Two best friends from Hoppers Crossing have spent the past three months acting side by side in a major Australian stage production.
Honey Maui, 7, and Tylah Cox, 6, were cast together when they auditioned to play princesses in The King and I.
When the curtain falls on the show this Sunday, the grade 1 Cambridge Primary School pupils will walk away with big smiles.
Tylah said her favourite part of the play was when Lisa McCune, as English governess Anna Leonowens, taught the princesses.
She said she hoped to act in films one day, while Honey said she would work in television.
“My favourite part is when the king dies, because Lisa McCune hugs him,” Honey said. “We have four different kinds of costumes. My favourite one is the purple one.”
Honey said she was “screaming my head off” when she found out she would be in the play with her best friend.
Her mum, Ashlea, said the two girls were made to be on the stage.
“They’re always singing and dancing around the house and every day they get fixated on another part of the play,” she said.
“They’ve done everything together. They’ve been together through the whole journey.”
