Rosemary Ashe and Sara Crowe will feature in the new musical Crush, starting off at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Belgrade Theatre Coventry and Big Broad Productions present Crush, the brand new musical, which will premiere at the Belgrade, running from Friday 4 to Saturday 19 September 2015. The show will then run at Theatre Royal Brighton (22–26 September) and Richmond Theatre (29 September–3 October).
Starring Rosemary Ashe, Sara Crowe and Kirsty Malpass, the show is presented by a creative team whose hit stage and screen work includes Waterloo Road, Footballers’ Wives, Bad Girls: The Musical, The Sound of Music and La Cage Aux Folles.
It’s 1963 and Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for Girls has a proud tradition of fostering free spirits from all walks of life – so it’s a crushing blow when the new Headmistress turns out to be a tyrant with strict Victorian values.
Giving a new twist to the world of Malory Towers and The Girl’s Own Annual, with lashings of charm and toe-tapping tunes, Crush is a coming-of-age romp that celebrates schoolgirl friendships and fighting for what you believe in.
Prepare for riotous routines and hockey sticks to the fore as the girls battle to save their school – and find true love – in this new musical comedy.
Rosemary Ashe plays Miss Bleacher, Sara Crowe plays Miss Austin and Kirsty Malpass plays Miss Givings.
Rosemary Ashe has appeared in numerous West End productions including: Carlotta the Prima Donna in the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables, Widow Corney in Oliver!, Felicia Gabriel in The Witches of Eastwick (for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical) and Miss Andrew, the nasty nanny in Mary Poppins. She recently played Grandma Mole in a brand new musical version of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ at Leicester Curve. She has also appeared with English National Opera, Opera North, Sadler’s Wells Opera and Carl Rosa, in many roles including Musetta in La Bohème, Frasquita in Carmen and Despina in Cosi Fan Tutti.
Sara Crowe’s many West End appearances include Sybil in Private Lives, for which she won an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress, Hay Fever, for which she was Olivier nominated, Calendar Girls and Bedroom Farce and, on tour, Acorn Antiques the Musical and Absurd Person Singular. She became a household name in the 1990s appearing in the Philadelphia cheese TV adverts. She is a regular voice on Nickelodeon’s Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom where she plays Queen Thistle and Mrs. Witch and she recently appeared in EastEnders as Sheila Morris.
Kirsty Malpass has most recently appeared in the West End in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Other London credits include Stroke of Luck (Park Theatre), Chariots of Fire (Gielgud Theatre) and Jerry Springer the Opera (Cambridge Theatre). National tours include The Sound of Music, It’s a Wonderful Life and Honk!
The cast also includes Eleanor Brown as Judith, Stephanie Clift as Susan, Emma Harrold as Lavinia, Catherine Hayworth as Annabel, James Meunier as Dorian, Brianna Ogunbawo as Daimler, Georgia Oldman as Brenda and Charlotte Miranda-Smith as Camilla.
Crush is written by Maureen Chadwick (creator and writer of hit TV dramas Waterloo Road, Footballers’ Wives and Bad Girls, and stage musicals The Realness, Bad Girls the Musical and Joséphine), with music and lyrics by Kath Gotts (Bad Girls the Musical and The Realness), orchestrations and musical supervision by Steve Edis, and directed by Anna Linstrum (High Society, The Sound of Music and Spend, Spend, Spend).
The show is choreographed by Richard Roe and designed by David Farley, with lighting by Johanna Town.
The show is presented by Big Broad Productions, in co-production with Belgrade Theatre Coventry.
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