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About OzMade Musicals

OzMade Musicals is an annual concert by Magnormos Productions that celebrates and showcases Australian music theatre writing.

OzMade Musicals debuts up to four new works through ‘On the Drawing Board’, and combines their presentation with ‘OzMade Flashbacks’, which remember highlights from existing musicals.

The works presented ‘On the Drawing Board’ are selected from a national submission process hosted by Australian Musicals.com.

Each work is given up to one week of development time with professional creatives, and presented as a 15 minute scene and song vignette at the OzMade Musicals concert.

‘OzMade Flashbacks’ are curated separately, and often involve the original performers and creative teams.

Previous OzMade Musicals have included:

• THE BEAUTY SPOT (David W Young)
• Metro Street (Matthew Robinson)
• Joe Starts Again (Martin Croft and Dean Lotherington)
• Love Equals (Craig Christie and Kristin Keam)
• Virgins (Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank)
• All Het Up (John Thorn, Fiona Thorn and Guy Rundle)
• Paris (Jon English and David Mackay)
• James and Maggie (David Reeves and Peter Yeldham)

And many, many more. The full list of musicals that Magnormos has supported through OzMade Musicals can be found at www.magnormos.com

Previous hosts of OzMade Musicals include:

• Julia Zemiro
• Queenie van de Zandt
• Eddie Perfect

In 2007, Magnormos will celebrate the fifth anniversary of OzMade Musicals, which was first presented on Australia Day 2003.


Why OzMade Musicals is important

Because music theatre is important, and so are the Australians that are writing it.

Music theatre fuses the languages of music, drama, dance and design into a popular, accessible art form. In Australia, musical theatre is dominated by the import of international work, and Australian audiences are generally denied hearing their local voice. The musical, as an art form, inevitably intersects with the world of commercial theatre. Musicals are dependent on the willingness of commercial producers and investors to take a risk on new, developing work.

A key purpose of OzMade Musicals is to enable new work, or important work from the past, to be seen and heard, to be developed, and to invite the interest of those who may wish to support it.

OzMade Musicals is a leading advocate for the Australian music theatre voice. It provides an opportunity for writers to engage with a creative team and to perform a part of their musical before an audience.


OzMade Musicals 2007

OzMade Musicals 2007 will be held in late November 2007, with a nationwide submission process for the ‘On the Drawing Board’ components occurring between March and July 2007.

For updated productions and bookings information, please visit www.magnormos.com

OzMade Musicals 2007 Submission Panel