With just two words Tay Tay has saved Australian theatre.
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UPDATE 4/08/2015 4.30pm AEST: Magnanimous and benevolent queen of the universe Taylor Swift has humbly decreed that Belvoir Theatre Company has permission to use Shake It Off in their production of Seventeen, premiering tomorrow night.
The Belvoir Theatre Company in Sydney was all ready to kick off its new play Seventeen on Wednesday when disaster struck.
As of now Taylor is yet to respond to the flurry of tweet activity, fingers crossed she takes notice and waves her magic Swift wand to make all right in the world once more.
Seventeen sees a group of Australian actors play a group of teenagers “drinking, singing, dancing, gabbling, worrying, and maybe even pashing their way through their last night of childhood and their first night of adulthood”.
It’s a play about 17-year-olds on the last day of school, with a cast of 70-year-olds.
But just as the cast had the choreography down-pat, the theatre was told they couldn’t use the song.
Following a social media campaign, during which the cast tweeted Swift and a number of her famous friends, permission was finally granted for the hit single to be used.
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Sarks also tried to bring in the power of local celebrities, including Russell Crowe, and contacted multiple Taylor Swift fan clubs. Sarks decided to call for action and reach out to Swift via Twitter. “Permission granted”, she wrote. “So it was quite a big deal to get denied those rights at the last minute”.
