Blue singer to star in Rocky Horror Show tour
The Rocky Horror Show is marking the 45th anniversary of its first performance with a 12-month UK tour, which starts at the Theatre Royal Brighton on December 13. Blue singer and Hollyoaks actor
Duncan James and West End star Stephen Webb will play Frank; Strictly Come Dancing champion Joanne Clifton will be Janet; and a1’s Ben Adams will be Brad. Kristian Lavercombe will reprise his
role as Riff Raff, following more than 1,300 performances in The Rocky
Horror Show around the world. The musical opened in 1973 before an audience of 63 people in the Royal Court’s Theatre Upstairs. The Rocky Horror Picture Show film aired in 1975 starring Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry and Richard O’Brien, who also wrote the screenplay. James will play the lead in
Oxford, Southampton, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Stoke-On- Trent, Blackpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Nottingham and Edinburgh. Webb will take on the role at Brighton,
Manchester, Sunderland, Milton Keynes, Wimbledon, Sheffield, Torquay, Woking, Belfast, Bromley, York and Dartford.
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Clive Rowe returns as Aladdin’s Widow Twankey
UK premiere for Broadway musical
Hit musical Waitress will have its official UK premiere in London’s West End next spring. Currently playing its third year
on Broadway, the show will bring with it an all-female creative team – a West End musical first – with a book by Jessie Nelson, a score by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, choreography by Lorin Latarro and direction by Diane Paulus. Performances begin at the Adelphi Theatre in February 2019 and the London cast will be announced in due course. Waitress opened in 2016 on
Broadway and is based on the 2007 film written by Adrienne Shelly.
The production is currently touring the US and will have its Australian premiere in 2020 at the Sydney Lyric Theatre. Waitress tells the story of Jenna, an expert pie maker in a small town, who dreams of a way out of her loveless marriage.
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PARTY TIME: Abba star Björn Ulvaeus has confirmed that writer and comedian Sandi Toksvig will adapt Mamma Mia! The Party for the UK. The immersive theatrical and dining experience will open in a specially-adapted venue in
London’s The O2 on September 19, 2019. Ulvaeus, executive producer, said he is delighted Toksvig has agreed to adapt the story. “She has to be the funniest and brightest individual I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with,” he said.
Clive Rowe will be back at the Hackney Empire for his 12th pantomime, and will see the star of stage and screen play Widow Twankey in Aladdin (November 5-January 6). The theatre’s landmark 20th anniversary panto from writer and director Susie McKenna will also see Gemma Sutton (Gypsy, The Rink) take on the title role. She will be joined by Julie
Yammanee (Spamilton, Here Lies
Love) as Princess Ling Mai and Empire regular Kat B as Genie of the Lamp in the panto. Olivier Award- nominated actor, television star and comedian Tameka Empson (EastEnders) will be returning to the Empire for her
sixth panto to play The Empress following her last stage appearance nine years ago.
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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin to tour
The first major stage production of Louis de Bernières’ best- selling novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin will tour the UK in 2019. The play will be at Leicester
Curve from April 13-20 before heading to the Rose Theatre in Kingston (April 23-May 12), Theatre Royal Bath (May 14-18), Birmingham Repertory Theatre (May 29-June 15), King’s Theatre Edinburgh (June 18-22) and Glasgow Theatre Royal (June 25-29). Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
is a love story set on the Greek island of Kefalonia. The novel was adapted into a film starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.
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RSC reveals summer 2019 season line-up
Three Shakespeare plays – As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure – will form part of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s summer 2019 season. The plays are As You Like It (February 14-August 31); The Taming of the Shrew (March 8-August 31); and Measure for Measure (June 28-August 29). They will be performed in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford- upon-Avon, then tour in repertoire to six regional theatres. In the Swan Theatre will be
Kunene and the King (March 21- April 23), a new play by South African John Kani. There will be two Restoration plays to mark 250 years since David Garrick’s famous Shakespeare Jubilee in 1769. The jubilee launched Stratford-
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upon-Avon as the epicentre of the ‘Shakespeare Industry’, and the two plays saw Garrick enjoy two of his most successful roles.
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