A job that changed me: At the Titanic theatre restaurant we always hit an iceberg, but were often hit by bread rolls too
The top level of a historic Melbourne hotel was transformed into the first-class dining room, with chandeliers and a string trio, and the ground floor
The top level of a historic Melbourne hotel was transformed into the first-class dining room, with chandeliers and a string trio, and the ground floor was steerage It was 1998, the year after James Cameron’s Titanic had made a splash with cinematic audiences worldwide, and I – an amateur musical theatre performer and creative arts uni student – took an acting job in one of humankind’s most venerated performance venues: the theatre restaurant.
If you loved restaurants, theatre and the idea of combining those two things, there was nowhere in the world that had more to offer in
the late 1990s than Melbourne. Dracula’s, Witches in Britches, The Looney Bin and others proudly continued the legacy created by Dirty Dicks and The Last
Laugh in the 1970s, dishing out average meals and watered-down cocktails to a soundtrack of bawdy jokes and themed song parodies. Continue reading...
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