1. Lucy Maunder originated the role of Lara in the Australian premiere of Doctor Zhivago in 2011 opposite Anthony Warlow, and toured with her own cabaret Songs in the Key of Black in 2013, releasing an album with the same name.
20 Facts About Lucy Maunder
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Also in 2013, Maunder toured with the national touring company of Grease playing the role of Rizzo.
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Lucy Maunder attended North Sydney Girls High School, completed her HSC in 2003, attaining a distinction in drama.
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Lucy Maunder graduated from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with a Bachelor in Music Theatre.
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Lucy Maunder played the lead role of Lara in the premiere of Doctor Zhivago at the Lyric Theatre, Sydney on 19 February 2011 with Anthony Warlow as Yurii Zhivago, Taneel Van Zyl as Tonia and Martin Crewes as Pasha.
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Lucy Maunder performed in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens as part of the Sydney Mardi Gras Festival.
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Lucy Maunder has appeared in reasons to be pretty for Darlinghurst Theatre, as well as two staged readings for Neglected Musicals: Lucky Stiff in November 2012 and It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman in October 2014.
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Lucy Maunder played Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Richard O'Brien in New Zealand.
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Lucy Maunder's roles have included Anne in A Little Night Music, which was directed by her father, Stuart Maunder.
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In September 2013, Lucy Maunder was cast opposite Stephen Mahy as Rizzo in the John Frost production of Grease for Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne.
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Lucy Maunder received the 2013 Colleen Clifford Memorial Award for Best Actor in Music Theatre at the Glug Awards in Sydney in January 2014 for her performance.
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In 2020, Lucy Maunder starred as Catherine in Pippin at the Sydney Lyric Theatre.
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In December, 2011, Lucy Maunder performed with Donald Cant, Denis Walter, Melinda Schneider, and James Egglestone for the Australian Pops Orchestra 30th Anniversary Party.
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Lucy Maunder toured her own cabaret show Songs in the Key of Black, based on the songs of Irving Berlin, throughout Australia, including the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Perth's Morning Melodies at His Majesty's Theatre, and Noosa Longweekend.
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In 2012 Lucy Maunder released an album of the same name featuring songs from the show:.
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Lucy Maunder only wrote in the key of F-sharp using all the black notes.
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On 20 April 2012, Lucy Maunder performed in a gala concert version of Side by Side by Sondheim featuring Ruthie Henshall at the Theatre Royal.
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Lucy Maunder went on to replace Beck in the Geelong leg of the tour.
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Lucy Maunder returned to Morning Melodies in March, 2013, this time with Anne-Maree McDonald, Stuart Lucy Maunder and Alex Rathgeber for Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye, which centres around wartime classics including We'll Meet Again and Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major.
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On 24 March 2013 Lucy Maunder joined her parents, Stuart Lucy Maunder and Anne-Maree McDonald, for the musical extravaganza The Sound of Rodgers, a tribute to the work of Richard Rodgers, the composer from the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein.