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Movies can help us learn more about ourselves and better understand the world around us, conveying a multitude of experiences and perspectives we might otherwise never be exposed to.

From my suburban home on the east coast of Australia, I grew up loving movies for their elements of escapism, drawn to places on screen that seemed to only possibly exist within the realm of my loungeroom television. Some of my favourite films were set in remote parts of Australia, places I believed only a true adventurer would endeavour to explore.

26 years on from its cinematic release, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is still a testament to Australian humour and our diverse and distinct landscape. For those unacquainted with this classic, Priscilla follows two drag queens and a transgender woman on a journey from Sydney to Alice Springs aboard a bus to perform a drag show in the centre of Aus. Along with compelling characterisation, their adventure through the Australian outback by bus is rivetting, exploring everything from the environmental diversity of the places they travel through, to the diversity of the people who inhabit them.

we are taking the Pacific dawn on 17th July, can anyone tell me if there are in cabin movies and what the costs are, if not is there an A/V plug on the tv that we can plug a dvd into, Also can you alcohol aboard if it is in the checked bags!!

hello Briggsy, there are movies on the incabin TV there are a number of channels and movies, cartoons, infomation and other show channels that play most of the time they are all free, as for paying for movies I have not come across that yet but then again I have not looked very hard either. as for taking alcohol aboard well the bad news is no they will take it off you when you board and give it back when you get back to the home port. a bit of a downer but thats there rules. in the suites there is an av plug as there is a dvd in the suites, as for other cabins I havnt looked for it sorry.

P&O does not allow passengers to take their own alcohol on board. All bags are scanned and any alchol will be taken off you until the end of the cruise. Any alcohol brought on shore at the ports of call will be collected from you when you reboard the ship, and given back to you when you get back to your departure point.

I had a semi-decent look at the TVs on the Pacific Dawn. I'm not sure that any plug would work on these TVs, and if by some luck it did work, I don't think it would be worth the trouble. AV is definitely out of the question, but even trying to 'tune in' an RF signal from your DVD player or game system looks improbable, as the remotes don't have these functions. Way too much trouble.

My advice would be to take along a laptop with a DVD drive, or a portable DVD player with its own screen. There are some very cheap portable DVD players available from major retailers; you should be able to pick up a decent one for $150.

As has been said there's a good selection of movies (depending on your tastes) for adults and children on the TV every day ... I'm yet to see a movie from start to finish in one go ... just never spend that long in the cabin:D:p

We take a lap top with us (for internet access, uploading photos, etc) - and have found it invaluable for the kids if they do want to take some time out from their hectic schedules to watch a movie or play a game.:)

There is always a pretty good choice of movies but as said before we didnt get to see from start to finish, not in room long enough. They also have movies on in the theatre. As for alcohol, we have taken on each time we have cruised and touch wood have never had it taken.... They must check random as they wouldnt have time to inspect individual cases, maybe we have just been lucky :p On one of our cruises hubby took a carton of beer and bottle bacardi and thought for sure we wouldnt get thru but we did with no probs at all, he just wrapped beer carton in bubble wrap... I dont think we will bother anymore though as it is a pain going back to room all the time and the fridges dont keep very cold anyway...:) Fiona

Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in the original Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast as Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he was in an Off-Broadway concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow. On Broadway, he won the 2004 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2023 Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of the musical The Music Man, earning another Tony Award nomination. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009.

Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (ne Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman,[3] a Cambridge-educated accountant.[4][5] His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the "Ten Pound Poms" immigration scheme.[5] Thus, in addition to his Australian citizenship, Jackman holds British citizenship by virtue of being born to UK-born parents.[6][7] One of his paternal great-grandfathers, Nicholas Isidor Bellas, was Greek,[8][9] from the Ottoman Empire (now in Greece).[10][11] His parents were devout Christians, having been converted by Evangelist Billy Graham after their marriage.[5] Jackman has four older siblings and was the second of his parents' children to be born in Australia.[12] He also has a younger half-sister, from his mother's remarriage.[13] His parents divorced when he was eight, and Jackman remained in Australia with his father and two brothers, while his mother moved back to England with Jackman's two sisters.[5][14][15] As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending much time at the beach and on camping trips and school holidays all over Australia. He wanted to see the world, saying, "I used to spend nights looking at atlases. I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane. Because I'd been on a plane and there was food on board, I presumed there was a chef. I thought that would be an ideal job."[16]

Jackman went to primary school at Pymble Public School and later attended the all-boys Knox Grammar School on Sydney's Upper North Shore, where he starred in its production of My Fair Lady in 1985 and became the school captain in 1986.[17] He spent a gap year in 1987[18] working at Uppingham School in England as a Physical Education teacher.[19][20] On his return, he studied at the University of Technology, Sydney, graduating in 1991 with a BA in Communications.[21] In his final year of university, he took a drama course to make up additional credits. The class did Vclav Havel's The Memorandum with Jackman as the lead.[12] He later commented, "In that week I felt more at home with those people than I did in the entire three years [at university]".[22]

After obtaining his BA, Jackman completed the one-year course "The Journey" at the Actors' Centre in Sydney.[12] About studying acting full-time, he stated, "It wasn't until I was 22 that I ever thought about my hobby being something I could make a living out of. As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theatre. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that. I found the courage to stand up and say, 'I want to do it'."[23] After completing "The Journey", he was offered a role on the popular soap opera Neighbours but turned it down[24] to attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, from which he graduated in 1994.[25]

Jackman has said he "always loved acting but when I started at drama school I was like the dunce of the class. It just wasn't coming right to me. Everyone was cooler, everyone seemed more likely to succeed, everyone seemed more natural at it and in retrospect, I think that is good. I think it is good to come from behind as an actor. I think it is good to go into an audition thinking, 'Man I've got to be at my best to get this gig.'"[26]

On the night of his final Academy graduation performance, Jackman received a phone call offering him a role on Correlli: "I was technically unemployed for thirteen seconds." Correlli, devised by Australian actress Denise Roberts, was a 10-part drama series on ABC, Jackman's first major professional job, and where he met his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Jackman stated that "Meeting my wife was the greatest thing to come out of it."[23] The show lasted only one season. After Correlli Jackman went on the stage in Melbourne. In 1996, Jackman played Gaston in the local Walt Disney production of Beauty and the Beast, and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.[12] During his stage musical career in Melbourne, he starred in the 1998 Midsumma festival cabaret production Summa Cabaret. He also hosted Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight and Sydney's Carols in the Domain. Jackman's early film works include Erskineville Kings and Paperback Hero (1999), and his television work includes Law of the Land, Halifax f.p., Blue Heelers, and Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River.

Jackman became known outside Australia in 1998, when he played the leading role of Curly in the Royal National Theatre's acclaimed stage production of Oklahoma!, in London's West End.[12] The performance earned him an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. Jackman said, "I totally felt like it can't get any better than this. On some level that production will be one of the highlights of my career."[27] He also starred in the 1999 film version of the same stage musical, which has been screened in many countries.

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