After getting voted off the BBC’s ‘How Do You Solve A problem Like Maria’, Aoife Mulholland assumed she would never get to play Maria on the West End. little did she know that a few months later she would be asked to share the role with the winner of the show, Connie Fisher.

Spekaing to The Daily Mail Aoife said:

“I got this call out of the blue six weeks ago, asking me to come in because Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted to see me again,” said the singer from Galway.

“A couple of days after that they told me I’d got the part. I just couldn’t believe it.”

Since that call she has been combining two roles, one as Roxie in Chicago and the other as Maria in The Sound Of Music.

“Going back from Roxie to Maria has been tough — for the first week I was rehearsing a nun by day and performing a murderer by night.”