Full casting has been announced for the upcoming UK tour of Footloose the Musical which is now in rehearsal before kicking off on February 14 in Plymouth. Joining the cast are Lucy Munden as Ariel, Oonagh Cox as Rusty. They … Continue reading Full casting announced for Footloose the Musical – UK Tour 2022
New rehearsal pictures have been released for the upcoming production of George Orwell’s classic satirical fable, Animal Farm. The cast of Animal Farm includes Matt Churcher, Darcy Collins, Enrico D. Wey, Ailsa Dalling, Elisa De Grey, Edie Edmundson, Michael Jean-Marain, Rayo Patel, Yana Penrose, Markus Schabbing, Sharon Sze, Ben Thompson and Matt Tait. The brand-new production,adapted and directed by Robert Icke, will embark on a UK tour, opening at Birmingham Rep from 22 January 2022. The play will then visit Cambridge, Newcastle, Bath, Norwich, Salford, Plymouth, Nottingham, Coventry, Blackpool, Liverpool, Canterbury, Richmond and Wolverhampton, completing its run on 28 May 2022 at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre. The production also includes designs by the four-time Olivier Award-winning Bunny Christie (A … Continue reading INSIDE “Animal Farm” Rehearsals
Richard Winsor will lead the cast as Tony Manero. He will be joined on stage by Olivia Fines as his dancing partner Stephanie. They will also be joined by Kevin O’Dwyer (Bobby C); James Brice (Gus); Paul French (Double J); Michael Cortez (Joey); Jasmin Colangelo (Annette); Tosca Fischer (Connie); Lydia Bradd (Linda); Philip Aiden (Frank Senior); Marios Nicolaides (Frank Junior); Melody Jones (Flo Manero); Faizal Jaye (DJ Monty); Celeste Zollino (ensemble); Ashley Luke Lloyd (ensemble); Luca Rapisarda (ensemble); James Wilkinson-Jones (ensemble); Helen Gulston (ensemble); James Cohen (ensemble). Jake Byrom, Oliver Thomson and James Hudson will be playing and singing the Bee-Gee’s soundtrack during the show. Saturday Night Fever, produced by Bill Kenwright, tells the story of Tony Manero and his reckless road to dancing success. The musical features the Bee Gees’ greatest hits including Stayin’ … Continue reading Casting announced for Saturday Night Fever at the Peacock Theatre
Patrick Duffy, Linda Purl and Gray O’Brien will join the Catch Me If You Can Tour accross UK in 2022. Catch Me If You Can, written by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, and directed by Bob Tomson, will embark on its nationwide tour, opening at the Theatre Royal, Windsor on 8 February 2022. Adapted from Robert Thomas’s French play Trap for a Lonely Man, this highly entertaining mystery has inspired three successful screenplays. The cast also includes Ben Nealon, who played Captain Jeremy Forsythe in ITV’s award-winning series Soldier Soldier. He has appeared regularly on stage with the Agatha Christie Theatre Company and the Classic Thriller Theatre Company. The tour will start on February 8th at the … Continue reading Patrick Duffy, Linda Purl and Gray O’Brien to star in Catch Me If You Can by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert
Full touring casting has been announced for “The Da Vinci Code”. Joining Nigel Harman, who will play Robert Langdon, Danny John-Jules as Sir Leight Teabing and Hannah Rose Caton as Sophie Neveu are Basienka Blake as Vernet, Alasdair Buchan as Remy, Alpha Kargbo as Fache, Joshua Lacy as Silas, Leigh Lothian as Colette/Sophie understudy, Andrew Lewis as Sauniere and Debra Michaels as Sandrine/Grandmother. The play, based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novel will be touring across the UK. It will begins The tour begins at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley on 10 January and goes on to Nottingham, Sheffield, Bath, Plymouth, Clywd, Coventry, Hull, Wolverhampton, Brighton, Cheltenham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Newcastle. It will then travels to Southampton, Richmond, Woking, Leicester, Norwich, York, Shrewsbury, Dartford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Milton Keynes, Aberdeen, Salford, Leeds, … Continue reading Full cast announced for “The Da Vinci Code”
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has been extended with the addition of dates at New Wimbledon Theatre (12-16 April 2022) and the Bristol Hippodrome (3-7 May 2022). This week the show is in Aylesbury and continues its journey of the UK and Ireland to Southampton next week, then Sunderland, Salford, Cardiff, Aberdeen, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Canterbury, Plymouth, Glasgow, Birmingham, Dublin, Woking, Norwich, Wimbledon and finally Bristol in May 2022. Described by its Bristol based director Michael Fentiman as ‘total theatre’ this epic new production is a mixture of dance, puppetry and actor-musicianship. The show tells the story Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they step through the wardrobe into the enchanted kingdom of Narnia. Here the embark on magical adventures and meet a faun, talking … Continue reading The Lion, the Witch & The Wardrobe Tour Adds Two New Dates
Casting has been annouced for the UK Tour of Chicago which is expected to starts in September, before visiting locations across the country until February 2022. Faye Brookes will play Roxie Hart, alongside Sinitta as Mama Morton, Divina DeCampo as Mary Sunshime, Djalenga Scott as Velma and Joel Montague as Amos Hart. Also joining the cast are Ishmail Aaron, Michelle Andrews, Delycia Belgrave, Joel Benjamin, Tanisha-Mae Brown, Callum Fitzgerald, Emily Goodenough, Billy Hardy, Aaron Jenkins, Liam Marcellino, Theo Reece, Hollie Jane Stephens and Harrison Wilde. The show tells the story of Roxie, a woman who murders her husband and tries to espace … Continue reading New cast announced for the UK Tour of Chicago
Words by Dorothy Grace Franklin Picture: all rights reserved Elizabeth Walker is a British actor, singer and dancer, who covered the roles of Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr on the Norwegian Breakaway Cruise production of Six the Musical. She left the show on the 11th of March 2020. Recently, I had the very lucky opportunity to interview her about all things Six, music and more! How long have you been acting, and what got you into it? I actually danced first! The head of my school asked my mum if I wanted to take part in the amateur … Continue reading [Interview] Elizabeth Walker talks Six, Inspirations and life in lockdown!
The show was initially meant to open this month but will now begin on January 26 in Cardiff. It will then embark on a national tour across UK and Ireland, making stops at Dartford, Liverpool, Bradford, Northampton, Bristol, Edinburgh, Wimbledon, Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Salford, Nottingham, Hull, Milton Keynes, Bromley, Oxford and Woking, with further dates to be revealed. While all cast members are yet to be announced, Samantha Womack and Cameron Blakely are set to reprise their roles as Morticia and Gomez addams after playing the parts in the 2017 tour. Based on the iconic movies, The Addams … Continue reading The Addams Family reschedules UK and Ireland tour
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