West End star ROSEMARY ASHE to lead British Cast Premiere of THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL at Waterloo East Theatre
There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres – and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, arrives and comes between the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert. – the storms begin to brew!
The Great American Trailer Park Musical with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso, is a musical comic fable exploring the relationships between the tenants at the exclusive Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Florida.
“A delicious new musical. The joint is jammed and jumping with raucous laughter. It’s like The Honeymooners meets The Best Little Whorehouse in Urinetown.” — NY Post
“Joyful and unashamedly vulgar, Betsy Kelso’s comic fable about women in a Florida trailer park and their no-account men is more fun than a chair-throwing episode of Jerry Springer set to music.” — The New Yorker.
The show premiered at the first annual New York Music Theatre Festival in 2004 and transferred to The Dodger Stages off-Broadway in 2005, it has since played throughout the USA, Australia and Europe. This will be its British cast Premiere.
Original UK cast includes;
Rosemary Ashe – (The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver, Les Miserables, The Witches of Eastwick– for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for best supporting Actress in a Musical)
Sabrina Aloueche – (We Will Rock You, Les Miserables)
Jemma Alexander – (Sound of Music Live Wicked, Rent)
Jodie Steele – (Rent, War Of The Worlds, Jesus Christ Superstar, Legally Blonde)
Michelle Bishop – (Sunset Boulevard, Bend it Like Bekham, Jersey Boys, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Adam Vaughn – (Sunset Boulevard, From Here to Eternity, Billy Elliot)
Director – Kirk Jameson (The World Goes Around, I Love you You’re Perfect, Suessical, Dames at Sea, Once Upon a Mattress)
Choreographer – Rebecca Howell – (American Psycho – Funny Girl)
Musical Director – James Taylor – (Sound of Music Live)
Presented by Garry Lake & Waterloo East Theatre by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED.
Listings Information:
11th May to 5th June 2016 – Press Night May 17th at 7.30pm
Tues to Sat at 7.30pm. Sun at 4pm (No Monday performances)
Running time approx 110 mins with an Interval
Tickets: £20 / £18 (Cons) Previews: May 11th to 15th All tickets £15
No Booking Fees (All seating is unreserved) Age16+
Waterloo East Theatre Brad Street London SE1 8TN
Book Online www.waterlooeast.co.uk Box Office 0207 928 0060