Calendar Girls The Musical

About Calendar Girls The Musical

A CALENDAR THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING

The death of a much loved husband prompts a group of ordinary women in a small Yorkshire Women's Institute to do something extraordinary: create a nude calendar to raise money for charity. News spreads fast in their community and none of them expect the emotional and personal repercussions, but gradually the making of the fabulous and funny calendar brings each woman unexpectedly into bloom.

Packed full of unforgettable songs, every performance continues to prove that there is no such thing as an ordinary woman

Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. Originally
Produced by David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and The Shubert Organisation.
Based on the play CALENDAR GIRLS written by Tim Firth and on the
motion picture CALENDAR GIRLS. Written by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi.

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A story that's saving lives to this day

While this production tells an extraordinary true story, it is also part of an extraordinary legacy. Alongside thousands of professional and amateur productions of Calendar Girls, it helps raise vital funds for Blood Cancer UK.

Contributions made from this production are expected to bring the total raised for Blood Cancer UK from the play and musical close to the £1 million mark.

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Cast

Angela Caesar
Brenda H/Lady Cravenshire/Mrs Wilson tea
Theatre includes:The Sound of Music (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Wizard of Oz, The Wicker Husband (Watermill Theatre); Rags (Park Theatre); i (Playhouse Theatre/Chichester Festival Theatre/National Theatre); Astronaut (The Other Palace); King (Hackney Empire); Orlando and The Three Graces, Clown, Into the Forest, The Magic Paintbrush (Theatre Peckham); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Porgy and Bess (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour); Show Boat (Raymond Gubbay Productions).
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Billy Currid
Danny
Calendar Girls marks Billy's professional stage debut. His other credits include The Bay (ITV), The Trials (Octagon Young Company), and Cinderella (Pendle Productions). Billy is also an acclaimed writer, and has recently written and performed in The Probability of a Dog Becoming a Receptionist (Third Floor Theatre).
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Pippa Duffy
Celia
Theatre includes:Only Fools and Horses The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Mother Goose (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Spoonface Steinberg (Hull Truck); Up the Duff (York Theatre Royal); Once We Were Mothers (The Orange Tree); Tracy Beaker Gets Real (Nottingham Playhouse/UK Tour); Musical Bites, The Riveters (The Other Palace); The Crocodile (The Arcola); The Infant (Gilded Balloon/Old Red Lion); Pride and Prejudice (UK Tour).
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Sarah Groarke
Marie
Theatre includes:A Christmas Carol (Octagon Theatre Bolton); The Borrowers, Bus Stop, Silence, Shining City (Theatre by the Lake); Jane Eyre (Stephen Joseph Theatre/New Vic Theatre); Macbeth (Southwark Playhouse); Animal Farm (Theatre Royal, Bath); Grimm Tales (Library Theatre Company); A Streetcar Named Desire (Nuffield Theatre); Henry V, Taking Steps (Ryan Theatre); Arabian Nights (Watermill Theatre); Pericles (New Vic Studio); Sir Thomas More (Bath Shakespeare Festival).
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Rachel Hammond
Mrs Wilson coffee/on stage understudy
Theatre includes:Underneath a Magical Moon (Tutti Frutti USA Tour); Joy Unspeakable (Ordinary Glory); Climax (Close to Home); My First Panto: Rapunzel (The Garage); Pulse (Bamboozle); Twitchers, A Force to Be Reckoned With (Mikron); Give It Back Mack (Riding Lights); The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood (Barn Theatre); Swallows and Amazons (York Theatre Royal); Much Ado About Nothing (Northern Broadsides); Babe, The Sheep-Pig (Mercury Theatre).
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Matt Helsop
Lawrence
Theatre includes:Peter Pan (International Tour); To the Moon and Back (UK Tour); 2065 (UK Tour); Twelfth Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Christmas Carol (New Forest Open Air Theatre); The Adventures of Pinocchio (Goblin Theatre); Away with the Circus (Royal Albert Hall).
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Karen Holmes
Chris
Theatre includes: UK tours of Greatest Days, Grease, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Pirates of Penzance; Les Misérables (West End); Blood Brothers (English Theatre Frankfurt).
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Matt Ian Kelly
Rod/Colin/Denis
Theatre includes:Brassed Off (Octagon Theatre Bolton, Theatre by the Lake, Stephen Joseph Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest (Chelsea Theatre); What's Wrong with Angry? (BAC); I Am Star Trek (Hackney Empire).
Matt has worked extensively with Les Enfants Terribles: UK/international tours of Immaculate, originating the role of Lucifer, and the original cast of The Terrible Infants (Lowry, Arts Theatre London, Oxford Playhouse, Esplanade Theatre Singapore and Holden Street Theatre for the Adelaide Festival)...
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Annie Kirkman
Ruth
Theatre includes:Dracula: The Bloody Truth (Octagon Theatre Bolton, Stephen Joseph Theatre); Ladies' Day (Octagon Theatre Bolton, New Vic Theatre); Sleeping Beauty, Noises Off, Beauty and the Beast (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Love's Labour's Lost (more or less) (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Shakespeare North); Perfect Pitch, Shakers (John Godber Company); Ladies Down Under (New Vic Theatre); The Hound of the Baskervilles, Frost Hollow Hall, Sparrow, A Christmas Carol (East Riding Theatre)...
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Christina Meehan
Annie
Theatre includes:Mamma Mia! (RCCL); Stepping Out (Brockley Jack Theatre); Fat Friends the Musical (UK Tour); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Landor Theatre); Around the World in 80 Days (Grand Theatre, Blackpool); Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan (UK Productions); Robin Hood (Big Adventure Productions); The Revellers Society (UK Tour); Unravelling (New Union Theatre); Fatbusters the Musical (St Giles in the Field Church); Silent Voices – The Doris Stokes Musical (Tristan Bates Theatre); Spend Spend Spend (Union Theatre); Little Shop of Horrors (King's Arms Theatre); Time and Music (Tour).
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Alicia McKenzie
Cora
Theatre includes:Cinderella (Octagon Theatre Bolton); Jack and the Beanstalk, A (Scarborough) Christmas Carol (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Small Island (National Theatre); Quality Street (Northern Broadsides); A Christmas Carol (Northern Stage); Bleak Expectations (Watermill); Jekyll and Hyde, The Wind in the Willows, The Crucible, Blonde Bombshells of 1943, Summer Holiday (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The Wind in the Willows (New Vic); Women in Power (Nuffield, Southampton and Oxford Playhouse); Whisky Galore (Oldham Coliseum, Hull Truck and New Vic)...
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Neil Moors
John
Theatre includes:Rebecca the Musical (Charing Cross Theatre, London); Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre, London); Heaven on Earth (Arena Tour); Great Expectations (Grand Theatre, Blackpool); Out There (Union Theatre); Blondel (Union Theatre – Offie-nominated for Best Actor); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and German Tours); All Male Pirates of Penzance (Hackney Empire, UK Tour); Shrek the Musical (UK Tour); All Male HMS Pinafore (UK Tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (World Arena Tour); Rent 20th Anniversary Concert (UK Tour); The Pirates of Penzance (Sydney Theatre, Australian Tour)...
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Fenella Norman
Jessie
Theatre includes:The Accrington Pals (Octagon Theatre Bolton); The Lady in the Van (Hull Truck/National Tour); Noises Off (Derby Playhouse); Harvest in the North (Oldham Coliseum); A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cabaret (Chester Gateway); King Lear, Talent (Leicester Phoenix); Into the Woods, It's a Girl (York Theatre Royal); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Sheffield Crucible); School for Wives (Manchester Library Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Young Vic); It's a Girl (West Yorkshire Playhouse)...
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Dalton Bradley-Hampson
Tommo (Blue Team)
Calendar Girls is Dalton's first feature in a musical at the Octagon. He has previously sung for Bolton Youth Harmonies and at college. Dalton has also performed at the Octagon recently as Tomaz in The Trials (Octagon Young Company). He is currently studying Psychology, Performing Arts and Drama at college.
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Charlie France
Tommo (Red Team)
Charlie is delighted to be making his professional debut in Calendar Girls The Musical! He is currently in his second year of Musical Theatre training at LIPA Sixth Form College, and has previously performed with Manchester Musical Youth, Create Theatre Academy, and Stagebox.
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Grace Pearce
Jenny (Red Team)
Grace is a Performing Arts student at Bury College. She has performed in a range of youth theatre productions, as well as in previous productions at the Octagon. Grace hopes to continue her training in musical theatre to pursue a career on stage. She is very excited to be part of this production and hopes you enjoy the performance!
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Eva White
Jenny (Blue Team)
Eva is delighted to be performing in Calendar Girls The Musical this October! As a local Boltonian, performing at the Octagon feels particularly significant to Eva, who has also been part of several productions with Interact Performing Arts, alongside performing at the Edinburgh Fringe over the summer. She wants to pass on her gratitude to everyone who made this experience possible!
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