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HIT Productions

HIT Productions

HIT's first tour of Hotel Sorrento in 1999, HIT Productions has built up a remarkable body of work. Between 1999 and the end of 2011 HIT will have delivered 50 major theatre tours across 665 + weeks of touring.

HIT Productions has presented some of the most extensive tours ever staged in Australia including Patrick Edgeworth's Girl Talk (2000-2001) a 29 week tour to 69 venues, Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers (2003-2004) - 23 weeks across 60 venues, both starring Jacki Weaver, David Williamson's The Club (2007-2008) starring John Wood (35 weeks across 80 venues) and Jeanie Linders - Menopause The Musical® (2008-2010) which ran for a phenomenal 116 weeks across 198 venues. Other notable tours include Peta Murray's Wallflowering starring Noelene Brown, Joanna Murray-Smith's Love Child starring Amanda Muggleton and Jack Hibberd's A Stretch of the Imagination starring John Wood.

2010 saw HIT completing (together with the tour of Menopause The Musical®), Wild World - The Cat Stevens Story, Cosi and Driving Miss Daisy. Tours in 2011 are the Australian premiere of Motherhood The Musical (45 weeks), the world premiere of Furiously Fertile (13 weeks), The Sum of Us (23 weeks) and Menopause The Musical® (16.5 weeks). 2012 will once again see the company touring extensively in Australia with the tours of Let the Sunshine, Motherhood The Musical, Menopause The Musical® - In Concert and Diving for Pearls.

From 1995-2003 the Company was the market leader in the provision of sponsored educational/motivational talks via its highly successful education programs such as Dream and Achieve™ and Follow Your Dreams™. Its reach of 5,700 schools and over one million students demonstrated the success of these programs. Whilst these programs are no longer active, HIT's commitment to young people continues via the Company's theatre arm through its community activities whilst on tour, such as the free Sharing the Experience of the Arts talks at schools.