(left to right) The cast of the touring production of The Wedding Singer: Cassie Compton, Ray Quinn, Ruth Madoc, Jon Robyns and Roxanne Pallett. Picture: Darren Bell
A new production of The Wedding Singer will tour the UK in 2017, opening on Monday 6 February at Leicester Curve. Jon Robyns, Ray Quinn, Cassie Compton, Roxanne Pallett and Ruth Madoc will star in the musical based on the hit film.
It’s 1985. Hair is huge, greed is good and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s favourite wedding singer. When his own fiancée dumps him at the altar, a seriously bummed out Robbie makes every wedding as disastrous as his own.
Can sweet natured Julia and her best friend Holly lure Robbie out of the dumpster and back into the limelight? Or is he going to see her head off down the aisle with Wall Street bad boy Glen. Only Grandma Rosie seems to be able to see that Robbie and Julia are the couple that are meant to be.
Jon Robyns plays Robbie Hart. Most recently he starred in Legally Blonde as Emmett Forrest, other theatre credits include Enjolras in Les Misérables, plus Spamalot, Memphis and Avenue Q.
He is joined on stage by British singer-songwriter Ray Quinn as Glen who shot to fame as the runner-up in ITV1’s The X Factor in 2006 and as champion of Dancing On Ice in 2009. In 2014 he won Dancing On Ice: Champion of Champions. His theatre credits include Danny Zuko in Grease (West End), Dirty Dancing (West End) and Legally Blonde (UK tour).
Cassie Compton plays Julia; her roles include Sabrina in American Psycho (Almeida, London) and Eponine in Les Misérables. Playing best friend Holly, Roxanne Pallett is perhaps best known for her long-standing role as Jo in ITV’s Emmerdale. She has also appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Vagina Monologues and John Godber’s On The Piste on stage.
Comedy veteran Ruth Madoc joins the company as Grandma Rosie. Madoc became a household name in the 1980s when she played Gladys Pugh in BBC comedy series Hi-De-Hi! More recently she has been seen on screen in ITV’s Benidorm, Mount Pleasant (Sky) and Stella (Sky). Samuel Holmes (Mrs Henderson Presents, West End) will play George. Further casting is to be announced.
The Wedding Singer 2017 UK tour is directed and choreographed by Nick Winston. Set and costumes are by Francis O’Connor. Musical supervision is by Sarah Travis with musical direction and orchestration by George Dyer. Lighting Design is by Ben Cracknell with sound design by Richard Brooker. Video design is by Jack Henry James and casting by Jim Arnold. The Wedding Singer is produced by Dan Looney, Paulden Hall Productions, Tom O’Connell and Jason Haigh-Ellery.
The Wedding Singer has music by Matthew Sklar, a book by Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy, lyrics by Beguelin and is based upon the New Line Cinema film written by Herlihy.
www.theweddingsingermusical.co.uk
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