

In 2013, he also played Hysterium opposite Geoffrey Rush as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In June and July 2013, Butel played Louis in the Belvoir St Theatre production of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He is also the voice of the Play School theme song. His music theatre credits include Little Me, Assassins, Kismet, Follies, Man of La Mancha, Dusty - The Original Pop Diva, Grease, Urinetown, Oklahoma!, Tom Foolery, Hair, Sugar, The Producers and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Burns, a post-electric play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The Merchant of Venice as Shylock. He earned a Helpmann Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance.īutel has worked extensively for many theatre companies including: Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Belvoir St Theatre, Queensland Theatre Company, The Production Company, Griffin Theatre Company and the State Theatre Company of South Australia appearing in productions such as Six Degrees of Separation, The Cafe Latte Kid, Tartuffe, Mourning Becomes Electra, A View from the Bridge, Othello, Stones in His Pockets, Boeing-Boeing, The Government Inspector, Strange Interlude, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Meow Meow's Little Match Girl, Romeo and Juliet, Woyzeck, Emerald City, Arms and the Man, Disgraced, Mr. The production then went to Sydney in August and then toured Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane and Auckland in New Zealand. The Australian production opened in June 2009 at the Comedy Theatre in Melbourne. He played the roles of two puppet characters in the production: Princeton and Rod. He was part of the original Australian Avenue Q cast in 2009. īutel attended the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and studied for a degree in Arts/Law, majoring in Theatre Studies and working as a paralegal in a law firm between terms.

Keep up the good work all the crew at Surfaid International and we hope this helps with your important work.Butel became interested in theatre as a child after seeing the musical Song and Dance and later Little Shop of Horrors. Thanks everyone for particpatingand raising themuch needed funds. A great effort that and sorely neeededĬheck out below the images thanks to Simon Williams.Ĭongratulations to Matthew Butel, the winner of the World Surfaris - Santa Lusia Boat trip with Airfares by Air AsiaĪnd Dane Baldwin-winner of the JS surfboard The final figure rasied came in at$8,825.00 for Surfaid International. Sorry for the delay in this reportbut good news is always welcome. I think everyone who was there had an amazing night of entertainment, the boys went big !! First of all a HUGE thanks to all involved with sponsoring the event !! without your support this event would not have happened!!!Īlso a huge thanks to the musicians, Matt Mchugh, Ash Grunwald, Matt Pitts and Co and Beau Young. It may be out of the headlines now but the tragedy is still very realover there- So a big thanks to all who particpated-World surfaris was proud to be part of it. The gig was set up to donate to surfaid to help the recent earthquake victims in Padang. The line up included some great acts Ash Grunwald, Beau Young and others. For those of you underneath the rock, the surers for Padang concert was held recently at Cafe La Monde, Kirra.
