CAST
ANNOUNCED FOR MAJOR UK TOUR OF
SMASH-HIT MUSICAL
Hairspray
Sunderland Empire
Monday 25th -Saturday 30th September 2017
Directed by
Paul Kerryson
Choreographed by Drew McOnie
Choreographed by Drew McOnie
AWARD-WINNING
COMEDIAN NORMAN PACE TO STAR AS WILBUR
TURNBLAD WITH MATT RIXON RETURNING AS
EDNA
RETURNING TO
THE PRODUCTION, LAYTON WILLIAMS WILL PLAY
THE ROLE
OF SEAWEED ALONGSIDE MUSICAL THEATRE STAR BRENDA EDWARDS AS
MOTORMOUTH MAYBELLE
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| Photo: Darren Bell |
NEWCOMER REBECCA MENDOZA WILL MAKE HER
PROFESSIONAL DEBUT AS TRACY TURNBLAD
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| Norman Pace |
Norman Pace
(ITV1’s The Hale and Pace Show) will play Wilbur Turnblad in the major
UK tour of the smash hit musical Hairspray, opening at Wales Millennium
Centre in Cardiff this summer. He will be joined by Matt Rixon (The
Ladykillers, Around the World in 80 Days) reprising his role as Edna
Turnblad, musical theatre star Brenda Edwards (Chicago, We Will Rock
You, The X Factor) returning as Motormouth Maybelle and Layton Williams (Bad
Education, Rent) now starring as Seaweed.
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| Matt Rixon - Photo Darren Bell |
Gina Murray (Chicago and
Full Monty) joins the cast as Velma Von Tussle with Jon Tsouras (Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Crazy for You) once again playing
Corny Collins; Edward Chitticks (On the Town, Mamma Mia) as Link
Larkin; Aimee Moore as Amber Von Tussle; Annalise Liard-Bailey as
Penny Pingleton and Monifa James as Little Inez. Rebecca Mendoza
will make her professional debut as Tracy Turnblad.
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| Brenda Edwards |
North East
audiences will have the chance to get a taster of the smash-hit musical when
theatre star Brenda Edwards (Motormouth Maybelle) makes a special
appearance at the opening of the Sunderland International Airshow on Friday 21 July 2017.
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| Layton Williams |
It’s Baltimore 1962, where
Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, is on a
mission to follow her dreams and dance her way onto national TV. Tracy’s audition
makes her a local star and soon she is using her new-found fame to fight for
equality, bagging local heartthrob Link Larkin along the way.
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| Amana Jones |
Featuring the
iconic music and lyrics by Academy Award, Tony and Emmy winning duo Marc
Shaiman and Scott Wittman, this big, bold and beautiful production
is choreographed by Olivier Award-winning Drew McOnie with direction
from Paul Kerryson. This 37 week tour of the much loved musical based
on the 1988 film follows the phenomenally successful 2016 UK tour which
played to packed out houses and received public and critical acclaim across the
country in 2015/16.
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| Photo: Darren Bell |
Hairspray is a musical
based on the 1988 film of the same name which starred Divine and Ricki Lake by cult
filmmaker John Waters. With music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
and book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, Hairspray originally
opened to rave reviews on Broadway in 2002 and subsequently won eight Tony
Awards.
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| Photo: Ellie Kurttz |
The production opened in London at the
Shaftesbury Theatre in 2007 and won four Laurence Olivier Awards including Best
New Musical. Proving to be an international success, Hairspray has
also opened in South Africa, Japan, South Korea, China and Dubai. Following
the musical’s phenomenal success on stage, a film of the musical was released
in 2007 which starred John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer and James Marsden.
Full cast
includes: Lauren Concannon, Melissa Nettleford and Emily-Mae Walker as The
Dynamites, Shay Barclay, Ben Darcy, George Hinson, Jordan Laviniere,
Graham MacDuff, Lindsay McAllister, Tracey Penn and Freya Rowley.
On The Web:
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*
*Calls cost up to 7p per
minute plus your standard network charge. Booking fees may apply to telephone
and online bookings
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