North Shore talent Catherine Alcorn is bringing her production '30 Something' to Glen Street Theatre

The local North Shore talent is bringing her latest collaboration with comic extraordinaire Phil Scott, 30 Something, to Glen Street Theatre on July 9.

"I'm so excited to come back to Glen Street," she said. "I grew up near there and my mum was a primary school teacher and taught at the Belrose Public School for years."

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Ms Alcorn's connection to the Glen Street stage is strong after her younger years were spent there learning jazz, ballet and singing with the Australian girls choir.

"My affiliation and connection to Glen Street is really special because I feel like we've grown up together in the world of showbiz," she said.

"I've just had such incredible support there and that's why it's always really special for me to be essentially coming home to perform on the Glen Street stage."

30 Something will be her fifth production presented on her home-stage since 2012 and it's a momentous occasion for Ms Alcorn who was relieved to be putting on a show post COVID.

"It [COVID] has been hell, there's no other way to say it," she said.

30 Something was initially opened at the Hayes Theatre in Potts Point in 2019 and was set for a national tour until lockdown laws struck in March 2020.

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"I had spent six months of 2019 producing a 30 day national day tour across Australia and that tour [plan] dried up within a matter of 48 hours," Ms Alcorn said.

She said the effects of lockdown on the arts and entertainment industry were "almost unbearable".

"A lot of the industry have left the industry which is really disappointing because they just had no financial support," she said.

Ms Alcorn said she was able to stay afloat with the government's support funding over 2020 and 2021 but the beginning of this year has been the most difficult in her experience.

"Despite the fact that everything was open, consumer confidence was at an all time low," she said.

"People still weren't buying tickets and my demographic is generally the 45 plus, 65 plus so they're the demographic with the disposable income, but they're also the ones who were most fearful of going back into a theatre, into a crowd environment," she said.

She said knowing the enormous ripple effects of COVID, she was excited more than ever to be bringing her show home.

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"To be opening the show and to be coming back... especially to Glen Street where I know how much they are just going to adore this show," she said.

"We're just chomping at the bit to get there."

30 Something is an immersive party taking audiences back to New Year's Eve in 1939, looking at the speak-easier days through a 21st century lens.

"We've taken a time in the likes of Sydney in Bohemia Kings Cross and through research we found out there are so many staggering similarities between now and then that are still happening in Sydney," Ms Alcorn said.

"It's a kaleidoscope of parallel worlds that we're putting together. That's what this show does, this show is really holding up a mirror to modern day society through a 1930s lense," she said.

Supported by a live band, Ms Alcorn said 30 Something uses traditional and contemporary music to help tell the narrative.

"We'll have songs from Phil Collins, Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue and Prince," she said.

She encouraged people to come along and step into the world her and Phil have created.

"It's an immersive piece of theatre, we invite everyone to come as dressed up as possible and ready to involve themselves," she said.

"We just want people there, I used to say that before COVID but this time it's more than just selling a ticket it's about reconnecting now."

Tickets for 30 Something are available from www.glenstreet.com.au or call the Box Office on 9470 5913.

Ticket prices: Members $59, adult $69, concession $65, groups (10+) $65

Show times: Saturday, July 9, 2pm and 8pm.