West End and TV star Darren Day will return to the position of Billy Flynn, alongside worldwide recording artist and pop star Sinitta as Mama Morton, within the UK and Ireland tour of CHICAGO coming to Glasgow’s King’s Theatre from Monday 18 – Saturday 23 August 2025.
The position of Roxie Hart will probably be performed by former Strictly Come Dancing skilled and TV Presenter Janette Manrara.
Darren Day beforehand returned to the position of Billy Flynn in November 2024, having been a part of the 2021 UK and Ireland and Dubai tour of Chicago. His many West End credit embody the title position in Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat on the London Palladium, Tony Parker in Copacabana on the Prince of Wales Theatre, Danny Zuko in Grease on the Cambridge Theatre, and Michael Witney on this planet première of Close-Up – The Twiggy Musical on the Menier Chocolate Factory. His UK touring theatre credit embody the roles of Hugo/Loco Chanel in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Rev. Shaw Moore in Footloose, Kashoggi in We Will Rock You, Frank n Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Tick in Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical and Don in Summer Holiday. Darren’s quite a few TV credit embody Danny Houston in Hollyoaks, David Wilde in Doctors and Will Morgan in Stella. He was a contestant on the very first collection of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! and a finalist on Celebrity Big Brother.
Sinitta is a global recording artist having launched 15 hit pop data together with So Macho, Toyboy and Cross My Broken Heart. No stranger to the stage, she has appeared within the West End productions of Cats, Little Shop of Horrors, Hair, Smokey Joe’s Café and because the feminine lead in Mutiny! She most lately appeared within the UK and Ireland tour of Now That’s What I Call A Musical. Since the mid-00s Sinitta has remained within the highlight turning into a mentor to younger rising expertise as Simon Cowell’s right-hand lady on The X Factor.
Janette Manrara is greatest recognized for having been on Strictly Come Dancing, reaching the finals with HRVY, in addition to co-hosting BBC2’s It Takes Two and internet hosting the Strictly Live tour throughout the UK. Her earlier theatre credit embody the Broadway and worldwide tour of Burn the Floor, in addition to UK touring productions A Christmas To Remember, Remembering Fred, Remembering the Movies and a streamed model of Remembering the Oscars, all along with her husband Aljaž Škorjanec. Janette can also be an writer, having launched her debut ebook, ‘Tiny Dancer, Big World’.
They be part of West End main girl Djalenga Scott as Velma Kelly, alongside Joshua Lloyd as Amos Hart and Jordan Lee Davies as Mary Sunshine.
The forged is accomplished by Bethany Adamson, Victoria Anderson, Josh Crowther, Joe Dale, Jessica Keable, Robin Kent, Annabelle Laing, Jacob McLay Reid, Jonathan Milton, George Olney, Oliver Ramsdale, Elly Shaw, Lucy Anne Stacey, Matthew Sweet and Ria Tanaka.
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the Nineteen Twenties, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to stroll out on her. Desperate to keep away from conviction, she dupes the general public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest felony lawyer to remodel her malicious crime right into a barrage of sensational headlines, the likes of which could simply as simply be ripped from right this moment’s tabloids.
Created by the musical theatre abilities of John Kander, Fred Ebb and legendary choreographer Bob Fosse, CHICAGO’s horny, sassy rating contains the show-stopping songs “Razzle Dazzle”, “Cell Block Tango”, and “All That Jazz”. Winner of six Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards and a Grammy, CHICAGO is the longest operating American musical in Broadway and West End historical past.
Since it opened in New York in 1996, CHICAGO has performed in 38 international locations worldwide, and been carried out in English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, French, Danish, Japanese and Korean. Worldwide it has been seen by an estimated 34 million folks, grossed over $1.7 billion has performed over 35,000 performances.
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