JOLENE'S HAPPY TO GO IT ALONE

Jo Litson
Sunday Telegraph - Sunday May 11, 2008

LESS then two years out of drama school, 
Jolene Anderson's star has risen with 
dizzying speed but her love life is flat-lining.

The gorgeous All Saints actress, who became a 
household name when she won celebrity singing 
contest It Takes Two last year, isn't in a 
relationship at the moment.

No, I've had enough of men, honest to God I have,'' 
she says with a big laugh.

"Too busy working, that's my excuse. And I think 
when you're really busy, to be in a relationship 
(your partner) has either got to hit the ground 
running beside you or it doesn't work.''

Anderson will draw on her experience of failed relationships when she stars in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one-woman musical Tell Me on a Sunday for music theatre company Kookaburra, in August.
 

KOOKABURRA ON 2GB WITH ALAN JONES

Alan said...

"Peter Cousens is one of Australia's great musical talents. He's starred in everything imaginable, a bush boy too... 

From Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Aspects of Love, Showboat. But he's also the founder of Kookaburra National Theatre Company..." 
 

KOOKABURRA KIDS 'EXPERIENCE 
THE THEATRE'

 On May 3rd Peter Cousens took the first group 
of Kookaburra Kids 'Experience The Theatre', 
to a matinee of Billy Elliott The Musical. 

This program is for students whose life 
experience has been limited by opportunity 
and circumstance and who may never have 
been to the theatre before.

 The kids from Blacktown Eagles RAPS, a 
youth suicide prevention centre in Blacktown 
had a fantastic time.  

Eagles RAPS was established in 1997 by Sally and Marten Wynn to assist with the prevention 
of youth suicide. 

It began out of concern of local residents for the youth of the area. Doonside, with a large youth population, had no youth services other than organised sport. Eagles RAPS Inc does not offer professional counselling, but has networks to be able to refer youth to professionals when required. With the assistance of Blacktown Council, Eagles RAPS established a drop-in youth centre in the disused rural fire station. The next group of teens will go to Billy Elliott on June 28th .

Kookaburra has also secured tickets to Phantom of The Opera  and plans to take not only Eagles RAPS to 'Experience The Theatre' but aboriginal kids as well. We thank both the venues and the producers of these musicals for making this possible.