For followers of local community theatre, the name Gail Waizer will be a very familiar one.
On June 5, Waizer will take to the stage again but this time in a solo performance featuring a selection of musical numbers from her recent album releases, Sondheim Sincerely and Someone Else's Stories.
A vocalist for many years, Waizer enjoys performing with local community theatre groups such as Blue Mountains Musical Society (BMMS) and Richmond Players.
Her enthusiasm for musical theatre began in her earlier years when she was exposed to productions of Pirates of Penzance and Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Jon English, and performed alongside Anthony Warlow in The Wiz with the Wollongong Conservatorium Theatre Company. But it was during her years at Wollongong University studying drama that the new hit musical of the time, Les Miserables, further ignited that passion to pursue her dream to sing musical theatre.
Later, Waizer refined her musical qualifications and skills as she completed her studies at the Oxford School of Drama (UK) and the Actor's Centre Australia, including later training with Philip Quast and Marcia Hines.
Gail’s musical theatre performances include Madam Giry in The Phantom of the Opera, Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music, Florence in Chess, and Louisa in Nine. In 2014 Waizer starred as the glamorously complex feline Grizabella in the BMMS’s steam punk influenced production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, where she received acclaim for her beautiful and quite stirring rendition of Memory.
In her upcoming show, An Evening with Gail Waizer, at The Carrington Hotel in Katoomba, Waizer will feature songs from a variety of very popular musicals including Cats, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and Les Miserables.
Matthew Herne, who starred magnificently as The Phantom in the BMMS production of The Phantom of the Opera, will duet with Waizer during the show and will also perform solo. Accompanying Waizer is musician and composer Gary Daley, best known for playing in some of Australia’s elite jazz bands, and for his appearances on the ABC television show for preschoolers, Lah Lah’s Adventures.
Tickets for An Evening with Gail Waizer are on sale at http://trybooking.com/KTQN or by calling The Carrington Hotel on 4782 1111.
