture
2. My Right-Hand Man
3. Do It In Style
4. I Remember Kirribilli
5. It's Time
6. Ruler Of The Land
7. Dogs Of Damnation
8. On The Floor
9. I Wanna Do You Slowly
10. Antony Green
11. Freaky
12. Heaven, Mister Evans
13. Power
14. Choose Me
15. The Light On The Hill
Available from Middle Eight Music:
The 2007 Belvoir Company B Cast Recording
Keating! The Musical DVD
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Keating! A Country Soul Opera