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SAVE
THE DATE FOR THE PARTY OF 2017
The Wedding Singer
Sunderland
Empire
Tuesday 21st - Saturday 25th
February 2017
Don’t miss your chance to join the party of the year – with a
musical that promises to get you up dancing faster than your Dad at a wedding,
The Wedding Singer is packed with songs which capture all the fun and energy of
the Adam Sandler smash hit film.
Jon Robyns, Ray Quinn, Cassie
Compton, Roxanne Pallett and Ruth Madoc will star in the hilarious musical
based on the hit film.
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Cassie Compton, Ray Quinn,
Ruth Madoc,
Jon Robyns, Roxanne
Pallett – Photo: Darren Bell
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It’s 1985. Hair is huge, greed is good and rock-star wannabe
Robbie Hart is New Jersey's favourite wedding singer. When his own fiancée dumps him at the
altar a seriously bummed out Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his
own. Can sweet natured Julia and her
best friend Holly lure Robbie out of the dumpster and back into the
limelight? Or is he
going to see
her head off
down the aisle
with Wall Street
bad boy Glen.
Only Grandma Rosie seems
to be able to see that Robbie and
Julia are the couple that are meant to be. West End
and Musical Theatre star Jon Robyns
plays Robbie Hart.
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Ray Quinn as Glen
and Roxanne Pallett as
Holly
Photo: Darren Bell
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Most recently he
starred in Legally Blonde
as Emmett Forrest, other theatre credits include Enjolras in Les Misérables,
Spamalot, Memphis and Avenue Q. He is joined on stage
by British singer-songwriter Ray Quinn as Glen who shot to fame as the
runner-up in ITV1’s The X Factor
in 2006 and
as champion of Dancing
on Ice in
2009.
In 2014, he won Dancing
on Ice: Champion
of Champions. His theatre
credits include Danny
Zuko in Grease (West
End), Dirty Dancing (West
End) and Legally Blonde (UK
Tour). West End leading
lady and X
Factor finalist Cassie Compton
plays Julia; her
roles include Sabrina
in American Psycho (Almeida, London)
and Eponine in Les
Misérables.
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Ruth Madoc as Grandma
Rosie
and Jon Robyns as Robbie
Hart
Photo: Darren Bell
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Playing best friend
Holly, Roxanne Pallett is
perhaps best known for
her long-standing role
as Jo in
ITV’s Emmerdale. She has
also appeared in Waterloo
Road and Casualty on
screen and in The
Rocky Horror Picture
Show, The Vagina Monologues
and John Godber’s On
The Piste on stage.
No stranger to stage and screen, comedy veteran Ruth Madoc joins
the company as Grandma Rosie. Ruth became a household name in the Eighties when
she played Gladys Pugh in BBC comedy series Hi-De-Hi! More recently we’ve seen her on screen in
ITV’s Benidorm, Mount Pleasant (Sky) and Stella (Sky). Samuel
Holmes (Mrs Henderson Presents, West End) will play George. Further casting is to be announced.
The Wedding Singer
2017 UK Tour
is Directed and
Choreographed by Nick Winston.
Set and Costumes are by
Francis O’Connor. Musical
Supervision is by Sarah
Travis with Musical
Direction and Orchestration
by George Dyer. Lighting Design
is by Ben Cracknell
with Sound Design
by Richard Brooker.
Video Design is by Jack
HenryJames and Casting
by Jim Arnold. The Wedding Singer
is produced by Dan
Looney, Paulden Hall Productions, Tom O’Connell and Jason
Haigh-Ellery.
The Wedding Singer
Music by Matthew Sklar Book by Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy Lyrics by
Chad Beguelin Based upon the New Line Cinema film Written by Tim Herlihy
Directed and Choreographed by Nick Winston Performances by arrangement with
Music Theatre International (Europe) Ltd.
Tickets:
Tickets are available in person at the
Box Office on High Street West, from the Ticket Centre on 0844 871 3022* or
online at www.ATGtickets.com/Sunderland*
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