Film, Television and Theatre
Abrahams continued his creative collaboration with Baz Luhrmann in 2001 when he co-produced the Moulin Rouge film soundtrack. In 2002, Abrahams composed and produced original music for a feature film by Paul Currie called One Perfect Day, set in the Melbourne dance music scene. Also in this year, Abrahams remixed songs for John Farnham and Icehouse. In 2003, Abrahams wrote and produced the original music score for the movie One Last Ride, produced by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee. He began composing music for television commercials, such as the 'Go For It Girl’ campaign for Portmans clothing, a song entitled "Melt with You" for Baileys Irish Cream and the LG technology campaign. In 2005, TV jingles were Abrahams' main focus, along with writing more of his own original music. In 2007 he composed, arranged and recorded large-scale orchestral jingles for a series of three TV commercials for Ask Dot Com, in 2009 he arranged and recorded a version of "My Favourite Things" for a series of Dove TV commercials, and in 2010 he composed arranged and recorded the theme song for the global Tourism Australia advertising campaign.
Abrahams also has a career in theatre. He was the music director and pianist in The Soubrettes Cabaret Tingel Tangel at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2004. He spent July and August 2006 running the night-club in the first Spiegeltent (a traveling European music and theatre venue) to tour in the USA, then returned to this venue as music director for the theatrobatic show "Desir", premiering in the New York Spiegeltent in August 2008.
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