If these young people stick together, they could really go far!

Thus spoke a long-forgotten judge of the 1991Talent Quest at St John’s Regional College, Dandenong, when Geraldine and her brother Nicholas took first place. All through high school, Gerry and Nick shared a passion for music - two competitive siblings with one teenage dream of an arts career. That 1991 win marked the validation of their hopes. Then he got a “normal job“, and she went into musical comedy. Could things get any worse? Hell yes!

After putting on extra performances and playing to sold out crowds with a blistering come-back show BROAD in 2022, Geraldine Quinn returned to Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne with her most personal show to date - and put on extra performances after playing to full houses throughout the run. Again. Rock-cabaret singer-songwriter and comedian Geraldine Quinn (Spicks & Specks, Upper Middle Bogan, The Weekly, that chick on the escalator in the superannuation ad) follows up her Most Outstanding Show and third Golden Gibbo Award nominations with a beautiful original cabaret about love, death, rivalry, grief and the beyond-lifeline of playing music.

Directed by Declan Fay (Ronny Chieng: International Student, Cross Bread, Dirty Laundry Live).
Also featuring musician contributions from Quinn’s past award-winning shows You’re The Voice: Songs for the Ordinary by an Anthemaniac, The Last Gig In Melbourne and Modern Day Maiden Aunt, all of whom are also bandmates from Quinn’s epic rock cover band Spandex Ballet (who hosted a decade of MICF Upfront Galas, played house band for The Moosehead Gala, launched V&A’s David Bowie Is... exhibition and were a popular event at MICF’s Festival Club).

The Passion of Saint Nicholas is a show about the joy of playing, following your heart, the friction of divergent paths, and keeping the band together when you lose your biggest cheerleader.

Rock comedy singer, writer and director Geraldine Quinn has been performing her award-winning original pop/rock cabaret all around the world for a decade.

“A brilliant blend of sass, satire and pathos, delivered with an electrifying voice that can strip paint off the walls or retreat into haunting vulnerability.”

The Age ★★★★★