Highlights include Blazey Best in Gypsy, a revival of Australian musical Darlinghurst Nights, Aspects of Love, and In the Heights.

On Sunday night, the Hayes Theatre Co revealed its 2018 season, announcing a full year’s programme for the first time. Launched in 2014 as a venue dedicated to musical theatre and cabaret, the little theatre was packed to the rafters for the event, hosted by David Campbell, one of the producers behind the venture. And there is plenty for musical theatre fans to get excited about in a diverse programme including Gypsy starring Blazey Best in the iconic role of Mama Rose, a revival of the Australian musical Darlinghurst Nights, the Sydney premiere of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, and a new version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s intimate chamber musical Aspects of Love.

^{Laura Bunting and Blazey Best will star in Gypsy. Photograph @ Phil Erbacher}

The centrepiece – and the revelation held until last – would have to be Gypsy, one of the greatest musicals of all time with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents. Luckiest Productions and One Eyed Man Productions...