Warm-hearted musical for queer community

Representation is a big deal.

- Ong Sor Fern Arts Editor

And one need look no further than the packed audience for A Lesbian Love Story: The Musical for proof of the hunger to see one’s story told on a stage.This warmhearted little musical that could premiered at the Singapore Fringe Festival to a welcoming crowd that cheered and clapped along as the simple story unfolded.

The sold-out show is true to its title, also the eponymous ditty which the cast belts out enthusiastically as the opening number. The plot is simple: Charlie (Natalie Yeap in approachable girl-next-door mode) is a theatremaker bent on writing a musical for queer women, one in which everyone gets a happy ending and where there will be “no lesbian drama”.

“It'll never sell,” declares her gay friend Chris (Mitchell Fang in fine showboating form), earning conspiratorial laughter from the full house.

While Chris divines that the script is autobiographical, Charlie insists it is not.