Legendary ‘mermaid’ resurfaces in all her glory | lennyannlow
Annette Kellerman, champion swimmer, star of stage and screen, remorseless self-publicist and gleeful breaker of rules, was an Australian global superstar.
“I want to swim,” she said, in response. “And I can’t swim wearing more stuff than you hang on a clothesline.”, a theatre song cycle written by Hilary Bell. Starring Christa Hughes, it is being staged at the inner west pool named after Kellerman, the Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre.Bell says she and musical collaborator Luke Styles were struck by Kellerman’s talent for inventive self-promotion more than a century ago.
Hughes, who sings Bell and Styles’ songs in and around the aquatic centre’s main pool, is proud to play Kellerman.
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