April 29, 2025 • 9 mins
Sister Act-The Musical has hit town and one of the stars is the one and only Rhonda Burchmore who joined Clairsy & Lisa in the studio to talk about the show, the amazing Casey Donovan who also stars in the show and why they were all swimming at Rottnest.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just I think of the word joyous for Saturday
night at this show Sister Acting Musical on out Crown
Theater until May twenty five. Tickets available through ticket Master.
Do not miss out starring well a great cast but
the one and only Roonder Birchmore. Oh I am good morning,
welcome Rondo.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh look so wonderful to be back here in person morning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Now, this is you play system Mary Lazarus, Yes, Lazarus
by name, by Natures.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah. Well, this character is something very different to what
I've ever ever played, you know, for me for a start,
to be a nun, as Clary would not you would know,
it's usually the sequence in the bling and.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The leg but there's not a bit of that.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So and Lazarus is in charge of the choir, the
very bad choir, and she's it's it's you saw it.
C It's like me if I had a few people
back to my apartment after too many drinks and I
went wild. It's this crazy nun that breaks loose. She
(01:11):
starts the strict strictest nune, but then she lets loose.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, and a bit of funky stuff, bit of wrapping up.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
A bit of wrapping. I would have thought WRONGDA would have.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Closed an album title.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Honey rap I've never had was a KFC, you know.
And then and then I come out and do this full,
full on wrap.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
This is your first time in a habit though I
thought that before.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, you're definitely my first. Okay, all right, Yeah, I
wanted to audition years ago for the sound of music,
but it never never got that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I know, the first time this is this may sound weird.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I said it to Lisa yesterday. I said, I was
watching Casey Donovan up there and I was feeling proud.
And now I I don't know who personally, I've interviewed
her a couple of times, but she's come.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
She's incredible, and she was great from the start. She
just owns it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Such a force vocally, I don't think there's better on
stage to sing, you know, this kind of stuff, and
as an actor comedian, and she's a really good girl too.
And you know, I guess we've been going for nine
months now, and there's a wonderful bond in this in
(02:28):
this company of I mean it's called sister actor. There's
obviously blokes in there too, but the sisterhood in this,
you know, the message, and I think we're all there's
so many diverse types and shapes and sizes and voices,
and it's just a wonderful, a wonderful combination.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, we are spoiled because we've got you, We've got Casey,
and I'm a lifelong Genevieve lemon foul. I mean the
trifecta of you know, perfection up there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, she's a great woman. We've become besties over there.
I've seen Genevieve on things like Prisoner and watched her
in other musicals, but we have bonded. She's so funny,
and the two of us are like, I think we
need our own sitcom. It's quite Oh yeah, yeah, she
has no sense of direction. She I mean it in
(03:20):
terms of we get lost all the time and just
laugh ourselves out of situations.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Good woman. She is a wonderful mother. Superior too. So
you feels to rot nest. Was it yesterday?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah? We have excuse me, one day off and we
we decided it was the weather was beautiful, got on
that fairry and did the.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Old hop on hop off.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, Genevieve did go swimming. That was quite brave. Dinner undies.
But that was I mean, it was, it was. It
was really really lovely. But I had the zip lock
bag after all the clothes were wet, I had my Yes,
I gave him. I mean it was. It was just
a really beautiful day and even though it was just today,
(04:06):
it felt like we had the nicest break. Yeah, water
over there isstal the color.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You can't sort of recreate that turquoise color of the
water around rotnest.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's magnificent, exquisite.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, you have been in some amazing shows to someone
with your CV your resume, do.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You still have to audition? Yeah, depending depending on you know,
if there's internationals involved and things like that. I remember
way back I was in the original original Mama Mia
back in two thousands, and even though I'd done Zibian
shows here and overseas, I had to audition eight times
(04:49):
for that. And the last two auditions Benny and Beyond
from Abba, which was pretty intimidating, and they had the
final say so.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, there's hills. When you said that, they.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Didn't look the same as they did. It's just like
these Binky and Bonkie. They both had beads there and
they were I don't think they got my sense of humor.
But you know, and then they said, come on and
sing Dancing Queen, which is the hardest. Everyone sings it,
but to sing it because the ranges of how those
(05:27):
girls and Yetta and Freda used to their voices, just
one would do the low and then then magically it
would sound like the same voice going to the top.
So it's a very rangy song. And to do it solo.
And I said, what were you want when you wrote this?
For anyway? I got the job. So but answer to
(05:49):
your question, there are some shows and especially now where
the franchises, you know, someone may own it in New
York or the West, they need to have approval apart
from the Australian team.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, I can tell you having watching you on Saturday
really closely. We have worked together and many times, but
watching you up there, you just having fun and that's
got to be the key, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think I think when you're in a show that
you're doing eight shows a week, you've got to find
something kind of not to amuse you, but something magical
every day to get on there, to bring energy and
just I think that's the thing. It's it's a wonderful
you know, unit of girls, and we just work together
(06:33):
and that to make that whole thing joyous and to
make it fun and to make it fresh. I think
that's the key. Because people are not stupid sitting in
the audience. If you're going on, I'm having a really
average day and I don't want to be here. They
know that, and so we have to. It's an energized
thing that we kind of go, Okay, we've got a
(06:54):
couple of hours to do that. Just let's do our job.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, it sounds like it's contagious once you get going
the three of you and the rest of the ensemble cast,
of course, and we didn't even mention the fact that
all the songs are fresh for this show which we
put together.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And you know, we've had a little bit of criticism
that people going, oh, why aren't they the in the movies?
But the score here is phenomenal, and and the lyrics
that have chosen Alan Menkin, who wrote things like Aladdin
and The Little Mermaid, although it is a brilliant score
to sing, and it's just been thought out so carefully
(07:30):
and cleverly, especially.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
My rap phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Hip hop ding dong a shell but sister but I'm hard.
It's a blister sill.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Hang on to your rosary.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, it's just yeah, it doesn't work out. I've
got another sugar in my nun's habit.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's very yeah, and people will be in for a
surprise because the colors on the stage, of the lighting
and all the rest of it. But the sequence finale
is phenomenal to look at as well as.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, it's yeah, because for me it is the most
comfortable I've ever been in this nun's habit. I mean,
you can have your full course dinner under that and
your sensible shoes silly, you know, like before, I'm usually caught.
I think the last time I was here, I was
doing Cabre to Peru, which was in a course and
(08:26):
with these feathers, and this is like this, you know,
I can just go out and put just sensible lundays
on and there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, do not miss sister act of the musical with
all Ronda onnder. It's on until May twenty five and
then it must go. So tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
Lovely to have you joined us this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Look, thank you for having me get along, and I'm
so glad you saw it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I hope you get We just got back from holiday,
so yeah, it'll it's one of those shows that is
a really.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Feel good isn't it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Absolutely you'll leave going oh.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That was great.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's a perfect way to wrap it the holidays.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thanks, absolute pleasure.
I just I think of the word joyous for Saturday
night at this show Sister Acting Musical on out Crown
Theater until May twenty five. Tickets available through ticket Master.
Do not miss out starring well a great cast but
the one and only Roonder Birchmore. Oh I am good morning,
welcome Rondo.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Oh look so wonderful to be back here in person morning.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Now, this is you play system Mary Lazarus, Yes, Lazarus
by name, by Natures.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah. Well, this character is something very different to what
I've ever ever played, you know, for me for a start,
to be a nun, as Clary would not you would know,
it's usually the sequence in the bling and.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
The leg but there's not a bit of that.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
So and Lazarus is in charge of the choir, the
very bad choir, and she's it's it's you saw it.
C It's like me if I had a few people
back to my apartment after too many drinks and I
went wild. It's this crazy nun that breaks loose. She
(01:11):
starts the strict strictest nune, but then she lets loose.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Yeah, and a bit of funky stuff, bit of wrapping up.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
A bit of wrapping. I would have thought WRONGDA would have.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Closed an album title.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Honey rap I've never had was a KFC, you know.
And then and then I come out and do this full,
full on wrap.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
This is your first time in a habit though I
thought that before.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
No, you're definitely my first. Okay, all right, Yeah, I
wanted to audition years ago for the sound of music,
but it never never got that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
I know, the first time this is this may sound weird.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
I said it to Lisa yesterday. I said, I was
watching Casey Donovan up there and I was feeling proud.
And now I I don't know who personally, I've interviewed
her a couple of times, but she's come.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
She's incredible, and she was great from the start. She
just owns it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Such a force vocally, I don't think there's better on
stage to sing, you know, this kind of stuff, and
as an actor comedian, and she's a really good girl too.
And you know, I guess we've been going for nine
months now, and there's a wonderful bond in this in
(02:28):
this company of I mean it's called sister actor. There's
obviously blokes in there too, but the sisterhood in this,
you know, the message, and I think we're all there's
so many diverse types and shapes and sizes and voices,
and it's just a wonderful, a wonderful combination.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, we are spoiled because we've got you, We've got Casey,
and I'm a lifelong Genevieve lemon foul. I mean the
trifecta of you know, perfection up there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, she's a great woman. We've become besties over there.
I've seen Genevieve on things like Prisoner and watched her
in other musicals, but we have bonded. She's so funny,
and the two of us are like, I think we
need our own sitcom. It's quite Oh yeah, yeah, she
has no sense of direction. She I mean it in
(03:20):
terms of we get lost all the time and just
laugh ourselves out of situations.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Good woman. She is a wonderful mother. Superior too. So
you feels to rot nest. Was it yesterday?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yeah? We have excuse me, one day off and we
we decided it was the weather was beautiful, got on
that fairry and did the.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Old hop on hop off.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Yeah, Genevieve did go swimming. That was quite brave. Dinner undies.
But that was I mean, it was, it was. It
was really really lovely. But I had the zip lock
bag after all the clothes were wet, I had my Yes,
I gave him. I mean it was. It was just
a really beautiful day and even though it was just today,
(04:06):
it felt like we had the nicest break. Yeah, water
over there isstal the color.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You can't sort of recreate that turquoise color of the
water around rotnest.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It's magnificent, exquisite.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Yeah, you have been in some amazing shows to someone
with your CV your resume, do.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
You still have to audition? Yeah, depending depending on you know,
if there's internationals involved and things like that. I remember
way back I was in the original original Mama Mia
back in two thousands, and even though I'd done Zibian
shows here and overseas, I had to audition eight times
(04:49):
for that. And the last two auditions Benny and Beyond
from Abba, which was pretty intimidating, and they had the
final say so.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Yeah, there's hills. When you said that, they.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Didn't look the same as they did. It's just like
these Binky and Bonkie. They both had beads there and
they were I don't think they got my sense of humor.
But you know, and then they said, come on and
sing Dancing Queen, which is the hardest. Everyone sings it,
but to sing it because the ranges of how those
(05:27):
girls and Yetta and Freda used to their voices, just
one would do the low and then then magically it
would sound like the same voice going to the top.
So it's a very rangy song. And to do it solo.
And I said, what were you want when you wrote this?
For anyway? I got the job. So but answer to
(05:49):
your question, there are some shows and especially now where
the franchises, you know, someone may own it in New
York or the West, they need to have approval apart
from the Australian team.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, I can tell you having watching you on Saturday
really closely. We have worked together and many times, but
watching you up there, you just having fun and that's
got to be the key, right Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
I think I think when you're in a show that
you're doing eight shows a week, you've got to find
something kind of not to amuse you, but something magical
every day to get on there, to bring energy and
just I think that's the thing. It's it's a wonderful
you know, unit of girls, and we just work together
(06:33):
and that to make that whole thing joyous and to
make it fun and to make it fresh. I think
that's the key. Because people are not stupid sitting in
the audience. If you're going on, I'm having a really
average day and I don't want to be here. They
know that, and so we have to. It's an energized
thing that we kind of go, Okay, we've got a
(06:54):
couple of hours to do that. Just let's do our job.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, it sounds like it's contagious once you get going
the three of you and the rest of the ensemble cast,
of course, and we didn't even mention the fact that
all the songs are fresh for this show which we
put together.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And you know, we've had a little bit of criticism
that people going, oh, why aren't they the in the movies?
But the score here is phenomenal, and and the lyrics
that have chosen Alan Menkin, who wrote things like Aladdin
and The Little Mermaid, although it is a brilliant score
to sing, and it's just been thought out so carefully
(07:30):
and cleverly, especially.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
My rap phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Hip hop ding dong a shell but sister but I'm hard.
It's a blister sill.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Hang on to your rosary.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I mean, it's just yeah, it doesn't work out. I've
got another sugar in my nun's habit.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
It's very yeah, and people will be in for a
surprise because the colors on the stage, of the lighting
and all the rest of it. But the sequence finale
is phenomenal to look at as well as.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Yeah, it's yeah, because for me it is the most
comfortable I've ever been in this nun's habit. I mean,
you can have your full course dinner under that and
your sensible shoes silly, you know, like before, I'm usually caught.
I think the last time I was here, I was
doing Cabre to Peru, which was in a course and
(08:26):
with these feathers, and this is like this, you know,
I can just go out and put just sensible lundays
on and there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Well, do not miss sister act of the musical with
all Ronda onnder. It's on until May twenty five and
then it must go. So tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
Lovely to have you joined us this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Look, thank you for having me get along, and I'm
so glad you saw it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I hope you get We just got back from holiday,
so yeah, it'll it's one of those shows that is
a really.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Feel good isn't it.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Absolutely you'll leave going oh.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That was great.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's a perfect way to wrap it the holidays.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Thanks, absolute pleasure.
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