Calamity Jane
Sunderland Empire
Tuesday 3 – Saturday
7 March 2015
Following
a sell-out run at The Watermill Theatre Newbury Calamity Jane is currently embarking on a national
UK tour which opened at the Plymouth Theatre Royal (Wednesday 17 September
2014). Calamity Jane is produced by Jamie Wilson, Paul Elliott and Duncan
C Weldon in association with The Watermill Theatre Newbury and will play Sunderland Empire from Tuesday 3 – Saturday 7 March 2015.
Calamity
Jane stars Jodie Prenger in the title role of ‘Calamity Jane’, Tom Lister as ‘Wild Bill
Hickok, Alex Hammond as ‘Danny’ and Phoebe Street as Katie Brown.
Calamity Jane can outrun and outshoot any man in
Deadwood. Hard, boastful and desperate to impress, she travels to Chicago to recruit a star, Adelaide Adams, for
the Deadwood Stage. But things don’t go too smoothly for Calamity, as everyone
in town favours the new girl and she struggles to keep her jealousy and pride
in check. It takes her long-standing enemy Wild Bill Hickok to make her
see sense, and realise her Secret Love…
Calamity Jane has an Oscar nominated score that includes The
Black Hills of Dakota, The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away), Just Blew in from
the Windy City and the award-winning song Secret Love.
Jodie Prenger is probably best known for winning the
role of ‘Nancy’ in Cameron Mackintosh’s West End production of “Oliver!” through the BBC television series “I’d Do Anything”.
During her run in the show at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane she received both critical and public
acclaim for her portrayal of the role. Since then she has starred in the
National Theatre’s hit production of “One Man, Two Guvnors” both in the West End and on tour and as ‘Lady of the Lake’ in “Spamalot”. Jodie is also a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2.
Tom Lister
most
recently played ‘Grimes and Eel’ in the world premiere of “Water Babies” at
Leicester Curve. He is probably best known to TV audiences for his role as
‘Carl King’ in ITV’s “Emmerdale”, a part he played for nine years. His theatre
credits also include ‘Pan’ in “Loves Mistress” at the Globe Theatre and ‘Ralph’
in “Accrington Pals” at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Alex
Hammond made his professional
debut in the hugely successful “Taboo” at the Brixton Academy. He most recently played the role of
‘Adam Pontipee’ in the national tour of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”. His
other theatre credits include “Save The Last Dance For Me”.
Phoebe Street most recently appeared in “The Light Princess” at
the National Theatre. Her other credits include “Les Miserables” at the Queen’s
Theatre where she made her West End debut.
The rest
of the company includes Anthony Dunn as ‘Henry Miller’, Sioned Saunders
as ‘Susan’, Rob Delaney as ‘Francis Fryer’, Christina Tedders as
‘Adelaide Adams’, Paul Kissaun as ‘Rattlesnake’, Jon Bonner as
‘Doc’, Martin McCarthy as ‘Joe’, Matthew James Hinchliffe as
‘Buck’, Jamie Noar as ‘Hank’, Giovanna Ryan as ‘Flo’ and Justin
Wilman as ‘Charlie’.
Calamity Jane is directed by Nikolai Foster, with
Orchestrations and Musical Supervision by Catherine Jayes,
Choreography
by Nick Winston, Set and Costume design by Matthew Wright,
Lighting Design by Richard G Jones and Sound Design by Sebastian
Frost.
Nikolai
Foster was
recently named as the new artistic director at Curve in Leicester. His most recent theatre credits
include “The Witches of Eastwick”, “Annie” and the 20th Anniversary production
of Jonathan Harvey’s “Beautiful Thing” in the West End.
Catherine
Jayes was most
recently musical director for the award-winning production of “Merrily We Roll
Along” at both the Menier Chocolate Factory and Harold Pinter theatre in the West End. Her other credits at the Chocolate
Factory include “The Color Purple” and “Road Show”. She has composed the music
for “The Duchess of Malfi”, “Othello”, “The Changeling”, “Cymbeline” and
“Troilus and Cressida”, all for Cheek By Jowl where she is also an associate
director. Her other musical director credits include “Guys and Dolls” and
“Sweet Charity” for Sheffield Crucible and “Gypsy”, “Fiddler on the Roof” and “High
Society” for the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Nick
Winston’s theatre
credits as choreographer include “Loserville” in the West End and “Annie” and “Sweeney Todd” at the
West Yorkshire Playhouse and most recently the World Premiere of “Water Babies”
at Leicester Curve. Following numerous highly acclaimed productions that
include “Sweeney Todd” and “Sunset Boulevard”, The Watermill Theatre, Newbury
presents a new production of the classic musical “CALAMITY JANE”. Featuring a
cast of multi-talented actor/musicians to create an unforgettable experience,
this brand new production gets to the heart and soul of the musical.
Hedda Beeby, Artistic
and Executive Director of the Watermill Newbury said…
‘It has been such an amazing Summer here at the Watermill and to have
this wonderful new production of the musical Calamity Jane completely sell out has
been fantastic, we could have let it play until Christmas!
All of us here wish the cast, crew and creative team the most wonderful
tour of the UK and Ireland and hope the audiences at every venue take the show
to their hearts, just like the audiences here have’.
Calamity Jane is adapted for the stage by
Charles K. Freeman and has music by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Paul Francis
Webster.
On The Web
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CalamityJaneUK
Facebook: www.facebook.com/CalamityJanetheShow
Tickets:
Tickets
available in person at the Box Office from £15 or from £17.90 from the Ticket
Centre on 0844 871 3022* or online at www.ATGtickets.com/Sunderland*
Premium seats also available.
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