New dates for HAIRSPRAY & PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT UK tours announced
Producer and CEO of Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Mark Goucher has announced new UK tour dates for his productions of Hairspray and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Based on the premise that theatres will be able to reopen fully on 21 June, Hairspray will open at Theatre Royal Plymouth on 24 June 2021. It will then go on to visit Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, Manchester Palace Theatre, Sheffield Lyceum, Ipswich Regent Theatre, Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Edinburgh Playhouse, The Alhambra Theatre, Bradford, Brighton Theatre Royal, Birmingham Hippodrome, Leicester Curve, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre Dublin, Grand Opera House Belfast, New Victoria Theatre, Woking, Milton Keynes Theatre and Blackpool Grand Theatre; with more dates to be announced in 2022.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert will reopen at Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham on 23 June before visiting Leeds Grand Theatre, Hull New Theatre, Oxford New Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Royal & Derngate, Northampon, Glasgow King’s Theatre, New Wimbledon Theatre, Birmingham Hippodrome, Palace Theatre, Southend, Curve Leicester, Bristol Hippodrome and Mayflower Theatre, Southampton. It is then hoped that the production will return to the West End.
Mark Goucher said: “As the manager of Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, I am acutely aware that venues up and down the UK are crying out for shows. It is vital that we take the necessary steps to get performances going again. It is therefore a delight to be able to announce that two of my shows, under the guise of Mark Goucher Productions will be coming to a theatre near you from this summer. We will, of course, closely monitor all advice coming from the Government and if the start dates need to be delayed we have contingency plans in place to be able to move the starting venue for each show to one later in the tour schedule. ”
For more information and tour dates, please click here for Hairspray and here for Priscilla.
