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Summer Holiday UK Tour

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April 11, 2018

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Summer Holiday, the feel-good musical based on the iconic 1960's film starring Cliff Richard and the Shadows will tour the UK in 2018/19.

The Summer Holiday UK Tour will feature all the Number 1 hits from the movie plus some additional Cliff Richard classics.

Summer Holiday tells the story of Don and his fellow London Transport mechanics as they journey together in a red double-decker bus through Paris, the Alps, Italy and Greece. Along the way they pick up a girl singing group and a young American pop star who is on the run from her domineering mother!

This hit - filled musical features many of 1960’s biggest songs including In the Country, Summer Holiday, Travellin’ Light, Bachelor Boy, Move It, Living Doll, The Young Ones and On the Beach. The cast of Summer Holiday UK Tour includes Ray Quinn playing the role of Don and Bobby Crush who will be playing Jerry for the first eight weeks of the UK tour.

Sophie Matthew plays runaway singer Barbara, with Taryn Sudding taking on the role of Stella, her controlling fame-hungry mother. Billy Roberts (Steve), Joe Goldie (Edwin) and Rory Maguire (Cyril) play Don's fellow London Transport mechanics.

Gabby Antrobus (Mimsie), Alice Baker (Alma) and Laura Marie Benson (Angie) play singing group 'Do-Re-Mi". The cast is completed by Hannah Barr, Becky Bassett, Caroline Bateson, William Beckerleg, Adam Crossley, Sam Gallacher, Leanne Groutage and Matt Trevorrow.

The stage adaptation of Summer Holiday is by Michael Gyngell and Mark Haddigan, based on the film Summer Holiday which was directed by Peter Yates with a screenplay by Ronald Cass and Peter Myers. Orchestrations by Keith Strachan. The Summer Holiday UK Tour will be directed and choreographed by Racky Plews.

The Sumer Holiday UK Tour will start in Liverpool on 8th May 2018.

SUMMER HOLIDAY UK TOUR SCHEDULE

More dates to be announced soon.

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SUMMER HOLIDAY UK TOUR PAST DATES

 

Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 May 2018

Liverpool Empire   

Tuesday 15 – Saturday 19 May 2018

Milton Keynes Theatre    

Tuesday 22 – Saturday 26 May 2018

New Victoria Theatre, Woking   

Tuesday 29 May – Saturday 2 June 2018

York Grand Opera House

Tuesday 5 – Saturday 9 June 2018

Churchill Theatre, Bromley 

Tuesday 12 – Saturday 16 June 2018

New Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham      

Tuesday 19 – Saturday 23 June 2018

Edinburgh Playhouse   

Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 June 2018

Theatre Royal, Plymouth      

Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 July 2018

Theatre Royal, Brighton  

Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 July 2018

Blackpool Winter Gardens   

Tuesday 30 July – Saturday 4 August 2018

Leeds Grand Theatre  

Tuesday 22 - Saturday 27 August 2018

Cliffs Pavilion, Southend              

Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 September  2018

Orchard Theatre, Dartford    

Tuesday 11 – Saturday 15 September  2018

Chester Storyhouse               

Tuesday 18 – Saturday 22 September 2018

New Wimbledon Theatre   

Tuesday 25 – Saturday 29 September  2018

Darlington Hippodrome       

Tuesday 2 – Saturday 6 October 2018

Regent Theatre, Stoke  

Tuesday 23 – Saturday 27 October  2018

Aylesbury Waterside Theatre            

Tuesday 30 October – Saturday 3 November  2018

Kings Theatre, Glasgow  

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