John Farnham's classic album Whispering Jack gets the musical theatre treatment in the Sydney Theatre Company's upcoming season.

The 2026 program is the first under artistic director Mitchell Butel, who took over from Kip Williams in late 2024 and will direct Whispering Jack: the John Farnham Musical.

"It's probably not the normal thing you'd see in a STC program, but we're really excited about what new audience we can bring to the company with a work as widely appealing as this," Butel said.

At the time Farnham recorded the album in the garage of his suburban Melbourne rental, his career was in the doldrums.

But with Whispering Jack and its hit single You're The Voice, he made a return to the music charts, the album becoming the highest-selling by a local artist in Australia.

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