Past Event
Tall Poppy Blues
1st Oct 2011 - 2nd Oct 2011
Presenter: Butterfly @ Trades
Website: http://butterflyattrades.com/
Event Duration: 60 minutes
The cast is made up of an extremely talented, multi-cultural rainbow, each of whom gets a chance to show his or her wide-ranging ability. This show is wildly entertaining and envelops an audience with its sense of fair dinkum fun – if musical theatre and cabaret had a baby, this would be it!
Artist Bio
Since becoming an Australian citizen, Chris Wallace has earned several caps. The first was Nothing to Wear, an original musical based on The Emperor’s New Clothes, for which he wrote book, music and lyrics. It had two seasons in the Fairfax Studio Theatre at the Victorian Arts Centre. He earned another cap with A Helping Hand, a gala fund-raiser which he produced for Quadriplegic Hand Foundation at Melbourne Concert Hall. A third cap came when his acting career got a boost at La Mama in Are You Evil Tonight. Since then, he has appeared in countless Australian productions, including Wilfred, Stingers, Blue Heelers, the upcoming The Slap and Lowdown. Another cap was earned for writing and performing in two one-man shows, A Thing of Shreds & Patches in the 2000 Melbourne Fringe Festival and The Mark Twain You Don’t Know throughout Australia and in Los Angeles and New York, from 2004 to 2010.
Tall Poppy Blues is the Australian version of an original musical revue first done in Los Angeles called Greatest Hits. Before coming to Oz, he did more of the same in New York and Los Angeles. He was a series regular on the popular daytime drama, All My Children; produced the kick-off event for New York City’s Diamond Jubilee at Lincoln Center, New York: A Great Place to Live; produced Uptown Sunday Afternoon at the famed Apollo Theatre in Harlem; wrote songs for several children’s musicals in Los Angeles and produced The Harlem Cultural Festival for television.