Marcia Hines and Paulini reunite in Saturday Night Fever
Sixteen years after Marcia Hines was a judge and Paulini was a 20-year-old hopeful on the first, star-making series of Australian Idol, the two beautiful ladies of song are doing their first big stage show as colleagues.
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SIXTEEN years after Marcia Hines was a judge and Paulini was a 20-year-old hopeful on the first, star-making, series of Australian Idol, the two beautiful ladies of song are doing their first big stage show as colleagues.
Saturday Night Fever is a musical based on the 1977 John Travolta film. The show, which opens at Sydney Lyric Theatre on Tuesday, features Hines as The Diva of Disco at the club where charismatic Tony Manero (the Travolta character) blows the competition off the dance floor every Saturday night.
Paulini is one of four Star Vocalists who sing the Bee Gees disco hits from the film, such as Stayin’ Alive, More Than A Woman and If I Can’t Have You.
Paulini still remembers Hines’ praise one night on Idol: “Sister girlfriend, I think you just sang that song,” Hines had told her.
As for Hines, she’ll never forget the shy 20-year-old who couldn’t defend herself when Ian “Dicko” Dickson made an unkind comment about how she looked in her gold dress that night. The comment still rankles with Hines.
“Body image is such a big thing,” she says. “And we’re all different shapes and sizes, that’s what makes us.”
Paulini remembers being so shy on Idol she was almost “mute” back stage.
But Hines never said anything to Paulini about it.
“Because I’m shy (too), and shy is shy,” Hines says.
“And I think it’s a lovely personality trait. I really do. Instead of somebody being loud and in your face. And usually, shy people are taking it all in.”
For Paulini, working with Hines is a golden opportunity. For Hines, her faith in Paulini’s “beautiful gift” is paying lasting dividends.
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