JOHANNA ALLEN: MIXTAPE
Johanna Allen says about her upcoming show at Slide, “It’s a mixed tape, a collection of songs I really love that I give to the audience, just as people make playlists for each other. It’s a retro idea.”
Mixtape presents a variety of Allen’s favourite songs with a twist though.
“We do rock songs as tangos that turn into sambas, a medley of Rodgers and Hammerstein with attitude, Summertime in a classical way then revisited as blues, a cover of a Radiohead song, 80s pop, everything musically different to how you would know it,” she says.
Allen who began her training in Adelaide, started as a young artist with State Opera South Australia and went to New York on a Julliard scholarship. Her impressive career spans opera, musical theatre, children’s theatre, jazz, cabaret, TV and acting.
“Often our work relates to knowledge of our craft so that means teaching or producing,” says Allen who worked in casting on The Voice and currently teaches in the musical theatre department at AIM.
“The diversity of the show is what provides the greatest joy for me. As a musician I’m driven by loving an eclectic array of music and the show reflects that,” says Allen. (MS)
Nov 24, Slide Lounge, 41 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, $28-69, 8915 1899, slide.com.au
BY MEL SOMERVILLE
