Launch Party

We're having a party! Greatness Thrust Upon Them is Standing There Productions' second ever comedy festival show. It opens in March. The Greatness Thrust Upon Them Launch Party is a show launch, an opportunity for a nice drink in our new venue (Trades Hall, Corner of Victoria and Lygon Streets in Carlton), and a chance for you to contribute to our public liability insurance AND the carbon neutralising of our show by contributing $5 at the door.

Highlights may include: DJs Alec M and Silent G, cast and crew, an optional short film screening, a brief but exciting auction, some fairly awesome loot (including a Crumpler bag called The Considerable Embarrassment, which bodes well), and the honour of having carbon neutralised a whole comedy festival show. Better still, the show itself is ABOUT the environment, so basically you'll be just like Al Gore (without the giant cherry picker, the pointy stick and the Nobel prize, but still with the large enthusiastic fan base).

Drinks at 7, ceremonies at 8, party after that. The flyer is attached.

Auditions & Casting

We have now held our final audition. More than 100 people generously gave us their time and auditioned in various sweltering, obscurely located rooms across Melbourne over the last two weeks. 100 people is a lot under any circumstances, but even more so when there are three roles in the show. So, casting was difficult but thanks to the quality of performers we met, it was loads of fun.

Julia Harari is playing the jellybean-wrangling Megan, Chris Buchanan is politics nerd Robin, and Miriam Glaser is Sam, who tolerates no shenanigans. Let the rehearsals begin.

Advance Ticket Sales

For those of you who are very organised, you can already pre-purchase your tickets to the show here.

In the next few weeks, check the website for any updates, and as always the Standing There Productions Diary will continue to inspire you to keep your day job.

See you at the benefit gig,

Standing There Productions