Former Strictly champion Ore Oduba will follow his theatrical debut in Grease by joining comedian Jason Manford for the new touring production of Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-winning Curtains.
Appearing at selected venues during the tour which launches this autumn, the BBC TV presenter will play composer Aaron Fox alongside the previously announced Manford (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Producers) who will take on the central role of the musical-loving detective Frank Cioffi.
They will be joined by Les Misérables’ current Fantine, Carley Stenson (Legally Blonde, Savoy Theatre) as Georgia Hendricks, Rebecca Lock (Heathers The Musical, Haymarket Theatre) as Carmen, Samuel Holmes (The Wedding Singer UK tour), Leah West (Grand Hotel, Southwark Playhouse), and Alan Burkitt (Top Hat, Aldwych Theatre and tour).
The cast will include: Emma Caffrey as Bambi, Adam Rhys-Charles as Daryl Grady, Martin Callaghan as Oscar Shapiro, Minal Petal as Johnny Harmon and Mark Sangster as Sidney. The ensemble will be made up of Kathryn Barnes, Pamela Blair, Charlie Johnson, Kate Ivory Jordan, Robin Kent, Thomas Lee-Kid, Ben Mundy, Gleanne Purcell-Brown and Samuel John-Humphreys.
Presented by Dan Looney, Adam Paulden and Jason Haigh-Ellery for DLAP Entertainment, the production will launch at Bromley’s Churchill Theatre on 4 October 2019 at the start of a UK and Ireland tour which will end at the Southampton Mayflower Theatre on 11 April 2020.
One of the later musicals from the prolific partnership of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago), the musical mystery boasts a book by Rupert Holmes (Drood), based on an original book and concept by Peter Stone (Charade).
Debuting on Broadway in 2007, the show featured a crowd-pleasing and Tony Award-winning performance from Frasier’s David Hyde Pierce as Cioffi, the detective on the trail of a killer who murdered the leading lady of a new Broadway-bound musical on stage on opening night.
Director Paul Foster (Kiss Me, Kate and Annie Get Your Gun for Sheffield Crucible) will head a creative team that includes: choreographer Alistair David, musical supervisor and arranger Sarah Travis, set designer David Woodhead, costume designer Gabriella Slade, lighting designer Tim Mitchell, sound designer Tom Marshall and casting director Jim Arnold CDG.
Following the Bromley run, the tour will visit Manchester, Cardiff, Sheffield, Birmingham, Darlington, Dartford, and Stoke-On-Trent. The 2020 leg of the tour will begin in Wimbledon, Sunderland, Liverpool, Norwich, Northampton,Blackpool, Glasgow, Leicester, Wolverhampton and Southampton.
Angela Thomas
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