Late last year, Blazey Best and Erin Clare performed alongside each other in the Hayes Theatre Co’s award-winning production of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Directed by Dean Bryant, Best played the central role of Desiree Armfeldt, with Clare as Charlotte, the wife of Desiree’s egotistical lover Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm.

Now, both are back at the Hayes, but this time with Best directing Clare in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me On A Sunday.

Erin Clare

Erin Clare will star in Tell Me On A Sunday at the Hayes Theatre Co. Photo supplied

The 70-minute one-woman song cycle, with lyrics by Don Black (who co-wrote the book and lyrics for Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard) follows the fortunes of a newly single English girl who moves to New York looking for a fresh start and love, only to be let down by three faithless men.

As well as the title track, it includes numbers such as Take That Look Off Your Face, Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad and It’s Not the End of the World.

Tell Me On A Sunday was first performed by Marti Webb at the 1979 Sydmonton Festival, held on the grounds...