They’re Playing Our Song Returns to Sydney’s Theatre Royal

The Broadway musical They’re Playing Our Song had its Australian premiere at the Theatre Royal in 1980 and will return in a brand-new production for a strictly limited engagement on May 3 & 4, as part of HIT Productions wider tour.

Real-life couple Danielle Barnes (The Boy from Oz, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) and Scott Irwin (Hairspray, Les Misérables) star as the unlikely lovers Sonia and Vernon in a story based on the real-life relationship of composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. 

A wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist. When Vernon Gersch meets Sonia Walsk at his luxury Manhattan apartment, it signals the beginning of a whirlwind professional and romantic relationship for these two very different personalities. When it comes to making music, they are a match made in heaven. But is this relationship doomed, or will love strike the right note?
They’re Playing Our Song was written Neil Simon, with music by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, The Way We Were) and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager (That’s What Friends Are For, Don’t Cry Out Loud)..

Image: Scott Irwin & Danielle Barnes.

CAST

Vernon Gersch - Scott Irwin

Sonia Walsk - Danielle Barnes

CREATIVES

Book by Neil Simon

Music by Marvin Hamlisch

Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager


Producer - Christine Harris & HIT Productions 

Director & Designer - Terence O’Connell

Musical Director: Robyn Womersley

SYDNEY PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

8pm Fri 3 May, 2pm & 8pm Sat 4 May

Theatre Royal, 180 King St, Sydney

Ticketmaster 136 100

More tour dates

Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne - Sat 23 March at 8pm.

Albury Entertainment Centre – Mar 26 & 27 at 7.30pm.

Hurstville Entertainment Centre – April 3 at 8pm.

Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre – April 5 & 6.

Zenith Theatre, Chatswood - April 9 – 12.

Logan Entertainment Centre – April 19 & 20

The Arts Centre Gold Coast  April 26 & 27.

Crossing Theatre, Narrabri – May 1

Sutherland Entertainment Centre – May 10.