There is to be a musical based around Mary MacKillop!

Xavier Brouwer, who is currently scouring the country for his leading lady, says MacKillop: The Musical – in the style of Les Miserables – will be staged with a full orchestra to coincide with MacKillop’s October 17 canonisation.

It will follow the life and travails of the Melbourne-born nun who started her own order and devoted her life to building schools and helping the poor.

Brouwer has issued a nationwide casting call seeking 80 singers, dancers and gymnasts for the two-hour “musical verging on opera”, with an emphasis on strength and humility for candidates hoping to fill the principal role.

We definitely need a rabid, (but humble), atheist to play the lead role of Mary!

“Just like Mary MacKillop, the leading lady will need to have a lot of stamina because she appears in almost every scene,” Brouwer said of his production, which has been 10 years in the making.

Any takers? Or should I just pray for a miracle?

(What is Myrrh anyway?)

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