Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the smash-hit, critically acclaimed West End musical is to embark on its first UK tour in 2020. Initial casting includes West End star Layton Williams as Jamie New and EastEnders’ much-loved Shane Richie as Hugo / Loco Chanelle. Both Layton and Shane will be reprising their roles from the West End production. The tour commences in February 2020 in Sheffield, where the show is set and first opened four years ago.
Further casting to be announced.
Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield.
Jamie doesn’t quite fit in.
Jamie is terrified about the future.
Jamie is going to be a sensation.
Supported by his brilliant loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies and steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight. With catchy songs by lead singer-songwriter of The Feeling, Dan Gillespie Sells, and book and lyrics by writer Tom MacRae, this funny, fabulous, feel-good, musical sensation has been wowing audiences and critics alike. Sixteen: the edge of possibility. Time to make your dreams come true.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie opened at the Sheffield Crucible in 2017 and is currently playing at the Apollo Theatre in the West End, booking until 25 January 2020.
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is being made into a major film, starring Max Harwood, Richard E. Grant, Sharon Horgan and Sarah Lancashire, by Sheffield based production company Warp Films, New Regency and Film4 completing the fairy-tale journey from a 16-year-old approaching a documentary maker to hit West End Show and now the big screen.
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield 8 February – 29 February 2020
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh 3 March – 7 March 2020
Derngate Theatre, Northampton 10 March – 14 March 2020
The Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham 16 March – 21 March 2020
The Marlowe, Canterbury 23 March – 28 March 2020
Theatre Royal, Newcastle 30 March – 4 April 2020
Theatre Royal, Brighton 6 April – 11 April 2020
Theatre Royal, Nottingham 20 April – 25 April 2020
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen 28 April – 2 May 2020
Venue Cymru, Llandudno 5 May – 9 May 2020
Mayflower Theatre, Southampton 12 May – 16 May 2020
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff 18 May – 23 May 2020
Theatre Royal, Norwich 1 June – 6 June 2020
King’s Theatre, Glasgow 8 June – 13 June 2020
Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool 16 June – 20 June 2020
Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton 23 June – 27 June 2017
The Curve, Leicester 29 June – 4 July 2020
The New Victoria, Woking 6 July – 11 July 2020
Leeds Grand Theatre, Leeds 13 July – 18 July 2020
The Lowry, Salford 21 July – 1 August 2020
Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam 4 August – 16 August 2020
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