Last Updated on 24th March 2022
Kay Mellor’s Fat Friends the Musical UK Tour was to have hit the road again in January 2022 but has now been postponed.
Stop Press: The Fat Friends musical tour has been postponed
The hit TV show from award-winning national treasure Kay Mellor (creator of Band of Gold, The Syndicate and In The Club) is bursting onto the stage in the Fat Friends the musical UK Tour with original music by Nick Lloyd Webber.
This hugely entertaining musical toured the UK to a rapturous response from critics and sell-out audiences in 2017 and is based on the hit ITV show Fat Friends, which starred James Corden and Ruth Jones.
Fat Friends The Musical UK Tour reunites our favourite foodie friends as they are put through their Zumba paces at their local slimming club, whilst Kelly fantasises about fitting into the wedding dress of her dreams. Full of hope, humour, love and weight loss, the show delivers a tasty treat of fun and laughter and encourages us all, as the final song sings, to Love Who You Are!
Packed full of warmth, life and weight loss this new stage show reunites our favourite foodie friends in an eagerly anticipated musical brimming with hope, humour and heart.
Fat Friends the musical will star Lee Mead as ‘Kevin’, Sherrie Hewson as ‘Julia’, Jessica Ellis as ‘Kelly’ and Les Dennis as ‘Fergus’. Marc Akinfolarin also joins the cast as ‘Alan’ with Alex–May Roberts as ‘Val’. Further casting to be announced soon.
Kay Mellor said today ‘I am thrilled with the amazing star cast we have assembled for our second outing of Fat Friends The Musical. Lee Mead and Jessica Ellis are fantastic performers and will be wonderful as Kevin and Kelly, and it’s great to be welcoming two iconic actors, Sherrie Hewson and Les Dennis who first worked together 40 years ago and are now reunited on stage’.
Fat Friends the musical is created, directed and has a book and lyrics by the multi-award-winning Kay Mellor, whose latest hit series of The Syndicate recently ran on BBC One. It has Music by Nicholas Lloyd Webber with Set and Costume design by Bretta Gerecke. Choreography is by Karen Bruce, Sound by Ben Harrison, Lighting by Nick Richings with Orchestrations, Arrangements and Musical Supervision by Simon Lee, Casting by Stephen Crockett CDG for David Grindrod Associates, with Additional Casting by David Shaw CDG for David Shaw Casting. It is produced by Joshua Andrews and Rollem Productions.
FAT FRIENDS THE MUSICAL UK TOUR 2022
14 – 15 January 2022
Orchard Theatre Dartford
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18 – 22 January 2022
New Theatre Cardiff
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24 – 29 January 2022
Theatre Royal Nottingham
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24 – 29 January 2022
The Lyceum Sheffield
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7 – 12 February 2022
King’s Theatre Glasgow
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14 – 19 February 2022
Theatre Royal Newcastle
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21 February – 5 March 2022
Leeds Grand Theatre
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7 – 12 March 2022
Edinburgh Festival Theatre
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14 – 19 March 2022
Orchard Theatre Dartford
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29 March – 2 April 2022
The Alexandra Birmingham
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4 – 9 April 2022
Mayflower Theatre Southampton
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11 – 16 April 2022
Marlowe Theatre Canterbury
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25 – 30 April 2022
Norwich Theatre Royal
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3 – 7 May 2022
Southend Cliffs Pavilion
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9 – 14 May 2022
Curve Leicester
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16 – 21 May 2022
Bord Gais Energy Theatre Dublin
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23 – 28 May 2022
Liverpool Empire
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30 May – 4 June 2022
Alhambra Theatre Bradford
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6 – 11 June 2022
The Lowry Salford
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13 – 25 June 2022
Theatre Severn Shrewsbury
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27 June – 2 July 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth
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4 – 9 July 2022
Bristol Hippodrome
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11 – 16 July 2022
Venue Cymru Llandudno
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18 – 23 July 2022
Hull New Theatre
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