Black Swan returns for a season at the Seymour Centre and Trevor Ashley donates a special performance to ACON to raise much-needed funds.
Adults-only panto Fat Swan is set to kick off its return Sydney season with a gala preview as a fundraiser for ACON.
After a complete sell-out season in December, the show is back in Sydney for a limited run during May and the producers have agreed to present a special preview for ACON, NSW’s leading GLBT health and HIV/AIDS organisation.
Preview guests will also be treated to an exclusive after-party with the cast of the show which includes Trevor Ashley (Hairspray, Priscilla, Diamonds Are For Trevor), Genevieve Lemon (Billy Elliot), Brendan Moar (The Renovators) and Danielle Barnes (Priscilla).
ACON CEO Nicolas Parkhill says ACON is enormously grateful to the producers for their generosity and looks forward to community members supporting the event.
“While ACON receives assistance from the NSW Government for many of our health promotion services, much of the work we undertake is financed through fundraising activities,” Mr Parkhill says. “By coming along to the opening night of Fat Swan, guests will be thoroughly entertained while helping us raise money to build the health and wellbeing of our community.”
Fat Swan is based on Black Swan which was one of last year’s biggest movies with its dark, gripping and psychologically disturbing plot…but if you thought that was disturbing, just wait for Fat Swan! It’s everything the film was, only with songs, audience participation and men dressed up as women.
The Helpmann non-nominated Trevor Ashley plays Natalie Portly, a ballet dancer with body dysmorphia who dreams of being a star! Can she overcome the obstacles of a psychotic mother, the choreographer from hell, and a lesbian ballerina with a dark side and make it out the other end alive? Well, no actually.
Written with Phil Scott (The Wharf Revue), Fat Swan is a laugh-a-minute musical panto with an all-star cast and a fabulous live band that takes you deep into the heart-rending, heel-chafing, toe-bleeding, self-harming world of ballet – and will surely make you wonder what your mother did with your old pointe shoes.
