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Picked to be a princess

MANY student actors, dancers and musical theatre artists might fantasise about being plucked directly from graduation and cast in a lead role in a major musical, but that dream rarely becomes a reality. Musical theatre graduate Shubshri Kandiah, however, not only realised that dream when she was cast as Jasmine in the Australian production of Disney Theatrical’s , but did so as a trifecta. On graduating from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University’s musical theatre program in 2017, the 23-year-old simultaneously

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