Jodie Prenger to star in Calamity Jane at the Watermill Theatre prior to UK Tour

It has been announced that Jodie Prenger will star as the title role in a new production of Calamity Jane. The musical will open at The Watermill Theatre (in Newbury) on Thursday 17th July 2014, running until Saturday 6th September 2014. The actor/musician production will then tour the UK until November 2014.  Calamity Jane is adapted for the stage by Charles K. Freeman and has music by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

Jodie Prenger entered Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'I'd Do Anything' and went on to win the role of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh’s West End revival of Oliver at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. She has also starred in the National Theatre’s hit production of One Man, Two Guvnors (in the West End and on tour) and played The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot's UK Tour. Jodie is also a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2.

Nikolai Foster will direct the production. His most recent theatre credits include the 20th Anniversary production of Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing both in the West End and on tour, Annie at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and the national tour of The Witches of Eastwick. Click here to read West End Frame's interview with Nikolai.

Calamity Jane can outrun and outshoot any man in Deadwood. Hard, boastful and desperate to impress, she travels to Chicago to recruit a star, Adelaide Adams, for the Deadwood Stage. But things don’t go too smoothly for Calamity, as everyone in town favours the new girl and she struggles to keep her jealousy and pride in check. It takes her long-standing enemy Wild Bill Hickok to make her see sense, and realise her Secret Love…

Please visit www.calamityjanetheshow.com for further information and tickets.

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