The Australian production of Beetlejuice The Musical. Photo: Michelle Grace Hunder.
The story of Beetlejuice the Musical in Brisbane is the story of the ghost-with-the-most haunting the city – not with a mischievous poltergeist’s presence, but with a big-name production’s absence.
Beetlejuice the Musical closing in Brisbane four weeks early is particularly dispiriting, then. Heartbreaking as well – even more so for those who lost work and income as a result.
Sarah Ward is a film and television critic; arts, entertainment and culture editor and journalist; and film festival organiser. She is the film and TV critic for ABC radio Gold Coast, the Australia-based film critic for Screen International, and a critic and member at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Sarah’s background also spans stints as film and television editor at both Concrete Playground and Variety Australia, and as Goethe-Institut Australien’s Kino in Oz critic and writer. Her work has been published by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Birth.Movies.Death, SBS, SBS Movies, Flicks, Lumina, Senses of Cinema, the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, Junkee, FilmInk, Broadsheet, Televised Revolution, Metro Magazine and Screen Education, the City of Gold Coast, the World Film Locations book series and more.
