Ben Apfelbaum

MEDIA CALL : SLEEPING BEAUTY @ THE STATE THEATRE

Albert Einstein said that if you want to have intelligent children, read them fairy tales. If you want more intelligent children read them more fairy tales.

To facilitate Albert Einstein’s aphorism over the past five winter seasons, Bonnie Lythgoe Productions has produced fairytale pantomimes starring such beloved artists as Magda Szubanski, Sir Cliff Richard and Todd McKenney.

Director and producer Bonnie Lythgoe has had a long and distinguished career in theatre and musicals having created, promoted or directed musical theatre in the United States and the West End in London, not to mention Australia.

Her latest project is SLEEPING BEAUTY – A KNIGHT AVENGER’S TALE which runs at the State Theatre from the 13th to the 22nd July, 2018.

Perennial favourite  Rhonda Burchmore plays the role of the Wicked Fairy Godmother Carabosse with Melissa Tkautz playing the Good Fairy. Taking the role of King Louis, Sleeping Beauty’s father, is the English actor Frazer Hines, best known as the Doctor’s Assistant in Dr Who. Australian comedian Kevin Orkian will play Silly Billy,  Embla Bishop plays the role of Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty, Daniel Milne plays Prince Valiant and Katrina Retallick plays Nanny Tickle. The principals are supported by a talented singing and dancing ensemble. The show will appeal to kids of all ages, and who knows, if Albert Einstein is correct, if you and your kids attend, it will make you all more intelligent!

http://www.ozpanto.com

Featured pic _Rhonda Burchmore. 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 Treborlang. 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. To celebrate the opening of a permanent Photography Gallery, the State Library of New South Wales selected 400 shots from its archive of over 2,000,000 images to display in the new gallery. An image of mine was plucked out of the multi million photo archive to be part of the inaugural exhibition.