The King’s Theatre in Glasgow will host the Scottish premiere of NOW That’s What I Call A Musical in 2025 and are delighted to announce that Sam Bailey will star as April). NOW That’s What I Call A Musical is a brand-new British musical touring the UK and Ireland written by award-winning comic Pippa Evans and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood.
Sam joins the beforehand introduced Nina Wadia, who will star as Gemma in addition to array of particular visitor stars taking part in themselves at sure performances and singing the songs that made them NOW icons. Casting for Glasgow is but to be introduced.
Sam Bailey acquired her first huge break as a singer-songwriter when she received The X Factor in 2013. Her debut single, Skyscraper, immediately grew to become a business success making the coveted Christmas primary spot in 2013. Consequently, the one was launched in a bodily format alongside a few of her most memorable X Factor performances. Her debut album The Power of Love was additionally primary within the British charts in March 2014 and, in assist of the album, Bailey went on her first headline tour in January and February 2015. Her second album Sing My Heart Out was launched in 2016. Her theatre work consists of Mamma Morton in Chicago (UK tour), Betty Simpson in Fat Friends the Musical (UK tour), Vampires Rock (UK tour), Mrs. Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK tour and London Palladium) and most not too long ago Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (UK tour).
Get able to relive the playlist of your life by celebrating 40 years of the enduring and chart-topping compilations model NOW That’s What I Call Music, which has bought an estimated 200 million copies worldwide. This fun-filled night is bursting with hits from Whitney Houston, Wham! Blondie, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet and so many extra.
It’s Birmingham, 1989. Two faculty pals, Gemma and April, are busy with essential enterprise – planning their lives primarily based on Number One Magazine quizzes and dreaming of snogging Rick Astley. Cut to Birmingham 2009 and it’s probably the most dreaded occasion of their lives– the varsity reunion. Drama, previous flames and receding hairlines come collectively as pals reunite and every little thing from the previous begins to fit into place. The greatest query is: what was with all that hairspray?
King’s Theatre, Glasgow
18 – 22 February 2025
