From Company to Britney Spears the Cabaret to Singin’ in the Rain and Muriel’s Wedding the Musical, Christie Whelan-Browne has shone in the best of Australian musical theatre. She’s also seen its dark side.

In Show People, she lovingly reveals the unpolished guts of the entertainment industry, in a scalpel-sharp show in which she plays six characters – each with an insider’s view of how the showbiz sausage gets made.

Directed by the award-winning Dean Bryant and accompanied by musical director Mathew Frank, Whelan-Browne brilliantly shapeshifts from wide-eyed starlet to world-weary understudy. She also revisits the story that had her in the media’s headlights in a show that pulls no punches while remaining defiantly and optimistically in love with the world of musical theatre.