Hayes Theatre Co. to Present TRUTH, BEAUTY AND A PICTURE OF YOU, Begin. 9 May

In a premiere production, Tim Freedman and Alex Broun's "Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You" is playing at Hayes Theatre Co from Friday, 9 May 2014.

Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You is about the hope you find when all hope seems gone, as four lost souls struggle to find peace with themselves and their pasts. If they can't they'll just have to move to Marrickville. Featuring many of Tim's biggest hits from a life in music this new Australian musical theatre work is moving, funny and surprisingly romantic.

Tom's dad Stewie used to be in a band. They were big - sort of. Legends on three blocks in the inner-west. That was many years ago and Stewie has long since gone to the big pub gig in the sky while the surviving band members, Anton and Charlie, are wrestling with their own personal demons - Charlie is holding up the front bar in a succession of pubs on King St while Anton just wants the past to stay in the past while he disappears into a blur of mediocrity. When Tom arrives in town from Taree to search out his dad's old band mates, the slow decline of Anton and Charlie is rudely interrupted.

"As a long time fan of Tim Freedman and The Whitlams, I am incredibly excited to be bringing Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You to the stage for its premiere production. Watch as classic Australian songs such as No Aphrodisiac, Blow Up The Pokies and You Gotta Love This City are re-framed into an original storyline about love, friendship, youth.....as well as lost love, lost friends....and lost youth," said Producer and Director Neil Gooding.

Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You will be directed by Neil Gooding and features an extraordinary cast of Sydney's finest musical theatre talent including Ian Stenlake (Sea Patrol and Guys and Dolls), Scott Irwin (Hairspray and Les Miserables), Erica Lovell (Spring Awakening and Little Women), Toby Francis (Carrie and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) and Ross Chisari (Spring Awakening and The Drowsy Chaperone).

"Tim's music and lyrics have always captured a timeless essence of human interaction - love, longing, loneliness - that is at first very local but also deeply universal. And that is why I think his songs strike such a deep chord in all of us. We all have been there, felt that, done that - at some point of our lives."

"The intimacy of the new Hayes Theatre Co in Sydney is the perfect venue to launch the musical and the perfect place for the audience to get up close and experience the feelings and emotions of these much-loved songs and characters. We hope it's the launching pad for a longer journey for this work and I'm very excited to work with Tim, Neil, Andrew, Ian and the rest of the team to bring it to life," said Alex Broun.