HAIRSPRAY - BIG LAUGHS, BIG TOUR, BIG STARS.....**CASTING UPDATE**

MICKEY DOLENZ COMPLETES FULL CASTING

Monkees star Mickey Dolenz will be reprising the role of loveable joke shop owner ‘Wilbur Turnblad’ in HAIRSPRAY for its run at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford for 2 weeks only from 30 November to 11 December 2010.  As previously announced, TV drama star Michael Starke will play ‘Edna Turnblad’.

Mickey Dolenz is an actor, musician, writer and director. Starting out as a child star on US television in Circus Boy, he shot to fame in the globally successful, Emmy Award winning NBC television show The Monkees.  Playing a band in the show, the actors were also hugely successful as a chart group with international hits including I’m A Believer, Last Train To Clarksville and Daydream Believer.  Since the band, he has guested in many television shows, provided voiceover for countless animated series and written, produced and directed for television, notably in the UK as lead producer/director on the hit children’s show Metal Mickey.  He has also appeared in Elton John and Tim Rice's AIDA on Broadway and on stage in the USA in Pippin', Grease and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.  In the early 1980s, Dolenz directed a stage version of Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone in the West End, the cast of which included a then unknown 14-year-old Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Danny Bayne, who won ITV’s Grease is the Word, will play ‘Corny Collins’; Liam Doyle, winner of GMTV’s search for Troy in High School Musical 2, will take on the role of ‘Link Larkin’ and Laurie Scarth will play ‘Tracy Turnblad’. The principal cast is completed by Sandra Marvin as ‘Motormouth Maybelle’, Gillian Kirkpatrick as ‘Velma Von Tussle’ and Wayne Robinson as ‘Seaweed’, Emma Dukes as ‘Penny Pingleton’, Clare Hulse as ‘Amber Von Tussle’ and Seliza Sebastian as ‘Little Inez’.

It's 1962, the 50s are out and change is in the air.  Baltimore’s ‘Tracy Turnblad’, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion – dancing.  She wins a spot on the local TV dance programme, The Corny Collins Show and, overnight, is transformed from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity.  But can a trendsetting hair-hopper like Tracy get her massively shy Mom out of the apartment, beat evil Amber to be crowned Miss Hairspray, integrate Corny’s show for good AND win the heart of local heartthrob Link Larkin, all without denting her ‘do'?  If anyone can, Tracy can!

The smash hit award-winning musical HAIRSPRAY at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London recouped its entire capitalisation in a record-breaking 29 weeks. The show opened in October 2007 to universal critical acclaim and smash hit business. At the 2008 Olivier Awards, HAIRSPRAY won Best Musical, as well as Best Actor in a Musical for Michael Ball.  The show has also won Best Musical at the Evening Standard Awards, the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers Choice awards, the Critics’ Circle Awards and the Variety Club Showbiz Awards.

HAIRSPRAY runs at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre from Tuesday 30 November to Saturday 11 December 2010.  To take advantage of our special BOOK NOW, PAY JULY 2010 scheme, call the Box Office for full information (not available online). 

Tickets can be booked on 01274 432000 or online via bradford-theatres.co.uk (booking fees apply). 
Official website www.hairspraythemusical.com

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