Under the Coolibah Tree

{{Short description|1955 Australian musical by Dick Diamond}}

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| music = Various, including Dick Diamond

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| book = Dick Diamond

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| premiere_date = 18 March 1955

| premiere_location = All Saints Hall, Brisbane

| productions = 1956 New Theatre Sydney{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236255748 |title=WHAT'S ON |newspaper=Tribune |issue=967 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 October 1956 |accessdate=28 August 2023 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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Under the Coolibah Tree is a 1955 Australian musical by Dick Diamond. It was Diamond's follow up to his successful musical Reedy River and like that used bush folk songs.{{cite web|url=https://theatreheritage.org.au/on-stage-magazine/song-dance/item/220-queensland-sings|title=Queensland Sings|website=Theatre Heritage|date=5 December 2015|first=Peter|last=Pinne}}

It debuted in Brisbane in 1955 and had a season at the New Theatre in Sydney.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article236259244 |title=From Reedy River to Coolibah Tree |newspaper=Tribune |issue=884 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=2 March 1955 |accessdate=28 August 2023 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} The musical was also performed at the Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival.Angela O'Brien, 'Diamond, Richard Frank (Dick) (1906–1989)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/diamond-richard-frank-dick-12417/text22323, published first in hardcopy 2007, accessed online 28 August 2023.