Musicals

Grease – The Arena
Spectacular (Australia, Arenas all states - 1999)

Another form of acting are musicals. It's theatre with music.

Everyone knows of Grease, the 70's hit movie feat Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta.

Dannii was offered to play the leading role Sandy but turned it down.

In stead Dannii played her favourite movie character, ‘Rizzo’ in the Australian production of Grease - the Arena Spectacular 1998.

This hosted over 66 Arena shows, to more than 500,000 in its first season.

It became the most successful tour in Australian Entertainment history!

Notre Dame De Paris

Dannii played the lead, Esmeralda, for five sell-out months, in Notre Dame de Paris at the Dominion Theatre.

Chart topping singer and world wide sex symbol, Dannii Minogue thrilled audiences with her debut performance in the West End last year. In February 2001, Dannii joined the hit show Notre-Dame de Paris as Esmeralda at the Dominion Theatre, bringing her many talents to the role. Dannii’s performance combined her singing, acting and dancing skills. She performed a host of songs including the hit single "Live For the One I Love". Set on a magnificent, moving stage, Dannii was joined by a highly talented cast of singers, actors and energetic acrobats that created a stage show unlike any other.

Notre-Dame de Paris was a mesmerising melodrama that combined the sexiness and edginess of a rock concert and the energy of an acrobatic spectacle with a strong, heartbreaking story that captured every theatre-goers heart.
Based on Victor Hugo's novel, Notre-Dame de Paris told the story of the hunchback Quasimodo and his love for the beautiful gypsy girl Esmeralda. She had also captured the heart of the machiavellian priest Frollo but she had fallen in love with the handsome Kings cavalry captain, Pheobus. With sexual jealousy and passions rife, Notre-Dame de Paris culminated in the tragic death of Esmeralda and her loyal Quasimodo.

Dannii in her award winning role singing 'Live for the one I love'