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Unlikely new musical celebrates local stories

The heightened emotion of a legendary rugby league victory have been set to music for a new production bucking touring trends.

31 Jan 2017

Richard Watts

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Author and journalist Hugh Lunn is bucking a trend: instead of creating a musical with an eye to national and international touring opportunities, he’s very firmly focused on his local market. His musical celebrates a Queensland triumph in the State’s favourite spectator sport of rugby league.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts