McLachlan will play Hank Williams in a tribute show travelling across Australia from July to November.It will be the first time McLachlan will perform in public since he was found not guilty of indecently assaulting four female co-stars in a 2014 musical production of the Rocky Horror Show.McLachlan was acquitted of seven counts of indecent assault and six counts of common law assault. He is now involved in a defamation suit against Nine Newspapers and the ABC, claiming they falsely suggested he was guilty of sexual crimes.Nobody Lonesome For Me, by New York playwright Lanie Robertson, will see McLachlan start his comeback in Perth on July 31, with dates in Broken Hill, Tamworth, Adelaide, Hobart, Launceston and Brisbane.It will be directed by his wife Victoria Scammell, who supported McLachlan through his court proceedings.Scammell also appeared in McLachlan’s Channel 7 special, where the actor sang and cried on camera.The tour’s website is selling signed McLachlan posters for $33 and a CD of the TV star singing Hank Williams songs for $26.Tickets for the Perth launch are priced between $55 and $100.The tour is being produced by Valley Productions, whose website says they are a “Charitable Trust set up to administer arts events in the Clare Valley in South Australia, events to be presented throughout South Australia and nationally.”No Sydney or Melbourne dates have been announced.McLachlan, 55, was last seen in TV shows The Dr Blake Mysteries and The Wrong Girl. He was written out of The Dr Blake Mysteries in 2018.NAT – Stay Informed – Social Media
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