Michael Harrison and David Ian have introduced casting for the first-ever UK and Ireland tour of The Drifters Girl, the acclaimed new West End musical which tells the exceptional story of one of many world’s biggest vocal teams and the lady who made them that includes hit songs embody Stand By Me, Saturday Night At The Movies and Save The Last Dance For Me.
Carly Mercedes Dyer will play music trade change-maker, Faye Treadwell. Last 12 months, Carly performed ‘Erma’ in Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre), for which she gained the WhatsOnStage Award (2022) for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role. She was additionally nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the position.
Carly will star alongside Ashford Campbell, who hit UK screens in ITV’s The X Factor as member of The Risk mentored by Tulisa Contostavlos. He continues his journey with The Drifters Girl having carried out as a part of the West End firm.
Today’s casting announcement additionally welcomes Jaydah Bell-Ricketts (A Little Princess, Royal Festival Hall; School Of Rock, Gillian Lynne Theatre) to her first touring position as Girl alongside Miles Anthony Daley (Tina Turner: The Musical, Aldwych Theatre; Choir of Man, Arts Theatre), Tarik Frimpong (The Wiz, Hope Mill Theatre; Aladdin, Prince Edward Theatre) and Daniel Haswell (Aint Too Proud, Prince Edward Theatre; The Book of Mormon, UK Tour; Motown: The Musical, UK & Ireland Tour).
Completing the solid is Loren Anderson, Tre Copeland-Williams, Ethan Davis, Matthew Dawkins and Linseigh Green.
Having performed to packed homes and nightly standing ovations on the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End (following a triumphant run at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal), the manufacturing lately introduced a UK Tour arriving for one week solely at The King’s Theatre, Glasgow on 9 April 2024 following large public demand to increase the preliminary tour dates.
Telling the exceptional story of The Drifters, one of many world’s biggest vocal teams, and the reality concerning the lady who made them. Faye Treadwell is the legendary supervisor of The Drifters who fought for 3 a long time alongside her husband (George Treadwell) to show Atlantic Records’ hottest vocal group into a worldwide phenomenon.
From the highs of hit data and sell-out excursions to the lows of authorized battles and private tragedy, The Drifters Girl charts the trailblazing efforts of the world’s first African American feminine music supervisor and the way she refused to ever surrender on the group she beloved. Thirty years and a whole lot of hit songs later, there is no such thing as a doubt that Faye Treadwell was and at all times shall be, The Drifters Girl.
The Drifters Girl boasts an unimaginable soundtrack of a few of the most well-known songs in historical past, together with Save The Last Dance For Me, Under The Boardwalk, Kissin In The Back Row Of The Movies, Stand By Me, Come On Over To My Place, Saturday Night At The Movies and plenty of extra.
King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Tue 9 – Sat 13 April
Tues-Sat: 7:30pm
Wed, Thu & Sat: 2:30pm
www.atgtickets.com/glasgow
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