The King’s Theatre, Glasgow are delighted to announce that 90’s pop star Sonia will be part of the forged of the Scottish premiere of NOW That’s What I Call A Musical in 2025.
This brand-new British musical written by award-winning comic Pippa Evans and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood. NOW That’s What I Call A Musical involves Glasgow from Tuesday 18 – Saturday 22 February 2025.
Joining the corporate are Kieran Cooper (Strictly Ballroom – UK tour) as Younger Tim, Christopher Glover (The Kite Runner – 2024 Ireland UK Tour) as Dad, Chris Grahamson (Phil Spector in TINA – The Tina Turner Musical) as Tim, Maia Hawkins (Cassie in A Chorus Line at Doreen Bird College) as Younger April, Lauren Hendricks (Much Ado About Nothing on the East London Shakespeare Festival) as Ms Dorian, Shakil Hussain (Frankie Goes to Bollywood – UK tour) as Frank, Nikita Johal (Wendla in Spring Awakening at Hope Mill Theatre) as Younger Gemma, Luke Latchman (Sunset Boulevard on the Savoy Theatre) as Younger Frank, Matthew Mori (skilled debut) as Younger Steve, Phil Sealey (TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] – UK Tour) as Steve, Callum Tempest (Miss Saigon at Sheffield Crucible) as Barney and Poppy Tierney (Cabaret at Lido 2, Paris) as Mum.
The forged is accomplished by Emily Barnett-Salter (Annie – UK Tour), Molly Cheesley (Jane Austen’s Emma – UK Tour), Lizzy Ives (skilled debut), Stefanos Petri (skilled debut), Martha Pothen (Oliver! at Leeds Playhouse) and Blake Tuke (West Side Story, Opera Australia).
They be part of the beforehand introduced Nina Wadia who will star as Gemma and Sam Bailey as April. Sonia will seem within the present as herself, singing the songs that made her a NOW icon.
Get able to relive the playlist of your life by celebrating 40 years of the long-lasting and chart-topping compilations model NOW That’s What I Call Music, which has offered an estimated 200 million copies worldwide. This fun-filled night is bursting with hits from Blondie, Tears For Fears, Spandau Ballet, Eurythmics and so many extra..
It’s Birmingham, 1989. Two college associates, Gemma and April, are busy with crucial 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 associates reunite and all the pieces from the previous begins to fit into place. The largest query is: what was with all that hairspray?
