As she prepares to star in 'Sister Act the Musical', the singer and actor talks about her mother, betrayals by childhood friends, and fake stories in the papers
Burke hints her first album since 2018 might not be far away but for now, her focus is on making ‘Sister Act’ a run to remember As she prepares to star in 'Sister Act the Musical', the singer and actor talks about her mother, betrayals by childhood friends, and fake stories in the papers– specifically, the series she won in 2008 to catapult her career. “We started at week one and we’ve made it to week three,” she says.
We meet one afternoon at the Dominion Theatre, a week or so before opening night. As I’m ushered in through the side of the stage of an empty auditorium, Burke is rehearsing, dressed down, powerfully belting out songs from the show – she has some voice – accompanied by just a pianist. “It’s not the songs from the movie,” she later tells me. “I get so many people asking me, ‘Is it going to be ‘Oh Happy Day’? And I’m like, ‘No, it’s all original music. It’s gorgeous.
She confides she has “a lot of anxiety” about the start of the show. “I’m excited. But I’m very scared as well. This is different for me now that I’ve had two kids.” Why? “I’ve never learned a show with children and that distraction. So it’s taken me longer to get off scripts. And just in general, I’m not the same person I was two years ago before having children. In a lovely way. But I’m different.” She says she won’t be playing the role the same as last time. “I know what I want in my life.
But she’s reached a place where she feels comfortable in herself. During the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, she spoke out in a 15-minute Instagram video about the racism she’s endured in the music industry, including once. It was something of a turning point: she talks today of a support system of immediate family and small management team that give her the security and confidence to be her true self.
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