GODDESS

Musicals are hard to pull off, and musical comedies are even harder. Even on the small screen they’re difficult. Look at ‘Glee’ and ‘Smash’ - don’t confuse popularity for quality. Well, there’s clearly a gap in the market, so who better to help fill it than Mark Lamprell, the man that brought us Babe, causing everyone fall in love with a talking pig and effectively turning the world kosher.

Based on a one-woman play, ‘Goddess’ tells the tale of aspiring songstress Elspeth Dickens (Laura Michelle Kelly), a Pom living in Tasmania thanks to her husband James’ (Ronan Keating) job saving the whales. Slowing going mad due to the isolation, long-distance relationship with her own husband and only having her twin toddlers and a goat as company, James gives Elspeth a webcam to help keep in touch. That’s all well and good - but with James constantly out of range, our heroine creates Sink Songs and invites the whole world to watch as she struggles to be a wife and mother while staying sane, with her own music sung right there at the kitchen sink. Elspeth’s webcasts become a hit, so naturally someone comes along to exploit her. Cassandra Wolfe (Magda Szubanski) and her lackey Ralph (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) spot our little songbird and whisk her away to Sydney to become the new face of Goddess computers for women. Newfound fame, people pulling her every which way and being apart from her family takes its toll on Elspeth, inviting temptation and the loss of her identity, sense of self and most maybe even her husband.