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CHI u JL GOLD .COAST JRUUETIN, Saturday, December .14, 19Q5JJ. I Starz to offer I futuristic fantasy $THE multi-million dollar theatri- s. goal stage fantasy Starz at the gConrad International Hotel and |Jupiters Casino will be ?╟ out of | this world?╟╓. The Broadway-type review, which gopens on January 22, will take theatre-vgoers at the international Showroom on ga glittering fantasy trip through time in ithc year 2020. Starz creator and world-renowned g American director, choreographer and ! gwriter Jerry Jackson, and the show?╟╓s set gdesigner, Charles Lisanby, also from the j gUS, say 400 dazzling costumes, 25 spec-jgtacular scenes and star-stopping special | geffccts will it a trip to remember. ?║y show has 175 different costume i g designs and a cast of 50, including performers from Southport. Mr Jackson jg: wants people to leave the show, with its v 13-piece orchestra, on an ?╟ emotional : high'. And he tips they?╟╓ll be back for more. Mr Jackson says a semi-nude scene in a :fantasy visit to Paris where a woman is getting dressed before a night out is not risque. Lights will be dimmed for the 45-second scene. ~?╜r.r i Insight The theatrical wizard took time out :j: yesterday to give the media a down-to-earth insight into Starz, which ghe said could eventually be taken to the ^ gUnited States. g ?╟ Time travellers' on the spaceship Starz and its pilot (Chuck McKenney) J ;::will zip through a black hole in deep / space and travel through time to 17th century Venice, the Australian Outback gin 1901, Spain in the 1800s and Paris at gthc turn of the century. They wind up back in Australia be-::tween 1965-85 ?╟÷ the renaissance period ..Tor Australian music ?╟÷ and the time slot ?╟≤Tor the show?╟╓s finale and flurry of songs :made popular by Australian performers. ?╟úI wanted to be futuristic,?╟Ñ said Mr ?╟≤Jackson. *Tt is like a Broadway review, ^ ::but in a very lavish and grand manner. Creator of Starz Jerrv hrkenn ^