MAMMA MIA (ABBA on Repeat)
Karla Hillam | Sophie Loughran | Jonathan Guthrie-Jones | Mikey Halcrow |
KARLA HILLAM
Karla is an actress and singer originally from Wagga Wagga NSW. She has appeared on hit TV shows such as Offspring, 5 Bedrooms, Wentworth and The Warriors as well as spending plenty of time on the stage. Karla has toured the east coast of Australia with theatre company Brainstorm Productions, toured Australia and NZ with the debauchery of The Divine Miss Bette the smash hit cabaret for Neil Gooding Productions, appeared as Missy in the premier Australian production of The Marvellous Wonderettes at 45 downstairs and as Sunny Jacobs in the critically acclaimed, Australian premier of The Exonerated Sol III company. She is also a member of Latino cabaret sensation Los Nachos Trios! which won the People’s Choice award for Short + Sweet cabaret festival in 2013 and went on to play the Spiegel Tent for the Ballarat Cabaret festival and the Noosa Arts Theatre for the Noosa Long Weekend Festival. Karla recently premiered her brand new cabaret Ugly Duckling at Melbourne Fringe Festival and appeared as Catherine in The Memory of Water at Chapel off Chapel.
In 2018 and 2019, Karla toured Australia with JTM Productions Practically Perfect – The Music of Julie Andrews and in 2020/2021 she toured again with JTM Productions in Some Enchanted Evening – The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein II, It Takes Two, 007 Shaken Not Stirred and Tis the Season. Her critically acclaimed one woman cabaret Sex, Lies & Betrayal – Memoirs of a Hollywood Star has played to sold out shows across Australia.
She has a Bachelor of Music - Performance majoring in Voice from Box Hill Institute and she has studied acting with Richard Sarrell at The Rehearsal Room in Melbourne and Wendy Ward at the The Acting Studio in the States. Karla is a proudly represented by Rick O’Brien at Untitled Management and have been a member of Equity since 2012.
BELINDA HANNE-REID
Belinda is a Melbourne-based singer, actor, teacher and cabaret performer. Describedas the musical love-child of Adele and Uta Lemper, Belinda Hanne Reid is a vocal powerhouse who will floor you with her stunning vocals, and make you giggle with delight at her daft humour.
Belindahas been gracing stages in Australia and overseas for over two decades - she’sbeen a backing vocalist, a jazz lounge singer, a leading lady and everything inbetween. A mainstay of Melbourne's cabaret circuit, she has written, directedand performed independent cabaret here and around the world, touringindependent and festival seasons of her solo shows and also the comedy cabaret trio The Desperettes. Alwaysa sucker for a good festival, she has performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival,Melbourne Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Midsumma Festival, Perth Fringe World and Melbourne Fringe Festival to name afew.
Belindahas also appeared in several professional musical theatre productions, mostnotably for The Production Company playing Josie Mann / Valerie Dee in theirproduction of The Boy From Oz, as well as in TPC's production of Brigadoon. For JTM Productions, Belindahas performed in Dolly Diamond's PartonMe , Tis The Season – A Very Jazzy Christmas Spectacular as well as touring with the original production of Singalong Musicals and Singalong Musicals MAMMA MIA (ABBA on Repeat).
Belinda's midlife crisis was to enrol in aMasters of Music at the Melbourne Con, where she learnt how to be an opera singer.
JONATHAN GUTHRIE-JONES
Born into a musical family, heavily involved in Melbourne’s non-professional theatre community, Jonathan has been a regular fixture of the city’s theatrical stages for nearly 20 years.
Performances include leading roles in Me & My Girl, Singin’ In The Rain, Hot Mikado, Witches of Eastwick, Next To Normal, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, Crazy for You, Chicago and Shrek – The Musical, to name a few. In addition, Jonathan has twice been the recipient of the Best Actor award from the Music Theatre Guild of Victoria for his performances in All Shook Up (CLOC Music Theatre) and as Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz (Babirra Music Theatre).
Jonathan has spent time performing at Tokyo Disneyland and was also a member of the Australian premiere cast of Tomorrow Morning. In addition, Jonathan has toured Australia with hit shows Time Warp, Shake, Rattle & Roll and I Still Call Australia Home – The Peter Allen Story.
In 2019, he was seen in theatres across Australia performing in the JTM Productions tour of Practically Perfect – The Music of Julie Andrews and toured again with JTM Productions in Some Enchanted Evening – The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein II, It Takes Two, 007 Shaken Not Stirred and Tis The Season.
MIKEY HALCROW
Mikey graduated from WAAPA’s BA in Music Theatre in 2016. His credits there included George in The Drowsy Chaperone, Legally Blonde, Grant in The Beautiful Game, Featured Vocalist in The World Goes Round as well as Dance Captain for Bring It On.
Since graduating he has been performing his self-written Donald O’Connor cabaret Make ‘Em Laugh in Perth and Melbourne. Before studying he was a Dance Captain and Aerialist for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines for multiple contracts and performed for aerial circus companies around Australia.
Mikey made his professional debut in The Wizard of Oz, touring Australia in 2017 and 2018. In 2018 and 2019 he toured Australia as the Leading Man with JTM Productions Just a Couple of Song and Dance Men and is the Leading Man in Gene & Judy, again with JTM Productions.
Mikey would like to thank his family for putting up with him and for their support. He also thanks Angela and Maggie Denman for giving him his drive for performing.