How a first-timer wrote Fangirls — 'I learned everything I know off YouTube'

ABC RN Arts

English - February 01, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Following its acclaimed world premiere season, the Australian musical Fangirls returns. We learn how the show's writer, composer and original lead, Yve Blake, a theatre geek who can't play any instruments came to write one of the hottest musicals around.

Also, voice and dialect coach Leith McPherson shows us how to find the performer within when reading stories to children and Dr Erin Brannigan continues to share the joys of watching contemporary dance.