The Production Company
The Production Company was an Australian not-for-profit theatre company that staged a series of usually three musicals at the Arts Centre Melbourne each year.
It was launched in 1999 by Jeanne Pratt AC with the goal of providing "professional opportunities for local artists and to entertain Melbourne audiences with the best shows from Broadway and beyond". The company closed in 2020.
The Production Company specialised in revivals of popular and lesser known musicals with short rehearsal periods and short runs. It also produced the Australian professional premieres of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Grey Gardens, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Curtains, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Lazurus and Ragtime.
Its productions typically featured well-known Australian musical theatre performers such as Caroline O'Connor, Michael Falzon, Marina Prior, Todd McKenney, Lucy Durack, Christie Whelan Browne, Elise McCann and Amanda Harrison.
Seasons
The list of early productions can be found on the AusStage database1990s
1999- She Loves Me
- Mame
- ''Funny Girl''
2000s
- Guys and Dolls
- The Gilbert & Sullivan Show
- Gypsy
- Call Me Madam
- Anything Goes
- Mack and Mabel
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- Hello, Dolly!
- The Music Man
- Hair - The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
- They're Playing Our Song
- South Pacific
- Bye Bye Birdie
- Hair
- Annie Get Your Gun
- Carousel
- High Society
- Oklahoma!
- Sunset Boulevard
- Kiss Me, Kate
- South Pacific
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Camelot
- The Pajama Game
- Sweet Charity
- Little Me
- 42nd Street
- Follies
- Damn Yankees
- Mame
- Crazy for You
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- ''The Boyfriend''
2010s
- The King & I
- The Boy From Oz
- Sugar
- The Boy From Oz
- Anything Goes
- Kismet
- Grey Gardens
- The Producers
- Chess
- Promises, Promises
- Gypsy
- Singin’ in the Rain
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Guys And Dolls
- Show Boat
- La Cage aux Folles
- West Side Story
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Jerry's Girls
- Funny Girl
- Curtains
- Dusty
- Hello, Dolly!
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Brigadoon
- Oklahoma!
- The Boy from Oz
- A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
- Lazarus
- Thoroughly Modern Millie
- ''Ragtime''
Awards