Marcia Hines on love, parenthood and why her mother will always be with her.
She’s our ‘Queen of Pop’ who arrived in Australia aged 16 and pregnant and never left. Now the mischievous star chats with The Australian Women’s Weekly ahead of her latest show Saturday Night Fever.
When Marcia Hines first arrived in Australia in 1970, she was literally living the dream. She was on her own but wasn’t even remotely afraid.”What’s a 16-year-old got the right to be scared of?” she says laughing.No, this ambitious American import with dazzling looks and music in her soul, was pumped; dizzy with the wonder of possibility. And as we sit down together some 50 years later, I can sense that sharp-edged joie de vivre still coursing through her veins.
At 65 Marcia is limbering up to jump on stage once more in a high-energy production of Saturday Night Fever.”The greatest thing about this Saturday Night Fever is they’ve written me into it,” she beams.The role, which will see Marcia singing two of her own dance hits from back in the day – ‘Your love still brings me to my knees’ and ‘You’ – is suitably called “Disco Diva”. I can almost feel her hips swinging already.
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