Musicals – not just entertainment
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The musicals of the 1930s consisted of simple melodies, and limited story-lines. However, Showboatby Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, broke new ground by introducing three-dimensional characters and soaring music that integrated with the libretto. Above all, distasteful topics were woven into a complex plot. From then on musicals confronted other equally taboo subjects including racial prejudice, drug abuse, politics and even war. Musicals would never again be ‘just entertainment’.

In Conversation, 2pm Wednesdays 

Of the many guests that In Conversation has had over the past seven years, none is more fascinating than the Javanese-born singer Ria Andriani. Ria lost her sight in early childhood, but that hasn’t stopped her from becoming a first-rate classical singer with a Bachelor of Music from the University of New South Wales, majoring in Classical Voice.  Just how Ria has achieved all this she will tell Michael Morton-Evans when she’s his guest on In Conversation at 2pm on Wednesday, May 22nd. Definitely one not to be missed!

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