CLASSIC antagonists of fantasy and medieval stories are seeing their time in the spotlight as part of the BallaRat Pack\u2019s latest Broadway to Ballarat production.<\/p>\n
Running until Sunday 3 December, the company\u2019s Once Upon a Time: Villains will showcase the iconic big bads of tales past against the backdrop of Kryal Castle\u2019s Jester\u2019s Theatre.<\/p>\n
BallaRat Pack founder Reuben Morgan is serving as producer, director, conductor, and a performer in the show and said it\u2019ll be a fun showcase of characters audiences love to hate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting opportunity because villains get all the best songs and the best storylines and they\u2019re some of the most popular characters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u201cThere\u2019s a loose storyline that connects all the songs, and it\u2019ll be fun to explore not only for our audiences but for our performers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s some Disney works in there and some lesser-known songs like Brush Up Your Shakespeare, Men in Tights from Robin Hood, songs from Cabaret and Avenue Q and an original song from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
With 20 onstage performers and a 22-person orchestra, Once Upon a Time: Villains features more than 20 songs.<\/p>\n
Onstage after 12 weeks of rehearsals, Morgan said the two-act show is a sequel of sorts to their original Once Upon a Time production performed in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted to do another show at Kryal Castle so it was about how do we follow up?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimilar to this, the previous one was an anthology show and it was structured around a mother reading bedtime stories to her son. It was mainly focused on heroes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time, it\u2019s about what happens after bedtime stories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tickets range from $20 for children 17 and under, to $40 adult and can be booked at bit.ly\/49PUIPW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CLASSIC antagonists of fantasy and medieval stories are seeing their time in the spotlight as part of the BallaRat Pack\u2019s latest Broadway to Ballarat production. Running until Sunday 3 December, the company\u2019s Once Upon a Time: Villains will showcase the iconic big bads of tales past against the backdrop of Kryal Castle\u2019s Jester\u2019s Theatre. BallaRat […]<\/p>\n