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  • General Admission: $50.00 each
  • Additional fees may apply

Dates

  • Wed 29 Apr 2020, 8:00pm–10:00pm
  • Thu 30 Apr 2020, 8:00pm–10:00pm
  • Fri 1 May 2020, 8:00pm–10:00pm
  • Sat 2 May 2020, 8:00pm–10:00pm
  • Sun 3 May 2020, 8:00pm–10:00pm

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All Ages

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Starring Annie Aitken, Debora Krizak and Deone Zanotto with direction and choreography by Madison Lee, Richard Harris' Stepping Out is set to make its debut at Chapel Off Chapel.

Stepping Out is as heart-warming as it is comedic, following the lives and loves of an unlikely group of women—and one man—as they stumble ungracefully through their weekly tap class in a shabby North London church hall.

The performance centres around Mavis, the role portrayed by Liza Minnelli in the popular 1991 Americanised film adaptation, a mid 30s out-of-work professional dancer/actor who runs an amateur tap class to support herself between few-and-far-between paid gigs.

Pressure rises on the amateur dancers when Mavis decides to enter the class into a public fundraiser concert performance night. There is a ‘slight’ problem though—they are terrible at tapping. Their hilarious struggle to prepare for their first public performance results in a heart-warming performance about sisterhood, women supporting women and dancing through adversity.

Set in the early part of England’s Thatcherism era, 1984, a period of significant social unrest and division between classes, the tap-dancing women are inspiring representations of the wives, mothers and single ladies of this era. They each have their own unique lives and struggles outside the walls of the weekly dance class, resulting in a tap class that is group therapy in leg warmers and top hats.

One of the fastest rising stars of the Australian music theatre stage, Annie Aitken recently starred to great acclaim as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie, which marked her third show with The Production Company having previously appeared in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Oklahoma.

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