Calendar Girls FC

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Calendar Girls FC

Monday 7th – Saturday 19th February 2011
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Welcome!
Dear Theatregoers,
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to tonight’s performance of the
West End smash hit – Calendar Girls.
This show is full of famous faces including Lynda Bellingham, Jennifer Ellison
and Ruth Madoc and is a great way to kick off our year of West End shows!
A brand new production of the legendary West End and Broadway musical
Chess will run at the theatre in March. Directed by Strictly Come Dancing’s
Craig Revel Horwood and with music written by Tim Rice and Abba’s Bjorn
Ulvaeus and Benny Anderson, Chess is one of the greatest musicals of all
time. Hits include One Night in Bangkok, You and I and of course I Know Him
So Well.
Grand Canal Theatre
Grand Canal Square
Docklands
Dublin 2
Republic of Ireland
Stephen Faloon
General Manager
Isobel Rigby
Deputy General Manager
Joy Russell
Assistant Manager
For those that like their visual dance spectacles we also welcome the
West End sensation Stomp! I am delighted to announce that the hugely
successful singer, songwriter and front man of Wet Wet Wet Marti Pellow,
makes a hotly-anticipated return to the stage in a major new tour of the
hit Broadway musical, Jekyll & Hyde in March. This show is glamorous, sexy
and deliciously wicked in equal measures!
Kathy Doyle
Press & Marketing Manager
The world’s best-loved musical, The Sound Of Music, is coming to Dublin
direct from the London Palladium. This lavish and critically acclaimed
production stars Jason Donovan and features all the favourites including
Climb Ev’ry Mountain, Do-Re-Mi and of course the glorious title song The
Sound of Music.
Denise Leahy
The Circle Club
Sales & Marketing Manager
Phil Jupitus will star in Spamalot in May alongside Jodie Prenger and
Todd Carty. This will be followed by Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, featuring ‘Any Dream Will Do’ runner up Keith Jack.
Niall Sabongi
Circle Club Operations Manager
I am extremely excited to announce that the producers of Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang have chosen to return to the Grand Canal Theatre to perform
the World Premiere of a new musical version of Peter Pan.
Throw your mittens around your kittens and Hand Jive the night away
when Grease arrives at the theatre later in the year. And for all those
Abba fans, get ready to relive the classics with the Global Smash Hit
Mamma Mia! in October.
Opera lovers will be delighted to hear that Scottish Opera will return this
year with their performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Music lovers will also be excited to hear that Michael Ball and Chris
deBurgh will perform this year, as well as an appearance from The Wiggles,
to keep the children entertained!
We are dedicated to creating an unforgettable night at the theatre so if
there is anything you need, our members of staff will be delighted to help!
Happy theatre going!
Christine Shine
Bar & Retail Manager
Luke Child
Technical Manager
Roxane Keeney
Group Bookings Manager
Eoin Crowley
Management Accountant
Shay Bowden
Facilities Manager
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Stomp
Tuesday 1st – Sunday 6th March 2011 • Tickets: from €20
The international theatre sensation Stomp
comes to Dublin for the first time in over
fifteen years.
Stomp is a unique multi-award-winning
combination of percussion, theatre,
dance and comedy that consistently
wows audiences and critics alike with its
infectious rhythms.
Stomp has set feet stamping, fingers
drumming, adrenalin rushing and feel-good
sensations flooding through audiences
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totalling more than 15 million people in 48
countries across 5 continents.
With unstoppable energy and toetapping exuberance, Stomp takes the
clutter and junk of everyday life - everything
including the kitchen sink - and transforms
it into a pulsating, witty, utterly irresistible
theatrical event.
Don’t miss this chance to see what all the
noise is about.
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BILL KENWRIGHT
PRESENTS
MARTI PELLOW
IN
Jekyll and Hyde
Monday 7th - Saturday 12th March 2011 • Tickets: from €20
Marti Pellow, the hugely successful
solo artist and front man of Wet Wet
Wet, makes a hotly-anticipated return
to the UK stage in a major new tour of
the hit Broadway musical, Jekyll and
Hyde.
Written by Frank Wildhorn with
book and lyrics by the Academy
Award-winning composer Leslie
Bricusse (Scrooge, Doctor Dolittle),
the Broadway production of Jekyll
and Hyde ran for over 1500 sell-out
performances between 1997 and
2001. Glamorous, sexy and deliciously
wicked in equal measures, Jekyll
and Hyde is based on Robert Louis
Stevenson’s classic gothic novella.
Pellow stars as the brilliant but
obsessive scientist whose sadistic alter
ego wreaks havoc across Victorian
London in this dark tale of love,
redemption and the seductive power
of evil.
Chess
Tuesday 22nd - Saturday 26th March 2011 • Tickets: from €20
A brand-new production of the legendary
West End and Broadway musical Chess runs
at the Grand Canal Theatre from 22nd –
26th March 2011.
Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel
Horwood directs an amazing company of
actors and musicians in this extraordinary
new staging of the classic musical. Written
by Tim Rice and ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and
Benny Andersson, Chess has one of the
greatest musical theatre scores of all time
including One Night In Bangkok, Pity The
Child, Anthem, You And I and, of course, I
Know Him So Well which became a number
one hit for Elaine Paige and Barbara
Dickson. A superb cast of West End stars
including James Fox (Fame Academy, Jesus
Christ Superstar), Shona White (Wicked),
Daniel Koek (West Side Story) and Poppy
Tierney (Mary Poppins, Aspects of Love, The
Witches of Eastwick) lead a cast of actors
and musicians in this unmissable production.
‘DEFINITELY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS’
Southern Daily Echo
‘A FABULOUS NIGHT
AT THE THEATRE’
Western Mail
TUE 5 - SAT 30 APRIL 2011
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The Sound of Music
Tuesday 5th – Saturday 30th April 2011 • Tickets from €25
The world’s best-loved musical, The
Sound Of Music, is coming to Dublin
direct from the London Palladium.
This lavish and critically acclaimed
production tells the uplifting true story of
the Von Trapp family’s flight across the
mountains and works its magic once
again, for young and old alike.
With its unforgettable score The Sound
Of Music touches the hearts of all ages
and brims over with some of the most
memorable songs ever performed on
the musical stage including My Favorite
Things, Do-Re-Mi, Climb Ev’ry Mountain,
The Lonely Goatherd, Sixteen Going on
Seventeen, and of course the glorious
title song The Sound of Music. It’s the
perfect family treat!
‘A LAVISH, MUST-SEE TREAT’
Telegraph & Argus
www.thesoundofmusictour.com
STARRING
PHILL JUPITUS
JESSICA MARTIN
& TODD CARTY
MON 9 SAT 14 MAY
TICKETS FROM €20
Spamalot
Monday 9th – Saturday14th May 2011 • Tickets from €20
Audiences all around the world have been
roaring with laughter since Monty Python’s
Spamalot, by Eric Idle and John DuPrez, won
the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2005.
Spamalot tells the legendary tale of King
Arthur and the knights of the Round Table
and features a bevy (or possibly a brace) of
beautiful show girls, witch burnings (Cancelled
– health and safety) not to mention cows, killer
rabbits and French people.
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The show features the hilarious songs He Is Not
Dead Yet, Knights Of The Round Table, Find
Your Grail and of course the Nation’s Favourite
Comedy Song Always Look on the Bright Side
of Life.
Don’t miss your night with the Knights of The
Round Table at the most infectiously funny
musical of the millennium.
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‘IT EXPLODES LIKE GLITTERING
FIREWORKS. BRILLIANT!’
SUNDAY
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BY ARRANGEMENT WITH THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP PRESENTS
‘AMAZING’
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
‘UTTERLY
IRRESISTIBLE’
MAIL ON SUNDAY
LYRICS BY
TIM RICE
MUSIC BY
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
‘MAGNIFICENT’
EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Tuesday 31st May – Saturday 11th June 2011 • Tickets: from €20
Having enjoyed sensational reviews, Bill
Kenwright’s “Amazing”, “Superb”, “Wonderful”
and “Brilliant” production of Tim Rice and
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sparkling family
musical has enjoyed huge success in the UK
with standing ovations at every performance.
Keith Jack, the hugely popular runner-up who
finished just a hair’s breadth behind winner
Lee Mead in hit BBC series ‘Any Dream Will
Do’, takes on the title role, having won the
hearts of young and old with his sparkling
charisma and sensational singing voice.
Retelling the Biblical story of Joseph, his
eleven brothers and the coat of many
colours, this magical musical is full of
unforgettable songs including Any Dream Will
Do, Close Every Door To Me and One More
Angel.
Joseph bursts on to the stage at the Grand
Canal Theatre this May - so book your tickets
now and be part of the magic!
Peter Pan
Friday 15th July – Saturday 6th August 2011 • Tickets from €20
From the Producers of last years smash hit
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang comes the world
premiere of a new musical production of
that old classic beloved Peter Pan.
With stunning sets, sensational flying
sequences, a brand new score and a
sprinkling of fairy dust this exciting new
production premieres at the Grand Canal
Theatre in Dublin.
GRAND CANAL THEATRE
The enchanting tale of Peter Pan follows the
boy who won’t grow up as he encounters
the Darling family and takes them with him
on his adventures through Neverland.
A story of courage, friendship, loyalty, good
and evil and of course fairies this really is the
show for all the family.
Bring Out The Child In You and book your
tickets today.
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Based on the Miramax film ‘Calendar Girls’
written by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth
With
Lynda Bellingham
Jennifer Ellison
Trudie Goodwin
John Labanowski
Jane Lambert
Bruno Langley
Danielle Lineker
Ruth Madoc
Joe McGann
Diana Moran
Bernie Nolan
Lisa Riley
Gwen Taylor
Directed by Roger Haines
Set by Robert Jones
Costume by Jack Galloway
Lighting by Tim Lutkin
Music by Steve Parry
Sound by John Leonard
Casting by Sarah Bird
Associate Producer Stoneface Productions
Produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers
Monday 7th - Saturday 19th February 2011
BUY
CALENDAR
GIRLS
PRODUCTS
“When my husband John was diagnosed
with lymphoma in 1998, we coped with
his illness by focusing on short-term goals
– the main one being to see his favourite
plant, the sunfl ower, bloom again.
John’s illness was tragically short and he
didn’t live to reach his goal, but we have
retained the sunfl ower as the symbol of
the Calendar Girls and to remember John
in everything we do.
We could never have dreamed that the
calendar would be such a phenomenon.
We have now produced eight calendars,
chocolates, jams and have raised over
£2million thanks to the generosity
of people like you. 2010 is the charity’s
50th anniversary and we hope you’ll
help us make it our best year yet.
Leukaemia &
Lymphoma
Research invests
the money we
raise wisely to
fund better treatments and cures for
people with all blood cancers including
leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
Now we aim to make sure that families
don’t lose their loved ones prematurely
and that every patient can go on to live
a healthy and happy life.
We do this in a number of ways; for
example, we give talks and take part in
sponsored walks. We’re always open to
new ideas, so please call 020 7269 9003
to share yours. In the meantime, visit
the foyer or beatbloodcancershop.com
to view our special merchandise.
In the foyer you’ll fi nd a selection
of jams, dark and milk chocolates,
new greetings cards and the 2011
calendar (featuring colour pictures
of the original Girls and recipes).
For more Calendar Girls inspired
products visit our online shop
at beatbloodcancershop.com or
call 0844 8467607.
Proceeds from the sale of this
merchandise will fund life-saving
research into blood cancers,
including leukaemia, lymphoma
and myeloma.
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Red Letter Days The Story of Calendar Girls
By Al Senter
It is bitterly ironic that the story of the
Tricia suggested that we do our own
Calendar Girls, that has generated so much
calendar in the style of the Pirelli one and we
pleasure and enjoyment, should have
all discussed which months we would be.
opened with the kind of shattering news
So we went back to the idea, thinking that
which we all dread. John Baker, an
it would raise funds for the Leukaemia
apparently fit and healthy 53 year-old “who’d
Research Fund and entertain John at the
never had a day’s illness in his life”
same time. Not that he believed we would do
according to his wife, Angela, was
anything about it. ‘You’re all talk’, he’d say.
diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
‘It will never happen.’”
in February 1998. John’s many friends in
the close-knit picture postcard village of
In the event, the rapid decline in John’s
Cracoe were shell-shocked and they rallied
health - he died only five months after
round Angela and her family, determined to
receiving the diagnosis - added to the sense
do something positive to help.
of unreality which Angela felt. Then one day,
a few weeks after the funeral, she received
“John was the first of our group to contract
a visitor.
a serious illness”, recalls Angela. ‘We were
all members of the WI and the subject of the
‘There was Tricia, armed with
WI calendar would come round every year.
her clipboard. “Come on”, she said.
We were talking about it one night over
“Are we going to do this calendar
supper, before John became ill, and I
or not? Even if we don’t sell any,
remember one very funny half hour when
at least we’ll have tried to do something.”’
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The whole village wanted to do its bit and
Angela finally said: ‘Forget it - let’s get it done.’”
Tricia and Angela recruited volunteers from
Over the next six months, everything was
the WI - one lady who “only came to the
geared to the production of what would be
meetings if there was a good speaker” found
one of the first calendars of the new
herself enlisted. They had originally planned a
millennium. Seven of the 11 images required
modest print run for the calendar of a mere
were secured on that October night and the
1000 but the printer pointed out that this was
remaining four were subsequently wrapped
not a financially viable proposition and he
up. In order to coincide with the Annual
persuaded them to increase the order to 3000.
Conference of Leukaemia Research in Leeds,
Donations from individuals and local
the press launch was arranged for 12 April
businesses took care of the printing costs. All
1999 with the considerable help of the
that remained was for 11 good women and
brewery which owned the village pub.
true to bare all in a noble cause. Accordingly,
on a dark October night in 1998, ten shadowy
Tricia takes up the story: “The launch was
figures arrived at the home of local artist
unbelievable. We had invited family, friends and
Terry Logan and his wife Lynda, who was due
a few sponsors and we only had a hundred
to pose as Miss July. Although Terry was
calendars ready. We thought that the launch
better known as a landscape painter, he’d
would be over in a couple of hours. In fact,
worked in advertising for J Walter Thompson
the pub was packed and the media reaction
in Canada and therefore he knew precisely
was huge. The pub car park was packed with
what was required.
white vans with satellite dishes, men holding
furry sound things and cameramen
“I’d set up everything in advance and had
everywhere. We had imagined a few people
worked out what I wanted from each
turning up, but the whole place was packed
photograph. I tried to match each lady to her
and we could hardly push through the crowd.
strengths. Angela played the piano, for
The calendar made the Six O’Clock News on
example, and so I shot her at a piano. If the
the BBC, it was on Sky, News 24 and the next
lady had good legs, I made sure that we saw
night made the main evening news in Australia.
her legs. At first the ladies stood around in
It was fantastic to think that we were selling
their dressing-gowns, drinking red wine and I
hundreds of calendars and making money for
knew that if I waited any longer, some of them
the Leukaemia Research Fund.”
would try to bottle out. So finally I said to
them. ‘This is it, ladies, let’s get to work.’”
There followed a media blitz, further
interviews and appearances on radio and
Initially there was some resistance to having
television, three trips to the United States, an
a male presence in what should have been a
appearance on the Jay Leno show in Los
female preserve. ‘I stood in another room and
Angeles and even a visit to Buckingham
shouted instructions to Lynda but we soon
Palace to satisfy a calendar order from a very
realised that this wasn’t going to work. So
important customer. Then enter Suzanne
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Mackie and Nick Barton of Harbour Pictures
part of the Disney empire, joined the project
with an intriguing offer. Would the ladies like
and declared themselves happy to pick up the
to be immortalized on the silver screen?
entire tab.
“At the time, I was working with the
Nigel Cole was appointed director of the film
screenwriter Juliette Towhidi and we’d both
and, following discussions with him, Suzanne
heard about an article in The Guardian that
took the decision to invite Tim Firth to come
featured the Calendar Girls”, explains
on board. Firth was an appropriate choice for
Suzanne. “I had a gut feeling that this story
all kinds of reasons. “I’d been going on family
would make a film, although you can have
holidays to that part of the Yorkshire Dales
similar instinctive reactions and they never
since I was a tiny child”, reveals Firth. “Not
lead to anything. So Juliette and I went up to
only that, but I had actually bought a calendar
Yorkshire to meet Angela and Tricia and I
at the fete and had it hanging opposite me for
found out that nobody else had approached
a whole year. When the call came from
them about doing a film. Then they sent me a
Suzanne, I had to rescue it from the bin where
proof copy of the calendar and that was the
most out-of-date calendars end up. The
clincher. Seeing the calendar completely
calendar had been staring me in the face for
altered my perspective on the project. There
a year and yet it had never occurred to me to
was such beauty and serenity in the
make it the subject of a film. Sometimes ideas
photographs that I felt very moved. And then
have to slap you on the face before you
I saw the photograph of a man at the back
realise their potential.”
and I realised that it was one of the husband
who had died. I knew then that this was the
Even if they weren’t always initially happy
heart of the film - this was part of the story
with what had been invented, both Angela
that would give the movie its universal
and Tricia understood that it was a work of
appeal. So I went back to Yorkshire and met
the imagination that was being made out of
all 11 ladies. I think that they regarded me
their experiences. There was some debate
with a degree of suspicion, fearing that I’d
about the quarrel that erupts between
rip their story from them and turn it into
Annie (Angela) and Chris (Tricia) on their
something exploitative. I assured them that
visit to Hollywood.
we’d handle things sensitively and with
integrity, that we’d keep them with us every
“We discussed it and the director wanted it in
step of the way and that we would honour
to show the difference between fame, the US
the spirit of what they had done.”
and a little village in Yorkshire”, says Tricia. “We
knew it wasn’t going to be a documentary, that
There followed the usual anxious interim
there would be fiction and also that they
period in a film’s genesis when the script is
wanted a film that would be successful. So we
developed and the financing put in place.
had to let the movie-makers make the movie
Fortunately, Hollywood major Buena Vista,
and we loved the result.”
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The six ladies - Angela, Tricia, Beryl, Lynda,
continued, as Angela makes clear: “We
Ros and Christine - can all be spotted in the
finally sold 88,000 calendars, twice the
film, as the rival WI team in the great Victoria
number which Pirelli managed and to date
Sponge Challenge.
we have raised £3m for the LRF. I am now a
Trustee of the charity and we continue to
“We had our own caravan with a star on the
give talks and speeches. And there will be a
door and a sign saying ‘The Real Calendar
unit named after John in the new cancer
Girls’”, laughs Angela. “Filming was fun, even
hospital in Leeds. I think that it was also a
if the icing on the cakes kept melting under
liberation for other women of our age. It
the lights.”
showed that we older women were as good
as the young ones and we weren’t ready to
The ladies had their first sighting of the film
be pensioned off just yet.”
when invited to join the ritual cast and crew
screening which took place at the Chelsea
Angela sums up the extraordinary story of the
Cinema in London’s King’s Road, followed by
Calendar Girls: “I think that we’ve all coped
a slap-up afternoon tea at the nearby
really well with what has happened. We’ve
Chelsea Town Hall.
done the most amazing things but we’ve kept
our feet on the ground and we’ve never
“I sat at the back with my son and we were in
forgotten why we did what we did. We didn’t
floods of tears” Angela recalls. “The tissues
do the calendar because we wanted to be
were passed backwards and forwards
famous but because we wanted to raise
between us. But it was wonderful.”
money in John’s memory. It has been the
most marvellous experience.”
The film was released in the autumn of 2003
and went on to gross more than $20m in the
Al Senter
UK alone and performed equally strongly at
Freelance theatre journalist and interviewer.
the American box office. But the story has
[email protected]
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Cast in order of speaking:
Cora
Chris
Annie
Ruth
Jessie
Celia
Marie
Brenda Hulse
John
Rod
Lawrence
Lady Cravenshire
Elaine
Liam
Bernie Nolan
Lynda Bellingham
Trudie Goodwin
Lisa Riley
Gwen Taylor
Jennifer Ellison
Ruth Madoc
Jane Lambert
Joe McGann
John Labanowski
Bruno Langley
Diana Moran
Danielle Lineker
Bruno Langley
There will be one interval of 20 minutes.
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Creative and Production Team:
Author
Director
Associate Director
Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Composer and Music Arrangement
Sound Designer
Casting Director
Costume Supervisor
Props Supervisors
Production Manager
Trainee Director
Company Manager
Technical Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Wardrobe Mistress
Wardrobe Deputy
Tim Firth
Roger Haines
Jack Ryder
Robert Jones
Jack Galloway
Tim Lutkin
Steve Parry
John Leonard
Sarah Bird
Anna Josephs
Lisa Buckley and Lizzie Frankl
Dominic Fraser
Jason Kirk
Mark Vince
Josh Ginnelly
Emma Smith
Jason Mills
Alexandra Stewart
Katy Brett
Understudy
Jennifer Hall
Karen McCaffrey
Original Production Directed by
Hamish McColl
Understudy
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Lynda Bellingham
Chris
Lynda left the Central School of Speech and Drama
in 1969 and has spent the last 40 years working in
every area of the entertainment industry. She spent
the first three years in repertory theatres like Crewe
and Coventry doing everything from Hamlet to the
musical West Side Story.
Her first TV role was in a series called Kate starring
opposite Phyllis Calvert and Penelope Keith.
Her first TV big break was the afternoon soap for
ATV called General Hospital. Over the last 30 years,
she has appeared in everything from Z Cars to The
Bill. She starred in Mackenzie on the BBC and Funny
Man for ITV. In 1983, she took over the role of Helen
Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small and during
the nineties, she starred with James Bolam in
Second Thoughts for ITV, followed by Faith in the
Future with Julia Sawalha, which won Best Comedy
Series in 1998. She was in three series of At Home
With the Braithwaites and spent six months in The
Bill as the infamous Irene Radford. Recent TV
includes: Bonkers and Robin Hood.
West End performances include: a musical called
Bordello about the loves and life of the artist
Toulouse Lautrec; Strippers at the Phoenix Theatre;
Noises Off at the Savoy Theatre; and Look No Hans
starring opposite David Jason at the Strand Theatre.
Recent theatre appearances have been in Losing
Louis opposite Alison Steadman at the Trafalgar
Lynda Bellingham in rehearsal
Theatre; Sugar Mummies at the Royal Court; and
Vincent River at the Trafalgar Theatre Studios. In
2008, she created the role of Chris (as played by
Helen Mirren in the film of the same name) in
Calendar Girls. She headed up the pre-West End tour
and starred in the West End with the play for six
months. In January this year, she opened the
national tour at Chichester.
Her film credits include: The Scarlet Tunic, The
Vision with Dirk Bogarde, and Stand Up Virgin
Soldiers. In 1999, she starred as the Czarina in an allRussian film called The Romanovs, directed by Gleb
Panfilov. It is yet to be shown in the UK.
Lynda spent 16 years gracing our screens as the
nation’s favourite mum in the Oxo commercials.
In the spring of 2005, Lynda joined the team as a
panellist on the daytime show Loose Women, where
she is still a regular presenter amongst all the other
things she is doing. Her autobiography was
published in March 2010 and reached number two in
The Times best-seller lists. Lynda writes a fortnightly
column for Yours magazine and various independent
articles for publications like The Mail on Sunday
travel section. She is hoping to write her first novel
in the coming year.
Lynda is an ambassador for the charities Barnardo’s
and the Alzheimer’s Society, and travels the country
campaigning and speaking on behalf of fund-raising
for these causes. For a more in-depth look at Lynda’s
career and achievements, go to
www.lyndabellingham.com.
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Jennifer Ellison
Trudie Goodwin
Celia
Annie
Jennifer is perhaps best known for playing Emily
Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside.
She secured her place as a household name by
playing Meg Giry in her international film debut, the
2004 adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera,
directed by Joel Schumacher for Warner Bros.
Jennifer most recently played Tracey in the British
horror movie The Cottage to high acclaim, directed
by BAFTA nominee Paul Andrew Williams, starring
alongside Andy Serkis and Reece Shearsmith, and
she has since been attached to two feature films, The
Codfather and Carmilla, both for production in 2011.
Her other TV and film credits include: Shena Davis in
Lynda La Plante’s The Commander: Abduction;
Liverpool Nativity for BBC 3; Hotel Babylon for BBC1;
The Verdict, New Street Law and The Brief.
Jennifer’s other many TV appearances include: Hell's
Kitchen (which she won), With a Little Help From My
Friends; she appeared as a judge on Dirty Dancing Time of Your Life and she has been a frequent guest
on the ITV daytime show Loose Women.
Jennifer studied dance from the age of three. Her
accolades in dance include: examination passes with
distinction with the Royal Academy of Dance and the
International Dance Teachers Association and,
between 1996 and 1997, she won titles at the IDTA
Theatre Dance Championships, for ballet and modern
dance. This strong dance background led directly to
Jennifer landing the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago,
which she played in the West End (Adelphi Theatre,
Cambridge Theatre) and at leading venues
throughout the country on a UK tour. Jennifer went
on to perform in the 10th anniversary gala
performance of the show at the Cambridge Theatre.
Her theatre credits include: Gloria in Boeing-Boeing
at the Comedy Theatre, directed by Matthew
Warchus; Cinderella at the Liverpool Empire with
Cilla Black and Les Dennis; and Beth in Jeff Wayne’s
musical version of The War of the Worlds on an
arena tour of the UK in 2009.
Jennifer is thrilled to be returning to Calendar Girls.
For more information on Jennifer, please visit
www.colekitchenn.com.
Theatre credits include: Lost Souls of Soho (Love
Bites); Mrs Reynolds and the Ruffian (Watford
Palace Theatre); That Old Feeling (Mill at Sonning);
The Naked Truth (tour); Twelfth Night (Swan
Theatre); Fool for Love (Grace Theatre); Crusade
(Theatre Royal Stratford East); I Do Like to Be
(Tricycle); Dragon Rock, Birdbath, The Entertainer,
The Ticket Leave Man, Loot, The Merchant of
Venice (Phoenix Theatre); Godspell (Young Vic);
Womerang (Soho); The Loose Screws (Theatre
Royal Stratford East) and The Beggar’s Opera.
Television credits include: Heartbeat, The Bill, Lord
Peter Wimsey, Three Up Two Down, The Gentle
Touch, The Law Machine, Fox.
Ruth Madoc
Marie
Ruth is best known for her wonderful portrayal of
Gladys Pugh in the classic comedy series Hi-De-Hi!
for which she was nominated for a BAFTA.
After leaving RADA, Ruth spent three years with The
Black and White Minstrel Show and many summer
seasons with Leslie Crowther, Max Wall and Bruce
Forsyth in the last days of provincial variety.
She then appeared in leading roles in Robert and
Elizabeth, West Side Story, Man From La Mancha,
42nd Street and Rose in Gypsy. Numerous stage
shows include: leading roles in A Taste of Honey,
Don’t Start Without Me and Bless the Bride.
Recent stage appearances include: Miss Hannigan
in Annie; extensive principal boy and fairy queens
in pantomimes from Cinderella and Dick
Whittington to Jack and the Beanstalk and
Robinson Crusoe, many co-starring Les Dawson
and John Nettles. Her most recent pantomime was
the Wicked Queen in Snow White.
Ruth has enjoyed an extensive career in television:
Hanter’s Walk, Lloyd George, The Famous Five, Little
Britain and, most recently, Big Top.
She has worked constantly in BBC Radio, notably
Under Milk Wood and many guest appearances.
Ruth is a fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music
and was also awarded an honorary fellowship of the
Swansea Institute of Education.
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Bernie Nolan
Cora
Bernie was the lead singer with the Nolans from
1974 until 1994 when she decided to pursue a solo
career. With her sisters she has enjoyed
phenomenal success both in this country and
abroad, appearing on every major television show
possible including The Royal Variety Show. The girls
were also given four specials of their own. The
Nolans’ record successes have given them an
amazing number of hit singles and albums
culminating in over 20 gold, silver and platinum
discs. A Channel 4 documentary broadcast in 2000
argues that the Nolans were the blueprint for all the
subsequent white girl groups that followed, including
the Spice Girls.
She has travelled all over the world, Australia being
her favourite country, but the girls’ greatest triumphs
have been in Japan, beginning with the Tokyo
Musical Festival where they were the first ever
European act to win the much coveted grand prize,
and where competition included the likes of Randy
Crawford and Jermaine Jackson. From there they
went on to sell an incredible 9.3 million records
(exceeding Beatles sales).
The highlight of Bernie's career so far, has to be
when she and her sisters were asked in 1975 to do a
European tour supporting their hero, Frank Sinatra.
Her first solo projects included co-presenting a
children's show On the Waterfront and, in 1993, she
starred at the Neptune Theatre, Liverpool in a
musical adaptation of Dennis Wheatley's classical
tale of the occult, The Devil Rides Out. This was her
first acting role.
In February 1995, Bernie appeared in her first
musical as a solo artist playing Oolie/Donna in City of
Angels. Since then, she has played Grace Farrell in
Annie, Maria in The Sound of Music and Eliza
Doolittle in My Fair Lady. She also tackled her first
straight play in Mask for Murder at the Theatre
Royal Brighton, quickly followed with touring roles
as Robin in Godspell and as Bridget in A Slice of
Saturday Night. During the summer of 1997, Bernie
appeared at the prestigious Blackpool Opera House
in her critically acclaimed role in Oh! What a Night.
Following that, Bernie toured with Bill Kenwright's
production of Blood Brothers in the lead role of Mrs
Johnstone for two years.
As a result of Bernie's huge success in Blood
Brothers, she was offered a major role in Brookside
as Diane Murray and enjoyed two happy, award-
winning years there. Her growing reputation as a
talented actress led to her accepting a role as Sgt
Sheelagh Murphy in The Bill.
After leaving The Bill in 2005, Bernie released her
first solo album All By Myself, made a fitness DVD;
appeared in Channel 4's The Games as an athlete
and Channel 5's The All Star Variety Show as a
drummer; and then got back to her roots at the
Blackpool Opera House in her own production called
Soap Queens, doing what she loves best,
powerhouse singing! Bernie then went on to play
Hannah Owens in Flashdance the Musical and, in
2009, played the Fairy Godmother in Manchester
Opera House’s pantomime Cinderella.
Last year, she reunited with her sisters in the sell-out
Nolans I’m in the Mood Again tour; played Robin in
the hit stage comedy Mum’s the Word, and was a
hugely popular and critically acclaimed finalist in
ITV’s Popstar to Operastar, once again
demonstrating her incredible talent and versatility.
Bernie says she could not have done any of this
without the constant support and love of her
wonderful husband, Steve, and her beautiful
daughter, Erin, who is the light of her life and her
reason for living.
Bernie Nolan in rehearsal
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Lisa Riley
Gwen Taylor
Ruth
Jessie
Lisa started in the industry at a very young age. She
trained at the Oldham Theatre Workshop from nine
years old and it has been a fun-filled ride ever
since!!! Whilst training at OTW she appeared in
numerous productions, her favourites being Worzel
Gummidge and Oh What a Lovely War.
Lisa became a household name with her popular
character Mandy Dingle in Emmerdale, where she
stayed for seven wonderful years. Prior to landing
the role of Mandy, she played numerous characters
in television, theatre and film: Flight, Blood and
Peaches and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates for the
BBC. Wonderful comedy roles followed: Having It
Off, Heroes and Villains, Put Out More Fags and
Bard to Verse. Further television credits followed
with guest roles in Wish You Were Here, Holby City,
Doctors, Birthrace 2000 and The Bill; also this
coming year, Waterloo Road.
The role closest to Lisa’s heart was her critically
acclaimed portrayal of Rebecca in Kay Mellor’s
award-winning drama Fat Friends. Running parallel
with Lisa’s acting career she hosted You’ve Been
Framed for five years and also OK TV, taking both
shows’ viewing figures to the highest ever known.
British film credits include: Butterfly Kiss, Secret
Society and, most recently, Six Bend Trap.
Lisa has won various awards in the business: Most
Popular Newcomer at the National TV Awards;
Funniest Person in Soap for four consecutive years;
and Most Popular Young Achiever, an accolade
which afforded her the opportunity to meet Her
Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace.
Lisa narrated the popular children’s series Lights
Camera Animals for Channel 5, and was proud to be
involved in 2009’s Celebrity Cash in the Attic for the
BBC, of which all proceeds went to Breakthrough
Breast Cancer, a charity very close to Lisa’s heart.
Theatre has played as massive role in Lisa’s life over
the past four years in The Play What I Wrote; The
Naked Truth, playing Bev, where she was also
assistant director; The Vagina Monologues and the
hilarious Waiting for Gateaux. Lisa has recently
appeared in the Christmas production of Cinderella
at the Grand Opera House York, which marked her
12th pantomime!
Gwen is one of Britain's leading actresses, well
known for her many popular television roles,
including Peg in Heartbeat for Yorkshire Television;
the title role in three series of Barbara for Carlton
TV; Rita Simcock in two series of the BAFTAnominated A Bit of a Do; Gen in two series of
Conjugal Rites, Duty Free, Class Act with Joanna
Lumley, Pilgrim's Rest, A Perfect State, Inspector
Morse (guest role), Murder Most Horrid (guest role),
Moving Story, Wycliffe, Sharp End, Holby City (guest
role), Screaming, Some Kind of Life, Ties of Blood,
The Billy Plays with Kenneth Branagh, Keeping Tom
Nice, Happy Christmas, I Love You, Sauce for the
Goose for HTV, Sob Sisters for Central, Colin's
Sandwich, Yes Prime Minister, Antigone, Forever
Young, Ding Brass and Ripping Yarns. Most recently,
Gwen played the leading role of Margaret in three
series of the BBC Wales drama Belonging, and had
guest roles on Doc Martin, Midsomer Murders,
Table 12, Born and Bred, and Fat Friends.
Her wealth of theatrical experience includes:
Quartet (UK tour); Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy
Theatre and UK tour); About Alice (national tour);
Catherine in Arms and the Man (national tour);
Moment of Weakness (national tour); Picasso's
Women (national tour, starring with Jerry Hall);
Lettice and Lovage (Theatre Royal Bath and tour);
the title role in the national tour of Shirley Valentine;
Heritage (Hampstead Theatre and national tour); The
Glass Menagerie (Derby Playhouse); Mother Tongue
(Greenwich Theatre); Clouds and Ripen Our
Darkness (Royal Court); Dead Sheep (Bush Theatre);
Skirmishes and Spookhouse (Hampstead Theatre);
Trumpets and Raspberries (Phoenix Theatre); The
Big Knife and Conjugal Rites (Watford Palace
Theatre); Light Up the Sky (Windsor Theatre Royal
and Globe Theatre); Top Girls (Royal Court and New
York); The Maintenance Man (Comedy Theatre);
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (West Yorkshire
Playhouse); and Time of My Life (Vaudeville Theatre
and national tour). Gwen also played Gertrude in Sir
Peter Hall's Hamlet (Gielgud Theatre and national
tour); Mo in Love (West Yorkshire Playhouse), a play
written by her husband, Graham Reid.
Gwen's film appearances include: Monty Python's
Life of Brian and Richard's Things.
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John Labanowski
Jane Lambert
Rod
Brenda Hulse
John’s theatre credits include: Cymbeline in
Cymbeline, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (both at
the Ludlow Festival); Stengle and Sidney Mack in
Camera Obscura (Almeida Theatre, directed by
Jonathan Miller); Enobarbus in Antony and
Cleopatra (English Shakespeare Company); Mr
Sleuth in The Lodger (Theatre Royal Stratford East);
Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit (Birmingham
Rep); Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew
(Cambridge Theatre Company); Chief Bromden in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (tour and West
End); seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company;
the Green Knight in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(National Theatre); and a tour of the United States
with Pete Townshend, as Ray High in Psychoderelict.
Also: the Ghost of Christmas Present with Ron
Moody in A Christmas Carol, and Capulet in Romeo
and Juliet for the Wales Theatre Company.
John has appeared in numerous television
programmes, including: Doctors, Casualty, Anatomy
of a Crime, Doc Martin, The Hutton Inquiry,
Heartbeat, Out of Tune, and Queenie in EastEnders.
Film credits include: Death Row and Little John in
Fellow Traveller.
John can also be heard in numerous radio dramas.
Theatre includes: Cecily/Maxine in 84 Charing Cross
Road and Fiona Francis in Fish Out of Water (Gaiety
Theatre, Isle of Man); Mary Aldin in Towards Zero
and Miss Peake in Spider’s Web (Grand Theatre,
Leeds); Vera in Straight and Narrow and Ellen in The
Late Edwina Black (Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
and Lyceum Theatre, Crewe); Miss Forbes in The
Sound of Murder (Civic Theatre, Ayr); Ravissante in
The Consul of Butterflies (Fifth Estate, Edinburgh);
Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pendley
Manor Shakespeare Festival); Annie in Table
Manners, Cherry in September Tide, Ida in Pool’s
Paradise, Shirley in Watch It Sailor and Miranda in
Miranda (Manor Pavilion Theatre, Sidmouth); Miss
Framer in Lettice and Lovage (tour); Miss
Hubbard/Julia Pottage in Postman Pat (tour); Alice in
Love (tour); understudy Myra/Helga in Deathtrap
(tour); understudy Amanda in The Glass Menagerie
(tour); understudy Betty in A Passionate Woman
(tour); understudy Mrs Danvers/Mrs Van Hopper/
Clarice/Beatrice in Rebecca (tour); Helga in
Deathtrap (Noël Coward Theatre).
Television includes: The Bill and High Road.
Lynda Bellingham & Lisa Riley in rehearsal
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Danielle Lineker
Elaine
Danielle makes her debut acting performance
starring as Elaine in the hit stage show Calendar
Girls tour from January for 12 weeks! Acting has
always been a passion of Danielle's. Two years ago,
she decided to bite the bullet and start training as an
actress and, most recently, she spent the summer at
Guildhall studying Shakespeare and contemporary
theatre. This surprise move in Danielle's career
comes after her hugely successful BBC3
documentary My New Stepfamily, which rated two
million in the first week and was the catalyst behind
Danielle becoming an ambassador for the
organisation Relate.
Danielle writes a weekly beauty column for the Daily
Mirror and is also seriously committed to the
charities she supports, which are primarily the
Welsh NSPCA, Nicholl's Foundation, Born Free and
Spinal Research, an organisation very dear to her
heart. She has also recently become an ambassador
for the Prince’s Trust.
Welsh beauty Danielle first came to our attention
in 2008 as the new face of La Senza. Since then,
her career has grown from strength to strength.
Danielle's down to earth and witty personality
was first recognised on ITV's Hell's Kitchen with
Marco Pierre White, where she proved an instant
hit. This led to presenting Loose Women and
filming beauty strands for LK Today and competitions
for ITV's GMTV.
Diana Moran
Lady Cravenshire
And stretch…Diana Moran is TV’s original fitness
guru as the Green Goddess with the BBC and virtually
every other UK channel since. Diana is an all-round
television and radio personality with a career that has
embraced success in many areas. 2011 will see her
starring in Calendar Girls touring the UK.
She was the first person to launch breakfast
television in the UK and her successful career as a
fitness guru has spanned four decades. Diana has
produced her latest DVD, Easy Fit, released in 2010
featuring her trademark EasiFit exercises. She
returned in February 2010 from India where she
trekked her way across the country. Read her blog at
http://primetimelife.tv/user_n5047/diary/.
And 2010 saw the launch of Diana's own website for
the older community: http://primetimelife.tv/ is for
people in the prime of their lives - offering
information and support from a team of experts in
health, wellbeing, finance and nutrition.
Unbelievably, 2009 saw Diana enjoying her 70th
birthday - despite looking at least 30 years younger!
She is a testimony to healthy living and has been
dubbed ‘Britain’s Jane Fonda’, with the October
2009's edition of Good Housekeeping confirming!
Diana was the 'fitness focus' of the 2009 Race for Life
in March 2009.
Diana specialises in health and fitness, and received
the Special Achievement Award for her work in 1993.
She has taught exercise extensively in health clubs
and resorts and to holiday makers in Butlins and
Pontins holiday camps. She regularly lectures aboard
cruise ships including: Canberra, QE2, Adonia,
Aurora, Arcadia, Artemis, Ventura, Saga Ruby/Rose,
Eurodam and Page & Moy cruises. For 11 years, she
has run masterclasses at exclusive Caribbean Health
Resorts in St Lucia and Granada.
Diana has published 11 health-related books and has
many videos and DVDs to her credit. Most recently
saw the publication of three books – Fresh Face, Live
Longer Feel Younger (exclusive to Marks & Spencer)
and Live Longer Feel Younger Look Great - all
published by Hamlyn.
From 1994–99 Diana was the face of Oil of Ulay and
successfully launched its range of skin care for
mature women. She fronted a worldwide media
campaign including TV commercials. Today, she is an
ambassador for Dove Pro-Age. Diana works with
leading supplements and vitamins company Solgar to
continue to educate women of all ages on keeping
healthy - but especially targets her message to
'women who weren't born yesterday'.
She says: “Women like me have so much to do in the
rest of our lives - we're not as young as we used to
be, but we're not as old as some people think we
should be! We know that staying healthy means we
enjoy our lives so much more - and there are no
quick fixes - we weren’t born yesterday!”
She is heavily involved in the charity field, playing a
lead role in many major charities, especially those
concerned with cancer and older people. As a Lady
Taverner, she helps give young people with special
needs a sporting chance. Recently, she returned from
China after successfully completing the Trek China
Challenge on behalf of Breast Cancer Care. She has
been President of Osteoporosis Dorset for the past
ten years.
A keen artist, Diana was born and bred in the West
Country. She has two sons and four grandchildren.
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Bruno Langley
Jennifer Hall
Lawrence/Liam
Understudy
Theatre includes: Flashdance the Musical, A Taste
of Honey, Love Trilogy Part One, Night Sky and
Romeo and Juliet.
Television includes: Coronation Street, Dalziel and
Pascoe, Doctor Who and Linda Green.
Film includes: Halal Harry and The League of
Gentlemen’s Apocalypse.
Jennifer Hall graduated from Drama Studio London in
2007 and performed as Regina in Vicky Jones’ Ghosts
and Marjorie in iceandfire Theatre’s reading of
Asylum Monologues. She appeared as Jenny in
What’s Wrong With Angry? at the 2008 Edinburgh
Fringe Festival and again at Islington’s the King’s
Head in 2009. In the summer of 2010, Jennifer was
selected for the final of the Channel Five Be a Star on
Neighbours competition and went on to play Mindy in
The Ballad of Des and Mo at the Melbourne
International Film Festival. Most recently, Jennifer
worked with director Freddie Hall on British comedy
short Oscar's Date, produced by Liz Thorburn.
Joe McGann
John
Theatre includes: Lost Monsters (Liverpool
Everyman); Fiddler on the Roof (tour); Guys and
Dolls (tour); Tom, Dick and Harry (Duke of York’s); An
Immaculate Misconception (Singapore Repertory
Theatre); Of Mice and Men (Old Vic); Take a Chance
on Me (New End Theatre); Wonderful Tennessee
(Nottingham Playhouse); Earth and Sky (tour); Live
Bed Show (tour); Silhouette (tour): Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof (tour); Oliver! (London Palladium); One Fine
Day (Liverpool Playhouse and Albery Theatre); Of
Mice and Men (Nottingham Playhouse); Crooked
Wood (King’s Head); The Long and the Short and the
Tall (tour); Guys and Dolls (Leicester Haymarket);
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Crucible Theatre);
The Canterbury Tales (Crucible Theatre); Jack and
the Beanstalk in the Wild, Wild West (Young Vic);
Blood Brothers (tour); Yakety Yak (Half Moon
Theatre Company and Astoria); West Side Story
(Young People’s Theatre tour). Joe worked at
Chichester Festival Theatre for the 2003 season,
playing Grimes in The Water Babies and assistant directing The Gondoliers.
Television includes: My Family, Casualty 24,
I Shouldn’t Be Alive, Celebrity MasterChef,
Liverpool Nativity, Casualty, Merseybeat, Doctors,
Casualty, Night and Day, Heartbeat, Madame
Bovary, Dangerfield, The Hanging Gale, The Upper
Hand (six series), Harry Enfield’s Television
Programme, All Creatures Great and Small, The
Chronicles of Narnia, Norbert Smith - a Life,
Rockliffe’s Babies (two series), The Brothers
McGregor, The Gentle Touch.
Karen McCaffrey
Understudy
Karen completed the three year diploma course in
Classical Acting at Webber Douglas, graduating
with distinction.
Her theatre credits include: Jack and the Beanstalk
(King’s Theatre, Glasgow); The Pirates of Penzance
(number one UK tour); the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
(Cambridge Open-Air Theatre); Philostrate/Fairy in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cambridge Open-Air
Theatre); Yolanda in A Cockroach Waltz (Greenwich
Playhouse); Stairway to Heaven (King’s Head);
Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (German
tour); Guiomar in John Fletcher’s The Custom of the
Country (White Bear, Time Out Critic’s Choice).
Commercials include: the Fairy Liquid advertisement.
In addition to acting, Karen has spent some time
writing for film and theatre and performing as a
singer in venues around London such as the CAA
Covent Garden for the British Music Hall Society.
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Tim Firth
Author
Tim grew up in Warrington in the north-west of
England. He began writing for theatre by accident
after applying at the age of 18 to attend a
songwriting course run by Willy Russell and Danny
Hiller, only to find it was in fact a playwriting course.
He then went to Cambridge where he met the
director Sam Mendes who directed his plays in
several theatres, on a barge and afterwards at the
Chichester Festival.
On leaving university he met Alan Ayckbourn and
began an association with the Stephen Joseph
Theatre, Scarborough, which resulted in the play
Neville’s Island. This transferred to the West End,
gained Evening Standard and Olivier nominations
and has subsequently been performed regularly
around the world for 20 years. His other plays for
Scarborough include: The Safari Party, which
transferred to open the new Hampstead Theatre,
and The End of the Food Chain. Recently, his
Christmas musical The Flint Street Nativity
premiered at the Liverpool Playhouse and became
one of the most successful shows in the theatre’s
history. Tim’s musical Our House, written with the
band Madness, opened in the West End in 2002 and
won the Olivier Award for Best Musical. Tim’s first
television film, Money for Nothing, directed by Mike
Trudie Goodwin in rehearsal
Ockrent, won the Writers’ Guild award for best film.
He then went on to write the comedy drama Preston
Front which ran for three series, gaining many
national and international awards including the RTS
and Writers’ Guild Best Series.
Subsequent television work has included: the film of
Neville’s Island starring Tim Spall, The Flint Street
Nativity starring a class of famous actors playing
themselves as kids, and Cruise of the Gods starring
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams. His
long-running series for children, The Rottentrolls,
warped the minds of a generation of teenagers, won
a BAFTA and was the first children’s programme to
be broadcast at 4pm for kids and at 1am for adults.
Tim’s first two feature films came out the same week
in 2002. Blackball starred Vince Vaughn and Paul
Kaye, and Calendar Girls starred Helen Mirren and
Julie Walters. The latter went on to become one of
the most successful British films of all time. His next
film, Kinky Boots, starred Joel Egerton and Chiwitel
Ejiofor and won audience awards at several
American festivals.
Tim lives in North Cheshire with his wife Katy and
children Jack, Joe and Georgia. He recently toured
the UK with fellow playwright Willy Russell in a show
of words and music, and his most recent work
includes the play Sign of the Times, which toured the
UK starring Stephen Tompkinson.
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Roger Haines
Director
Roger is a multi-award-winning director. For the
Manchester Library Theatre, he has directed
Into the Woods (Manchester Evening News Award Best Production of a Musical); Assassins, (TMA
Award - Best Production of a Musical); as well as
the European premieres of William Finn’s March of
the Falsettos (MEN Award - Best Production of a
Musical) and Sophisticated Ladies, both of which
transferred to the West End.
Other work includes: the European premiere of
Maltby and Shire’s Closer Than Ever, which
launched the first Festival of Musicals in Buxton, and
the national tour of Baby. Roger also both wrote the
music for and directed The Secret Garden in 1994,
1996 and on two national tours. He has also directed
Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Peter Pan (Theatre Royal
Norwich); High Society (West Yorkshire Playhouse);
Cabaret and When We Are Married (Sheffield
Crucible); Treasure Island (Theatr Clwyd); Godspell,
Shylock (for which he also wrote the music)
(Leicester Haymarket); Roy Hudd’s Beautiful
Dreamer (Greenwich Theatre); Annie (Liverpool
Playhouse and Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead);
Assassins (Old Fire Station, Oxford); The Borrowers
(Birmingham Stage Company); Oklahoma! (Cardiff
International Festival of Musical Theatre and
Peacock Theatre, London); a workshop production
of the musical Jean de Florette at the Venue,
Leicester Square, London, and Richard Taylor and
David Wood’s musical The Go-Between at the
Trafalgar Studio.
Roger has also directed national tours of Steel
Magnolias, Driving Miss Daisy (TMA Award -Best
Touring Production) and Neil Simon’s Laughter on the
23rd Floor (MEN Award - Best Production of a Play),
which he also directed in the West End, starring
Gene Wilder (nominated for an Olivier Award).
Other productions for the Library Theatre Company
include: the European premiere of Terence
McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion!, Tony
Kushner’s Angels in America - part I, The Glass
Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Martin
McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The
Borrowers (which has been on two national tours);
Perfect Days (which also played at the Palace
Theatre, Watford) and Shelagh Stephenson’s The
Memory of Water (MEN Award - Best Production ).
More recently, he directed David Wood’s Tom’s
Midnight Garden (TMA Award -Best Production for
Children and Young People); Neil Simon's The Odd
Couple, Brian Friel’s Translations (MEN Award Best
Production); Dancing at Lughnasa, and Neil
Bartlett’s adaptation of Oliver Twist and Great
Expectations. Roger also directed Tim Firth’s comedy
The Safari Party.
Jack Ryder
Associate Director
Theatre credits include: Plenty (Sheffield Crucible
Studio, directed by Thea Sharrock); The Play What I
Wrote (West End, directed by Kenneth Branagh);
Calendar Girls (West End, directed by Hamish
McColl); Romeo and Juliet (Wales Theatre Company,
directed by Michael Bogdanov); Single Spies
(national tour, directed by Chris Luscombe); The
Safari Party (national tour, directed by David Taylor).
Television credits include: EastEnders (BBC);
MIT (ITV).
Film credits include: The Boy in the Darkness,
Popcorn.
Radio credits include: Ryan in The Archers
(BBC Radio 4).
Directing credits include: Act of Memory (Short film
with Anna Massey and Claire Skinner); Calendar
Girls (UK tour).
Screenplay credits include: Act of Memory adapted
from award-winning story of same title by Mary
Grace Dembeck.
Jennifer Ellison in rehearsal
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Robert Jones
Designer
Robert trained at Central School of Art and Design.
Recent work includes: Ruined (Almeida Theatre);
Greta Garbo Came to Donegal (Tricycle); Twelfth
Night (Royal Shakespeare Company); Calendar Girls
(Chichester, West End and UK tour, Australia,
Toronto); Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company,
West End, BBC TV); The King and I (Royal Albert
Hall); Cyrano de Bergerac, Hay Fever, The Music
Man (Chichester);The Sound of Music (London
Palladium, UK tour, Canada); Aspects of Love (UK
tour); There Came a Gypsy Riding (Almeida Theatre);
A Voyage Round My Father (Donmar Warehouse and
Wyndham’s Theatre); Rock ‘n‘ Roll (Royal Court
Theatre and Duke of York’s Theatre and Broadway);
The Late Henry Moss (Almeida Theatre); Heroes
(Wyndham’s Theatre, UK tour and Geffen Playhouse,
LA); Sejanus: His Fall (RSC); On the Town (Coliseum English National Opera and Théâtre du Châtelet,
Paris); a new translation of Daphne du Maurier’s
Rebecca by Frank McGuinness (UK tour); Cloaca
(Old Vic); Venus and Adonis (RSC); Piaf (Sheffield
Theatres); Dancing at Lughnasa (the Gate Theatre,
Dublin); The Mercy Seat (Almeida Theatre); The
Water Babies (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Design credits include: for the Royal Shakespeare
Company: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Pentecost, The
Herbal Bed, Jubilee, Cyrano de Bergerac, Henry VIII
(also Broadway and Washington), Romeo and Juliet,
The Merchant of Venice, The Winter’s Tale, Othello,
Eastward Ho!; for the National Theatre: Look Back in
Anger, The Playboy of the Western World and
Noises Off (West End and Broadway); West End: The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Strand); When We Are
Married (Savoy); Lautrec (Shaftesbury); The Killing
of Sister George (Ambassadors); Jolson (Victoria
Palace; also Canada, USA and Australia);
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and
Ragtime (Piccadilly); The Goodbye Girl and
Benefactors (Albery); The Real Inspector
Hound/Black Comedy (Comedy); Dance of Death
(Lyric and Australia); and The Secret Rapture (Lyric).
Further credits: Getting Attention (Royal Court);
Democracy and Crossing the Equator (Bush
Theatre); A Collier’s Friday Night, Bold Girls, You Be
Ted, Morning and Evening, The Flight Into Egypt,
Lucky Sods, Back Up the Hearse, Buried Alive (all
Hampstead Theatre); Uncle Vanya and The
Magistrate (Manchester Royal Exchange); Saturday,
Sunday, Monday (Chichester); Proposals - TMA
nomination (West Yorkshire Playhouse); York
Millennium Mystery Plays (York Minster); Divas
(Donmar Warehouse); Stressed (Ruby Wax tour);
The Secret Rapture (Los Angeles) - Drama-Logue
Critics’ Award; Lobby Hero (Donmar Warehouse and
West End); Marty (Huntingdon Theatre, Boston);
Sweet Charity (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Arms
and the Man (ACT Productions).
Opera: Tristan and Isolde (Japan); Don Carlos
(Frankfurt); Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne and Lyric
Opera of Chicago); Couronnement de Poppée
(Théatres des Champs-Elysées); The Elixir of Love
(ENO); Der Rosenkavalier (Wuppertal/Gelsenkirchen);
and Manon Lescaut (Göteborg Opera).
Robert was nominated for Best Costume Design at
the Olivier Awards 1999 and 2000 for his work on the
RSC’s Henry VIII and The Winter’s Tale.
Future projects: The Wizard of Oz (Really Useful);
Anna Bolena (Met Opera, NY).
Jack Galloway
Costume Designer
Theatre credits include: Time and the Room
(Nottingham Playhouse); A Fool and His Money
(Nottingham Playhouse); Play About the Baby
(Almeida Theatre); The Skin of Our Teeth (Young Vic);
Love Song (London, West End).
Opera credits include: The Barber of Seville (Opera
Northern Ireland); Ariadne auf Naxos (Scottish Opera);
Così fan tutte (Royal Opera House with Giorgio Armani).
Dance credits include: Celebrated Soubrette (Ballet
Rambert); Sour Milk (Candoco); Alice Is Back in
Wonderland (Aletta Collins); Walker Dance Park
Music, three dance pieces (Royal Opera House).
Television credits include: My Night With Handel
(Channel 4); The Storm (BBC); Alistair Fish (BBC);
Bach Cello Suites (BBC).
Film credits include: Girl in the Red Dress (independent).
Tim Lutkin
Lighting Designer
Tim is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama.
Theatre credits include: Megan Mullally and Supreme
Music Program, Alan Cumming: I Bought a Blue Car
Today (West End); Brontë (Watermill/Shared
Experience); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
(Southbank Centre); My Dad’s a Birdman (Sheffield
Crucible); That Face (Tron Theatre); Restoration
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Roger Haines in rehearsal
trumpet for Corinne Bailey Rae, performing at the V
Festival, Glastonbury and Wembley Stadium. He has
also composed for the Trinity College Big Band, NYJO
and his own Steve Parry and the Big Band from Hell.
John Leonard
Sound Designer
(Salisbury Playhouse); Party (Arts); West Side Story,
Gore, The Orchestra (Mountview); Fuchsia (White
Bear); The Twelve Days of Christmas, Pinocchio
(Chickenshed); Lucky You (Assembly Rooms); The
Calling of Maisy Day (WNO).
As associate to Hugh Vanstone: Deathtrap (West
End); God of Carnage (West End and UK tour);
Boeing-Boeing (UK tour); The Real Thing (Old Vic).
Theatre includes: most recently: People at Sea
(Salisbury Playhouse); The Glass Menagerie (Gate,
Dublin); The Homecoming and Big White Fog
(Almeida); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Druid
Theatre, Galway and Dublin); Much Ado About
Nothing, The Enchantment (NT); Pure Gold (Soho
Theatre); In Celebration, Kean, Donkeys’ Years,
Summer and Smoke, Glengarry Glen Ross (West End);
Translations (Princeton/Broadway); Leaves, Empress
of India, The Druid Synge (Druid Theatre, Galway and
Dublin/Edinburgh/Minneapolis/New York); Chichester:
The Cherry Orchard, Scapino or the Trickster, Wild
Orchids, The Winslow Boy, The Man Who Came to
Dinner, The Importance of Being Earnest, Racing
Demon, The Magistrate, Our Betters, Divorce Me,
Darling!, Blithe Spirit, Lady Windermere’s Fan and
The Visit (Festival Theatre); Suzanna Andler, Nocturne
for Lovers, Hedda Gabler, Uncle Vanya and Talking
Heads (Minerva Theatre).
Other theatre includes: Dying for It, Hedda Gabler,
Steve Parry
Composer and Music Arrangement
Theatre includes: at Chichester, musical
director/drummer for Godspell.
Other theatre as a musician include: The Official
Tribute to the Blues Brothers (West End, UK and
European tours) joining at 21 in 1997 when he played
the trumpet, becoming musical director later that
year, Night of the Iguana (SWET nomination), Man
and Superman (SWET nomination), The Burglar, Dear
Liar, Major Barbara and Ghosts (Artist of the Year).
As composer: The Play What I Wrote, Ducktastic!
and Heroes.
Film includes: Me and Orson Welles.
Radio includes: the theme tune ‘Beat the Busby’ for
BBC Radio 2.
Steve is an active session musician recording for
artists, jingles and television commercials. He plays
Ruth Madoc in rehearsal
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Macbeth, Brighton Rock, Whistling Psyche, Five
Gold Rings, The Mercy Seat, ID (Almeida); Two
Thousand Years, Paul, The UN Inspector, Jumpers
(NT); Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About
Nothing, The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Romeo and Juliet
(RSC); The Old Masters, The Birthday Party
(Birmingham Rep/West End); The Odd Couple, The
Entertainer, Still Life, The Astonished Heart, Ma
Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Anniversary, The Flint
Street Nativity (Liverpool Playhouse); Cinderella,
The Dumb Waiter (Oxford Playhouse); The Merry
Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice,
Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (Ludlow Festival); Becket,
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Sweet Panic,
Absolutely! (Perhaps); The Anniversary, Losing
Louis, The Master Builder (also tour), Private Lives
(also Broadway), Embers, Smaller (West End); How
to Act Around Cops, Flush, Mercy, Colder Than
Here (Soho Theatre); Sunday Father, Born Bad, In
Arabia We’d All Be Kings, The Best of Friends
(Hampstead).
Sarah Bird
Casting Director
Sarah Bird started her career in BBC radio and
television drama and instigated the BBC’s first in-
Trudie Goodwin, Bernie Nolan and Gwen Taylor in rehearsal
house casting department. The innovative series
South of the Border was her first project as Casting
Director. Other successful projects followed before
she embarked on a flourishing and varied freelance
career which includes many award winning films both
for screen and television.
Theatre includes: Deathtrap (West End); The Beauty
Queen of Leenane (Young Vic); Juliet and Her Romeo
(Bristol Old Vic); The Crucible (Regent’s Park); The Rise
and Fall of Little Voice (West End); Speaking in Tongues
(West End); Bedroom Farce and Miss Julie (Rose
Kingston); Mrs Klein (Almeida); The Apple Cart and The
Browning Version (Bath Theatre Royal); Calendar Girls
(West End and tour); God of Carnage (West End); Rain
Man (West End); Brief Encounter (West End); Cloud
Nine (Almeida); Equus (West End); Heroes (West End);
Art (West End and tour); The Play What I Wrote (West
End and tour); Rebecca by Frank McGuiness (tour);
Calico by Michael Hastings (West End).
Film includes: A Bunch of Amateurs, Morris, A Life
With Bells On, Stormbreaker, As You Like It, Ladies in
Lavender, Swimming Pool, Wilde.
Television includes: Hustle, Crash, Holby Blue, The
Chase, Messiah, The Best Man, Silent Witness,
NyLon, Madame Bovary, Hetty Wainthropp
Investigates, Pie in the Sky, Wycliffe.
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David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers
Producers
David and Dafydd produced Art at the Wyndham’s
Theatre. This has subsequently become the most
successful play in London for the last 25 years as well
as winning every major Award. Art opened on
Broadway at the Royale Theatre, winning David Pugh
the Tony Award for Best Play.
David and Dafydd produced The Play What I Wrote by
Hamish McColl and Sean Foley, directed by Kenneth
Branagh. The Play What I Wrote, which opened at the
Wyndham’s Theatre, won the Laurence Olivier Award
for Best Comedy, and every review was a rave.
The Play What I Wrote opened at the Lyceum Theatre
on Broadway and was nominated for the Tony Award
for Special Achievement.
Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Gerald Sibleyras’ play
Heroes opened in the West End in 2005 and won the
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, whilst
Ducktastic opened for a very short and disastrous run
at the Albery Theatre in the West End whilst still
managing to be nominated for the Laurence Olivier
Award for Outstanding Entertainment.
Their production of Frank McGuinness’ adaptation of
Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca starring Nigel Havers
toured for over 30 weeks’ breaking nearly every box
office record in the United Kingdom.
David and Dafydd then produced Equus in
London’s West End, which starred Richard Griffiths
and Daniel Radcliffe and played a sell-out season at
the Gielgud Theatre.
Their production of God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza,
translated by Christopher Hampton, which starred
Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Grieg, Janet McTeer and Ken
Stott, played a phenomenally successful season at the
Gielgud and won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy.
In 2008, they produced Kneehigh Theatre's production
of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter, which played for
over 350 performances in the old cinema on the
Haymarket in London and, in 2009, played a season at
St Ann’s Warehouse in New York, where it received a
rave review from The New York Times and then
transferred to Studio 54 on Broadway for another
critically acclaimed run.
God of Carnage opened on Broadway in March 2009
starring James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff
Daniels and Hope Davis, where it was one of
Broadway’s biggest play successes. God of Carnage
ran for over a year and won David and Dafydd the
Tony Award. The original Broadway production will be
playing a limited run at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los
Angeles this Spring.
David and Dafydd most recently produced Deathtrap
at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End, starring
Simon Russell Beale.
For David Pugh Ltd
Chairman
Michael Medwin
Directors
David Pugh
Dafydd Rogers
George Biggs
Production Administrator
Jane Allen
Assistant to David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers
Eduardo Santa Cruz
Production Assistant
Dale Carver
Accountants
Paul Vassallo
Sarah Rogai
Consultants
Edwin Shaw
Peter Tod
Executive Store Manager
Stewart Pugh
For Stoneface Productions
Directors
Tim Firth
Alan Brodie
For Calendar Girls
Marketing and Press Philip Lee at Leep Marketing
and PR 020 7439 9777
National Press Peter Thompson Associates
020 7439 1210
Advertising and Graphics Dewynters 020 7321 0488
Casting Assistant Marc Frankum
Tour Booking Rebecca Mills
Production Lx Dan Last
Production Sound Ken Hampton
Lighting Equipment supplied by White Light Electrics
Sound Equipment supplied by Autograph Sound
Transport by Paul Mathews Transport
Show Photography John Swannell
Insurance Broker Robertson Taylor
Auditors Wilkins Kennedy
Rehearsal Photography Jack Ryder and
John Labanowski
Set Services Scott Fleary Ltd/
Bower Wood Production Services
Cloths Painted by James Rouse
Costume making for Lynda Bellingham
Janie Stephenson
Costume Shopper Alice Fitzgerald
Thanks to:
Lynda Bellingham’s Hair by Andrea Schaverein and
Carol Hemming
Isme.com
The Jerwood Space
Hilton Hotels
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