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According to the Daily Mail, Killian Donnelly (Billy Elliot, Les Miserables), Sarah O’Connor (Les Miserables) and Sean Kearns (Billy Elliot, The 39 Steps) have been cast in the ensemble of The Commitments.
The Commitments opens at the Palace Theatre on Tuesday 8th October 2013 (with previews from 21st September). Tickets are on sale now! The show has been adapted for the stage by Roddy Doyle from his original novel.
The production will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, who most recently directed Macbeth as part of Trafalgar Transformed at Trafalgar Studios. The show will be packed with classic soul songs including ‘Mustang Sally’.
The Commitments is the story of Jimmy Rabitte, a young working class music fan, who shapes an unlikely bunch of amateur musicians into an amazing live act, the finest soul band Dublin has ever produced. The show follows the journey of two members of a frustrated synthesiser band – the opening scene has them playing but ignored in a shop window - who turn to Jimmy, the local music expert, for help.
Placing a classified advert in a music paper, Jimmy auditions a number of wannabes before finalising the new line up who he names The Commitments. The humour kicks in as the band get to know each other and their instruments, and proceed through early rehearsals for their first gig. Just as they improve and begin to get a name for themselves they combust. The backing singers are all getting off with the middle aged horn legend, the singer has entered Eurovision and the saxophone player has dangerous leanings towards a jazz career.
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