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Estrella Wing, Showgirl at Melbourne Fringe Festival
September 18, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - September 24, 2017 @ 9:00 pm AEST
$32
Estrella Wing, Showgirl: A zany and poignant musical tale of the saddest showgirl in Chinatown
San Francisco’s Forbidden City nightclub. 1942. Estrella Wing is on the brink and she needs time to think. How do you blend in and stand out? How do you tell your best friend you love her? When will you stop feeling so alone?
In a dazzling Fringe debut, writer/performer Margot Tanjutco springs into a kaleidoscopic haze of eras with an eclectic mix of jazz, pop, and soul. Doses of magical realism are combined with true stories from this forgotten gem of history as the show follows the young showgirl’s attempts to conquer a city and understand her place in it.
Whilst creating the show, Margot found lasting inspiration from Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Amélie’, Julie Koh’s short stories, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald – and her desire to contribute to the tapestry of diverse stories being told on Melbourne stages.
“I initially wanted to tell this story for the simple sake of alerting people to the Asian-American vaudeville scene in the 1940s!” she says, “but the more I delved into those artists’ lives, the more attuned I became to their daily tragedies. The show then turned into this funny, weird exploration of those moments of uncertainty, ambition, and loneliness…moments a lot of us are grappling with now.”
This production opens on 18 September and runs until 24 September. It’s for the romantics who feel too much, stay up late too much, and talk to themselves a little too often.
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