The show was selected as part of the Carnegie 19 New Music Theatre programme at Arts Centre Melbourne, where the show went through a workshop followed by a four-night showcase featuring John O'May, Sheridan Harbridge, Nick Christo, Sam Ludeman, Stefanie Jones, Nelson Gardner, Briallen Clarke, and Simon Wilton, once again directed by Gurr.
[4] DreamSong then received a full production at Theatre Works in 2014 directed by Dean Bryant and starring Ben Prendergast, Chelsea Gibb, Brent Hill, Connor Crawford, Emily Langridge, Mike McLeish, Alana Tranter, and Evan Lever, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The humour can be bleak (there are songs picketing gay funerals and abortion clinics), but the acid satire works well against the natural comic brio of Hill's shambolic, scaredy-cat Jesus".
[5] DreamSong was revived in 2019 by EbbFlow Theatre Company in Melbourne with a production directed by Lauren McKenna at The Alex Theatre, St Kilda, featuring Nelson Gardner, Annie Aitken, Olivia Charalambous, Nicola Bowman, Maxwell Simon, Bailey Dunnage, Kate Schmidli, Samuel Skuthorp, Luisa Scrofani, and Tayla Muir.
[6] In 2014 Chiarella and Tripolino collaborated with writer Josh Robson to provide songs for the one-woman musical Guilty Pleasures.
With every outing their songs grow more sophisticated, both musically through Tripolino, and with the clever and witty lyrics of Chiarella... One can't help but be reminded of a young Sondheim in these offerings...
The cast featured Amanda Harrison, Loren Hunter, Keegan Joyce, Tim Draxl, Jo Turner and Bishanyia Vincent.
Critic, Diana Simmonds wrote of the show, "Evie May is rude, funny, sad and humane in its portrayal of lives and times now gone; yet when it comes to women’s place in the world, there’s much that’s familiar.
[13] Judith Greenaway wrote for ArtsHub, "Evie May ends in a bareness of space, an echo chamber of those limited choices that empowered a modern movement.
"[14] In his review for Stage Whispers, Peter Gotting wrote, "When the lights go up on this new Australian musical, there’s a sense of maturity - Sydney’s Hayes Theatre is now producing premieres of variety and accomplishment rarely seen in this country before.
[20][circular reference] He was also a writer, performer and founding member of the Australian sketch comedy group, 'I'm With Stupid' featuring Matthew Backer, Briallen Clarke, Paige Gardner, Tim Reuben and Gabrielle Scawthorn.