The Secret Singer
Event Date: 28/08/2018, 07:30 pm
Free your song, let it soar! World Premiere Season.
Multi-award-winning darling of the Australian stage and screen, Genevieve Lemon and Kate Mannix
star in the world premiere season of a joyful new musical play – based on a true story - by Joanna
Weinberg (Goddess, Pandora’s Bag, Lifeforce, The Piano Diaries).
The Secret Singer is the life-affirming story of a singing
lesson that changes the life of two very different
women. It might just change yours.
Jenny is a 70-something woman who wants to sing in a
different community choir 7 days a week. Her one
problem? She can barely produce a note. When she
bursts into the studio of burnt-out singing teacher...
Emjay, the sparks fly. But then something amazing
happens… and neither will ever be the same.
Genevieve Lemon’s screen credits include The Piano and The Dressmaker as well as countless iconic
TV roles. Her stage appearances - which are legion - include Diplomacy, Death of a Salesman,
Mousetrap and Billy Elliot, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Award, Helpmann Award and Green
Room Award!
In The Secret Singer, she plays a disillusioned singing teacher whose life is turned around by a very
unusual pupil, played by Kate Mannix (It Shoulda Been You and The Biograph Girl - on the West End).
What starts as an exasperating relationship becomes transformative for both, as hearts and minds
open and they discover that sometimes you need to lose yourself to find yourself…
The world premiere of this funny, surprising piece - full of wonderful songs - plays for a limited, two
week season at Darlinghurst Theatre Company’s Eternity Playhouse from 28 August. more
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Eternity Playhouse, 39 Burton Street,
Darlinghurst New South Wales,2010
Eternity Playhouse, 39 Burton Street,
Darlinghurst New South Wales,2010