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False Christs, serial killers, and the dole queue

Australian-made musicals are like buses – you wait for one for ages, then three come along at once.

1 Apr 2014 12:00

Richard Watts

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Photo: DreamSong publicity image, supplied.

This year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival features not one but three home-grown Australian musicals: Metanoia Theatre’s remount of Centrelink the Musical, first staged in the Adelaide Fringe in 2009; the return of Wolf Creek the Musical, an ultra-low budget production spoofing Greg McLean’s 2009 torture-porn thriller; and the new production DreamSong, a musical comedy about an evangelical preacher who fakes the Second Coming of Christ in order to solve his church’s financial problems.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts