Doctor Baz, aka Barry Ferrier, began his performing arts career working in music theatre, with a 2 year, 8 shows per week stint as a cast member and as one of Jesus’ apostles in the original Harry M. Miller production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Capitol Theatre, in Sydney and the Palais Theatre, Melbourne – alongside the creme-de-la-creme of a generation of Australian music and theatre greats including Jon English, Marcia Hines, John Paul Young, Michael Caton, Reg Livermore, and so many more.
He played alongside Mark Holden in “Joseph & the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat” at the Seymour Centre Sydney directed by internationally acclaimed director Rufus Collins, composed music for and performed with the internationally famous Lindsay Kemp Mime Company at the New Arts Cinema, Glebe and the Comedy & Her Majesties theatres in Melbourne. The music he composed for Kemps adaption of Oscar Wilde’s Salome featuring at a sell out season in London’s Roundhouse.
Barry also performed in numerous theatre and cabaret productions in Sydney & Melbourne, including Kabaratz and the Milky Way Cabaret at the legendary Flying Trapeze Cafe in Brunswick Street, Melbourne and a national campus tour of Steve J. Spears “Africa : the Savage Musical”.