Theatre Works Extends Season For Ally Morgan's One-Woman Cabaret NOT TODAY

Theatre Works and Rogue Projects have announced that Ally Morgan's critically-acclaimed cabaret Not Today, directed by Melbourne's Miranda Middleton, will play an additional six performances, in a fantastic sign that the local cabaret and musical scene is recovering from a tough Summer.

The extension means the production now features in both the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and the TW2022 Main Stage Season.

The production is a frank and funny new cabaret experience, filled with Ally's original songs, like Quiet Australian and 26 for a Week. It's a smart and surprising look inside the mind of a millennial artist on a mission to survive her job in a children's hospital, invisible queerness, and the climate anxiety that permeates it all.

With an all-new design team including Grace Deacon (Set and Costume) and Aron Murray (Lighting), with beautiful new orchestration by Oliver Beard and Maddy Mallis, the Theatre Works production will realise a bigger, bolder vision for Ally's story, and bright new sound to support her myriad of instruments.

Producer Robbi James said "we're truly delighted to see Melbourne embrace Ally and this show so warmly. New cabaret and musical theatre is something we're very passionate about and there couldn't be a better place for us to introduce this new iteration of Not Today to the world", he said "we've been planning to have a productin team in Melbourne since 2020 so to have the support of the theatre community here, and Theatre Works especially, has made our arrival feel like a coming home."

Director Miranda Middleton is no stranger to the Melbourne theatre scene having worked most recently on the new Australian musical Paper Stars with Salty Theatre, who she also worked with to bring Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts to stage, and the critically-acclaimed production of PASH with Olivia McLeod. Middelton and Rogue Projects have several productions in development and production through to 2023.

Ally Morgan has a growing profile in the queer community after the success of her short film Her Own Music, especially after her web series How to be Queer won the Melbourne Queer Film Festival Pitch Off competition before screening at the 2022 Queerscreen Film Festival in Sydney. Not Today will be her first all-original cabaret and goes on to be featured at Showcase Victoria in May,

Not Today runs from April 19 to 30th, with shows at 7:30pm nightly Tuesday to Saturday. A special young person's matinee will be staged at 11am on Friday 29th.

Full ticket details can be found on the Broadway World listing, and at www.theatreworks.org.au.

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