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Cher the musical tour
I recently attended the press night for Cher the musical. At grade two listed building - The new Wimbledon theatre.
My red carpet look was inspired by none other than Cher herself. With a daring black pvc dress. I toned it down by covering the top half with a statement jumper. With its loose fitting. Black and white loop stitch design. Draped off of one shoulder.
Footwear was a statement pair of shiny silver knee high boots to match my holographic bag and silver choker necklace.
The UK and Ireland tour of Cher the musical began in Southampton and will end on the 11th of March at Norwich Theatre Royal.
The producers of the brand new production of The Cher Show are delighted to announce the full cast joining Debbie Kurup, Danielle Steers and Millie O’Connell, all starring as Cher.
Lucas Rush plays Sonny, Jake Mitchell plays Bob Mackie, Sam Ferriday is Greg Allman and Tori Scott plays Georgia. Guy Woolf stars as alternate Sonny.
Joining them are Jordan Anderton, Jasmine Jules Andrews, Carla Bertran, Catherine Cornwall, Áine Curran, Sam Holden, Samantha Ivey, Aston Newman Hannington, Ingrid Olivia, Clayton Rosa and Chay Wills.
The Cher Show tells the incredible story of Cher’s rise to fame. As a young child with big dreams. The shy daughter of an Armenian American truck driver rose to dizzying heights of global stardom.
Cher takes the audience by the hand and introduces them to the influential people in her life, from her mother and Sonny Bono, to fashion designer and costumier Bob Mackie.
It shows how she battled the men who underestimated her. Fought the conventions and, above all, was a trailblazer for independence.
The musical is packed with 35 of her biggest hits, including ‘If I Could Turn Back Time’, ‘I Got You Babe’, ‘Strong Enough’, ‘The Shoop Shoop Song’ and ‘Believe’.
With over 100 million record sales, an Academy Award®, an Emmy®, a Grammy®, three Golden Globes® and an award from The Council of Fashion Designers of America. Cher has influenced popular culture more than most.
Her on-screen career started in 1971 with her weekly television show that attracted 30 million viewers a week, and went on to include starring roles in iconic films from Moonstruck, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress. To Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, which prompted the New York Magazine to realise “every single movie—no matter how flawless—would be infinitely better if it included Cher.”
Her ‘Farewell Tour’ became the highest grossing music tour in history – in true Cher fashion, she followed up her ‘Farewell Tour’ with two further sell-out, worldwide arena tours.
She is the only artist in history to have a number one hit in the Billboard chart for six consecutive decades; an achievement that caused Vogue to deem her “eternally relevant and the ruler of outré reinvention”. She became known as the Queen of Reinvention.
In the 1990s, she established The Cher Charitable Foundation to support causes around the world. She has been a long-time donor and supporter of Habitat for Humanity, The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and Keep A Child Alive. An organisation that helps to combat the AIDs epidemic.
Most recently, she co-founded Free the Wild to help rescue Kaavan the Asian elephant from Islamabad zoo.
Written by Tony Award-winning Rick Elice, The Cher Show made its debut on Broadway in 2018 in a production that earned two Tony Awards and delighted fans from around the world. This new production will be the European premiere.
The Cher Show UK & Ireland Tour has set design by Tom Rogers, musical supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Rich Morris.
Lighting design by Ben Cracknell, sound design by Dan Samson, music production by Gary Hickeson, wigs, hair and make-up design by Sam Cox. Associate direction by James Cousins, associate choreography by James Bennett. Musical direction by Danny Belton and casting by Will Burton CDG.
The Cher Show UK & Ireland Tour is produced by ROYO with Fiery Angel, Cuffe & Taylor/LIVE NATION and Playing Field in association with Tilted, Aria Entertainment and JONES Theatrical Group.
Website: www.cheronstage.com
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @TheCherShowUK
Cher the musicals play writer Rick Elice is the Tony and Olivier award-winning book writer of global phenomenon Jersey Boys.
His play, Peter and the Starcatcher, was nominated for nine Tony Awards and won five.
He also wrote the book for The Addams Family and is currently working on Disney Theatrical's upcoming new musical adaptation of The Princess Bride.
Director and choreographer for the Cher Show Arlene Phillips is one of Britain’s leading directors and choreographers behind musical mega brands including Saturday Night Fever. Starlight Express, Grease and We Will Rock You to name a few.
Founding member of 1970s dance group ‘Hot Gossip’, she went on to choreograph for music legends including Freddie Mercury, Whitney Houston and Diana Ross, and for Hollywood.
Her time as lead judge on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing cemented her as one of Britain’s most recognisable entertainment legends, a status recognised with a CBE for services to dance.
Dancer choreographer Oti Mabusr is a champion dancer and choreographer; eight times South African Latin American Champion, and 2019 champion of both BBC’s The Greatest Dancer and Strictly Come Dancing.
She was champion of Strictly Come Dancing again in 2020. Is a judge on the new ITV light entertainment show, The Masked Dancer. In 2019, she made her stage choreography debut for Tamasha Theatre Company’s production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ followed by Kiss Me Kate at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.
Costume designer Gabriella Slade is the award-winning designer behind the unforgettable costumes of West End and Broadway musical Six and the force behind the Spice Girls’ reinvented look for their Spice World 2019 tour.
She has designed recent West End productions of Curtains and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as David Walliam’s Billionaire Boy and Lin Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights. She is also designing the costumes for the upcoming UK tour of Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
Producers Tom De Keyser and Hamish Greer formed ROYO after several years producing together in the UK, on tour and in the West End.
Alongside the European premiere of The Cher Show, ROYO is the lead producer of The Osmonds: A New Musical, which brings The Osmond Family's biographical musical to the stage for the first time.
I enjoyed the show and was blown away by the powerful singing abilities of all three actresses that starred as Cher. There was humour. Sadness and excitement. With guests allowed to film and get up to join in the singing and dancing as a treat for the end of the show.
You can turn your next visit to the New Wimbledon Theatre into a luxury experience by visiting the Upper circle bar. Which boasts stunning views of Wimbledon. Whilst the stylish piano bar opens 60 minutes before performances.