Casting has been announced for the 2023 UK tour of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, which opens at Basildon’s Towngate Theatre on 22 February.

The tour goes on to visit Darlington, Chesterfield, Edinburgh, York, Aberdeen, Bath, Canterbury, Manchester, Blackpool, Skegness, Aylesbury, Dartford, Shrewsbury, Plymouth, Swansea, Bradford, Southampton, Stoke-On-Trent, Sheffield, Glasgow, Inverness, Nottingham, Derry, Belfast, Bromley, Newcastle, Kings Lynn, High Wycombe, Cardiff, Peterborough and Barnstaple. Further venues are to be announced.

AJ Jenks and Christopher Weeks will alternate the titular role of Buddy Holly, with Joe Butcher as Joe B Mauldin, Josh Haberfield as Jerry Allison and Miguel Angel as Ritchie Valens/Tyrone Jones.

Completing the cast are Daniella Agredo Piper, Christopher Chandler, Stephanie Cremona, Samuelle Durojaiye, Jacob Leeson, Ewan Ling, Thomas Mitchells and Laura-Dene Perryman.

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