A Dundee-born actress is returning to her home town next month to take on the title role of Jackie The Musical.
Lisa Lynch will play young Jackie when the show comes to the Gardyne Theatre for a two-week workshop.
The 24-year-old actress yesterday told of her excitement at her first performance in Scotland since graduating from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
“I’ve done a lot of stuff in London and UK tours but since I’ve been professionally trained there’s not be an opportunity for me to come home,” she said.
“It starts with a two-week workshop on May 21 and on the last Friday and Saturday we are doing performances for invited audiences.”
Jackie Magazine the DC Thomson stalwart will come alive in the new musical featuring a pick of 70s pop tunes.
All the old favourite features will be showcased from how to make your own eyeshadow to the photo-love story and the all-important answer to one of teenage girls’ most troublesome questions are love bites dangerous?
Lisa plays young Jackie and there will also be an older Jackie in her 50s.
“She’s going through a divorce and has flashbacks when I show her life, what she was like,” Lisa said.
“We do scenes together and I’m saying ‘Go on, get out there, live your life.’”
Lisa is a product of the local theatre scene, starting out at Rhythm, the theatre group in Monifieth, when she was just six before heading to Tread the Boards and the Thomson Leng Musical Society.
“We did Les Miserables there and I got asked to audition for the West End version,” she said.
“I went to the Dance School of Scotland in Glasgow in the musical theatre course and I boarded there for my last two years of high school. From there I auditioned for top London schools and went to Mountview.”
Lisa graduated with a first class honours degree in 2010. Her roles in college included Maria in West Side Story and Maggie in A Chorus line. She was a finalist in the Sondheim performer of the year awards while studying.
Lisa played Marjorie in The Day Before Spring at Sadler’s Wells and she toured the UK in Bugle Boy, the story of Glenn Miller’s life.
But it was an article that brought her back to Dundee.
She said: “My dad works at DC Thomson. He had seen the article in the paper and sent me it. I wrote to the director and had an audition.”
Jackie The Musical is sponsored by The Courier and will run in August at the Gardyne Theatre.