Christ Makes Second Coming - This Time As A Pop Star - In DREAMSONG, 10-20 April

Richard Sunday, pastor of evangelical mega-church DreamSong, is losing churchgoers to financial hardships fast - so he stages the second coming of Christ in the form of a highly profitable Christian pop star.

Written by Hugo Chiarella and Robert Tripolino, directed by Dean Bryant (Pirates of Penzance, Next to Normal, The Producers), with choreography by Andrew Hallsworth (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum), DreamSong is an irreverent and audacious comedy that investigates questions of faith and spirituality through a wickedly satirical depiction of evangelical populist religion, politics and popular culture - set to a pulsing score of Christian pop and soaring power ballads.

The cast features Ben Prendergast (Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Predestination) as Pastor Richard Sunday; Chelsea Gibb (Chicago, The King and I) as Whitney Sunday - The Pastor's Wife; Emily Langridge (Gypsy, The Pirates of Penzance) as April Sunday - The Pastor's Daughter; Brent Hill (The Producers, Rock of Ages) as Jesus Christ; and Connor Crawford (Jersey Boys) as Chris T ; as well as Evan Lever (Moonshadow) and Alana Tranter (Lone Wolves).

DreamSong was first workshopped and developed at the VCA in 2010 with a cast of thirty. It has been further workshopped, rewritten with a reduced cast of 8, and in 2012 performed a two week development workshop followed by a 4 night presentation at The Arts Centre Melbourne to overwhelming audience response. DreamSong is a satirical look at how the human desire to believe in something makes us vulnerable to manipulation and corruption.

DreamSong will play a 10 day run at Theatre Works, St Kilda (14 Acland Street) from April 10th to 20th. Tickets are $35 Full, $30 Conc, $25 Preview; showtimes are Tuesday - Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2:00 p.m., and Sunday at 5:00 p.m. For more information and tickets call 03 9534 3388 or visit www.theatreworks.org.au.