Make a date with the Calendar Girls
GARY BARLOW and Tim Firth’s musical comedy Calendar Girls The Musical – based on the true story, the film and the award-winning play by Tim Firth – is coming to the Liverpool Empire from November 27 to December 1.
The critically acclaimed and awardwinning production played a six-month London season at the Phoenix Theatre last year, and, before that, this musical comedy played sold-out seasons in Leeds and
Manchester.
Tim said: “To be given a chance to revisit Calendar Girls The Musical is a unique opportunity.
“Gary and I have been working away and, as the great Stephen Sondheim said: ‘Musical comedies aren’t written, they are rewritten.’”
The new tour will star novelist and television presenter Fern Britton, returning to the stage for the first time in 30 years, as Marie; Lorraine Bruce as Cora; Anna-Jane
Casey as Annie; Sara Crowe as Ruth; Ruth Madoc as Jessie; Rebecca Storm as Chris and Denise Welch as Celia.
Calendar Girls The Musical is inspired by the true story of a group of ladies who decide to appear nude for a Women’s Institute calendar in order to raise funds to buy a settee for their local hospital in memory of one of their husbands, and have to date raised almost £5m for Bloodwise.
This musical comedy shows life in their Yorkshire village, how it happened, the effect on husbands, sons and daughters, and how a group of ordinary ladies achieved something extraordinary.
Bloodwise, the UK’s specialist blood cancer charity, will continue to receive monies from this production.
For more information go to www.atgtickets. com/shows/calendargirls-the-musical/ liverpool-empire/