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Helpmann did return to Australia on many occasions. He was co-director of the Australian Ballet between 1965 and 1974, and its sole director in 1975. His artistic input to the company was always theatrical and dramatic and often, as with his popular production of The Merry Widow, extremely lavish. Helpmann was always an international showman.

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Walter Stringer (1907–2001)
Artists of the Australian Ballet in The Merry Widow, 1975
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