Monash to host million-dollar music theatre residency

Once 'teeth, tits and tap', musicals are now being recognised and embraced in universities, as a new initiative demonstrates.
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‘Sticks and Stones’ Second Year Musical Workshop production; image via artsonline.monash.edu.au 

Philanthropist Jeanne Pratt’s latest donation to Monash University is a $1 million gift to the University’s Centre for Theatre and Performance. It establishes the Jeanne Pratt Musical Theatre Artists in Residence Program, designed to provide mid-career and experienced musical theatre practitioners with the time to develop their own projects, while also enabling drama and music students at Monash to work with and learn from them.

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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