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20 Sep 2018

INTERVIEW: Jessica, Christian and Owen from Babirra Music Theatre on their current Production of “Dusty, The Original Pop Diva”

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INTERVIEW: Jessica, Christian and Owen from Babirra Music Theatre on their current Production of “Dusty, The Original Pop Diva”

David and Sue talk to Jessica Mohi (Choreographer), Christian Cavallo (Director) and Owen (President of Babirra) about the latest Babirra Music Theatre production of “Dusty, The Original Pop Diva” which is playing from 12-20 October 2018 at the Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading VIC 3131 and you can book tickets on the Whitehorse Centre website

The show is described as follows on the Babirra Music Theatre website:

Before Adele. Before Gaga. Before Kylie, Cher and Madonna … There was Dusty.

Dusty Springfield was a pioneer of popular music and culture and was regarded as the most influential British female artist of the 1960’s. With the arrival of television and the commercialisation of the music industry, the world had never before seen a star like her. Known as the White Lady of Soul, she was responsible for bringing the Motown sound to the UK.

This is her story and the story of her music.

In the 1950s, a star-struck, tomboyish London schoolgirl fantasises that she could become a glamorous pop icon. Although her family laugh-off her fantasies, nothing deters her. Blessed with an amazing voice and talent, young Mary O’Brien transforms herself into the iconic Dusty Springfield. But while Dusty is the image of perfection on the world stage, it is all a facade behind which Mary O’Brien is trapped. In the 1960s, Dusty took the entertainment world by storm with a score of hits, a top television show and a legion of fans. But the success she craved was unfulfilling and real happiness eluded her. With her closest friends in tow, Dusty continued to search for her “sound”. Her sense of perfection, coupled with a need to be loved, drove her in directions that had an almost catastrophic effect on her career.

All the while, we witness Dusty’s interaction with young Mary O’Brien, the alter ego from which she can never escape.

This poignant story is laden with a collection of fabulous songs including: I Only Want To Be With You, Little By Little, Silver Threads and Golden Needles, Stay Awhile, Dancing In The Street, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Look of Love, Son Of A Preacher Man, You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me, and many, many more.