Melissa Jacques will star as April from 6 September 2024 (Aylesbury) as much as and together with 7 December 2024 (Brighton). Sam Bailey will then take over the position from 14 January 2025 (Southampton) to 12 April 2025 (Wimbledon). NOW That’s What I Name A Musical is a brand-new British musical touring the UK and Eire written by award-winning comic Pippa Evans and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood.
Melissa and Sam be part of the beforehand introduced Nina Wadia, who will star as Gemma in addition to an array of particular visitor stars taking part in themselves at sure performances and singing the songs that made them NOW icons. In 2024 Sinitta will carry out in Aylesbury, Sheffield, Canterbury, Nottingham and Norwich with Sonia in Newcastle, Cardiff, Milton Keynes and Brighton, Carol Decker in Truro, Belfast and Woking, and Jay Osmond in Bradford.
In 2025 Sinitta might be showing in Dublin, Hull and York with Sonia in Southampton, Southend, Bristol, Liverpool, Wimbledon and Birmingham and Carol Decker in Oxford. For additional element, patrons are suggested to examine their native web sites.
Get able to relive the playlist of your life by celebrating 40 years of the long-lasting and chart-topping compilations model NOW That’s What I Name Music, which has bought an estimated 200 million copies worldwide. This fun-filled night is bursting with hits from Whitney Houston, Wham! Blondie, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet and so many extra.
It’s Birmingham, 1989. Two college buddies, Gemma and April, are busy with crucial enterprise – planning their lives based mostly on Quantity One Journal quizzes and dreaming of snogging Rick Astley. Lower to Birmingham 2009 and it’s essentially the most dreaded occasion of their lives– the college reunion. Drama, outdated flames and receding hairlines come collectively as buddies reunite and every part from the previous begins to fit into place. The largest query is: what was with all that hairspray?
The artistic group will embody Set and Costume Design by Tom Rogers & Toots Butcher, Musical Supervision and Preparations by Mark Crossland, Lighting Design by Ben Cracknell, Sound Design by Adam Fisher, Wigs & Hair Design by Sam Cox, Affiliate Path by Man Woolf, Affiliate Choreography by Aaron Renfree, Affiliate Sound Design by Ollie Durrant and Casting by Annelie Powell CDG.
2024 / 2025 TOUR SCHEDULE
6 – 7 September Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
10 – 14 September Sheffield Lyceum
17 – 21 September Canterbury Marlowe Theatre
24 – 28 September Nottingham Theatre Royal
1 – 5 October Norwich Theatre Royal
8 – 12 October Newcastle Theatre Royal
15 – 19 October Bradford Alhambra Theatre
22 – 26 October Dartford Orchard Theatre
29 October – 2 November Cardiff New Theatre
5 – 9 November Truro Corridor For Cornwall
12 – 16 November Milton Keynes Theatre
19 – 23 November Belfast Grand Opera Home
25 – 30 November Woking New Victoria Theatre
2 – 7 December Theatre Royal Brighton
14 – 18 January Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre
21 – 25 January Dublin Bord Gais Vitality Theatre
28 January – 1 February Manchester Opera Home
4 – 8 February Hull New Theatre
11 – 15 February Southend Cliffs Pavilion
18 – 22 February Glasgow Kings Theatre
25 February – 1 March Edinburgh Playhouse
4 – 8 March Liverpool Empire Theatre
11 – 15 March Birmingham Alexandra
18 – 22 March York Grand Opera Home
25 – 29 March Oxford New Theatre
1 – 5 April Bristol Hippodrome
8 – 12 April London New Wimbledon Theatre