NEWS TICKER
Published on
March 18, 2015
Love Me Tender UK Tour 2015
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READ OUR REVIEW FOR LOVE ME TENDER From the producers of Hairspray, Jersey Boys and West Side Story, Love Me Tender is a hilarious feel-good musical featuring Elvis Presley’s greatest hits. In a small town in 1950s America, a guitar-playing, hip-swivelling stranger rides his motorbike into town. Is he The Devil in Disguise or a Hound Dog in his Blue Suede Shoes? The townsfolk are about to be All Shook Up and could be headed for Heartbreak Hotel, but for Natalie, the love-struck, tomboy mechanic, it really is Now or Never. Packed with 25 of the best loved songs by The King himself, Love Me Tender, by the writer of the award-wining West End and Broadway smash hit Memphis, is a funny and moving tale of hope, second chances and the healing qualities of Rock 'n' Roll. The cast of Love Me Tender will include Mica Paris as Sylvia; Sian Reeves (Cutting It, Emmerdale, Holby City) as Mayor Matilda Hyde, Ben Lewis (Love Never Dies) as Chad and Shaun Williamson (EastEnders, Extras) as Jim. The rest of the company includes: Mark Anderson as ‘Dennis’; Aretha Ayeh as ‘Lorraine’; Chris Howell as ‘Sheriff Earl’; Felix Mosse as ‘Dean’; Laura Tebbutt as ‘Natalie’; Kate Tydman as ‘Miss Sandra’; Sophie Ayres; Jamie Hughes-Ward; Will Jeffs; Jacob Maynard; Matthew McKenna; Elliot Powell; Stephanie Rojas; Ruthie Stephens; Paulo Teixeira; Lindsey Tierney; Sharon Wattis and T’Shan Williams. Producer Adam Spiegel said: “I’m delighted to be working with such a talented, award winning, Creative team to bring the UK this fantastic feel-good musical featuring some of the best music ever written – the greatest hits of the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley.” Love Me Tender is Written by Tony Award Winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis) and Directed and Choreographed by Olivier Award Winner Karen Bruce (Saturday Night Fever, Dance ’Til Dawn, Pacific Overtures) with Set Design by award nominated Morgan Large (Flashdance, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), Lighting Design by James Whiteside (Never Forget, Footloose) Costume Design by Vicky Gill (Dance ‘Til Dawn, Strictly Come Dancing) and Casting by James Orange (The Producers, Sweeney Todd.) LOVE ME TENDER 2015 TOUR
Friday 5 - Saturday 13 June 2015
Manchester Opera House
Mon 15 - Saturday 20 June 2015
Bristol Hippodrome
Monday 22 - Saturday 27 June 2015
New Wimbledon Theatre, Wimbledon
Monday 29 June - Saturday 4 July 2015
Regent Theatre, Stoke On Trent
Monday 6 - Saturday 11 July 2015
New Theatre, Oxford
Monday 13 - Saturday 18 July 2015
Sunderland Empire, Sunderland
Monday 20 - Saturday 25 July 2015
Playhouse, Edinburgh
Monday 27 July - Saturday 1 August 2015
Milton Keynes Theatre
Monday 3 - Saturday 8 August 2015
King's Theatre, Glasgow
Monday 1 - Saturday 15 August 2015
Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Monday 17 - Saturday 22 August 2015
Grand Opera Houzse, York
Monday 24 - Saturday 29 August 2015
New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
Monday 31 August - Saturday 5 September 2015
Churchill Theatre, Bromley
Monday 7 - Saturday 12 September 2015
New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Monday 14 - Saturday 19 September 2015
New Theatre, Cardiff
Monday 21 - Saturday 26 September 2015
Bord Gais Theatre, Dublin