SHOWTIME: Sweet Charity with Di Morgan & Madeleine Magetti

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🎭 Sweet Charity

📍Karralyka Theatre Ringwood

🗓️ 18 to 27 October

🎟️ mdms.org.au

Sweet Charity follows the romantic trials and tribulations of Charity Hope Valentine, “a girl who wanted to be loved.” Charity is a taxi dancer, a dance partner-for-hire at a seedy dance hall in New York City.

Though the job may be decidedly undesirable, Charity’s hopeful romanticism and unfailing optimism lift her out of her circumstances and help her reach for a life beyond. In the past, she’s been strung along and hung out to dry by a series of bad relationships and lousier men. When she meets Oscar, a neurotic, shy actuary seemingly from another world, will she finally find true love at last?

One of the most famous shows by legendary director/choreographer Bob Fosse and with a laugh-a-minute script by the incomparable Neil Simon, every audience is destined to fall in love with Charity’s limitless spirit, as she lives life “hopefully ever after.” This exuberant, groovy, hilarious musical comedy includes hits such as Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me Now, I’m a Brass Band and Baby, Dream Your Dream.

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Di Morgan
Di has been performing for over forty years! She has worked professionally in musicals, cabarets, theatre restaurants, rock video clips, television and a short movie. She has played many lead roles with various companies including DustySpringfield in “Dusty”, Sally Bowles in “Cabaret”, Anita in “West Side Story”, Lola in “Damn Yankees (Guild nomination), Velma Kelly in “Chicago”, Anna in “The King And I”, Mavis in “Stepping Out”, Irene Molloy in “Hello Dolly”, Dorothy Brock in “42nd Street”, Sally in “Me and My Girl”, Helene in “Sweet Charity”, Liza Minelli in “Totally Offbroadway”, Lina Lamont in “Singing in the Rain” – just to name a few!

More recently, Di has stepped off the stage to work as a Choreographer with credits including All Shook Up (Guild nomination), Mamma Mia (Lyrebird nomination), Mary Poppins (Lyrebird nomination), Carousel (Lyrebird nomination), The Phantom of the Opera (Lyrebird nomination) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The King And I (Lyrebird nomination) The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Footloose (Lyrebird Award), Hot Mikado, Stepping Out, The Boyfriend, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, The Drowsy Chaperone and Chess. Di has choreographed musicals for Aquinas College – Grease, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Shrek Jr, Mary Poppins Jr, and Beauty and the Beast Jr. She has also directed and choreographed many primary school musicals.

Madeleine Magetti

Since the age of 3, Madeleine trained in ballet under Rosemary Frost at the Ringwood Ballet Group. She soon added jazz and tap, taking lead roles in ballets like Cinderella, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Pulcinella, while also competing across Melbourne. In high school, she began singing lessons, which she found very different from dance. Her love for musicals grew after performing a dance to All That Jazz, leading her to participate in school musicals at Aquinas College, despite a demanding dance schedule. Her first role, Belle in Beauty and the Beast, deepened her passion for theatre.

In her final year, Madeleine took on her first roles outside of school, playing Charlotte in Oliver and Meg Giry in The Phantom of the Opera. After high school, she earned a Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University, where she explored various theatre roles and performed in original musicals and cabarets.

She then pursued a Diploma of Musical Theatre at Kelly Aykers Full Time Dance, where she expanded her skills and studied new styles like Fosse. Madeleine performed as Velma Kelly in Chicago and Fastrada in Pippin, and upon graduating, joined Kelly Aykers' Company A for Broadway and Beyond, touring regional Victoria.

Career highlights include dancing professionally in La Traviata with Victorian Opera, The Pearl Fishers with Melbourne Opera, and Amazing Grace with Manilla Street Productions. In 2020, she paused performing due to the pandemic and studied psychology, her current day job. Earlier this year, she returned to the stage as Lois Lane in Kiss Me, Kate.

Previously, Madeleine performed with MDMS in their 2015 production of Funny Girl. Thrilled by the opportunity to audition for Sweet Charity, one of her favorite shows, she was overjoyed to be cast as Charity, a dream role, and is grateful to be working with such a talented team and cast.