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Joining David Witts as Link Larkin is: John Barr (Wilbur Turnblad), Samara Casteallo (Little Inez), Rebecca Craven (Tracy Turnblad, pictured right), Sophie-Louise Dann (Velma Von Tussle), Tyrone Huntley (Seaweed), Claudia Kariuki (Motormouth Maybelle), Zizi Strallen (Penny Pingleton), Vicki Lee Taylor (Amber Von Tussle), Callum Train (Corny Collins) and Damian Williams (Edna Turnblad).
The cast also includes: Michelle Andrews (Ensemble), Lucy Ashenden (Ensemble), Charlie Bull (Ensemble), Joseph Connor (Ensemble), Matt Gillet (Ensemble), Matt Jones (Ensemble), Cleopatra Joseph (Dynamite), Jasmine Kerr (Dynamite), Sorelle Marsh (Female Authority Figure), Ryan Pidgen (Male Authority Figure) and Sharon Wattis (Dynamite).
The production opens on 5th March 2014 (previews from 28th February) and runs until 5th April.
Meet The Cast
John Barr’s theatre work includes A Class Act, Ragtime, Bent (Landor Theatre), Assassins (Union Theatre), Cats (Larnaca Festival, Cyprus), Chicago (Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur), Company (Derby Playhouse), The Merry Widow, The Mikado, Aspects of Love, Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, Evita (Manchester Opera House), and Bat Boy The Musical (Shaftesbury Theatre). For film, his work includes Les Miserables and The Catch.
Rebecca Craven makes her professional musical debut with Hairspray. For television, her work includes Waterloo Road, Pobol Y Cwm, Y Pris & Caerdydd; and for film, Hunky Dory.
Zizi Strallen returns to Leicester where she recently appeared in Chicago. Other credits include Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Chocolate Factory and Harold Pinter Theatre), Rock of Ages (West End), Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella (Sadler’s Wells and World tour), Dirty Dancing (Aldwych), The Music Man (Chichester Festival Theatre), Scrooge (London Palladium), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London Palladium), and The Herbal Bed (Royal Shakespeare Company. For television, her work includes The Prince and the Pauper, Bramwell, Victoria and Albert, and Dinotopia.
Damian Williams has featured in Sheffield Lyceum’s pantomime for four seasons, taking on the role of the Dame in Aladdin, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, as well as playing Mr Smee in Peter Pan. He has appeared on national tour in Being Tommy Cooper, See How They Run, Up Pompeii, Birthday Suite, Tom, Dick and Harry, ‘Allo ‘Allo, Little Voice, South Pacific, Relatively Speaking, Charley’s Aunt, Bouncers, Wind in the Willows, Educating Rita, God Spell and The Sound of Music. For television, his credits include Are You Smarter Than Your Ten Year Old, Tom & Jenny, Alfonso Bonzo, Billy Webb and Spatz.
David Witts trained with the National Youth Music Theatre and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He can currently be seen as Joey Branning in BBC’s EastEnders – a role for which he won Most Popular Newcomer at the National Television Awards in 2013 and Best Newcomer at the TV Choice Awards 2013.
Artistic Director of Curve, Paul Kerryson directs. For the company, his work includes Chicago, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Piaf, Hello Dolly!, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Buried Child, Gypsy, Absurd Person Singular, The Light in the Piazza, The King and I (also UK tour), 42nd Street, The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. For the Haymarket Theatre Leicester, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Playboy of the Western World, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Plough and the Stars, Dolly West’s Kitchen, Richard III, Breaking the Code, East, Edward II and Single Spies. Kerryson has directed works by the world’s greatest composers including Rodgers and Hammerstein, Kander and Ebb, Jerry Herman, William Finn, and has enjoyed a celebrated, close creative relationship with the works of Stephen Sondheim. He has directed for Chichester Festival Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Manchester Library Theatre and the Dublin Gaiety.
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