It’s Dublin, 1985, and sixteen year old Conor can’t catch a break. His parents are fighting, his brother won’t leave the house and he’s not fitting in at his new Catholic school.Enter Raphina, a mysterious girl who’s too cool for school and on the lookout for a modelling job. In an effort to impress, Conor hires her to star in a music video for his band. Only problem is he doesn’t have a band. Yet.With an original score that embraces the new wave sounds of the 80s, Sing Street is an ode to the thrill of young love and a celebration of the power of music to lift us up. Conor and Raphina give The London Standard a look behind the scenes...
00:04Hello, I'm Grace Gollander and I play Rufina.
00:07Hello, I'm Sheridan Townsley and I play Connor.
00:11And this is Sing Shree.
00:13Come with us, we're going to show you behind the scenes
00:15at the Lyric Hammersmith.
00:22Oh, look at us!
00:24Jesse!
00:26Hello.
00:28Lovely to meet you guys.
00:29My name is Jesse Naikudia.
00:31I play the role of Eamonn.
00:33And welcome to Wigs, Hair and Makeup.
00:36This is the lovely Jennie's wig.
00:39Jennie Fitzpatrick who plays Sandra.
00:41She's the most phenomenal actor on the planet.
00:43This is her lovely wig.
00:44She gets this done every night and rocks it like a queen.
00:47And then we've got everybody else's wigs round here.
00:50Over there, we have some of my very good friends.
00:53Come with us.
00:57Yo.
00:58What?
00:59I'm Indiana, I play Gary.
01:00And I'm Cameron Hogan and I play Darren.
01:02And this is the wardrobe department.
01:04This is where all the costumes are stored for the Lyric,
01:07for any shows that they've done in the past and stuff like that.
01:09I've stolen some clothes from here for press night.
01:11Yeah, for press night.
01:12So you have to be really nice to the costume people
01:14because you can always come in here and rob loads of clothes.
01:16If you're going out for a night out, which I've many times have done.
01:20Bye boys.
01:22We love you.
01:23Okay.
01:24To the boys dressing room.
01:26Oh, to the boys dressing room.
01:28The lair, as we call it.
01:30Okay.
01:31This is the Spares rail, by the way.
01:33This is all the school shirts where the boys...
01:37All the clothes that don't get more.
01:38All the ones.
01:39And this is like, these are, apparently these are actually authentic Sing Street uniforms
01:44from like the actual school.
01:45Because I saw someone comment online that it was like really weird for them to see their
01:49school uniform on a London stage, which must be crazy.
01:52So yeah, these are all the Spares.
01:54We've got Veronica Conner here.
01:55Yeah.
01:56OG Broadway Conner.
02:04Welcome to Underneath the Stage.
02:05This is Under the Stage.
02:07Sometimes I cross under during the gig and all I can hear is like, boom, boom, boom.
02:12It's like really, you can really hear it.
02:14It's right there.
02:19Hello?
02:20Hello.
02:21Arsenal delivery.
02:22Come in.
02:23It's us.
02:24Hey, friends.
02:25Wow.
02:26How are we?
02:27The chicken bishops there.
02:29I'm Matthew and I play Declan.
02:31I'm Harry.
02:32I play Larry.
02:33I'm also the dance captain.
02:34Yeah.
02:35I'm Seth.
02:36I play Kevin.
02:37Yeah.
02:38What have we got in here?
02:39Right.
02:40Let's start here.
02:41This is my desk and it's very messy.
02:43Important things.
02:45Two pairs of contact lenses.
02:47These are fake.
02:49What's next?
02:50We got, there's a game called Top of the Pops that we were gifted.
02:53Yeah.
02:54On personalite.
02:55It's a great game.
02:56We play that before the show sometimes on the path, brush up on our music knowledge.
03:00Yeah.
03:01That's super fun.
03:02What?
03:03Go ahead and get a hair suit.
03:04Let's do it.
03:05Bye.
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03:38Open up your mind, let it go, can you feel your heart liberated by the complicated boys, boys, boys, boys, in the complicated girls, girls, girls, girls, by the complicated boys, boys, boys, boys, in the complicated girls, girls, girls, girls, oh, it's complicated.
04:01Thank you very much for coming to visit us here at Singji.
04:04And come see us until August 23rd at the Lyric Admission.
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