Ben Apfelbaum

MEDIA CALL : SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

The celebrated musical SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER will have its opening night at the Sydney Lyric Theatre on Tuesday 2nd April, 2019, twenty years after its opening on Broadway.

Despite productions in Argentina, Holland, Spain, Germany and South Africa, to name but a few, Sydney’s exclusive season will be unique. Thinking out of left field the producers wanted to add something special to this ode to disco  so they reached out to Australia’s disco queen, Marcia Hines. She accepted and sings two of her pop charting songs to add that little more oomph to the show.

The cast is packed full of award winning members as well as familiar faces. The show stars Euan Doidge of Priscilla fame, Bobby Fox, the Jersey Boys lead, Paulini, Melanie Hawkins, the lead dancer, ‘Tim O Matic’, Omaji, Natalie Conway and Nana Matapule

John Frost, the Executive producer, indicated that this production will have a greater emphasis on the dancing. Nevertheless the grittier parts of the musical, based on a story by Nik Cohn will not be overlooked.

https://www.saturdaynightfever.com.au

All pics by Ben Apfelbaum

 

Published by Ben Apfelbaum

My photography began when my father handed me the proverbial brownie box camera as a child. As cameras developed I went through Fujica and Olympus range finders graduating to my first single lens reflex camera, the Minolta SRT101, the latter being the greatest facilitator to my growth as a photographer. Digital photography has only added to this. I was a regular contributor to Camera Craft magazine (Australian Camera ) for over three years. During Australia’s Bicentennial year (1988) I made it a personal project to document the celebrations. This culminated in the creation of a book of my photos which was published in 1989. The book was called CELEBRATING AUSTRALIA and came with an accompanying calendar. My works have appeared in a number of publications including the coffee book entitled MY AUSTRALIA (1989), publisher Robertsbridge Severn. This book had a preface by the then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke. I was a co-photographer on a book entitled SYDNEY- DISCOVER THE CITY with text written by Robert Treborland. Major Mitchell Press was the publisher. Also for two years I was the photographer for calendars celebrating Sydney’s multicultural communities. The two calendars were entitled MULTICULTURAL SYDNEY. My work appeared in a group exhibition held at Sydney’s Town Hall pertaining to the diversity of life in South America to raise money for orphanages there. I have over one hundred photos stored in the New South Wales State Library archive. I had a solo exhibition held in 2007 entitled Ben’s Lens at the Sydney Jewish Museum which celebrated the vibrancy of the Sydney Jewish community. Some of these photos are on the Museum’s permanent display. I have exhibited internationally firstly at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta Georgia, united states, and in an exhibition entitled Kosher and Co at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Currently I am a regular contributor to J-Wire and this esteemed publication.