My Best Friend’s Wedding UK Tour starring Alexandra Burke has announced that the musical that had been rescheduled into 2021-22 starting at the Manchester Palace Theatre in September has been cancelled.
Alexandra Burke was to have starred as Julianne Potter in the UK and Ireland tour of My Best Friend’s Wedding which is now to open at the Palace Theatre Manchester on 20 September 2021 following a postponement of the tour due to theatre closures caused by the VOVID-19 pandemic.
Unfortunately, the producers posted the following announcement today on social media:-
” We are sorry to announce that the UK Tour of My Best Friend’s Wedding which was scheduled to open at the Palace Theatre Manchester, is sadly not going ahead.
“The recent delay to the lifting of Covid restrictions, the increasing prevalence of the Delta variant and the possibility that come 19 July, theatres will still be required to operate social distancing, have sadly given us no option but to cancel the tour.
“Successfully launching a new musical is never easy, but this continuing uncertainty has made a difficult task into an impossible one.
“We have full confidence in the show, and hope to find a way of re-visiting it at a time and in circumstances that will afford it the best possible chance of enjoying the success it deserves.
“Your local theatre will contact you to arrange a refund as soon as possible. Please bear with us, Thank You.”
My Best Friend’s Wedding is based on the wickedly funny film of the same name and features some of the most iconic pop anthems ever written by the legendary Burt Bacharach and Hal David, including I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself, Walk on By, I Say A Little Prayer and What’s New Pussycat.
Fiery food critic Julianne Potter has always turned her nose up at romance. It’s the reason she broke up with her sweetheart Michael O’Neal. When she hears he’s about to be married, she vows to win him back for good, but with perfect Kimmy in the way, it’s not as easy as she first thought. Can she derail her best friend’s wedding in time and keep Michael all for herself?
The musical will have a book by Ronald Bass (My Best Friend’s Wedding, Rain Man, The Joy Luck Club) and Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Coronation Street).
Alexandra Burke can currently be seen in the role of Rachel Marron in the hit musical The Bodyguard having played the role to critical and audience acclaim in both the West End and the subsequent sell-out 2015/2016 tour. She first rose to fame after winning the fifth series of The X Factor and her debut number one single Hallelujah sold over one million copies in the UK, a first for a British female soloist. She most recently appeared as Svetlana in Chess at the London Coliseum and as Roxie in Chicago at the West End’s Phoenix Theatre. In 2017 she reached the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Her other theatre credits include Deloris Van Cartier in the national tour of the musical Sister Act.
My Best Friend’s Wedding is to be directed by Rachel Kavanaugh (Hadestown, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812). It has a book by Ronald Bass and Jonathan Harvey and is based on the Tristar Pictures Film, screenplay by Ronald Bass. It Features the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.
My Best Friend’s Wedding Uk Tour is produced by Michael Harrison and David Ian.
MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING UK TOUR SCHEDULE
Tour page updated 1 July 2021
TOUR CANCELLED
20 – 25 September 2021
MANCHESTER Palace Theatre
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28 September – 2 October 2021
SUNDERLAND Empire
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12 – 16 October 2021
His Majesty’s Theatre ABERDEEN
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19 – 23 October 2021
Mayflower Theatre SOUTHAMPTON
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25 – 30 October 2021
New Wimbledon Theatre, WIMBLEDON
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1 – 6 November 2021
Theatre Royal PLYMOUTH
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9 – 13 November 2021
SHEFFIELD Lyceum
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15 – 20 November 2021
Regent Theatre STOKE ON TRENT
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22 – 27 November 2021
NOTTINGHAM Theatre Royal
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29 November – 4 December 2021
Alhambra Theatre BRADFORD
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2022
4 – 8 January 2022
Cliffs Pavilion SOUTHEND
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11 – 15 January 2022
MILTON KEYNES Theatre
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17 – 22 January 2022
Orchard Theatre, DARTFORD
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24 – 29 January 2022
Wales Millennium Centre CARDIFF
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31 January – 19 February 2022
King’s Theatre, GLASGOW
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15 – 19 February 2022
The Hawth, CRAWLEY
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28 February – 5 March 2022
New Theatre OXFORD
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7 – 12 March 2022
LIVERPOOL Empire
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14 – 19 March 2022
Curve LEICESTER
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21 – 26 March 2022
EDINBURGH Playhouse
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12 – 16 April 2022
WOLVERHAMPTON Grand Theatre
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25 – 30 April 2022
New Victoria Theatre WOKING
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2 – 7 May 2022
BRISTOL Hippodrome
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