A trailblazer with six decades of experience, the actor will step for the first time on to the stage that bears her name
Nancye Hayes is such a legend of the Australian stage that she’s had a theatre named after her while she’s still alive. She’s fabled as the actor whose knock-out 1967 performance in Sweet Charity paved the way for Australian performers to star in the big musicals on their own shores. Over a career spanning six decades, Hayes has played a list of roles that would make any musical theatre graduate salivate: Charity in Sweet Charity, Roxie in Chicago, Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music, to name just a handful.
Now, the life of the grande dame of Australian musical theatre is becoming a musical itself. Hayes and a team of stage veterans she has been working with for decades have come together to tell her own story through song and dance.
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