Victoria is a poverty-stricken soprano trying to find work in turn-of-the-century Paris. With the help of a worldly-wise nightclub singer, she invents her alter-ego Victor, a female impersonator who is hired to sing at a fashionable night spot. "You want me to be a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman?" Interwoven throughout the comedy and musical numbers are some surprisingly astute observations about gender perceptions, discrimination and the battle of the sexes.

"It was a difficult, multi-faceted role. I mean I’d sometimes be playing a woman trying to be a man, then sometimes play a man with a woman’s feelings, and sometimes just straight on. There were so many things to work out."

Julie Andrews on Victor/Victoria