Boy from Oz review 'costumes...breathtaking'

The Boy from Oz, which is the production that Steve was costume designer for, opened at the Civic Theatre in Newcastle on Wednesday night to high acclaim. The Newcastle Herald's reviewer, Ken Longworth, seems to have loved it, calling our friend Grant Drury-Green's performance as Peter Allen 'stunning' and if you click on the image of the review it should enlargen enough that you can read the text yourself. If you can't, then a sentence in the final paragraph will be of interest: 'Scott Allan's lighting design is stunning and the costumes designed by Steve Harrison and Bev Fewins are breathtaking, whether the setting is the formality of the Radio City Music Hall stage of the riotously coloured I Go to rio performance'. 'Riotously coloured'..that's my Stevie.

If you are in Newcastle or the region, do yourself a favour and go see it! It runs next Wed, Fri, Sat matinee and Sat night. Mr Harrison himself will be viewing it across three performances Friday and saturday next week, but unfortunately I have a massage workshop and can't go. I'll have to wait for the dvd.