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DREAMTIME ALICE
The Australian May 16, 1999:
Article excerpt:
"after a bohemian upbringing, Mandy Sayer and her father, Gerry, arrived in New York City in 1983 to eke out a living as street performers, he slapping his drum and she tap dancing for cash. This was not the Manhattan of her dreams, 'of wide avenues and magisterial buildings', but alleys littered with 'garbage spilling out of tall metal cans' and run-down hotels and sirens that 'howled for hours', a world of outsiders. They make a decidedly odd couple and an inspiring read. Gerry is given to 'flagrant boasting', while Mandy presses on: "I did not want to disapoint my father. I yanked the bottom of my leotard out of the crack in my bum. I began to tap out the beginning of St. Louis Blues for the fifth time that day"".
