He won over Shane Warne with a musical. Could Gina Rinehart be next?

Eddie Perfect wrote a Broadway smash in Beetlejuice, a critical hit (but financial disaster) about the leg-spinning legend, and would love to give another prominent Australian the song-and-dance treatment.

Eddie Perfect, who plays the philosopher Voltaire in Opera Australia’s production of Candide, switched from satire to musicals after despairing at the short shelf life of his topical songs. Louie Douvis

Tony DavisMotoring writer

Feb 21, 2025 – 5.00am

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The problem with satire, according to the man opposite me who made his name producing it, is that when it’s done badly, it goes over really well.

“The audience is thinking ‘Isn’t this great, it’s about people that aren’t me, who do horrible things and have terrible values, and I feel so smug you can wrap this right around me like a warm affirming coat’,” says Eddie Perfect.