It’s time to make a date to see Calendar Girls at the Wyndham Theatre Company.
To be staged next month, the show is based on the true story of a group of English women from the Women’s Institute who posed for a nude charity calendar after one of their husbands died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The calendar became a worldwide phenomenon and raised millions of dollars for leukaemia and lymphoma research.
Vicki Russell and Margaret Hammon will play the roles of Jessie and Marie in the local production.
“We’ve been having a lot of fun, the cast – they’re a great group of girls,” Hammon said.
Russell said that in addition to acting, she had enjoyed helping to make props and floral arrangements for the production.
She said that no one actually appeared nude in the show, but posed much like the “calendar girls” did in real life – with large balls of wool or other objects covering their naughty bits.
“I wasn’t nervous – I appeared nude in a play when I was younger, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and I had my back to the audience,” she said.
Calendar Girls will be an extra-special show for the Wyndham Theatre Company which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Calendar Girls will be performed at the Crossroads Theatre in Werribee on Fridays and Saturdays from May 11 to May 26. There will be a 2pm matinee on May 19, bookings: wyndhamtheatrecompany.org.au
