Showtime! / Judy Nunn.
Publication details: North Sydney, NSW : Penguin Random House Australia, 2021.Description: xvi, 508 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781761042539
- 176104253X
- Circus performers -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- English fiction -- Australia
- Theaters -- Fiction
- Competition -- Fiction
- Performing arts -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Rivalry in business -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Entertainers -- Fiction
- Entertainers -- Fiction
- Theaters -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- English -- Australia -- Fiction
- Theatrical producers and directors -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Enemies -- Fiction
- Social classes -- Fiction
- Circus performers -- Victoria -- Fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- Victoria -- Fiction
- Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Australia -- History -- Fiction
- Immigrants -- Australia -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Theater -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
- A823.3 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | NUN | Available | 063119 |
'Comedy, tragedy, passion, betrayal...onstage and off.'--On cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
In the second half of the 19th century, Melbourne is a veritable boom town, as hopefuls from every corner of the globe flock to the gold fields of Victoria. And where people crave gold, they also crave entertainment. Enter stage right: brothers Will and Max Worthing and their wives Mabel and Gertie. The family arrives from England in the 1880s with little else but the masterful talents that will see them rise from simple travelling performers to sophisticated entrepreneurs. Enter stage left: their rivals, Carlo and Rube. Childhood friends since meeting in a London orphanage, the two men have literally fought their way to the top and are now producers of the bawdy but hugely popular ?Big Show Bonanza?. The fight for supremacy begins. Waiting in the wings: Comedy, tragedy, passion and betrayal; economic depression, the Black Death and the horrors of World War One...
