Olivier Award-winning actress Ruthie Henshall will star as Dorothy Brock, alongside Olivier-nominee Adam Garcia as Julian Marsh, stage and TV character Les Dennis as Bert Barry and Nicole-Lily Baisden as Peggy Sawyer in forty second STREET at Curve, Leicester and Sadler’s Wells.
They shall be joined by Sam Lips as Billy Lawlor, with Erica-Jayne Alden, George Beet, Charlie Bishop, Briana Craig, Ashleigh Graham, Alyn Hawke, Aimee Hodnett, Connor Hughes, Sarah-Marie Maxwell, Ben Middleton, Benjamin Mundy, Anthony Ofoegbu and Jessica Wright.
The manufacturing opens at Curve, Leicester on Wednesday seventeenth May 2023, adopted by a season at Sadler’s Wells, London from Wednesday seventh June 2023 earlier than embarking on a UK tour. Further casting for the tour shall be introduced in the end.
Ruthie Henshall not too long ago appeared as Tosca in a reimagining of Sondheim’s Passion on the Hope Mill Theatre. Her intensive theatrical credit embrace Grizabella in Cats, Fantine in Les Miserables, Nancy in Oliver!, Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and Mama Morton in Chicago, Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot and Amalia Balash in She Loves Me, for which she gained the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Throughout her profession she has additionally appeared within the unique London productions of Miss Saigon, Children of Eden, Crazy for You, The Woman in White, Peggy Sue Got Married and Marguerite. Henshall additionally excursions throughout the UK, USA and Australia as a live performance performer, and beforehand appeared in ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! In 2020.
Adam Garcia’s theatre credit embrace The Artilleryman in The War of the Worlds, Damien Karras in The Exorcist, Fiyero in Wicked, and Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me, Kate and Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, each of which acquired Olivier Award nominations for his roles. His movie credit embrace Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, Coyote Ugly and Riding in Cars with Boys. Adam not too long ago appeared as a finalist within the UK sequence of The Masked Dancer, ending in second place.
Les Dennis most not too long ago starred as Grandad Trotter in Only Fools and Horses The Musical. His different West End credit embrace Wilbur in Hairspray reverse Michael Ball on the London Coliseum, Amos Hart in Chicago and Bill in Me and My Girl. His touring theatre credit embrace Art, Legally Blonde, High School Musical 2 and Uncle Fester within the musical comedy The Addams Family. His many TV credit embrace Michael Rodwell in Coronation Street and a fictional model of himself in Extras.
Nicole-Lily Baisden’s theatre credit embrace the position of Nabulungi in The Book of Mormon, each within the West End and on tour, and Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes on the Barbican Theatre and on tour.
Sam Lips’ theatre credit embrace the position of Don Lockwood in Singin’ In The Rain and Scott Hastings in Strictly Ballroom, each within the UK and Canada. His Broadway credit Cats, Chicago, Pippin, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and The Cher Show.
This new manufacturing shall be directed by Jonathan Church (Singin’ within the Rain, The Drifters Girl) with choreography and design by Olivier Award winners Bill Deamer and Rob Jones, lighting design by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Ian Dickinson and Gareth Tucker, video design by Jon Driscoll, musical supervision by Jennifer Whyte and orchestrations by Larry Blank.
This iconic song-and-dance spectacular encompasses a hit parade of toe-tapping songs, together with the title quantity, “We’re In The Money”, “Lullaby of Broadway”, “Shuffle Off To Buffalo” and “I Only Have Eyes For You”. forty second STREET is a timeless and galvanizing showbiz fairy story that mixes breath-taking faucet dance routines, backstage intrigue, basic romance and pleasant comedy to dazzling impact.
Fresh off the bus from small-town America, younger and exquisite Peggy Sawyer arrives in New York City dreaming of her identify in lights. She shortly catches the attention of a big-time director and lands a spot within the refrain line of Broadway’s latest present…and when the main woman will get injured, Peggy will get her shot at stardom.
forty second STREET is a larger-than-life, massively entertaining celebration of musicals and the irrepressible spirit of Broadway that’s assured to carry anybody’s spirits.
forty second STREET has music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Al Dubin, and ebook by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, primarily based on the novel by Bradford Ropes. Original course and dances had been by Gower Champion. The present was initially produced on Broadway by David Merrick.
Wednesday seventeenth May – Saturday third June 2023
Leicester Curve Theatre
Starring Ruthie Henshall, Adam Garcia and Les Dennis
Wednesday seventh June – Saturday 2nd July 2023
Sadler’s Wells
Starring Ruthie Henshall, Adam Garcia and Les Dennis
Thursday thirteenth July – Saturday twenty second July 2023
Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre
Tuesday twenty fifth July – Saturday twenty ninth July 2023
Leeds Grand Theatre
Monday thirty first July – Saturday fifth August 2023
Bristol Hippodrome
Monday seventh August – Saturday twelfth August 2023
Plymouth Theatre Royal
Monday 14th August – Saturday nineteenth August 2023
Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre
Monday twenty first August – Saturday twenty sixth August 2023
Glasgow Theatre Royal
Monday twenty eighth August – Saturday 2nd September 2023
Milton Keynes Theatre
Monday 4th September – Saturday ninth September 2023
Liverpool Empire
Monday 18th September – Saturday twenty third September 2023
Woking, New Victoria Theatre
Tuesday third October – Saturday seventh October 2023
Mayflower, Southampton
Tuesday tenth October – Saturday 14th October 2023
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Monday sixteenth October – Saturday twenty first October 2023
Manchester Opera House
Tuesday twenty fourth October – Saturday twenty eighth October 2023
Belfast, Grand Opera House