Kiwi singing cake-maker's festival homecoming

11:06am Tuesday 20th May 2008

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A singing cake-maker has travelled halfway round the world to put on a show at the fringe.

Sharon Elizabeth has returned to Brighton, where her cake career began, from Tauranga, New Zealand, to perform Ising On The Cake.

The one-woman show combines her earlier career as bakery manager for Sussex-based cake company Kate's Cakes with her singing talents to create a tasty theatrical show, which includes a chocolate fudge cake being mixed on stage. Sharon said: "I am bringing the show home. I have been performing for a long time in New Zealand but it is lovely to bring it home.

"I was the first bakery manager of Kate's Cakes. When I joined the company there was one member of staff and when I left six years later there were 75.

"I emigrated to New Zealand and it was when I hit around 30 that I started to have singing lessons.

"I had always wanted to be a singer but had but never taken it that seriously.

"A year later I got my first gig and became a contemporary opera singer."

It was after producing a CD in 2004, called Love and Music, that Sharon decided to try something different to promote it by combining her love for singing and baking.

She said: "I started off the show in someone's living room for about 20 women and it got bigger and bigger.

"I now perform to audiences of about 200 people.

"I believe a cake made with love, passion and music will taste better so, for example, when I ice my cake I have to sing a lullaby.

"The show appeals to lots of people because it has got so many styles of song in it.

"One minute I am singing something from My Fair Lady, the next a comic song about licking the spoon and the next Nessun Dorma."

Ising On The Cake is at the Friends' Meeting House, in Ship Street, Brighton, on Thursday and Saturday at 7.30pm and on Friday at 3.30pm.

Tickets cost £12, £10 for concessions and are there is a twofor- one ticket offer on Thursday's show.

Call 01273 709709 for further details.