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Pratt Prize for Music Theatre
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

'The Pratt Prize for Music Theatre was an award for an unperformed Australian musical. It was initiated through the Pratt Foundation in 2001 to stimulate music theatre writers and composers to create work with commercial appeal. The award originally comprised a $50,000 cash prize and a workshop valued at $30,000.'  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_Prize_for_Music_Theatre)

Notes

  • Prize for an outstanding new work of music theatre that has the potential to attract a widespread audience. Administered by the Pratt Foundation.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2006

joint winner Once We Lived Here Dean Bryant , Mathew Frank (composer), 2006 single work musical theatre

Amy runs 'Emoh Ruo', the family sheep station in northern Victoria. She's held onto the property through drought, bushfire and falling wool prices, determined not to let it slip out of the family grasp. But when the family gathers over a scorching long weekend, Amy has to face up to the myths and lies the place has been built upon. Is she holding on or is she stuck?

Source: Bryant and Frank website, www.bryantandfrank.com
Sighted: 08/09/2009

The judges for the Pratt Prize in 2006 decided to commission two of the six finalists to create new musicals. The two were Anthony Crowley; and Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank. The 2006 award result was unique to the 2006 entries.

Source: Australian Musicals website, www.australianmusicals.com (sighted 08/09/2009)

Year: 2004

winner Metro Street Matthew Robinson , Matthew Robinson (composer), 2004 single work musical theatre 'Metro Street is a contemporary Australian drama that charts the intersecting lives of a mother and son, a girl from the bush and a Toorak twenty-something as they angle to find their place in metropolitan Melbourne with only a streetside busker to guide the way. These five ordinary citysiders discover that to satisfy their need for the extraordinary, they must first find each other.' http://www.stateart.com.au/sota/news/default.asp?fid=3084 (Sighted 1/12/04).

Year: 2002

inaugural winner Sideshow Alley : The Musical Gary Young , Paul Keelan (composer), 2003 single work musical theatre
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Works About this Award

Hugs, Tears...This Show Has It All John Mangan , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 29 November 2002; (p. 4)
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