Sara Poyzer will play Donna Sheridan, with Shobna Gulati as Tanya and Sue Devaney as Rosie, when the
Mama Mia! International Tour comes to South Africa. Poyzer has also played Donna in the West End production of
Mama Mia! as well as other West End roles including Janet in
Rutherford & Son, Emilia in
Othello and Mam in
Billy Elliot.
Gulati's many television roles include: Sunita Alahan in
Coronation Street; Anita in Victoria Wood's award-winning BBC series
Dinnerladies; Nisha Clayton in the last ever series of
Where the Heart Is for ITV; and, most recently, Fiona in Kay Mellor's new BBC series
In the Club.
Devaney's television roles include: Jane in
Dinnerladies; she played Liz Harker for four years in
Casualty; Rita for three years in
Jonny Briggs; and Debbie Webster for two years in
Coronation Street.
The cast for South Africa will also star Sara Poyzer's real-life husband, Richard Standing, as Sam Carmichael, Michael Beckley as Bill Austin, Mark Jardine as Harry Bright, Niamh Perry as Sophie Sheridan, Justin Thomas as Sky, Daniella Bowen as Ali, Tara Young as Lisa, Alex Simmons as Pepper and Charlie Stemp as Eddie. The role of Donna will be played at certain performances by Francesca Ellis.
Also in the cast will be Michael Anthony, Holly Ashton, Charlotte Bradford, Devon-Elise Johnson, Matt Kennedy, Gemma Lawson, Scott Mobley, Dean Read, Matthew Ronchetti, Ellie Rutherford, Parisa Shahmir, Katy Stredder, Rhodri Watkins, Tom Stanford-Wheatley, Simon Willmont, Sarah Wilkie and Jamie Wilkin.
The
Mama Mia! International Tour is currently in rehearsals with the newly-announced cast in London. They will then perform for a limited season in Liverpool before jetting off to South Africa to perform at the Teatro at Montecasino in Johannesburg for four weeks.
Mama Mia! is Judy Craymer's ingenious vision of staging the story-telling magic of ABBA's timeless songs with an enchanting tale of family and friendship unfolding on a Greek island paradise. To date, it has been seen by more than 54 million people in 39 productions in 14 different languages.
Mama Mia! the movie is the highest worldwide grossing live-action musical film of all time, and one in four households in the UK owns the DVD, which is now
Amazon UK's biggest selling DVD ever.
From West End to global phenomenon, the London production of
Mama Mia! has now been seen by more than 10% of the entire UK population. It is one of only five musicals to have run for more than 10 years both on Broadway and in the West End, and in 2011 it became the first Western musical ever to be staged in Mandarin in the People's Republic of China.
With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus,
Mama Mia! is written by Catherine Johnson, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and choreographed by Anthony Van Laast. The production is designed by Mark Thompson, with lighting design by Howard Harrison, sound design by Andrew Bruce & Bobby Aitken, and musical supervision, additional material & arrangements are by Martin Koch.
The
Mama Mia! International Tour is produced by Judy Craymer, Richard East and Björn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal, Stage Entertainment and NGM.
Production:
Mama Mia!Date: Tuesday, 24 March to Sunday, 19 April
Venue: Teatro Theatre, Montecasino, Johannesburg
Cost: R200 to R500
There are discount deals on offer for bulk ticket purchases and pensioners.
Tickets can be booked via
Computicket.
The performance lasts two hours and 35 minutes and includes a 20 minute interval.
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Mama Mia! website.
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