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Just a reminder: if you're intending to see my retrospective exhibition at the Arts Centre in Melbourne there's not much time left to do so.

The show closes on February 26, and if all the positive feedback I've been receiving is any indication I think you're guaranteed a great couple of hours. Yes, a couple of hours at least!! Not only are there costumes, photographs, posters, scripts, letters and lots of memorabilia, there's loads of footage from the one man shows I did; for those who saw them it's a wonderful trip down memory lane, for those who didn't it's probably your last chance to experience a pretty special time in the Australian theatre.

On Wednesday February 22nd I will be giving an exhibition Floor Talk at the Arts Centre gallery commencing at 12.30. Come along if you want to say hello, or even if you're just interested in hearing a few facts from the horse's mouth!

And if you have things to sign bring them along.

A big thanks to those who've seen the show so far, and for all your wonderful comments. I am extremely touched.
Much love
Reg

Reg Livermore – Take a Bow
5 November 2011 – 26 February 2012
A FREE exhibition
The Arts Centre Melbourne, Gallery 1

VISIT THE EXHIBITION PAGE

Howdy friends, The Arts Centre Melbourne has afforded me a very great honour: the Centre's mounting a large comprehensive exhibition on my long and fairly varied career, the material included covers a period in excess of 60 years would you believe – (I was not a slow starter). it's my Hall of Fame moment big-time!

On view will be a collection of the costumes worn in my one man performances, great show photographs from my archives, show posters, programs, working notes and early scripts, set designs, interesting memorabilia from my private collection.

There will be recorded material available, performance excerpts and interesting interview items, in short a fascinating look at my jam-packed history. Hang onto your hats, entry is free and there are prizes to be won! I've been gathering the material since I started way back when, it will be quite a turn-on to see it all out in the open at last.

How does it feel to be a museum piece you're probably wondering? It feels great. I'm on show from early November until late February, try to get there. It would make me very happy.

Reg Livermore – Take a Bow
5 November 2011 – 26 February 2012
A FREE exhibition
The Arts Centre Melbourne, Gallery 1

VISIT THE EXHIBITION PAGE

The long awaited release on DVD of Reg Livermore's Betty Blokk Buster Follies!

In April 1975 Reg Livermore stormed the stage of Sydney's Balmain Bijou Theatre with his groundbreaking show Betty Blokk Buster Follies. A tour de force, an irrestible blend of music and comedy, the show caught the imagination of audiences all round Australia filling theatres wherever it played. This record of the show was released in cinemas during 1976 and is at last available on CD and DVD!

Songs include Family Of Man, Hello In There, Captain Jack, What Makes A Man A Man, The Entertainer and Celluloid Heroes, with well known characters, Betty Blokk Buster, Tara the Incredible, The Old Man and Vasaline Amyl Nitrate.

BOTH CD AND DVD AVAILABLE NOW FOR PURHCASE AT POSSUM RECORDS.

The National tour of my show Turns came an end in Bunbury W.A. towards the end of August this year, 2011. It had been quite a haul: over thirty towns and cities within a fairly hectic and quite demanding six months' time frame. Nancye Hayes and I had expressed a real interest in working on a project together and Turns is the show I wrote with the two of us in mind. Tailor made you might say. It wasn't the all-singing all-dancing show our fans might have wished for, indeed expected, but it was a surprising adventure for those who saw us performing it. "Expect the unexpected" was my catch-cry.

I have always tried to reflect the times we're living in, and to examine some of the important issues that are likely to beset us or have already taken hold. Nancye and I got a fairly arduous workout, we did sing and dance but there was much more to the show than just that. If you didn't see it you surely missed something. It was a privilege to take our show to people in out of the way areas that may not have otherwise had the opportunity to see us perform: a couple of"legends" at the top of their form.

We found that all over Australia there are amazing theatres serving the communities for which they've been purpose built. Getting people into them sometimes proved difficult but I suggest a more usefully focussed effort by the managements of those public places to achieve such an outcome might better serve them. Regardless the pair of us remember fondly and very much appreciate what were the undisputed high points of our most important odyssey.

For more information on Turns visit turnstheshow.com.au.

The paper back version of my autobiography Chapters and Chances is now out of print but available for purchase via this website.

It is available signed or unsigned for $20 plus $9 postage and handling.

To secure a copy, send a cheque or money order for $29.00 with return address and request to be signed to:

Reg Livermore
PO Box 2034
Bowral NSW 2576

If you are would like to purchase a personaly signed copy now, you can email me directly on reg@reglivermore.com and I will be happy to get the ball rolling.

With best wishes, Reg

I'm having a wonderful time this year, appearing as Professor Henry Higgins in Stuart Maunder's production of My Fair Lady for Opera Australia. And what a grand old girl she is: if you'll pardon the contradiction in terms, more than fifty years young. Audiences everywhere have been enthusiastic, sell--out shows in Melbourne and Sydney, with Canberra and Brisbane to follow. It's returning to Sydney later in the year but without yours truly.

"They don't write them like this any more". My Fair Lady without question is a Broadway Classic, and I'm revelling in this golden opportunity; I think I can safely say Henry is right up my street. For an actor it's a rare treat to have such wonderful things to say, and for the audience such great stuff to listen to: words and music.

Fortunately the reviews have been just what the doctor ordered and I've managed to land yet another feather in my cap. Over the years the theatre has handed me a fistful of marvellous roles, Henry I have to say is up there with the best of them.

My colleagues are all wonderful, Taryn Fiebig an absolutely gorgeous Eliza, with Rhys McConnaghie. Robert Grubb, John Wood, Matthew Robinson, Adele Johnson, and the entire ensemble making up what I surely consider the dream team. Incidentally the great Miss Nancye Hayes playing Higgins' worldly wise mother is winning hearts in every town.

Saturday 29th April, 2006 Waterfront City Melbourne: the Variety Walk of Fame was inaugurated. Among the 100 Australian Entertainers of the Century named was Reg. His star appears on the walk at Docklands.

At the celebratory dinner that night a 9 metre long painting by Jamie Cooper was unveiled depicting all of those honoured. Reg was particularly pleased to have been placed beside Kylie Minogue, as she no doubt would have been had she known about it.

Finally, Reg has been acknowledged for his performance as Max Bialystock in 'The Producers', winning a Mo Award for it. ( Helpmann would turn in his grave!) Tony Sheldon and Chloe Dallimore also recieved awards for their roles in the show. Awards were presented at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on April 29.