Jessica Martin to join Jerry Herman’s JERRY’S GIRLS at The Menier Chocolate Factory
The Menier Chocolate Factory today announces that Jessica Martin joins Cassidy Janson and Julie Yammanee to complete the company for the revival of Jerry Herman’s JERRY’S GIRLS.
Directed by Hannah Chissick, the show will feature choreography by Matt Cole, set and costume design by Paul Farnsworth, lighting design by Philip Gladwell, musical supervision and arrangements by Sarah Travis, and an all-female band. This new production opens on 22 May, with previews from 18 May, and plays a strictly limited season until 29 June.
Lyn Paul withdrew from the production for personal reasons.
JERRY’S GIRLS celebrates the life and legacy of legendary award-winning Broadway composer Jerry Herman. Featuring songs from such timeless musicals as Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Mack and Mabel, Dear World and La Cage Aux Folles, JERRY’S GIRLS comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory for 6 weeks only.
JERRY’S GIRLS was created by Herman and collaborator Larry Alford in 1981, opened Off-Broadway to critical acclaim and resulted in a hit National Tour and a Tony-nominated run on Broadway, directed and choreographed by Wayne Cilento. Jerry Herman’s list of awards and honours is seemingly endless – it includes multiple Tony, Grammy, Olivier and Drama Desk Awards, the Johnny Mercer Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, the Oscar Hammerstein Award and an entry into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Jessica Martin made her West End debut playing Sally Smith opposite Gary Wilmot in Me and My Girl (Adelphi Theatre) and has performed in over thirty musicals. Her other theatre credits include playing Mabel in Mack and Mabel (Piccadilly Theatre) and later playing Lotte in Mack and Mabel at Southwark Playhouse, Babes in Arms and The Card (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), The Wizard of Oz (Theatre Royal Plymouth and UK tour), South Pacific (Churchill Theatre and UK tour), Sweeney Todd (Bridewell Theatre), Sunset Boulevard (Comedy Theatre), Spamalot (UK tour), Sondheim at 80 (Royal Albert Hall), Elf the Musical (Dominion Theatre), Shirleymander (The Playground Theatre) Blitz! (The Union) and Menopause – The Musical 2 (UK & Ireland tour). For television, she played Mags, an intergalactic werewolf in the Seventh Doctor season of Doctor Who, later reprising the role on radio. She was also a regular voice actor on the iconic Spitting Image series as well as starring in Copy Cats and alongside Bobby Davro in his series Bobby Davro’s TV Weekly. At this time, she was a frequent guest on variety shows such as Sunday Night at the Palladium, Summertime Special and several Royal Variety Shows.
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