REVIEW: Calamity Jane, New Wimbledon Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Calamity Jane starring Jodie Prenger now touing the UK

This is a theatrical treat: a good, old fashioned musical done in a new fangled way. It’s great to hear such good songs so well sung by a cast that basically accompanies itself. Prenger’s crowd pleasing turn as Calamity, together with first class support from Lister, Delaney, Street and Hammond ensures an evening that moves along at Whip Crack Away pace and makes you long for those Black Hills of Dakota.

Calamity Jane 2015 Tour Dates

Jodie Prenger stars in the 2015 national tour of Clamity Jane

CLICK FOR CALAMITY JANE TOUR DATES BELOW The current tour of Calamity Jane recommences next week at the Bath Theatre Royal. Calamity Jane can outrun and outshoot any man in Deadwood. Hard, boastful and desperate to impress, she travels to Chicago to recruit a star, Adelaide Adams, for the Deadwood Stage. But things don’t go too smoothly for Calamity, as everyone in town favours the new girl and she struggles to keep her jealousy and pride in check. It takes her long-standing enemy Wild Bill Hickok to make her see sense, and realise her Secret Love… Calamity Jane has an Oscar nominated score that includes The Black Hills of Dakota, The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away), Just Blew in from the Windy City and the award-winning song Secret Love. Jodie Prenger plays Calamity Jane. Jodie is perhaps best known for winning the role of Nancy in the BBC series I’d Do Anything … Read more