Hit musical The Bodyguard will embark on its second UK later this year with an opening run at Glasgow Theatre Royal beginning on Monday 3 December 2018.
Produced by Michael Harrison and David Ian, the production will play Glasgow until Saturday 29 December before beginning the 2019 leg of the tour at the Hull New Theatre from 8-19 January.
The production will then visit Southend Cliff’s Pavilion (22 January-2 February), Liverpool Empire (26 February-9 March), Milton Keynes Theatre (12-23 March), Bristol Hippodrome (26 March-6 April), Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff (16-27 April), Norwich Theatre Royal (30 April-11 May), Canterbury Marlowe Theatre (14-25 May), Southampton Mayflower (28 May-8 June), Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (12-22 June) and Wolverhampton Grand Theatre (25 June-6 July).
Casting and further dates are to be announced.
Based on the Laurence Kasdan’s blockbuster Whitney Houston/Kevin Costner movie, The Bodyguard musical received its world premiere in November 2012. Directed by Thea Sharrock, with a book by Oscar-winning writer Alex Dinelaris (Birdman), the original production featured Heather Headley in the extended role of Rachel Marron and Lloyd Owen as her bodyguard, Frank Farmer.
Recording artist Beverley Knight took over the central role a year later, with former X Factor winner Alexandra Burke in turn taking over from Knight in 2014. Burke continued to play the role in the show’s first UK and Ireland tour in 2016. Knight then stepped back in to play Marron again when the show returned to the West End at the end of 2016 and in to early 2017.
International productions of the show have been staged in the Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, Canada, Italy, Australia and China. The show can currently be seen in Stuttgart and Madrid and on tour in France and the USA.
Angela Thomas
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