WhatsOnStage Award winner and X Factor finalist to join the cast of The Drifters Girl
Michael Harrison and David Ian are delighted to announce casting for the first-ever UK and Ireland tour of The Drifters Girl which comes to the King's Theatre Glasgow in April!
Article Source: ATG
Last Updated: 22 February 2024 14:25
The acclaimed new West End musical tells the remarkable story of one of the world's greatest vocal groups and the woman who made them featuring hit songs include Stand By Me, Saturday Night At The Movies and Save The Last Dance For Me.
The Drifters Girl comes to the King's Theatre Glasgow between Tuesday 9th and Saturday 13th April, tickets are on sale via www.atgtickets.com
Carly Mercedes Dyer will play music industry change-maker, Faye Treadwell. Last year, Carly played 'Erma' in Anything Goes (Barbican Theatre), for which she won the WhatsOnStage Award (2022) for Best Supporting Performer in a Female Identifying Role. She was also nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the role.
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 performed as part of the West End company.
Today’s casting announcement also welcomes Jaydah Bell-Ricketts (A Little Princess, Royal Festival Hall; School Of Rock, Gillian Lynne Theatre) to her first touring role 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 cast is Loren Anderson, Tre Copeland-Williams, Ethan Davis, Matthew Dawkins and Linseigh Green.
Having played to packed houses and nightly standing ovations at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End (following a triumphant run at Newcastle's Theatre Royal), the production recently announced a UK Tour arriving for one week only at The King’s Theatre, Glasgow on 9 April 2024 following huge public demand to extend the initial tour dates.
Telling the remarkable story of The Drifters, one of the world's greatest vocal groups, and the truth about the woman who made them. Faye Treadwell is the legendary manager of The Drifters who fought for three decades alongside her husband (George Treadwell) to turn Atlantic Records' hottest vocal group into a global phenomenon.
From the highs of hit records and sell-out tours to the lows of legal battles and personal tragedy, The Drifters Girl charts the trailblazing efforts of the world's first African American female music manager and how she refused to ever give up on the group she loved. Thirty years and hundreds of hit songs later, there is no doubt that Faye Treadwell was and always will be, The Drifters Girl.
The Drifters Girl boasts an incredible soundtrack of some of the most famous songs in history, including 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 many more.
The Drifters Girl, with a book by Ed Curtis, is based on an idea by Tina Treadwell and is co-created by Beverley Knight, Adam J Bernard, Tarinn Callender, Matt Henry and Tosh Wanogho-Maud. It is directed by Jonathan Church. Set design is by Anthony Ward, choreography by Karen Bruce, costume design by Fay Fullerton, lighting design by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Tom Marshall, video design by Andrzej Goulding, orchestrations by Chris Egan and Will Stuart as Musical Supervisor.
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