Melissa Jacques & Sam Bailey join cast for world premiere of NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL A MUSICAL
Photo credit: Alexis Chabala
Further casting has been announced for the world premiere of NOW That’s What I Call A Musical, a brand-new British musical touring the UK and Ireland, written by award-winning comedian Pippa Evans, and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood.
Melissa Jacques (I Should Be So Lucky, UK tour) will star as April from 6 September (Aylesbury) up to and including 7 December (Brighton), and Sam Bailey (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, UK tour) will then take over the role from 14 January 2025 (Southampton) to 12 April 2025 (Wimbledon).
Melissa and Sam join the previously announced Nina Wadia, who will star as Gemma as well as an array of special guest stars playing themselves at certain performances and singing the songs that made them NOW icons. In 2024 Sinitta will perform in Aylesbury, Sheffield, Canterbury, Nottingham and Norwich with Sonia in Newcastle, Cardiff, Milton Keynes and Brighton, Carol Decker in Truro, Belfast and Woking, and Jay Osmond in Bradford.
In 2025 Sinitta will be appearing in Dublin, Hull and York with Sonia in Southampton, Southend, Bristol, Liverpool, Wimbledon and Birmingham and Carol Decker in Oxford. For further detail, patrons are advised to check their local websites.
Get ready to relive the playlist of your life by celebrating 40 years of the iconic and chart-topping compilations brand NOW That’s What I Call Music, which has sold an estimated 200 million copies worldwide. This fun-filled evening is bursting with hits from Whitney Houston, Wham! Blondie, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet and so many more.
It’s Birmingham, 1989. Two school friends, Gemma and April, are busy with very important business - planning their lives based on Number One Magazine quizzes and dreaming of snogging Rick Astley. Cut to Birmingham 2009 and it’s the most dreaded event of their lives– the school reunion. Drama, old flames and receding hairlines come together as friends reunite and everything from the past starts to slot into place. The biggest question is: what was with all that hairspray?
The creative team includes set and costume designers Tom Rogers & Toots Butcher, musical supervisor and arranger Mark Crossland, lighting designer Ben Cracknell, sound designer Adam Fisher, and casting director Annelie Powell CDG.
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