(L-R) Hadrian Delacey, James Gaddas, Robert Duncan, Pete Gallagher, Dakota Starr, Dan Buckley and Anton Stephans have been cast in Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical. Picture: Danny Kaan
The full cast has been announced for the 2022/2023 UK and Ireland touring production of Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical which will launch at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on 1 September 2022. The production will also make its North American premiere, opening at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto, Canada on 27 November 2022 for a limited Christmas season, before returning to the UK in 2023.
Jason Langley (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, West End; Oslo, West End/National Theatre) will play record promoter Danny, Dan Buckley (Eugenius!, The Other Palace and London Palladium; The Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre) will play Rowan, Dakota Starr (The Girls, West End/Leeds Grand Theatre/The Lowry; Troilus and Cressida, RSC) will play Ben, Pete Gallagher (original West End cast of Only Fools And Horses, Theatre Royal Haymarket; Jesus Christ Superstar Arena Tour) will play Wiggie, Hadrian Delacey (Miss Saigon, Theatre Royal Drury Lane; Les Misérables, Palace Theatre; Jerry Springer The Opera, National Theatre and Cambridge Theatre) will play Archie, Fia Houston-Hamilton (The Wolf of Wall Street, immersive London production; Mamma Mia!, UK tour) will play Leah, Hazel Monaghan (Romeo & Juliet/The Merry Wives of Windsor/A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Macbeth/Much Ado About Nothing, The Three Inch Fools) will play Sally, John O’Mahony (As You Like It, Shakespeare’s Globe; The Tempest, Regent’s Park) will play Eddy, Louisa Beadel (Fame, West End and UK tour; King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe) will play Morwenna, Becky Hurst (making her theatre debut) will play Grace and James William-Pattison (Once, UK tour; The Last Ship, UK tour) will play Owen.
Musicians Hazel Askew, Mel Biggs and Alfie Gidley will be led by musical director James Findlay. Ensemble cast members are Hazel Simmons, Janet Mooney, Dominic Brewer and Martin Carroll.
They will be joining the previously announced James Gaddas (The Girls, Billy Elliot, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Mamma Mia!) as Jim, Parisa Shahmir (The Snow Queen, The Last Ship and Mamma Mia!) as Alwyn, Robert Duncan (Drop the Dead Donkey, Casualty, Where the Heart Is, Twelve Angry Men) as Jago, Susan Penhaligon (Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Emmerdale, A Fine Romance, Three Sisters, Of Mice and Men) as Maggie and Anton Stephans (Blues Brothers Meet Soul Sisters, Porgy and Bess, Starlight Express and Smokey Joe’s Cafe) as Leadville.
The UK, Ireland and Canada tour follows a highly successful, sold-out season at Hall for Cornwall, where box office records were smashed, making it the biggest selling production in Hall for Cornwall’s 25-year history.
Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical is based on the true story of the Cornish singing sensations, Fisherman’s Friends, and the hit 2019 film about their life. When a group of Cornish fishermen came together to sing the traditional working songs they’d sung for generations, they hoped to raise a few quid for charity. Nobody, least of all the fishermen, expected their story to end on the Pyramid stage of Glastonbury.
The musical is directed by James Grieve and written by Amanda Whittington with choreography by Matt Cole, musical direction by James Findlay, set and costume design by Lucy Osborne, musical supervision and arrangements by David White, sound design by Dan Samson, lighting design by Johanna Town and casting by Jim Arnold.
The hit 2019 Fisherman’s Friends movie, with a screenplay by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth, delighted fans across the world. The sequel film, Fisherman’s Friends: One and All, is set to be released in the UK on 19 August 2022.
Angela Thomas
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