Picture: Alan Davidson
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s musical comedy The Girls, based on the true story, the film and the award-winning play by Tim Firth, Calendar Girls, will return home to Yorkshire and the Leeds Grand Theatre on 15 August 2018, before touring to 42 theatres across the United Kingdom.
The critically acclaimed and award-winning production will complete its London season at the Phoenix Theatre on Saturday 15 July 2017. Before that, the musical comedy played sold-out seasons in Leeds and Manchester.
Producers David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers said: “We are so proud and thrilled with this production, and we want to take it to everyone who wants to see it in the country, and at prices they can afford.”
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth added: “We are delighted with the reception our musical has received in Leeds, Manchester and now London, and are thrilled that the show will be visiting towns and cities up and down the country, so that more people can get a chance to see it and, we hope, will also fall in love with The Girls.”
The Girls is inspired by the true story of a group of ladies, who decide to appear nude for a Women’s Institute calendar in order to raise funds to buy a settee for their local hospital, in memory of one of their husbands, and have to date raised almost £5 million for Bloodwise.
The musical comedy shows life in their Yorkshire village, how it happened, the effect on husbands, sons and daughters, and how a group of ordinary ladies achieved something extraordinary.
Gary Barlow and Tim Firth grew up in the same village in the north of England and have been friends for 25 years. With Take That, Barlow has written and co-written 14 No.1 singles, has sold more than 50 million records worldwide and is a six times Ivor Novello Award winner.
Firth has won the Olivier Award and UK Theatre Award for Best New Musical, and the British Comedy Awards’ Best Comedy Film for Calendar Girls.
Bloodwise, the UK’s specialist blood cancer charity, will receive monies from the production.
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Tickets for The Girls are available HERE.
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