Ben Apfelbaum

SHREK THE MUSICAL : MEDIA CALL

The first day of the year starts off with a bang  as the world’s favourite ogre comes singing and dancing to the premiere of ‘his’ show SHREK THE MUSICAL.

When the movie Shrek came out it was the first Academy Award winner for the Best Animated Feature. It was the highest growing animated film and still today three of the Shrek films are in the Top Twenty Highest Grossing Animated Films of all time.

A fairytale needs a fairytale cast which features Ben Mingay as Shrek, Lucy Durack as Princess Fiona, Todd McKenney as Lord Farqaad, Nat Jobe as Donkey and Marcia Hines as the Dragon.

With music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire, SHREK THE MUSICAL has received EIGHT TONY AWARD nominations, twelve Drama Desk nominations, ten Outer Critics Circle nominations, three Drama League nominations and a Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Show Album.

Directed by Jill Sawyer who also  directed the musical in London and for its Uk tour, the show finally lands for the first time on our shore at the Sydney Lyric Theatre, the Star from January 1, 2020.

With a long lead in time for rehearsals the show should be sparkling by the time it opens.

https://www.sydneylyric.com.au/

www.ShrekTheMusical.com.au

Featured image: Nat Jobe, Ben Mingay Lucy Durack, Todd McKenney. All images 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.