Casting announced for UK and Ireland tour of THE DRIFTERS GIRL

Casting has been announced for the first-ever UK and Ireland tour of The Drifters Girl, the acclaimed new West End musical which tells the remarkable story of one of the world's greatest vocal groups and the woman who made them, which opens at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre on 12 September.

Carly Mercedes Dyer (Six the Musical, Anything Goes) will play music industry change-maker Faye Treadwell, alongside Ashford Campbell (The Drifters Girl, West End), Miles Anthony Daley (Tina Turner: The Musical, West End), Tarik Frimpong (The Wiz, Hope Mill Theatre) and Dalton Harris (The X Factor, ITV).

Jaydah Bell-Ricketts (School Of Rock, West End) will also star in her first touring role as Girl, and completing the cast are Loren Anderson, Tre Copeland-Williams, Ethan Davis, Matthew Dawkins and Linseigh Green.

Telling the remarkable story of The Drifters, one of the world's greatest vocal groups, and the truth about the woman who made them. Faye Treadwell is the legendary manager of The Drifters who fought for three decades alongside her husband (George Treadwell) to turn Atlantic Records' hottest vocal group into a global phenomenon.

From the highs of hit records and sell-out tours to the lows of legal battles and personal tragedy, The Drifters Girl charts the trailblazing efforts of the world's first African American female music manager and how she refused to ever give up on the group she loved. Thirty years and hundreds of hit songs later, there is no doubt that Faye Treadwell was and always will be, The Drifters Girl.

The Drifters Girl boasts an incredible soundtrack of some of the most famous songs in history, including ‘Save The Last Dance For Me’, ‘Under The Boardwalk’, ‘Kissin In The Back Row Of The Movies’, ‘Stand By Me’, ‘Come On Over To My Place’, ‘Saturday Night At The Movies’ and many more.

The Drifters Girl, with a book by Ed Curtis, is based on an idea by Tina Treadwell and is co-created by Beverley Knight, Adam J Bernard, Tarinn Callender, Matt Henry and Tosh Wanogho-Maud. It is directed by Jonathan Church, with set design by Anthony Ward, choreography by Karen Bruce, costumes by Fay Fullerton, lighting by Ben Cracknell, sound by Tom Marshall, video design by Andrzej Goulding, orchestrations by Chris Egan, and musical supervision by Will Stuart.

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