OCTOBER 2023

David Gauci and Davine Productions debuts another show for South Australian audiences.

David Gauci and his Davine Productions music theatre company is celebrating 10 years with another highly anticipated South Australian debut show.

A New Brain is by Tony Award-winning composer William Finn who is well known for Broadway favourites such as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Falsettos.  Book by Finn and James Lapine and vocal arrangements by Jason Robert Brown make an impressive team with serious Broadway credentials.

With music inspired by Broadway composers like Sondheim, Bernstein, Porter, Rodgers and Hart, A New Brain touches on themes of dysfunctional relationships, life and death struggles and the healing power of time and music. It features more than 20 songs, 11 larger-than-life characters and an orchestra of nine.

William Finn faced his own mortality after a medical emergency and wrote this semi-autobiographical account of his life and death experience. Surreal and humorous, this is the musical he thought he may not live to write.

Clever, sardonic, and comical, it is a musical about those moments that remind us of who we are and what’s important in life.

David says, “having performed in the professional production of A New Brain in Melbourne, I am excited to be bringing this quirky musical to South Australian audiences. I am also very proud that Davine Productions is celebrating 10 years of niche music theatre and cabaret in 2023”

A New Brain will be playing at The Star Theatre One: 145 Sir Donald Bradman Drive Hilton:  Friday October 13 through to Saturday October 21, 2023.