Gary Young
Renowned Australian
musical theatre director
Gary Young has turned
his very talented hands
to writing & illustrating
beautiful children’s books
on collective nouns...
A total delight for the
young, and the young at
heart!
Primary Perspectives team mates Anna, Megan
and Miani met renowned Musical Theatre Director,
Gary Young when they were invited to attended the
exclusive celebrity launch at Her Majesty’s Theatre
for Gary’s fun-fabulous picture book ‘More than Two’.
The team were so excited to be there with amazing
stars – Marina Prior, Anne Wood, Silvie Paladino,
Matt Hetherington, Simon Gleeson and Adam Murphy - who are all good friends of Gary’s that supported the launch by reading some bits and pieces from
his gorgeous book… in their best character voices!
Gary certainly has an illustrious bio – he was the
Associate Director for the Australian and Asian production of Mamma Mia and directed ‘Carousel’,
‘Funny Girl’ and ‘Call Me Madam’ for The Production Company at the State Theatre. He also directed
the new musical ‘Crusade’ for the Edinburgh Festival
and ‘Guys and Dolls’ at the Adelaide Festival Theatre
and ‘A Little Night Music’ for the Canterbury Opera in
New Zealand.
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Gary has had a varied career as performer, writer and director and has worked all over the w orld in
theatre, cabaret and television. Some of Gary’s other
theatre productions include ‘Showboat’, ‘Annie Get
Your Gun’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, and ‘Les Miserables’. Wow, that sure is a lot of famous productions!
And now Gary has turned his hand to writing and illustrating children’s book on collective nouns – ‘More
than Two’ and his recent release ‘More than Two Under the Sea’ (both published by New Holland). Gary
joined Circe, Harry D, Miani and Shehan in the studio
in June to share a poem from ‘More than Two Under
the Sea’. Check out the 2 great podcasts with Gary, including vox pops from Marina Prior, Anne Wood and
Adam Murphy – plus a world first exclusive – readings
from the author himself! Thank you to Marina Prior,
Anne Wood and Adam Murphy for your vox pops and
to Anne for that Rrrrrafter of Turkeys…you’ll just have
to listen to the podcast to find out what we are talking about!
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