{"id":1451,"date":"2000-09-15T05:07:25","date_gmt":"2000-09-15T05:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:52:30","slug":"worlds-a-stage-for-our-starlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/worlds-a-stage-for-our-starlet\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s a stage for our starlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anna Cock<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TONIGHT &#8211; for a few hours at least &#8211; Nikki Webster becomes the most famous girl in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year-old Sydneysider plays a starring role in the Games opening ceremony, which will be seen by an estimated TV audience of up to four billion people.<\/p>\n<p>Her antics, which have been kept secret until tonight, are set to enthral the 110,000-strong Stadium Australia crowd. And the youngster&#8217;s angelic appearance will win hearts.<\/p>\n<p>A performer since the age of five, Nikki&#8217;s life is devoted to the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent role was that of Brigitta in <em>The Sound of Music<\/em> at Star City&#8217;s Lyric Theatre, and she has also played the gamine Cosette in <em>Les Miserables<\/em> at the Theatre Royal, and appeared in State Theatre productions of <em>Cinderella<\/em> and <em>Aladdin<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other credits include a featured extra role in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, and guest roles on the soap opera Home and Away.<\/p>\n<p>Nikki&#8217;s biggest fans &#8211; parents Tina and Mark, and brother Scott, 16 &#8211; will watch with pride tonight as she plays the child hero representing Australia&#8217;s hopes and dreams. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Herald Sun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Cock TONIGHT &#8211; for a few hours at least &#8211; Nikki Webster becomes the most famous girl in the world. The 13-year-old Sydneysider plays a starring role in the Games opening ceremony, which will be seen by an estimated TV audience of up to four billion people. Her antics, which have been kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/worlds-a-stage-for-our-starlet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World&#8217;s a stage for our starlet<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","category-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikkiwebsterfan.net\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}