WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN

Music and Lyrics by Carmel Dean
Additional lyrics by Miriam Laube
Orchestrations by Lynne Shankel
Directed by Blazey Best

Venue Upstairs Theatre
Dates 28 Sep – 3 Nov 24

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Co-Produced with
Presented by arrangement with
- Concord Theatricals

A musical feast celebrating the women who refused to behave.

“Well-behaved women seldom make history” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

How would Cleopatra, Mary Magdalene, Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, Billie Jean King, Cathy Freeman and Malala Yousafzai sound if we heard them sing their thoughts?

Well-Behaved Women, a song cycle by Carmel Dean is a musical feast by where these legends (and a few we’re keeping up our sleeves) are brought to life and reimagined through powerful and often hilarious songs, that celebrate the ways in which their behaviour helped them make history.

Well-behaved? As if.

You’ll all know Zahra, and her ability to sell a song, after Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Those of you who saw Into the Woods will remember Stefanie as Rapunzel. And in a year of returning Belvoir treasures, Ursula is back for her first show since the now-legendary Barbara and the Camp Dogs. Add the voice of Elenoa, the wit of Australian composer Carmel Dean’s songs, and this one is simply guaranteed entertainment. – Eamon

Performance Times

Upcoming Performances

Saturday • 28 Sep 2024

7:30pm

6:30pm

7:30pm

Wednesday • 2 Oct 2024

7:30pm

Opening Night (Invite Only)

Thursday • 3 Oct 2024

7:30pm

Friday • 4 Oct 2024

7:30pm

Saturday • 5 Oct 2024

2:00pm

Weekly Times

tuesday 6:30pm
Except 1 Nov at 7:30pm
wednesday 6:30pm
thursday 1pm & 7:30pm
friday 7:30pm
saturday 2pm & 7:30pm
sunday 5pm
Except 29 Sep at 6:30pm & 3 Nov at 2pm

Preview Session
Special Performance
School Performance

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TEAM

Carmel Dean
Music and Lyrics
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Carmel Dean
Miriam Laube
Additional Lyrics
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Miriam Laube
Lynne Shankel
Orchestrations
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Lynne Shankel
Blazey Best
Director
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Blazey Best
Cast
Stefanie Caccamo

Stefanie graduated in 2016 from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor of Music Theatre. This is her Belvoir Debut. Theatre credits include Oklahoma!, Once the Musical (Black Swan State Theatre Company); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Michael Cassel Group); Once the Musical (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); Hair the Musical 50th Anniversary […]
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Stefanie Caccamo
Stefanie graduated in 2016 from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor of Music Theatre. This is her Belvoir Debut. Theatre credits include Oklahoma!, Once the Musical (Black Swan State Theatre Company); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Michael Cassel Group); Once the Musical (Darlinghurst Theatre Company); Hair the Musical 50^th Anniversary Tour (Sydney Opera House/Peace Productions); Godspell, Lizzie the Musical, Well Behaved Women, Irene, Applause, Meet Me in St Louis (Hayes Theatre Company:); Christmas Actually, From Johnny to Jack (The Little Red Co). Film and TV credits include Three Summers, Woolworths Carols in The Domain 2021, Fighting Season, Making Muriel. Stefanie’s awards include 2014 Effie Crump Award, 2016 Leslie Anderson Showcase Award, 2017 Rob Guest Endowment Melbourne East End Theatre District Award.
Zahra Newman

A graduate of VCA, Zahra has built an extensive list of theatre, television and film credits. In 2016 she was awarded an AACTA for Best New Talent and received a 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for her performance as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. Other industry recognitions include a Green Room Award, CGA Award and […]
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Zahra Newman
A graduate of VCA, Zahra has built an extensive list of theatre, television and film credits.
In 2016 she was awarded an AACTA for Best New Talent and received a 2017 Sydney Theatre Award for her performance as Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon. Other industry recognitions include a Green Room Award, CGA Award and multiple Helpmann nominations.
Theatre credits include Fences, A Raisin in the Sun, Julius Caesar, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Love and Information (Sydney Theatre Company); Random, The Blind Giant is Dancing, Ivanov, The Government Inspector, Private Lives (Belvoir); Miss Julie, The Effect, The Mountain Top, The Cherry Orchard, Menagerie, Clybourne Park, The Drowsy Chaperone and Richard III (Melbourne Theatre Company); Well Behaved Women (Hayes Theatre Company); Girl from the North Country (GWB) and the critically acclaimed Wake in Fright for Malthouse/Sydney Opera House, which she also co-created.
Zahra’s film credits include Truth, I Met A Girl, Long Story Short and Thirteen Lives. Her television credits include Netflix’s Pieces of Her, Spreadsheet, Diary of an Uber Driver, Sisters, Foxtel’s Wentworth, Neighbours, Rosehaven, Childhood’s End and Rush.
Elenoa Rokobaro

At the age of 16 Elenoa was plucked from the Australian International Performing Arts High School (AIPAH) to star in Respect: The Musical in 2007. Elenoa’s credits includeJoanne in Rent (Sydney Opera House); Susan in Tick, Tick…BOOM! (Storeyboard Entertainment); Fay Apple in Anyone Can Whistle and Well Behaved Women (Hayes Theatre); The Wife in The […]
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Elenoa Rokobaro
At the age of 16 Elenoa was plucked from the Australian International Performing Arts High School (AIPAH) to star in Respect: The Musical in 2007.
Elenoa’s credits includeJoanne in Rent (Sydney Opera House); Susan in Tick, Tick…BOOM! (Storeyboard Entertainment); Fay Apple in Anyone Can Whistle and Well Behaved Women (Hayes Theatre); The Wife in The Things I Could Never Tell Steven (NToP); Betty Blokk-Buster Follies Reimagined (Redline Productions); The Book of Mormon (GFO); Reno in Dusty (TPC); The Fortune Teller in Side Show (One Eyed Man Productions); Ghost (ATG); Violet (Blue Saint Productions); Legally Blonde (GFO); Hairspray (DCE/David Atkins); Fame (GFO); Taylor in High School Musical Onstage (Disney) and Chanteuse (Adelaide Cabaret Festival). Elenoa was also featured in the Baz Luhrmann film The Great Gatsby.
In 2019 Elenoa was seen as Caroline Thibodeaux in the acclaimed Caroline, Or Change (Hayes Theatre Company) for which she was awarded Best Female Actor in a Leading Role for both the Sydney Theatre Awards and the GLUG Awards.
Ursula Yovich

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Ursula Yovich
Creatives
Carmel Dean
Musical Supervisor
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Carmel Dean
Zara Stanton
Musical Director

Zara (she/her) is an accomplished Music Director, Performer, Arranger and Composer with a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.Zara’s credits as Music Director include Bonnie & Clyde (JRP), Every Musical Ever (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), The Deb (ATYP), The Boomkak Panto (Belvoir), and Associate Music Director for A Chorus Line (DTC). Zara has […]
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Zara Stanton
Zara (she/her) is an accomplished Music Director, Performer, Arranger and Composer with a Bachelor of Music from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Zara’s credits as Music Director include Bonnie & Clyde (JRP), Every Musical Ever (Adelaide Cabaret Festival), The Deb (ATYP), The Boomkak Panto (Belvoir), and Associate Music Director for A Chorus Line (DTC).
Zara has been Music Director for FANGIRLS since 2020, and her work on the show has yielded an ARIA award nomination for Best Musical Theatre Album, and a Green Room Award nomination for Best Music Direction. Zara also earned a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for Best Music Direction for the Hayes Theatre Co. production of HMS Pinafore.
Zara is incredibly passionate about promoting representation in musical theatre, particularly for artists of Asian heritage and for female and non-binary musicians and creatives.

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