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FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
or FNL!
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of Sydney producers and industry creatives rallied to create The Reservoir Room, featuring a 5 week live-streaming season of cabaret and live music hours including a Friday night variety show called FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE, or FNL, for short (say it 5 times quickly!) hosted by Rodger Corser and Catherine Alcorn, co-hosted. by Verushka Darling and Musically Directed by Daniel Edmonds.
The 5 week season was streamed and shot entirely live from a community television station underneath Paddington Town Hall on Oxford Street, Sydney.
This project kept over 45 industry colleagues from across the sector employed during one of the darkest times the world has faced.
ARTIST LIST
Mandy Bishop
Jonathan Biggins
Kirby Burgess
Thomas Campbell
Matt Copely
Barry Conrad
Tim Draxl
Dave Eastgate
Drew Forsyth
Julie Gold (NYC)
BenHur Helwend
iOTA
Erika Heynatz
Luke Heggie
Phil Jamieson
Reuben Kaye
Matt Lee
Marney McQueen
Ben Mingay
Mia Morrissey
Tony Mott
Clare Ellen O'Connor
Elenoa Rokobaro
Prinnie Stevens
Sister 2 Sister
James Sarno
Phil Scott
Rai Thistlethwayte
Mark Trevorrow
Christian Wilkins
Richard Wilkins
Ursula Yovich
Julia Zemiro
The Australian cast of Who's Your Baghdaddy?
FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
Executive Producers Catherine Alcorn, Ted Robinson and David Smith
Directed by Ted Robinson
Producer David Emery
Associate Producer Yasmin Kara
Artist Producer Lizzie Morrissey
Live Stream Director Martin Coombes
Editor Ilter Cimilli
Camera Operators Jordan Robinson, Julia Kennedy, Glenn Traynor, Susan Lumsdon
Platform Producer Johnny Peters
Tech Producer Ming d'Arcy
Floor Manager Joel Robinson
Lighting Designer Peter Rubie
Lighting Assistant Lila Neiswanger
Art Department Stella Ha Vi Do
Sound Design Mark Avis and Keith Muir
Floor Sound Keith Muir
Set Design Hayley Stafford
Artist Liaison Glenn Moorehouse
Marketing Manager Cameron MacDonald
Marketing Assistant Clare Ellen O'Connor
Publicity Bruce Pollack, Amanda Buckworth and Jane Negline
Photographers Dan Boud, Phil Erbacher, Cassandra Hannagan, The Girl In The Bandana, Ann-Louise Calihanna, Don Arnold
HMU Daniel Cater
Lighting Supplier Intense Lighting
Piano Supplier KAWAI Australia
Camera Supplier VA Hire
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REVIEWS
"The Reservoir Room started as a way of creating a space for artists who could not perform live gigs because of the lockdown, but what it did was bring together a large group of people from all the corners of the music and broadcast scenes to put on a show that they could be proud of. This isn’t a Zoom concert with nothing but a laptop and a pair of stock iPhone headphones and a low-quality microphone. This show has over a million dollars of equipment dripping behind the lens. So, if you’re looking for a live performance fix, and like music; then grab a drink, tune in, and be entertained…. I was."
- David Hooley for AUSSIE THEATRE
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