Jesus Christ Superstar to tour OZ

The award-winning spectacular production of Jesus Christ Superstar will bring salvation in the new technological era to Australia. Faithful and unfaithful servants will be blessed by the 1970s rock musical's the heavenly tunes and peculiar modern version of the last seven days in the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

Celestial voices and divine talent will fill the stages across the country with blissful glory. Australian Tim Minchin will play Judas Iscariot, Sporty Spice Mel C will perform as Mary Magdalena and UK TV talent quest find Ben Forster will star as Jesus.

Jon Stevens, who played Judas in the 1992 concert tour in front of almost one million people, will perform as Pontius Pilate in the 2013 reboot. Finally, Deal or No Deal host Andrew O'Keefe starring as King Herod.

The revamped production will open in Perth (31 May and 1 June), then it will move on to Adelaide (4-5 June), Sydney (7-8 June), Brisbane (11-12 June), and finally Melbourne (14-15 June).

Jesus Christ Superstar was the first musical by Tim Rice (lyrics) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) to be produced for the professional stage. The production debuted on Broadway in 1971 and ran for two years engrossing £2.8 million at the box office. The masterpiece won Andrew Lloyd Webber the prestigious Drama Desk Award as Most Promising Composer for Jesus Christ Superstar in 1972.

Nowadays, Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of the most successful producers of all time. He is famous for his work in smash-hit productions like The Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Evita.

Julie Andrews brings her magic Down Under

Some of us treasure sweet childhood memories of Julie Andrews. While eating our porridge -some memories are sweeter than others- Julie Andrews taught us to fly with umbrellas or the musical notes by singing along. Indeed, the star is a timeless icon of stage and screen that has warmed hearts worldwide.

Now the excitement is building up Down Under as rumours have finally been confirmed. It has taken a while while, but it has finally happened: Julie Andrews will be touring Australia this year for the first time ever.

Producers John Frost and Phil Bathos have disclosed that the multi-award winning actress, director, writer and singer will come to Australian shores to perform in An Evening with Julie Andrews. The tour will take the British performer to Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne in May this year.

An Evening with Julie Andrews will display the perfomer's six-decade long career. As it usually happens in showbiz, her professional life has been characterized by peaks and valleys.

Throughout 60 years, Andrews has conquered Broadway, the West End and Hollywood. The roles she created are some of the most famous ever written for stage or screen which include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Victoria Grant in Victor/Victoria, Guinevere in Camelot, Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins -her screen debut which won her a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.

Andrews will be accompanied by a special guest host American born Australian actor Nicholas Hammond -who played Friedrich Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. An Evening with Julie Andrews will take the audience on a journey of discovery of the icons life and career in a sincere and amusing evening of personal memories and insights.

Julie Andrews will be in Brisbane on 18 May, in Perth on 21 May, in Sydney on 24 May, in Adelaide on 28 May, and finally in Melbourne on 31 May before she says so long; farewell to Australia.

Learn to surf with Layne Beachley

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The Sydney Tower Eye gets a Lindt chocolate make-over for Easter

Egg painting and hunting, Easter bunnies and parades are things of the past. Building a chocolate replica of Sydney's tallest free-standing structure is the new way to celebrate Easter.

Indeed, to commemorate these festivities, the Sydney Tower Eye has partnered with world-famous chocolate makers, Lindt, to create a chocolate model of the iconic structure that is 1:100 in scale.

Master Chocolatier at Lindt Australia Thomas Schnetzier hand-crafter the two-metre chocolate miniature of the Sydney Tower. It was quite a challenge making the Sydney Tower Eye sculpture. I have made some unusual things out of chocolate before but this has certainly been the most intricate said Mr. Schnetzler.

He added: The fun part was definitely adding the detail of the miniature chocolate figures on SKYWALK and the individual windows. I really hope people enjoy it!

This partnership between the Sydney Tower and Lindt is the first of its kind in Australia. The project began back in February in the Lindt studies in Melbourne where bespoke moulds were filled 12.5kg of dark chocolate to create the turret of the tower.

Skill, attention to detail and over 40 man-hours went in to finishing the scale model. More than 300 windows were attached one by one to the four floors of the turret, while tiny figure were crafter to stand out on SKYWALK.

An exquisite edible gold spray was added to the sculpture to make it match with the 309m structure that towers over Sydney. At last, the installation was topped off with a miniature ‘chocolate city' at its base.

The chocolate sculpture will be on display at The Sydney Tower Eye until 28 April. And there is more! Visitors will not only enjoy the experience of seeing the scale chocolate model of the Sydney Tower but will also have the opportunity to win the equivalent weight of chocolate used to make the sculpture in an assortment of Lindt chocolate. Participants will be asked to describe, in 25 words or less, who they would share their Sydney Tower Eye Lindt chocolate prize with and why? Now that autumn has just begun, heaps of world-class chocolate sounds like the perfect prize.