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PETER CARROLL
Peter Carroll (Perón) is one of Australia's most admired and popular stage actors with many memorable performances over the past seven years to his credit. He is particularly well remembered for his beautifully studied role of the Catholic priest in Ron Blair's one-character play, Brothers, which has been performed to acclaim from leading critics and audiences in all Australian capitals, numerous country centres, New Zealand and at the Riverside Studios in London.
His casting in the role of the Argentine dictator, Juan Perón, marks a return to the earliest days of his career when he sang in Gilbert and Sullivan productions at Sydney University and he began his career as a teacher (English, History and Drama) while gaining experience in theatre work.
In 1968 he went to London to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama where he topped the course. He returned to Sydney in 1970 and for three years headed the Voice and Speech Department at the National Institute of Dramatic Art at the University of New South Wales. During the time he produced many plays for the students and kept up his acting work with guest appearances.
At the end of 1973 Peter decided to attempt a full-time acting career and his work since then has more than vindicated his choice. He has been until recently one of a strong ensemble of actors at Sydney's highly regarded Nimron Theatre, performing up to seven or eight major roles a year, ranging from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to contemporary Australian Drama. Some of his most popular performances were as Benedick in John Bell's hilarious production of Much Ado About Nothing, the dual roles of Hotspur and Pistol in Richard Wherrett's production of Henry IV, Jesus in a Perth Festival production of The Mystery Plays of Wakefield in 1978 and Thomas à Becket in the 1977 Perth Festival production of Murder in the Cathedral.
Cinema audiences will remember Peter for two vivid portrayals in recent Australian feature films--The Last Wave and The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith. On television he has appeared in A.B.C. productions of Spoiled and Hamlet, in a Film Australia telemovie Tups, the police drama series Cop Shop, and more recently in the highly acclaimed series, Ride On Stranger.
JOHN O'MAY
His casting as Che in Evita has fulfilled a long-standing ambition for Melbourne based John O'May to work with director Harold Prince. Up until that time, John had been involved in almost every aspect of the theatre. He has built sets, worked as an actor and singer on both stage and television, has been both director and writer of his own shows, made numerous radio and television commercials and appeared in one major film, Between Wars.
John's name is probably best associated until now with Australia's longest-running musical, The 20s and All That Jazz, which he devised and wrote with Caroline Gillmer and John Diedrich, directed for the stage and performed in for over two years. The 20s started as a small-scale mini-musical, featuring its three creators and an orchestra of four at Melbourne's Arena Theatre. It was seen there by Kenn Brodziak of J. C. Williamson Productions and transfered to Her Majesty's Theatre for a long run. It later toured to most parts of Australia with great success and was most recently presented for a four week season in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Dubai.
John's earliest professional stage appearance was as Judas in the 1973 Sydney production of Godspell, which later toured nationally. He has since appeared in several other musicals, including Gershwin (which he also co-wrote and directed), More Canterbury Tales, and The Tamish Brothers and Virginia.
From 1975 to 1977 John was Artistic Director of the Children's Arena Theatre in Melbourne, and he toured throughout the State in various productions. He also co-wrote with Ross Skiffington one of the most successful children's shows yet produced in Australia, Patrick's Hat Trick, which has so far enjoyed major seasons in Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Sydney. In 1978, John also directed and co-wrote a cabaret show, Makin' Wicky Wacky, for Melbourne's Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant.
On television, John has been seen in two top-rating series--Rush and The Sullivans--and has been a regular performer on the Don Lane Show, the Mike Walsh Show and Penthouse.
TONY ALVAREZ
At 26, Tony Alvarez (Magaldi) has packed more into his life than most people do in twice that amount of time. Born in Toulouse, France, of Spanish-French parentage, he was six when his parents moved to Barcelona. Eleven years later, rebelling against his father (an officer in the Spanish Army) and a new step-mother, Tony left home.
For a year, he hitch-hiked around Europe, taking any job that came his way--work as an extra in film productions of Oliver and Nicholas and Alexandra, modelling in Paris, working as a disc jockey in discos, picking grapes in France, digging potatoes in Germany, begging for food from farmhouses, growing long hair and generally experiencing life.
He was working as a chef in a French restaurant in London when friends first persuaded him to come to Australia. Arriving in Sydney, Tony commenced a modelling career and was offered his first stage work as a singer and dancer at Bernard King's Roxy Club at Brighton-Sur-Le-Sands. He then featured in a production of the musical Roberta at the St. George Leagues Club with Johnny Farnham and Jackie Weaver.
Three years ago, when they were auditioning for their new television series The Young Doctors, the Reg Grundy Organisation asked Tony to audition for the role of Dr. Garcia, a character intended for only a short initial stay in the series. Tony got the part and made such a success of it, he became one of the most popular members of the cast.
Tony has recently signed a recording contract with CBS and his initial single, "Talking in Your Sleep," will be soon be followed by an album. He also makes regular guest appearances as a vocalist on top TV variety shows and has been nominated as best talent in both the Logie Awards and King of Pop awards in the past two years.
LAURA MITCHELL
Laura Mitchell (Perón's Mistress) makes her professional debut in Evita as Perón's Mistress. She secured the important cameo role in nation-wide auditions conducted last year by the director, Harold Prince. Laura's first stage experience was with an amateur music group in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney. Her stage presence and clear voice won her all the plum roles in local productions. At 19 she was singing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady followed by performances as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Moving to Sydney, Laura joined the Eastern Suburbs Musical Society and was given the title role in a Christmas pantomime production of Cinderella. Laura's selection for Evita was in true showbiz tradition her first audition for a professional theatre company.
MARIETTE RUPS
A graduate in languages from Sydney University, Mariette Rups (Alternate Evita) was intended for a career in the diplomatic corps but fate took a hand when she auditioned and was accepted for a role in Godspell. Her career in legitimate theatre was off to a promising start and subsequent work in children's theatre and pantomime (including the tole of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and with Ashton's Circus extended her theatrical experience. She branched out into television and radio work, including appearances as Trina Mitchell in the first episodes of The Young Doctors, before returning to her first love--the theatre.
When the Chorus Line tour ended in Melbourne, Mariette worked with Professor Wal Cherry in a mixed language production of The Emigrants for the Melbourne and Adelaide Italian Festivals, and she then joined up with magician-entertainer Ross Skiffington for a successful season of the cabaret show Tricks which played several months at the Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant and later toured to Adelaide.
Before joining the Evita company to play the title role at certain performances, Mariette had a successful run in the touring production of Annie in which she played the role of Lily St. Regis in Sydney and Adelaide.
All biographies from original programs. Photos are reproduced from Evita programs and publicity photos in several private collections and are for research and reference only. Copyrights remain with original copyright holders.
© 2000
JOHN O'MAY
His casting as Che in Evita has fulfilled a long-standing ambition for Melbourne based John O'May to work with director Harold Prince. Up until that time, John had been involved in almost every aspect of the theatre. He has built sets, worked as an actor and singer on both stage and television, has been both director and writer of his own shows, made numerous radio and television commercials and appeared in one major film, Between Wars.
John's name is probably best associated until now with Australia's longest-running musical, The 20s and All That Jazz, which he devised and wrote with Caroline Gillmer and John Diedrich, directed for the stage and performed in for over two years. The 20s started as a small-scale mini-musical, featuring its three creators and an orchestra of four at Melbourne's Arena Theatre. It was seen there by Kenn Brodziak of J. C. Williamson Productions and transfered to Her Majesty's Theatre for a long run. It later toured to most parts of Australia with great success and was most recently presented for a four week season in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Dubai.
John's earliest professional stage appearance was as Judas in the 1973 Sydney production of Godspell, which later toured nationally. He has since appeared in several other musicals, including Gershwin (which he also co-wrote and directed), More Canterbury Tales, and The Tamish Brothers and Virginia.
From 1975 to 1977 John was Artistic Director of the Children's Arena Theatre in Melbourne, and he toured throughout the State in various productions. He also co-wrote with Ross Skiffington one of the most successful children's shows yet produced in Australia, Patrick's Hat Trick, which has so far enjoyed major seasons in Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Sydney. In 1978, John also directed and co-wrote a cabaret show, Makin' Wicky Wacky, for Melbourne's Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant.
On television, John has been seen in two top-rating series--Rush and The Sullivans--and has been a regular performer on the Don Lane Show, the Mike Walsh Show and Penthouse.
TONY ALVAREZ
At 26, Tony Alvarez (Magaldi) has packed more into his life than most people do in twice that amount of time. Born in Toulouse, France, of Spanish-French parentage, he was six when his parents moved to Barcelona. Eleven years later, rebelling against his father (an officer in the Spanish Army) and a new step-mother, Tony left home.
For a year, he hitch-hiked around Europe, taking any job that came his way--work as an extra in film productions of Oliver and Nicholas and Alexandra, modelling in Paris, working as a disc jockey in discos, picking grapes in France, digging potatoes in Germany, begging for food from farmhouses, growing long hair and generally experiencing life.
He was working as a chef in a French restaurant in London when friends first persuaded him to come to Australia. Arriving in Sydney, Tony commenced a modelling career and was offered his first stage work as a singer and dancer at Bernard King's Roxy Club at Brighton-Sur-Le-Sands. He then featured in a production of the musical Roberta at the St. George Leagues Club with Johnny Farnham and Jackie Weaver.
Three years ago, when they were auditioning for their new television series The Young Doctors, the Reg Grundy Organisation asked Tony to audition for the role of Dr. Garcia, a character intended for only a short initial stay in the series. Tony got the part and made such a success of it, he became one of the most popular members of the cast.
Tony has recently signed a recording contract with CBS and his initial single, "Talking in Your Sleep," will be soon be followed by an album. He also makes regular guest appearances as a vocalist on top TV variety shows and has been nominated as best talent in both the Logie Awards and King of Pop awards in the past two years.
LAURA MITCHELL
Laura Mitchell (Perón's Mistress) makes her professional debut in Evita as Perón's Mistress. She secured the important cameo role in nation-wide auditions conducted last year by the director, Harold Prince. Laura's first stage experience was with an amateur music group in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney. Her stage presence and clear voice won her all the plum roles in local productions. At 19 she was singing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady followed by performances as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Moving to Sydney, Laura joined the Eastern Suburbs Musical Society and was given the title role in a Christmas pantomime production of Cinderella. Laura's selection for Evita was in true showbiz tradition her first audition for a professional theatre company.
MARIETTE RUPS
A graduate in languages from Sydney University, Mariette Rups (Alternate Evita) was intended for a career in the diplomatic corps but fate took a hand when she auditioned and was accepted for a role in Godspell. Her career in legitimate theatre was off to a promising start and subsequent work in children's theatre and pantomime (including the tole of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and with Ashton's Circus extended her theatrical experience. She branched out into television and radio work, including appearances as Trina Mitchell in the first episodes of The Young Doctors, before returning to her first love--the theatre.
When the Chorus Line tour ended in Melbourne, Mariette worked with Professor Wal Cherry in a mixed language production of The Emigrants for the Melbourne and Adelaide Italian Festivals, and she then joined up with magician-entertainer Ross Skiffington for a successful season of the cabaret show Tricks which played several months at the Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant and later toured to Adelaide.
Before joining the Evita company to play the title role at certain performances, Mariette had a successful run in the touring production of Annie in which she played the role of Lily St. Regis in Sydney and Adelaide.
All biographies from original programs. Photos are reproduced from Evita programs and publicity photos in several private collections and are for research and reference only. Copyrights remain with original copyright holders.
© 2000
TONY ALVAREZ
At 26, Tony Alvarez (Magaldi) has packed more into his life than most people do in twice that amount of time. Born in Toulouse, France, of Spanish-French parentage, he was six when his parents moved to Barcelona. Eleven years later, rebelling against his father (an officer in the Spanish Army) and a new step-mother, Tony left home.
For a year, he hitch-hiked around Europe, taking any job that came his way--work as an extra in film productions of Oliver and Nicholas and Alexandra, modelling in Paris, working as a disc jockey in discos, picking grapes in France, digging potatoes in Germany, begging for food from farmhouses, growing long hair and generally experiencing life.
He was working as a chef in a French restaurant in London when friends first persuaded him to come to Australia. Arriving in Sydney, Tony commenced a modelling career and was offered his first stage work as a singer and dancer at Bernard King's Roxy Club at Brighton-Sur-Le-Sands. He then featured in a production of the musical Roberta at the St. George Leagues Club with Johnny Farnham and Jackie Weaver.
Three years ago, when they were auditioning for their new television series The Young Doctors, the Reg Grundy Organisation asked Tony to audition for the role of Dr. Garcia, a character intended for only a short initial stay in the series. Tony got the part and made such a success of it, he became one of the most popular members of the cast.
Tony has recently signed a recording contract with CBS and his initial single, "Talking in Your Sleep," will be soon be followed by an album. He also makes regular guest appearances as a vocalist on top TV variety shows and has been nominated as best talent in both the Logie Awards and King of Pop awards in the past two years.
LAURA MITCHELL
Laura Mitchell (Perón's Mistress) makes her professional debut in Evita as Perón's Mistress. She secured the important cameo role in nation-wide auditions conducted last year by the director, Harold Prince. Laura's first stage experience was with an amateur music group in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney. Her stage presence and clear voice won her all the plum roles in local productions. At 19 she was singing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady followed by performances as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Moving to Sydney, Laura joined the Eastern Suburbs Musical Society and was given the title role in a Christmas pantomime production of Cinderella. Laura's selection for Evita was in true showbiz tradition her first audition for a professional theatre company.
MARIETTE RUPS
A graduate in languages from Sydney University, Mariette Rups (Alternate Evita) was intended for a career in the diplomatic corps but fate took a hand when she auditioned and was accepted for a role in Godspell. Her career in legitimate theatre was off to a promising start and subsequent work in children's theatre and pantomime (including the tole of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and with Ashton's Circus extended her theatrical experience. She branched out into television and radio work, including appearances as Trina Mitchell in the first episodes of The Young Doctors, before returning to her first love--the theatre.
When the Chorus Line tour ended in Melbourne, Mariette worked with Professor Wal Cherry in a mixed language production of The Emigrants for the Melbourne and Adelaide Italian Festivals, and she then joined up with magician-entertainer Ross Skiffington for a successful season of the cabaret show Tricks which played several months at the Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant and later toured to Adelaide.
Before joining the Evita company to play the title role at certain performances, Mariette had a successful run in the touring production of Annie in which she played the role of Lily St. Regis in Sydney and Adelaide.
All biographies from original programs. Photos are reproduced from Evita programs and publicity photos in several private collections and are for research and reference only. Copyrights remain with original copyright holders.
© 2000
LAURA MITCHELL
Laura Mitchell (Perón's Mistress) makes her professional debut in Evita as Perón's Mistress. She secured the important cameo role in nation-wide auditions conducted last year by the director, Harold Prince. Laura's first stage experience was with an amateur music group in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney. Her stage presence and clear voice won her all the plum roles in local productions. At 19 she was singing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady followed by performances as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Moving to Sydney, Laura joined the Eastern Suburbs Musical Society and was given the title role in a Christmas pantomime production of Cinderella. Laura's selection for Evita was in true showbiz tradition her first audition for a professional theatre company.
MARIETTE RUPS
A graduate in languages from Sydney University, Mariette Rups (Alternate Evita) was intended for a career in the diplomatic corps but fate took a hand when she auditioned and was accepted for a role in Godspell. Her career in legitimate theatre was off to a promising start and subsequent work in children's theatre and pantomime (including the tole of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and with Ashton's Circus extended her theatrical experience. She branched out into television and radio work, including appearances as Trina Mitchell in the first episodes of The Young Doctors, before returning to her first love--the theatre.
When the Chorus Line tour ended in Melbourne, Mariette worked with Professor Wal Cherry in a mixed language production of The Emigrants for the Melbourne and Adelaide Italian Festivals, and she then joined up with magician-entertainer Ross Skiffington for a successful season of the cabaret show Tricks which played several months at the Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant and later toured to Adelaide.
Before joining the Evita company to play the title role at certain performances, Mariette had a successful run in the touring production of Annie in which she played the role of Lily St. Regis in Sydney and Adelaide.
All biographies from original programs. Photos are reproduced from Evita programs and publicity photos in several private collections and are for research and reference only. Copyrights remain with original copyright holders.
MARIETTE RUPS
A graduate in languages from Sydney University, Mariette Rups (Alternate Evita) was intended for a career in the diplomatic corps but fate took a hand when she auditioned and was accepted for a role in Godspell. Her career in legitimate theatre was off to a promising start and subsequent work in children's theatre and pantomime (including the tole of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and with Ashton's Circus extended her theatrical experience. She branched out into television and radio work, including appearances as Trina Mitchell in the first episodes of The Young Doctors, before returning to her first love--the theatre.
When the Chorus Line tour ended in Melbourne, Mariette worked with Professor Wal Cherry in a mixed language production of The Emigrants for the Melbourne and Adelaide Italian Festivals, and she then joined up with magician-entertainer Ross Skiffington for a successful season of the cabaret show Tricks which played several months at the Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant and later toured to Adelaide.
Before joining the Evita company to play the title role at certain performances, Mariette had a successful run in the touring production of Annie in which she played the role of Lily St. Regis in Sydney and Adelaide.
© 2000