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Entertainment
'The Best
of the Best'
Many
millions of dollars of programming and work went into
making the World Expo '88 Entertainment Program the
best in the World - from venues as diverse as the
10,000 capacity River Stage to the intimate
Amphitheatre and 'The Space'; to 'World Expo on
Stage' at the adjoining Queensland Performing
Arts Complex; as well as the 'Celebrity Speakers
Forum' at the Concert Hall of the same
venue, where some of the world's top minds
gathered to discuss terrestrial Earth's most pressing
problems of 1988 and beyond.
Here is but a sample of some of the big names that
helped us celebrate World Expo '88:
- At the World Expo
'88 River Stage - for free! (with Expo admission
ticket) Julio Iglesias, Donny Osmond, John
Denver, Chuck Jones, Phyllis Diller, the
Village People, James Taylor, the
Little River Band, Glen Frey, Joe Cocker, Jimmy
Barnes, Icehouse, Ladysmith
Black Mambazo, the Nylons, Eurogliders, Judi
Conelli, the Divinyls, Mental
as
Anything, The Cockroaches, Kate
Cerebrano, the Rocky Horrow Show with Bernard
King, Normie Rowe, Simon Gallaher, Jon English,
Wendy Harmer, Gerry Connolly, Austen Tayshus, Kamahl
and the Australian Boys Choir, Young Talent
Team, Wickety Wak, John Williamson, James Blundell,
the Laura Dance Festival Aboriginal Dance
Troupe, Tjapukai Dance Theatre, Dance North,
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Band, Andy
Stewart, TN! Theatre Company, Miss Hawai'i 88, the
World Professional Bodybuilding Championships, the
7th Fleet Band, Jermaine Jackson, the Greely
Chorale, the Delltone's, the Hoodoo Gurus, John
Farnham and the launch of 'The Age of Reason'
Tour, Marcia Hines, Smokey Dawson, Kobe Youth
Choir, Martha Davis, The Last Night of the Proms,
Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band & Wind
Ensemble, Montiverdi Male Choir, the Bizzarros,
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Su Cruickshank,
Vocalpoint, the Queensland Youth Choir, Julian Lee,
Zane, Tyrone & Cher, The Dennis Wayne Dancers,
Fred Garbo, Queensland Lyric Opera, Armondo Hurley,
The Waldo Woodhead Show, Jill & Agro's Children
Concert, Jackie Love, Patrick McMahon, Mr Universe
Championships, Ryudogumi, Morgan & Phelan,
Oberlin Dance Company, Bryan Ferry, Mecano, The
Seekers, Julie Anthony
- At the Queensland
Performing Arts Complex 'World Expo on Stage'
program - Aida and Die Fledermaus - Lyric
Opera of Queensland (Australia); Lazar Berman
(U.S.S.R.); Meryl Tankard (Australia); The Flying
Karamazov Brothers (U.S.A.); Messaien Festival
(France); Cosmic Odyssesy Nippon (Japan); Boojum
(Australia); the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas - Roger
Woodward (Australia); Antologia de la Zarzuela
(Spain); the Texas Boys' Choir Show
(U.S.A.); Mummenschanz (Switzerland); The Knee
Plays - Robert Wilson and David Byrne (U.S.A.);
Kabuki - featuring Living National Treasure of Japan
Utaemon Nakamura (Japan); the Peking Opera Troupe of
China (People's Republic of China); Michel Lemieux
(Canada); the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (U.S.A.);
Gabrieli String Quartet with Stephen McIntyre
(U.K.); Yehudi Menuhin (U.K.); the 1988
International Theatre Sports Festival (U.K., U.S.A.,
Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia);
the World Brass Band Championships; the Royal Ballet
(U.K.); the 1988 Australian Fashion Awards
(Australia); Kiri Te Kanawa (New Zealand);
International Festival of Youth Orchestras (U.K.,
Japan, U.S.A., Federal Republic of Germany, New
Zealand, Australia); Borodin Trio with Eleanora
Turovsky (U.S.A.); the World Drum Festival
(Indonesia; Canada; Japan; Sri Lanka; Papua New
Guinea; Kenya; Ghana; U.S.A., India; Republic of
Korea; New Zealand; Australia); Grips Theater
(Federal Republic of Germany); the Australian Opera
(Australia); Asian Deance Festival (Indonesia,
Malaysia, Republic of Korea); the Siberian Cossack
Dance Company (U.S.S.R.); the complete War of the
Roses cycle, English Shakespeare Company (U.K.);
NIDA (Australia); 1000 Airplanes - Philip Glass
Ensemble (U.S.A.); Comédie Française (France); the
Original Monterey Jazz Festival 'Down Under'
(U.S.A.); Aristophanes - Amphi-Theatre (Greece);
Italy on Stage (Italy); Bennelong (Aiustralia); the
Australian Ballet (Australia); the Bolshoi Opera
(U.S.S.R.); Siamsa Tire and the Chieftans (Ireland);
World Expo on Stage Finale (Australia et al).
- At
the Concert Hall Celebrity Speakers
Forum a selection of the World's most
distinguished scientists, academics and
adventurers discussed the world of the future in
six forums at the Concert Hall of the Queensland
Performing Arts Complex. General Admission only
$AUD 10.00 - full time students $AUD 5.00! 20
June 1988 Modern-Day Adventure and Exploration
Chairman: Simon Balderstone - Journalist
and Scientific Author Speakers: Dr Arlene Blum -
American Adventurer, Tim Macartney-Snape -
Adventurer, Robert Swan - British Antarctic
Explorer 26 June 1988 Technology and Sport
Chairman: Dr Ian Jobling - Chairman of The Oceania
Olympic Authority Speakers: Professor John Lucas -
Associate Director of the U.S. Olympic Academy,
John Landy - Australian Athlete; Dr Frank Pyke -
President of the Australian Sport Association;
Diane Jones-Konihowski 20 July 1988
Technology and its effect on the Social Fabric
of Society Chairman: Sir James Killen,
Barrister and former Liberal Minister
Speakers: The Honourable Gough Whitlam -
former Prime Minister of Australia, Mr S K Jain -
International Labour Office (Geneva), Mr K E Ejiri
- President - Mitsui, Sir Ronald Trotter -
Chairman - Fletcher Challenge (New Zealand) 15
August 1988 The Role of Technology in the
Exploration of Earth and Space Chairman:
Professor Brian Wilson, Australian Physicist and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of
QueenslandSpeakers: Sir Edmund
Hillary Mountaineer, Explorer, and Author, Mr
James Irwin - American Astronaut, Dr Patrick Moore
- British Astronomer and Author 28 August
1988 The Marine Environment, Marine
Archaeology, Technology and Leisure
Chairman: Mr Graeme Kelleher - Chairman of the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Speakers:
Dr Margaret Rule - British Marine Archaeologist,
Jean-Michel Cousteau - Producer of Adeventure and
Marine Films, Dr Kenton Miller - World President -
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
and Natural Resources 19 September 1988
Michelangelo's Return to Glory : The Restoration
of the Vatican Speaker: Dr Walter Persagati
- Secretary and Treasurer of the Vatican Museums
3 October 1988 Advances in Technology and
their influence on Longevity, Post-Retirement,
and Leisure Chaiman: The Honourable Sir
Walter Campbell, Governor of Queensland Speakers:
The Right Honourable Sir Zelman Cowen - former
Governor General of Australia, Dr Percival
McCormack, Professor Michel Philibert - President
of the French Society of Gerontology.
Do you
wish to view a chronological guide to
the Entertainment at World Expo '88 - visit the 'Expo
Today' page!
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