Hansel and Gretel programme and colouring book

Engelbert Humperdinck
HANSEL
& GRETEL
Presented with Arts Centre Melbourne
18 - 21 June 2014
SYNOPSIS
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Hansel and Gretel are playing in their house
in the woods, waiting for their parents to come
home. They should be making brooms, but
are playing games instead. Hansel moans
about being hungry, and Gretel distracts him
by teaching him a fun dance. She also shows
him a surprise hidden away - a jug of milk
their mother will turn into custard. Their mother
comes home and tells them off for being
naughty - then sends the children out in to the
woods with a basket to gather strawberries.
Father comes home, very happy that he’s sold
many broomsticks and bought the family a
basket full of delicious food. He soon cheers
up the Mother. However, when she tells him
that the children are in the woods, he becomes
worried and tells Mother about the ‘Evil One’
who lives in the gloomy wood, full of magic
spells.
This ‘Evil One’ is a Witch, who lives in a crispy,
crunchy house of sugar and spice. She entices
children into her house, puts them in her oven
and turns them into Gingerbread Children.
Out in the woods, Hansel and Gretel are
gathering strawberries. They come across a
cuckoo bird and hear the leaves in the trees
whispering, and they become quite scared.
Suddenly a small man called the Sandman
arrives carrying a sack - he reassures the
children that he is good and sprinkles magic
sand in their eyes to help them sleep.
SYNOPSIS / Hansel & Gretel
Morning comes, and the Dew Fairy shakes
dewdrops over the sleeping children. As they
wake, she disappears. The morning mist
clears, and they see a house nearby with a
fence made out of gingerbread figures. Hansel
soon realises that the house is edible, breaks
off a piece of the house and eats it. The Witch
soon startles him, and he drops the piece of
edible house in a fright. The Witch entices the
children closer, encouraging them to approach
her. They decide to run off, but the Witch
casts a magic spell over them with her wand.
Hansel and Gretel are too clever to be tricked
by her magic, and tease the Witch. The Witch
tries to push Hansel into the oven, but he says
that he can’t manage it, and the Witch bends
over showing him how to get inside the oven.
Together the children give her a big push, and
she falls right in to the oven, with the door
closing behind her.
Hansel and Gretel celebrate the Witch’s
demise. Suddenly they are surrounded by other
children. Gretel approaches them and slowly
they open their eyes, smiling. The children
thank Hansel and Gretel for saving them from
the Witch, and hand in hand they sing. The
Father and Mother join them, happy that their
children are safe and well.
© Sue Arney
COLOURING BOOK
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Hansel and Gretel at home doing their chores
Illustration © Ross Hall
Hansel & Gretel / COLOURING BOOK
COLOURING BOOK
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The Sandman appears through the mist
Illustration © Ross Hall
COLOURING BOOK / Hansel & Gretel
COLOURING BOOK
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The Dew Fairy appears
Illustration © Ross Hall
Hansel & Gretel / COLOURING BOOK
COLOURING BOOK
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The children see a house made of gingerbread and lollies
Illustration © Ross Hall
COLOURING BOOK / Hansel & Gretel
HANSEL & GRETEL
18 - 21 June 2014
Arts Centre Melbourne, Fairfax Studio
Composer Engelbert Humperdinck
Librettist Adelheid Wette
Chamber orchestra arrangement by
Julian Langdon
First performed 1893, Germany.
Running time approximately 60 minutes with
no interval.
Hansel and Gretel is presented with
Arts Centre Melbourne.
Featuring the students of the Master of Music
(Opera Performance), a collaboration between
Victorian Opera and the Melbourne
Conservatorium of Music, University of
Melbourne.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
With thanks to:
Arts Centre Melbourne, CVP, Justin Green from
Just Imagine Productions, Resolution X, Scenic
Studios, audio description provided by
Caroline Travers.
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CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor
Assistant Conductor
Director
Set & Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Production Manager
Stage Manager
Principal Reptiteur
Repetiteurs
Head Mechanist
Machinist
Cutter
Wigs
Fabian Russell
Simon Bruckard
Libby Hill
Ross Hall
Peter Darby
Michele Bauer
Luke Hales
Phillipa Safey
Simon Bruckard
Phoebe Briggs
Adam Graf
Madeleine Somers
Alice Swing
Linda Cowell
CAST
Hansel
Gretel
Mother/Angel/Child
Father/Angel/Child
Sandman
Dew Fairy
Witch
Angel/Child
Emma Muir-Smith
Cristina Russo
Elizabeth Lewis
Nathan Lay
Michael Petruccelli
Kate Amos
Carlos E. Bárcenas
Matthew Tng
ORCHESTRA
Orchestra Manager
1st Violin
2nd Violin
3rd Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
Flute
Oboe
1st Clarinet
2nd Clarinet
Bassoon
1st French Horn
2nd French Horn
Cameron Lukey
Victoria Bihun
Ben Spiers
Miranda Matheson
Hayato Simpson
Eliza Sdraulig
Rebecca Scully
Tamara Kohler
Jasper Ly
Lloyd Van’t Hoff
Magdalenna Krstevska
Chris Martin
Robert McMillan
Kara Hahn
Hansel & Gretel / PRODUCTION INFORMATION
INTO THE WOODS
A darkly enchanting fairytale for adults
19 - 26 July 2014
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Into the Woods
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
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