The second UK and Ireland tour of Kay Mellor’s crowd-pleasing Fat Friends – the Musical has been put on hold due to Covid. Just days before the production was due to launch at Dartford’s Orchard Theatre, the producers announced the cancellation of all scheduled dates due to “recent and ongoing Covid-related events”. Thanking audiences for […]
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Musical Theatre 2022 Preview – all you need to know
With Covid-related delays and cancellations still plaguing theatre productions, we know it is impossible to predict whether all the shows listed below will go ahead, but we will continue to keep the faith and support all the incredible creatives bringing us these wonderful musical theatre openings in 2022 – in the West End, on the London […]
Sherrie Hewson, Les Dennis and Jessica Ellis join the touring cast of Fat Friends The Musical
Further casting has been announced for the UK and Ireland tour of Kay Mellor’s hit Fat Friends The Musical. With original music by Nick Lloyd Webber, the tour will open at Dartford Orchard Theatre on 14 January 2022. Joining the previously announced Lee Mead as Kevin will be Sherrie Hewson as Julia, Jessica Ellis as […]
Lee Mead to star in 2022 UK and Ireland tour of Fat Friends musical
Lee Mead will star in the second UK and Ireland tour of Kay Mellor’s crowd-pleasing Fat Friends – the Musical in 2022. The actor who first shot to fame as the winner of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s television talent search for his new Joseph in 2007 and went on to star in a series of major […]
INTERVIEW: Actress Chlöe Hart on returning to the role of Tracy Turnblad – in a prison production – & what it meant to her
In February and March, just before Covid-19 locked down theatreland, CHLÖE HART went to prison to revisit the role of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray that took her from the Guildford School of Acting directly to a West End lead role at the Shaftesbury in 2009. Here she tells Musical Theatre Review contributor Jeremy Chapman what […]
Fat Friends the Musical – full cast details
Full casting for Kay Mellor’s new musical Fat Friends the Musical has been unveiled. Fat Friends the Musical will premiere at Leeds Grand this November with an extensive UK tour to follow in 2018. Joining the previously announced cast, Natasha Hamilton (Atomic Kitten) will take on the role of Julia, Kevin Kennedy (Coronation Street) stars […]
Natalie Anderson signs up for Fat Friends The Musical
Former Emmerdale star Natalie Anderson is the latest addition to the cast for the UK tour of Fat Friends The Musical. The actress, whose stage roles since leaving the ITV soap have included Nessarose in the West End production of Wicked, will play Lauren the role originated on screen by her Emmerdale co-star Gaynor Faye. […]
Fat Friends The Musical – Freddie Flintoff to swap cricket field for the stage
Former England cricketer turned TV personality Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff will make his stage debut in Fat Friends The Musical for seven dates during the UK tour. Flintoff will play the role of Kevin Chadwick opposite the show’s leading lady Jodie Prenger as his fiancée Kelly, joining the opening run of the musical re-shaping of popular […]
Fat Friends The Musical – Sam Bailey and Elaine C Smith join cast
Former X Factor winner Sam Bailey and award-winning comedian and actress Elaine C Smith will join the previously announced Jodie Prenger in the major new musical re-shaping of popular ITV drama Fat Friends later this year. Bailey, the former real-life prison officer whose theatre roles include playing Mamma Morton in last year’s UK tour of […]
Dieting drama Fat Friends shapes up for musical debut
This November a major new musical re-shaping of popular ITV drama Fat Friends will make its debut in Leeds, the hometown of its creator, top TV writer Kay Mellor. Written and directed by prolific Mellor and with original music by Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Fat Friends – The Musical will star West End favourite Jodie Prenger […]
