Celebrating the 20-year anniversary of its premiere on ITV in 2002 and forward of a deliberate stage
musical manufacturing, Big Broad Productions are subsequent month releasing an 18-track studio forged recording of Footballers’ Wives The Musical.
Alice Fearn and Simon Bailey are our energy couple, Tanya and Jason Turner, workforce Captain and Captain’s spouse supreme! Emma Hatton and Liam Doyle are Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe and Kyle Pascoe, the superstar soccer couple who’ve bought all of it. Chelsea Halfpenny and Ashley Samuels are the newbies Donna and Ian Walmsley, taking their first steps within the Premier League highlight. Ivano Turco is Salvo, the recent new Brazilian participant set to ruffle a number of feathers – particularly Jason’s! Julie Legrand reprises her notorious TV function as Nurse Dunkley – fortunately not your common bedside nurse! And Ben Richards, who starred as Bruno within the TV collection, performs in opposition to sort (being extraordinarily good-looking!) as Frank Laslett, the membership Chairman and main impediment to Tanya getting issues to go her approach. The ensemble are Nikki Davison, Soophia Foroughi, Adam Hepworth, Tom Hier, Kat Kleve, Emma Lindars, Nadim Naaman and Joe Thompson-Oubari.
Footballers’ Wives The Musical shall be launched on 25 November, 2022 and shall be out there to stream from all main distributors.
A musical comedy noir primarily based on the cult responsible pleasure noughties TV drama, Footballers’ Wives The Musical has a ebook by Maureen Chadwick, co-creator of the unique TV collection, and music & lyrics by Kath Gotts (additionally co-creators of Bad Girls – The Musical).
Kath Gotts stated:
“We have decided to go down the same route as Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and release the album of the show before it reaches the stage. It’s been fantastic working with Joe and Nikki Davison. Their orchestrations are wonderfully inventive and so much fun. And Alice Fearn as Tanya Turner is a dream. Not only is her voice amazing but she’s been a real ‘team captain’ throughout the whole process. There are 18 tracks, so it’s not the entire show, but that means there’ll still be new things to hear at the next stage. We’ve pulled together a brilliant cast and we can’t wait to get these songs out there for more people to join in our crazy world of Footballers’ Wives The Musical.”
Footballers’ Wives The Musical is predicated across the first TV season, and follows the autumn and rise of captain’s spouse and fabulously flawed super-bitch Tanya Turner as she struggles to avoid wasting her marriage and the profession of her dishonest husband, Jason.
Let’s wind again to 2002 when Premier League Football was the brand new Rock ‘n’ Roll – with the cash, the glamour and the unhealthy behaviour to match. At Earls Park FC, the gamers’ wives live it to the max.
These WAGs have the designer gear, the palatial properties, the flash automobiles and the good-looking celebrity husbands – and the press pack on their kitten heels at each flip.
Footballers’ Wives The Musical comprises scenes of an grownup nature and completely no soccer, together with disastrous hen and stag nights, a fairy story wedding ceremony, deception, betrayal and homicide – plus a surprisingly blissful ending.
It is predicated on the WBTVPUK collection. Produced by particular association with Warner Bros. Theatre
Ventures. Co-producers are Arden Entertainment and Sally Humphreys Productions.
There shall be an unique preview efficiency this weekend at Musical Con, the West End’s first ever musical theatre fan conference at ExCeL London. See beneath for a taster of one of many tracks from Ivano Turco.