{"id":815198,"date":"2026-07-21T21:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815198\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:48:14","slug":"pretty-woman-the-musical-samantha-jades-urgent-message-to-australia-as-musical-wraps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815198\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Woman The Musical: Samantha Jade\u2019s urgent message to Australia as musical wraps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: As empty theatres across Australia suffer from major cancellations<\/a>, Samantha Jade<\/a> feels \u201cvery lucky\u201d to be on stage. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a bit of sadness, weirdly,\u201d said the 39-year-old following her final opening night of Pretty Woman: The Musical<\/a> as the production premiered in Melbourne\u2019s Regent Theatre this week. <\/p>\n

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Samantha Jade is Vivian in Pretty Woman: The Musical. \u00a0Daniel Boud<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s excitement too … obviously the industry is in a really weird place right now, we\u2019re so aware there\u2019s a lot of shows closing,\u201d she told nine.com.au. <\/p>\n

Those shows include two major productions Beetlejuice and Waitress<\/a> which will no longer be making their way to Sydney theatres, and Anastasia: The Musical<\/a>\u00a0closing this weekend. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been in the industry since I was 15 and there\u2019s always an uncertainty until I\u2019m actually doing the job\u201d, said the 2012 X-Factor<\/a> winner, who shines as Vivian Ward the Pretty Woman stage adaptation. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I couldn\u2019t imagine going to work every day and having to close early. You become a family with these people. It\u2019s not lost on us how lucky we are, truly.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fellow Aussie<\/a> Natalie Bassingthwaighte<\/a> was not so lucky, following the abrupt cancellation of her musical\u00a0Waitress\u00a0in Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old said her \u201cheart was hurting\u201d for Australian theatre and the arts, after all planned shows in the city were cancelled due to\u00a0low ticket sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what I love about Nat, she\u2019s such a girl\u2019s girl,\u201d Jade responded. \u201cShe\u2019s always been supportive of me.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Sami said she still gets \u201cnervous\u201d performing on stage. \u00a0Instagram\/@samanthajade<\/p>\n

In fact, Bass was a judge on X-Factor when Jade made her debut to the world. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s just so important to show support for Australian<\/a> art. Go to Australian films, stream Australian TV shows<\/a>, Australian music,\u201d Jade urged when then asked if she had a message for fans. <\/p>\n

\u201cGo to the theatre if you can, enter the theatre lottery for $40 tickets. If you can\u2019t get out to see a show, which I totally understand, my god things are expensive, just post about it with your community of friends. <\/p>\n

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Jade joins Ben Hall, who stars as Richard Gere\u2019s character Edward Lewis in the hit musical, featuring a rockin\u2019 score by Bryan Adams. \u00a0Daniel Boud<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to support each other and to know how great we are, and not play things down. We need to start playing things up because we have so much talent here,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Jade\u2019s talent shines in her first-ever theatre role. Forget her collective 91 million streams and 2.3 million sales worldwide, it\u2019s this role that\u2019s been her most challenging to date. <\/p>\n

\u201cJulia Roberts is my favourite actor and I remember thinking, oh gosh, how do you take on something that is so iconic by someone so iconic?\u201d she recalled. <\/p>\n

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The production features all your favourite moment moments. \u00a0Daniel Boud<\/p>\n

The heart-warming musical, which kicked off in Brisbane in October 2025, has begun its final run in Melbourne, until its spectacular close September this year. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, we\u2019ve been doing it for nearly a year now, and it\u2019s one of the hardest things I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d she admitted. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe respect I have now for theatre performers is on another level,\u201d she laughed.<\/p>\n

As the star was hours away from hair and make-up ahead of her next performance, Jade confessed she still gets \u201cnervous\u201d going out on stage. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s because I want to do a great job,\u201d she explained. \u201cI love what I do, and I want the audience to love it too.\u201d <\/p>\n

Pretty Woman: The Musical is showing now until 13 September 2026 at Regent Theatre, Melbourne.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: As empty theatres across Australia suffer from major cancellations, Samantha Jade feels \u201cvery lucky\u201d to be on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-815198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}