Ashley Day to join Tiffany Graves at Crazy Coqs

It has been announced that West End Frame Award winner Ashley Day will join renowned West End actress Tiffany Graves at her upcoming Crazy Coqs shows.

Entitled Let's Do It, Graves' show will feature new arrangements of musical classics from the likes of Kander & Ebb, Cy Coleman and Rogers & Hart as well as new material from Broadway and beyond. Performances take place on 11th and 18th April 2016.

Graves and Day, who won WEF's Understudy of the Year Award in 2013 for The Book of Mormon, recently starred together in the Welsh National Opera's production of Kiss Me, Kate. 

Casting announced for new tour of Kiss Me, Kate

Opera North and the Welsh National Opera are co-producing a new production of Cole Porter's musical Kiss Me, Kate. 

The show is set to tour England, opening at the Leeds Grand Theatre on 21st September, before visiting Newcastle, Salford and Nottingham.

Kiss Me, Kate will be performed by a cast of opera and West End singers, with the full scale orchestra of Opera North. Kiss Me, Kate is conducted by David Charles Abell (ENO's Sweeney Todd) and directed by Jo Davies (Opera North's Carousel). Choreography is by Will Tuckett (The Wind in the Willows). 

Full casting confirmed for The Producers 2015 UK Tour

Full casting has been announced for the 2015 UK Tour of The Producers which begins in March.

The cast is led by Jason Manford as as Leo Bloom. Broadway and West End star Cory English reprises his role as Max Bialystock. Tiffany Graves joins the company as Ulla.

Ross Noble and Phill Jupitus share the role of Franz Liebkind. Olivier Award winning actor David Bedella (pictured right) will play Roger De Bris. Renowned dancer, choreographer and television personality Louie Spence plays Carmen Ghia (until 2 May).