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NOVELLO THEATRE PROGRAMME 

DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRES

Welcome 

It is with the utmost pleasure that I welcome you to the glorious Novello 

Theatre and to the all-singing, all-dancing, record-breaking MAMMA MIA!, 

which has been raising the roof for over 18 years and 7,000 performances. 

Audiences across the world have said ‘Thank You For The Music’ and 

fallen under the spell of this funny, heart-warming show, based on the 

terrific songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, 

and Stig Anderson. 

At our other theatres, Les Misérables is unbelievably still storming 

the barricades in its world record-breaking 32nd year at the Queen’s. 

Disney’s Broadway smash hit Aladdin brings to magical theatrical life this 

spectacular timeless story at the Prince Edward and is a real treat for all 

ages to enjoy, and the smash-hit musical comedy The Book of Mormon 

pursues its wonderfully irreverent sell-out run at the Prince of Wales. At 

the Gielgud Theatre, bookings are extremely busy for Jez Butterworth’s 

highly anticipated, smash-hit new play The Ferryman, directed by Sam 

Mendes, which recently transferred from the Royal Court where it sold 

out in a day and received an array of five-star reviews. At the Noël Coward 

Theatre, I am very happy that the acclaimed joyous production of Half 

A Sixpence, with its terrific new award-winning star Charlie Stemp as 

Arthur Kipps and a knockout company, is bringing audiences to their feet 

at every performance with its irresistible Flash, Bang, Wallop! The show’s 

run has now been extended to 2nd September after which we are proud 

to present the world premiere of James Graham’s new comedy Labour of 

Love with the exceptional Martin Freeman and Sarah Lancashire. Across 

the courtyard at Wyndham’s Theatre, for a limited season, we are being 

treated to the legendary, multi award-winning Broadway star Audra 

McDonald portraying the life story of the equally legendary Billie Holiday 

in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. This will be followed in October 

by Simon Stephens’ surprising and life-affirming new play Heisenberg: The 

Uncertainty Principle, starring Anne-Marie Duff and Kenneth Cranham – 

who won the Best Actor Olivier Award for his performance in The Father, 

also at Wyndham’s – and directed by Marianne Elliott, who is currently 

wowing audiences with her astonishing production of Angels In America at 

the National. This marks Simon’s return to the West End following his huge 

international success with The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- 

Time, which recently finished its three-year London run. At the beautiful 

Victoria Palace Theatre, a late masterpiece of renowned theatre architect 

Frank Matcham, a major renovation and rebuild is well underway and the 

theatre will reopen in November 2017 with the phenomenally successful 

Tony® Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American musical Hamilton. All 

seats currently available for the first booking period up to the end of 

June 2018 have sold out but more seats for this period will hopefully be 

released in the early autumn when the building works reach completion. 

I wish you a thoroughly entertaining evening at MAMMA MIA! and 

look forward to welcoming you back to our other Delfont Mackintosh 

theatres soon. 

Cameron Mackintosh 

Chairman, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres

JUDY CRAYMER, RICHARD EAST AND BJÖRN ULVAEUS 

FOR LITTLESTAR IN ASSOCIATION WITH UNIVERSAL PRESENT 

MAMMA MIA! 

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY 

BENNY ANDERSSON 

BJÖRN ULVAEUS 

AND SOME SONGS WITH STIG ANDERSON 

BOOK BY CATHERINE JOHNSON 

PRODUCTION DESIGNED BY 

MARK THOMPSON 

LIGHTING DESIGNED BY 

HOWARD HARRISON 

SOUND DESIGNED BY 

ANDREW BRUCE & 

BOBBY AITKEN 

MUSICAL SUPERVISOR, ADDITIONAL 

MATERIAL & ARRANGEMENTS 

MARTIN KOCH 

CHOREOGRAPHY 

ANTHONY VAN LAAST 

DIRECTED BY 

PHYLLIDA LLOYD 

NOVELLO THEATRE 

A DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRE

Interview: Bev Hislop 

THANK YOU 

FOR THE MUSIC 

When MAMMA MIA! creator/producer Judy 

Craymer first told ABBA’s songwriters 

‘Take a chance on me’, no one could 

have imagined the blockbusting 

international success that would follow… 

Seen by a staggering 60 million people in 440 major cities around 

the world, MAMMA MIA! is the very definition of ‘phenomenon’. 

The show opened at the Prince Edward Theatre on 6 April 1999 and 

has since travelled to Europe, the US, Australia, South Africa, Korea, 

Japan, Russia, China and beyond. As of its final performance in 

September 2015, it was the 8th longest-running show in Broadway 

history and recently celebrated its 18th anniversary in London’s 

West End. MAMMA MIA! The Movie is the highest worldwide 

grossing live-action musical film of all time. So how exactly did 

creator Judy Craymer prepare for such world domination? 

‘There was no master plan,’ confesses Judy. ‘I had an ambition 

for the show to work in London and really didn’t think beyond 

that. MAMMA MIA! was the slight outsider that came along and 

changed people’s perspectives. I’d championed the idea for a long 

time but initially it was quite difficult to convince people that this 

was going to be an original story using ABBA songs, and not a 

biography of ABBA.’ 

MAMMA MIA! has been praised for its strong female characters but 

Judy says that the musical was always destined to be a woman’s 

story due to the fact that ABBA’s classic songs are written from 

a female perspective. ‘Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson wrote 

great songs for women and that fascinated me. I noticed that the 

songs fell into two different generations: younger, playful songs 

such as “Honey, Honey” and “Dancing Queen” and more mature, 

emotional songs such as “The Winner Takes It All” and “Knowing 

Me, Knowing You”. “The Winner Takes It All” was my jumping-off 

point – it’s a storytelling song. Other artists may write great sad 

love songs but what’s interesting is that “The Winner Takes It All” 

can make you cry and feel good at the same time. And every 

actress who sings it in the show gives her own personal 

interpretation. But it’s a conversation – which is how our director 

Phyllida Lloyd staged it. Whether it’s two people talking or one 

person wrestling with their inner thoughts, the song is definitely 

a dialogue. And so the idea of a cross-generational love story was 

devised, specifically about a mother and daughter.’ 

Once Judy had convinced Benny and Björn that there was a seed 

of an idea to create an original story using their wonderful songs, 

the next important stage was to find the right writer. Step forward 

Catherine Johnson to write the tremendous book and Phyllida 

Lloyd to direct and it was all systems go. ‘When we were creating 

the show, the songs definitely drew a map for the story and we 

were very rigorous about which songs to include, as they had to 

work within the story,’ remembers Judy. Early on Björn

appreciated the fact that his lyrics could be reinterpreted with a comic 

twist, such as on “Take a Chance on Me”. ‘I remember Björn 

watching an early workshop of “Honey Honey” and he fell off his chair 

laughing, saying “I didn’t write this as funny!” It was a great tribute 

to Björn and Benny that they trusted us to play with the songs in that 

way.’ In other instances, the team unwittingly nailed a song’s original 

intent. ‘Catherine wrote “Chiquitita” as a song shared by Donna, 

Tanya and Rosie in the show and Björn said, “That’s so perfect 

because I wrote it about women’s friendship,” so there was a kind of 

synergy in that sense.’ 

Despite its idyllic setting, Judy, Catherine and Phyllida didn’t get to 

visit a Greek island while they were putting the show together. ‘We 

didn’t have any money for research back then,’ laughs Judy. But 

when MAMMA MIA! was made into a film in 2008, the team finally 

got to see the story in an authentic setting. The experience was a 

career highlight for Judy. ‘Although I’d never produced a film of that 

size, and Catherine and Phyllida had never written or directed for the 

big screen, we felt a kind of confidence in being the original architects 

of the show. And I think Meryl and Pierce and all the lovely cast 

trusted us because they knew that MAMMA MIA! was in our DNA.’ 

When it came to producing the film, Judy insisted on using authentic 

Greek locations. ‘It was a fantastic experience making the film in truly 

idyllic Greek settings – such a contrast to our humble beginnings 

developing the stage production.’ 

In fact, the film wasn’t the team’s first brush with Meryl Streep. After 

the actress had seen the Broadway production, she had written a 

letter to the Broadway cast, which was passed on to Judy. She wrote 

that she had huge respect for the cast and confessed she had snuck 

backstage because she wondered how exhilarating it must be to be 

in the show. Little did she know that seven years later she would 

create the lead role of Donna for the big screen. ‘She loved doing the 

film,’ confides Judy. ‘I remember halfway through the shoot, she said 

“I’ve nearly finished singing all my songs” and she was a little sad 

about it coming to an end. The whole experience was quite magical 

so when they asked me to say a few words at the film premiere, 

besides thanking everybody I couldn’t think of what to say. So I told 

the crowd: “Well I don’t know what you were doing last summer, but 

I was on a Greek island with 007 and Darcy!” 

Although the film holds a special place in her heart, Judy admits that 

she finds every new opening equally exciting. ‘I’ve never been one to 

count my chickens, so I always wonder at the start of every new 

production whether or not it will work. Opening in London was huge, 

but then the Broadway premiere was also phenomenal. I don’t think 

I’ve ever really taken my foot off the pedal.’ The fact that the show 

has now been translated into other languages is also a source of 

pride. ‘We’re the first Western musical to be translated into Mandarin,’ 

enthuses Judy. ‘And going into Korea was amazing because they 

didn’t have a huge history of musical theatre there.’ 

universal appeal 

Judy is also proud of the fact that MAMMA MIA! has created such 

empowering leading roles for women. ‘Of course Catherine, Phyllida and 

I are all women of a certain age and so I think we understand those 

characters – that joie de vivre and slight panic at one’s life being 

turned upside down – which has been important in the whole process. 

Before MAMMA MIA! there weren’t many contemporary musicals that 

focused on women, and particularly older women. So it’s fantastic for 

the industry and fantastic for us… Having said that, I don’t want to 

make the show sound like some sort of Cocoon with music!’ 

So why has the show struck such a chord with audiences around 

the world? Judy is philosophical. ‘I think people just relate to it and 

recognise themselves in the characters. These are universal themes: 

the family dynamics, the fact that we all have flaws and are 

sometimes given second chances. Also, the music is irresistible 

and it is fantastic to introduce ABBA’s wonderful music to 

new generations.’ 

The dancing in the aisles every night certainly confirms the musical’s 

ultimate feelgood factor. ‘I love the fact that the show brings 

people together and that audiences feel like they have something 

in common,’ says Judy. ‘It attracts a repeat audience in a way 

that creates quite a community – a family. I’ve heard people ask 

their neighbour “Is this your first time?” and that feels incredibly 

rewarding. In a world where everyone’s completely battered by news, 

it’s nice to feel we’re offering some escapism.’ 

So whether this is your first or 21st visit – welcome to the family, 

and enjoy the show! 

© Dewynters

Sophie Sheridan 

Ali 

Lisa 

Tanya 

Rosie 

Donna Sheridan 

Sky 

Pepper 

Eddie 

Harry Bright 

Bill Austin 

Sam Carmichael 

Father Alexander 

At certain performances the role of Donna Sheridan will be played by 

CAST 

in order of speaking 

THE ENSEMBLE 

GEORGINA CASTLE 

BOBBIE LITTLE 

HARRIET BUNTON 

KATE GRAHAM 

JACQUELINE BRAUN 

SARA POYZER 

CHRISTOPHER JORDAN-MARSHALL 

DAMIAN BUHAGIAR 

NYE REES 

ALASDAIR HARVEY 

DUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART 

RICHARD TRINDER 

MARK ISHERWOOD 

CAROLINE DEVERILL 

ALISHIA-MARIE BLAKE, TABITHA CAMBURN, ADAM CLAYTON-SMITH, KATY DAY, 

KATY HARDS, JENNIFER HEPBURN, STUART HICKEY, MATT JORDAN-PIDGEON, 

TYLER KENNINGTON, ROBERT KNIGHT, MADELEINE LESLAY, STACEY LEANNE MILLS, 

NATASHA O’BRIEN, ALICE O’HANLON, ALEXANDA O’REILLY, OLI REYNOLDS, 

ADAM PAUL ROBERTSON, ROBBIE SCOTCHER, KATY STREDDER 

UNDERSTUDIES 

Sophie Sheridan: MADELEINE LESLAY, STACEY LEANNE MILLS, ALICE O’HANLON 

Ali: STACEY LEANNE MILLS, TABITHA CAMBURN, KATY STREDDER 

Lisa: ALICE O’HANLON, ALISHIA-MARIE BLAKE, TABITHA CAMBURN 

Tanya: NATASHA O’BRIEN, CAROLINE DEVERILL, JENNIFER HEPBURN, KATY DAY 

Rosie: JENNIFER HEPBURN, CAROLINE DEVERILL, NATASHA O’BRIEN 

Donna Sheridan: CAROLINE DEVERILL, NATASHA O’BRIEN, JENNIFER HEPBURN 

Sky: OLI REYNOLDS, NYE REES, ROBERT KNIGHT 

Pepper: MATT JORDAN-PIDGEON, ALEXANDA O’REILLY, TYLER KENNINGTON 

Eddie: TYLER KENNINGTON, ADAM PAUL ROBERTSON, MATT JORDAN-PIDGEON 

Harry Bright: MARK ISHERWOOD, STUART HICKEY, ROBBIE SCOTCHER 

Bill Austin: STUART HICKEY, ROBBIE SCOTCHER, MARK ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER JORDAN-MARSHALL 

Sam Carmichael: ROBBIE SCOTCHER, MARK ISHERWOOD, STUART HICKEY 

Father Alexander: ROBBIE SCOTCHER, STUART HICKEY, OLI REYNOLDS 

THE BAND 

London Musical Director/Keyboard MARCUS J. SAVAGE 

Assistant Musical Director/Keyboard PETER WILSON 

Keyboards NICK DAWSON, PETER VENN 

Guitar 1 KEITH AIREY 

Guitar 2 TERRY JOHNSTON 

Bass Guitar MALCOLM MOORE 

Drums MARTIN (FROSTY) BEEDLE 

Percussion JULIAN FAIRBANK 

Orchestral Management MAURICE CAMBRIDGE FOR ACCORD MUSIC LTD 

Synthesizer Programmer NICHOLAS GILPIN

PRODUCTION TEAM 

Director 

Choreographer 

Production Designer 

Lighting Designer 

Sound Designers 

Musical Supervisor, 

Additional Material & Arrangements 

London Musical Director 

Transcribed by 

Casting Consultant 



MARK THOMPSON 


ANDREW BRUCE 

BOBBY AITKEN 

MARTIN KOCH 

MARCUS J. SAVAGE 

ANDERS NEGLIN 

DAVID GRINDROD 

International Associate Director 

Resident Director 

Associate Choreographer 

Assistant Choreographer 

Dance Captain 

Associate Set Designer 

Associate Costume Designer 

Associate Lighting Designers 

Associate Sound Designer 

Associate Musical Supervisor 

Associate Casting Director 

Company Manager 

Stage Manager 

Deputy Stage Manager 

Assistant Stage Managers 

Sound No 1 

Sound No 2 

Sound No 3 

Sound No 4 

Wardrobe Mistress 

Deputy Wardrobe Master 

Wardrobe Assistant 

Hair and Make-up Head of Department 

Deputy Head of Hair and Make-up 

PAUL GARRINGTON 

STEVEN PALING 

NICHOLA TREHERNE 

LEAH-SUE MORLAND 

ROBERT KNIGHT 

JONATHAN ALLEN 

LUCY GAIGER 

DAVID HOLMES, ANDREW VOLLER 

BRIAN BUCHANAN 

NICK FINLOW 

STEPHEN CROCKETT 

DAVID J LAMB 

NEIL COPLEY 

NATHAN MATTHEWS 

ANNIE KALINAUCKAS, CHARLOTTE WILLIS 

GARETH SIZER 

ROWENA EDWARDS 

SEBNEM KAHVECI 

OLIVIA ROSE McCOLL 

RUTH McCORKINDALE 

CHARLIE RICHARDS 

CHARLOTTE WEBB 

RICK STRICKLAND 

HENRIK TORP 

First performance at this theatre: 6 September 2012 

First performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre: 3 June 2004 

World premiere at the Prince Edward Theatre: 6 April 1999

On a Greek island a 

wedding is about to take place… 

PROLOGUE 

Three months before the wedding 

CHIQUITITA 

DANCING QUEEN 

DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW 

GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! 

HONEY, HONEY 

I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO 

I HAVE A DREAM 

KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU 

LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME 

MAMMA MIA 

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY 

ACT ONE 

The day before the wedding 

ACT TWO 

The day of the wedding 

MUSICAL NUMBERS 

in alphabetical order 

ONE OF US 

OUR LAST SUMMER 

SLIPPING THROUGH MY FINGERS 

S.O.S. 

SUPER TROUPER 

TAKE A CHANCE ON ME 

THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC 

THE NAME OF THE GAME 

THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL 

UNDER ATTACK 

VOULEZ-VOUS 

The performance lasts 2 hours 35 minutes including one interval of 15 minutes 

MAMMA MIA! is very proud to be in its 19th record-breaking year in London. 

On behalf of the creative team, cast, musicians, stage management and 

everyone who makes MAMMA MIA! happen night after night, we hope you 

have a tremendously enjoyable evening. 

Judy Craymer, Producer

400 

METRES 

of lycra is used to make the 

Super Trouper costumes. 

The MAMMA MIA! orders 

alone saved the Italian mill 

that supplied the special 

fabric from closing. 

MAMMA MIA! became the 

first Mandarin-speaking 

production of a 

western musical in 

China when it opened 

at the Shanghai Grand 

Theatre in 2011. 

There are approximately 

3,120 ITEMS 

OF CLOTHING 

for MAMMA MIA! 

in the theatre at 

any one time. 

6 

MAMMA MIA! 

has been seen by 

MILLION 

PEOPLE 

worldwide in 50 

PRODUCTIONS in 16 

DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. 

DID YOU

The principal actresses, 

understudies, female 

ensemble and swings 

have 121 BRAS 

between them. 

33, 

There are 

approximately 

RHINESTONES 

on the Super Trouper 

costumes, 

ALL SEWN ON BY HAND. 

On its release, 

MAMMA MIA! THE 

MOVIE was the 

HIGHEST-GROSSING 

MUSICAL FILM 

worldwide and was the 

NO 1 MUSICAL OF ALL 

TIME IN 44 COUNTRIES. 

Donna’s Super Trouper 

costume is comprised of 

24 DIFFERENT ELEMENTS 

including a perspex 

buckle cut specially 

for the show. 

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CHARLIE STEMP 

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Daily Telegraph 

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2 SEPT 2017 

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THE CAST 

SARA POYZER 

DONNA SHERIDAN 

Training: Guildford 

School of Acting. 

Sara played Donna 

Sheridan for four years 

on the international tour 

of MAMMA MIA! and is 

thrilled to be reviving the 

role here at the Novello. 

Other theatre includes: 

Janet in Rutherford & 

Son, directed by Sir Jonathan Miller (UK tour/West 

End), Emilia in Othello with Lenny Henry in the title 

role (Trafalgar Studios), Mam in Billy Elliot the Musical 

(Victoria Palace), Forever Young and All Quiet on the 

Western Front (Nottingham Playhouse), Beverley in 

Abigail’s Party (Theatre Royal, York), creating the role 

of Teena Satin in Satin ’n’ Steel (Nottingham Playhouse/ 

UK tour), Lady Sneerwell in The School for Scandal, 

Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, Ismene in 

Antigone and Muse in Poetry or Bust by Tony 

Harrison (Northern Broadsides), creating the role 

of Kate in Bollywood Jane (Leicester Haymarket), 

The Fly (Oldham Coliseum), Up ’n’ Under (Leicester 

Haymarket) and Player’s Angels (UK tour). 

Film includes: The Knife That Killed Me and 

My Last Five Girlfriends. 

Television includes: Casualty, EastEnders, 

Doctors, Cast Offs, Paradise Reclaimed, Dangerville, 

Dangerfield, Playing the Field, Peak Practice and 

the pilot of comedy series ODDinary People. 

Sara has worked extensively for Radio 4 and played 

Leonie Snell in The Archers. 

JACQUELINE BRAUN 

ROSIE 

Training: Akademie voor 

Kleinkunst in Amsterdam. 

Theatre includes: Rosie 

in MAMMA MIA! (first 

UK tour/Raimund 

Theater, Vienna), Eponine 

and alternate Fantine 

in Les Misérables 

(Duisburg, Germany), 

Mary Magdalena in Jesus 

Christ Superstar (Kassel, Germany), walk-in cover 

Killer Queen in We Will Rock You (Zurich), Napoleon 

(West End), Dionne in Hair and Cecilia Weber in 

Mozart (Raimund Theatre, Vienna), Ludovika/Frau 

Wolf/Governess in Elisabeth (Theater an der 

Wien, Vienna), Madeleine True in The Wild Party 

(Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Austria), Mercedes in 

Carmen Cubana, Lorraine in Rockville and Vicki 

Nichols in The Full Monty (Deutschen Theater, 

Munich), Rose in Wenn Rosenblätter fallen and Marry 

Me a Little (Vienna), Tommy, Footloose, Jesus Christ 

Superstar, Carmen Cubana, Hair, The Full Monty and 

Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors (Musicalsummer 

Amstetten, Austria), Chaperone in Cyrano (Royal 

Theatre Carré, Amsterdam), Willeke, Carmen, Larry, 

this funny world and Peggy Murdoch in The Ghost 

Train (touring productions, Netherlands). 

Film includes: Im Weissen Rössl (The White 

Horse Inn). 

Television includes: lead singer for Dancing Stars 

(Strictly Come Dancing). 

Other work includes: Jacqueline has performed as 

a background singer for various artists including 

Chaka Khan, Nina Hagen, Marianne Faithfull and 

Omara Portuondo, and is a studio singer in Vienna. 

She is a founder of the Shine Performance Company 

in Vienna and the proud mother of two sons. 

KATE GRAHAM 

TANYA 

Training: Durham 

University BA (Hons) 

and the Royal Academy 

of Music, gaining a 

DpiRAM, LRAM and 

now an ARAM. 

Theatre includes: Cherry 

Sundae in Charlie and 

the Chocolate Factory 

(Theatre Royal, Drury 

Lane), Tanya in MAMMA MIA! (international tour), 

Mrs Wilkinson in Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria 

Palace), Hold Me Touch Me in The Producers (Theatre 

Royal, Drury Lane), Babette in Disney’s Beauty and 

the Beast (Dominion/national tour), A Bowl of Cherries 

(Charing Cross Theatre), Lucy in The Thing About 

Men (Landor), Miranda in A Comedy of Arias (King’s 

Head/Jermyn Street), Beggar Woman in Sweeney 

Todd (Derby Playhouse), Stepmother in Rodgers 

and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Bristol Old Vic), Elvira 

in High Spirits (Bridewell), Dick Barton – Special 

Agent (Croydon Warehouse/national tours), Curse 

of the Pharaoh’s Tomb (Greenwich), Jerry Springer: 

The Opera (BAC), No Way to Treat a Lady (Arts 

Theatre), Les Misérables (German tour) and 

Three Lost Souls (BAC/King’s Head). 

Television includes: Fay in Breezeblock and vocals 

for Lily Live!, National Lottery, Parkinson, This is 

My Moment and Star for a Night. 

Radio includes: Chava in Fiddler on the Roof, Mimi 

in Guys and Dolls and Sweet Charity. Kate has also 

performed in a wide range of recording and concert 

work for Capital Voices. 

RICHARD TRINDER 

SAM CARMICHAEL 

Training: The Poor School. 

Theatre includes: Vince in 

Way Upstream (Salisbury 

Playhouse), Lignière in 

Cyrano de Bergerac 

and Brocklehurst in 

The Admirable Crichton 

(Chichester), Cornwall in 

Lear, Benvolio in Romeo 

and Juliet, Francisco 

in Hamlet (Sheffield Crucible), Burgundy in King Lear 

(Almeida), Terry King in From a Jack to a King 

(Wimbledon), Dandini in Cinderella With Soul (Theatr 

Clwyd) and Gruber in As You Desire Me (West End). 

Film includes: Lieutenant Lewis in Kon Tiki, Tim Hunter 

in Toll, Paul in The Agent, QC in U Want Me 2 Kill Him 

and Deatheater in Harry Potter and the Order of 

the Phoenix. 

Television includes: Captain Harcourt in Doctor Who, 

Lord Dudley in Elizabeth, Jack Dempsey in And the Beat 

Goes On, Brian Cooper in Casualty, Shaun Brookes in 

Brookside, McConnell in The Brief, Dr Peyron in 

Van Gogh, Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Midsomer 

Murders, The Bill, Doctors and Silent Witness. 

DUGALD BRUCE-LOCKHART 

BILL AUSTIN 

Training: RADA. 

Theatre includes: David 

Cameron in The Three 

Lions (St. James Theatre), 

David Hart in Wonderland 

(Hampstead), Henry V 

in Henry V and Antigonus 

in The Winter’s Tale 

(Propeller/Hampstead and

tour), Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors 

and Ratcliffe in Richard III (Propeller/Hampstead and 

tour), Hannay in The 39 Steps (Liverpool Playhouse and 

tour), Teddy Lloyd in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 

(Northampton Theatre Royal and Edinburgh Assembly), 

Webb in For King and Country (ACT), Freddie in Deep 

Blue Sea (Bath and Vaudeville Theatre), Petruchio in 

The Taming of the Shrew and Olivia in Twelfth Night 

(Propeller/Old Vic and BAM, New York), Valmont in 

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Royal Lyceum Theatre), 

Mephistopheles in Faust (Royal Lyceum Theatre), 

Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Nottingham Playhouse), 

Orsino in Twelfth Night (English Touring Theatre), 

Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Propeller/ 

Comedy Theatre and tour), Edward IV and Talbot in 

Rose Rage (Watermill), Dauphin in Henry V (Watermill 

and tour), Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors 

(Watermill and tour), Nikolai Ivanovich in Three Girls 

in Blue (White Bear), Sir Percival Dillon in The Prince’s 

Play (NT), Nick and Enrique Morales in Reader 

(Traverse), Northumberland in Henry VI Part III (RSC) 

and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire (Byre). 

Film includes: From Time to Time, Hart’s War, Alive 

and Kicking and Deserter. 

Television includes: Case Histories, Walter’s War, 

Hotel Babylon, Alien Western, Trust, Foyle’s War, 

Rockface, Midsomer Murders, Brookside, Wycliffe, 

The Demon Headmaster, The Bill and Bugs II. 

Directing includes: For All Time, in association with 

Southwark Playhouse. As associate director of Propeller, 

credits include: Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, 

The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s 

Dream, Pocket Henry V, Pocket Dream and Pocket 

Merchant. He has also directed productions of 

The Central School of Speech and Drama, Italia Conti 

and Teatre Akadèmia in Barcelona. 

ALASDAIR HARVEY 

HARRY BRIGHT 

Theatre includes: most 

recently, the lead role of 

Khashoggi in We Will 

Rock You (Dominion), 

leading roles in The Secret 

Diary of Adrian Mole and 

Forbidden Broadway 

(Menier Chocolate 

Factory), Frankie Harris in 

Come Dancing (Stratford 

East), Man in Side by Side by Sondheim (Leicester 

Square), Boatman and Dennis in Sunday in the Park 

with George (Wyndham’s), Man 1 in Putting It Together 

(Harrogate), Wild Bill Hickok in Calamity Jane (UK tour), 

Bill Cracker in Happy End, Sky Masterson in Guys and 

Dolls (Edinburgh Lyceum), Pirate King in The Pirates of 

Penzance (Bromley), Alec D’Urberville in Tess of the 

D’Urbervilles (Savoy), Beast in Beauty and the Beast 

(Dominion), Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera 

(Her Majesty’s), Grantaire and Marius in Les Misérables 

(Palace), Cliff in Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi), Aspects of 

Love (Prince of Wales), Avram in Fiddler on the Roof 

(West Yorkshire Playhouse), My Fair Lady (UK tour), 

Daniel Warshowsky in Imagine This (workshop) and 

Velikatov in Artists and Admirers (rehearsed reading). 

Film and television include: Sweeney Todd film directed 

by Tim Burton (also soundtrack recording), Martin Edge 

in EastEnders, Harry Shaw in Taggart, Bruce Malcolm 

in The Bill, Ewan Patterson in River City, Dave Schofield 

in Casualty and Holby City, PC Connors in Birds of a 

Feather, Bill in A Man and His Shed (short) and Dave 

in The Confidence Trick (short). 

Directing includes: The Blue Room by David Hare, 

Ladies’ Day by Amanda Whittington, Shirley Valentine 

by Willy Russell and Two by Jim Cartwright. 

alasdairharvey.com 

GEORGINA CASTLE 

SOPHIE SHERIDAN 

Training: Royal Central 

School of Speech and 

Drama. Credits while 

training include: Sandy 

in Grease, April in 

Company, Mashenka 

in Too Clever By Half, 

Daphne in Present 

Laughter and Olivia 

in Twelfth Night. 

Theatre includes: Sophie/first cover in 

MAMMA MIA! (West End) and Lisa Houseman 

in Dirty Dancing (UK tour). 

Workshops include: The Wall (Sadler’s Wells). 

Television includes: Doctors and New Tricks. 

CHRISTOPHER 

JORDAN-MARSHALL 

SKY 

Training: Royal 

Conservatoire of 

Scotland. Credits while 

training include: Emcee 

in Cabaret, Davy in 

Sunshine on Leith, 

Pepe in West Side Story 

and Mr Spencer/Dance 

Captain in Merrily We 

Roll Along. 

Theatre includes: Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall), 

Still Game Live (SECC Hydro) and The Snow Queen 

(Tron Theatre, Glasgow). 

Christopher is delighted to be joining the company 

of MAMMA MIA! for his West End debut. 

BOBBIE LITTLE 

ALI 

Training: Arts 

Educational Schools, 

London, graduating in 

2015. Credits while 

training include: Carol 

Strong in the European 

premiere of Catch Me If 

You Can, Dead Showgirl 

in The Addams Family, 

soloist on Friday Night 

is Music Night with the BBC concert orchestra and on 

a new musical recording of Jason and the Argonauts. 

Theatre includes: Ensemble/cover Mimi/cover 

Maureen in Rent 20th Anniversary tour, Ensemble 

in Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air), 

Dynamite/cover Motormouth in Hairspray (UK tour) 

and Frieda in Carrie (Southwark Playhouse). 

Film includes: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool. 

HARRIET BUNTON 

LISA 

Training: Laine Theatre 

Arts and Central 

School of Dancing 

and Performing Arts. 

Theatre includes: Joyce 

in Sunny Afternoon 

(Harold Pinter Theatre), 

Janet in The Rocky 

Horror Show (European 

tour), We Will Rock You 

(Dominion), 42nd Street Gala (London Palladium), 

Dancer for Kerry Ellis in The Night of 1000 Voices 

(Royal Albert Hall), Peter Pan (The Hawth, Crawley) 

and Cinderella (New Theatre, Cardiff). 

Other work includes: ‘Let’s Fly to the Moon’ music 

video for The M’goo Project. 

Harriet would like to thank her mum for her continued 

love and support.

DAMIAN BUHAGIAR 

PEPPER 



graduating in 2014. 

Theatre includes: 

most recently, Ching-Ho 

in Thoroughly Modern 

Millie (UK tour), 

Sonny in In the Heights 

(Southwark Playhouse/ 

King’s Cross Theatre), 

Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith) and Joe Pesci/ 

cover Frankie in Jersey Boys (UK tour). 

Damian is thrilled to be joining the cast of 

MAMMA MIA! 

NYE REES 

EDDIE 


Educational 

Schools, London. 

MAMMA MIA! marks 

Nye’s professional 

and West End debut. 

He would like to thank 

his family for their 

endless support. 

CAROLINE DEVERILL 

ALTERNATE DONNA/ENSEMBLE 


Tina/Margaret/Fiona/ 

Receptionist in This 

Little Life of Mine (Park 

Theatre), Lady Amelia/ 

Woman in Water Babies 

the Musical (Curve, 

Leicester), Tess in 

The Mistress Circle 

(Landor), Evil Witch in 

Sleeping Beauty (Park Theatre), Julia St George in 

Gaslight on Grey Street (Theatre Royal, Newcastle), 

Helen in Owls in the Moss (Guildford Fringe), Nickie 

and understudied Charity in Sweet Charity (English 

Theatre Frankfurt), Alternate Mrs Wilkinson in 

Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace), Countess Zanguine in 

Vampirette (Manchester Opera House), understudied 

and played Donna/Tanya in MAMMA MIA! 

(international tour), Ethel/Resident Director in 

Footloose (Novello), understudied and played Annie 

Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (UK tour), 

understudied and played Killer Queen/Meatloaf in 

We Will Rock You (Dominion), Dusty Springfield/KD 

Lang/Patsy Cline in The Roy Orbison Story (UK tour), 

understudied and played Mary Magdalene in 

Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour) and Harem Girl 

in Sunset Boulevard (UK tour). 

Workshops include: Waterbabies (Dominion), 

Vampirette (Shaftesbury Theatre), Cassie in 

The Bet (Criterion) and Shadowless (Bridewell). 

Film and television include: Mandy in Estate, 

Melissa in Persona, Helen in Blackberry Stains 

and Clara in Gently. 

Other work includes: Woman in Mouth Say No 

(Nicorette Commercial). 

THE ENSEMBLE 

MARK ISHERWOOD 

FATHER ALEXANDER 

Mark was one of the 

few original Jersey 

Boys cast members to 

perform in all nine years 

it ran in the West End, 

starting at the Prince 

Edward and finishing 

at the Piccadilly, 

performing eight of the 

11 male tracks in the 

show. Prior to that he played the part of Nico in 

Zorba, a role which he is proud to say he learnt in 

two weeks. Mark also had the pleasure of being a 

member of the very last cast of My Fair Lady at 

the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, understudying and 

playing the role of Freddie Einsford-Hill. 

Other theatre includes: Les Misérables (Palace 

Theatre/Scandinavian Concert tour), Cole Porter’s 

High Society, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel 

and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance. 

Mark also had the honour of performing for Her 

Royal Highness the Queen at Windsor Castle, 

singing excerpts from Les Misérables. 

Film includes: Nick Lee in Knowing Noah, Chris 

in Sofia and Jimmy DeSousa in Lion in the Snow. 

Television includes: The Royal Variety Performance, 

The Paul O’Grady Show, One Night Only, The One 

Show, The Late Late Show, Strictly Come Dancing 

and Let It Shine. 

Mark would like to thank his daughter, Megan, 

who for 17 years has given him love, friendship 

and support. 

ALISHIA-MARIE BLAKE 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: Urdang 

Academy. 


Ensemble in Thriller Live 

(West End), Ensemble 

in Bodyguard – Das 

Musical (Germany/BB 

Productions), Maria in 

Saturday Night Fever 

(UK tour – Theatre 

Royal Bath), Ensemble in Jack and the Beanstalk 

(Lyceum Theatre, Crewe/Qdos Entertainment), 

Dancer in Boy Meets Girl (Showcase/Dylan Mayoral) 

and Tiger Lily in Peter Pan (Pavilion Theatre, 

Bournemouth/Tina Witham). 

Other work includes: Dancer on The Black Album 

tour (Avant Garde/Tony Adigun), All Stars (Vertigo 

Films/Kenrick Sandy) and Torch Relay Handover 

(2012 Olympics/Zoonation). 

Alishia is delighted to be joining the cast of 

MAMMA MIA! and hopes you all enjoy the show. 

TABITHA CAMBURN 

SWING 


Arts and Stonelands 

School of Ballet. 


understudied and played 

Ashley, Buffy, Joule and 

Volta in Starlight Express 

(Bochum, Germany – 

25th Anniversary cast), 

Gladys in 42nd Street (UK 

tour), Dancer in Thursford Christmas Spectacular 

(Thursford) and the pantomimes: Ensemble Dancer/ 

Skater and understudied Cinderella in Cinderella 

(Manchester Opera House) and Tinkerbell in 

Peter Pan (Dartford). 

Television includes: Dancer in Royal Variety Show 

for Take That and Cliff Richard. 

Other work includes: Rollerskater for New Balance 

Sports (New Balance) and Dancer on Navigator of the 

Seas (Royal Caribbean). 

Tabitha is delighted to be staying for her second year at 

MAMMA MIA!, she would like to thank her friends and 

family for all their ongoing love and support.

ADAM CLAYTON-SMITH 

SWING 

Theatre includes: Show 

Boat (Royal Albert Hall), 

Chase in Matthew 

Bourne’s Edward 

Scissorhands (Australian 

tour) and 1st cover 

Pepper in MAMMA MIA! 

(Prince of Wales). 

Film and television 

include: Matt O’Malley 

in Doctors (BBC), Living It (CBBC), Touch Me, 

I’m Karen Taylor (BBC) and Interns (Channel 4). 

Other work includes: Adam began his career as a 

commercial dancer, in which time he worked with 

artists such as The Pussycat Dolls, Girls Aloud, Dannii 

Minogue, Ellie Goulding, Gloria Estefan and Duffy. 

Twitter: @AClaytonSmith Instagram: adam.claytonsmith 

KATY DAY 

SWING/ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN 

Training: Katy began her 

training with the Meggitt 

Dancers, studying all 

aspects of dance, and 

graduated from GSA 

Conservatoire with a 

BA (Hons) in Musical 

Theatre. Credits while 

training include: Laurey 

in Oklahoma! and Pearl 

in Ray Cooney’s musical Time’s Up (Yvonne Arnaud) 

and dancer in ISTD Centenary Gala (Sadler’s Wells). 

Theatre includes: most recently, MAMMA MIA! 

(international tour, Korea), Carabosse in Sleeping 

Beauty (Eastbourne), Ethel in 42nd Street (UK tour), 

Swing, understudied and played Sophie, Ali and Lisa 

in MAMMA MIA! (Prince of Wales), Thank You for 

the Music (Radio 2, Hyde Park), Women of Rock 

(Royal Albert Hall), Princess Marigold in Jack and the 

Beanstalk (Riverfront) and dancer in Fly with the Stars 

RAF tribute (London Palladium). 

Television includes: The Laurence Olivier Awards, Top 

of the Pops Christmas Special, GMTV, This Morning, 

Let’s Dance for Comic Relief, Tonight’s the Night with 

John Barrowman and Dance Captain for The Festival of 

Remembrance for HM The Queen (Royal Albert Hall). 

KATY HARDS 

SWING 

Training: Performers 

College, Essex. 


Liz in Chicago (Curve, 

Leicester), understudied 

and played Diana, 

Val, Bebe, Maggie, 

Connie and Kristine in 

A Chorus Line (London 

Palladium), Aladdin 

– A Wish Come True (The Theatre at The O2), Disco 

Inferno (UK tour), understudied Helen and Violet in 

Wonderful Town (Lowry Theatre and UK tour), Sally 

Simpson and understudied The Acid Queen in Tommy 

(The English Theatre, Frankfurt), Ensemble and 

understudied and played Urleen in Footloose (No.1 

UK tour), Dinah and understudied Pearl in Starlight 

Express (Bochum, Germany), We Will Rock You 

(Cologne, Germany), Fairy Godmother and Assistant 

Choreographer in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 

(Rotherham Civic). 

Television includes: Strictly Dance Fever ident 

and featured dancer in It’s Now or Never. 

Commercials include: McDonalds Christmas 

ad and Pearl in a Starlight Express national ad. 

Katy would like to thank her amazing friends and 

family for their constant love and support. 

JENNIFER HEPBURN 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: Jennifer has 

a Bachelor of Music 

degree from New York 

University and a PGDip 

from The Royal Academy 

of Music (London). 


Civil Servant in 

Corbyn, Fantine in 

Les Misérables 

(Queen’s), Les Misérables 25th Celebration Concert 

(O2), Princess Julia/Nicola Bowery and covered and 

played Josie, Janey and Big Sue in Taboo (Brixton 

Club House), Wanda in Van Winkle (St. James 

Theatre), Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities 

(Charing Cross Theatre), covering and performing 

Jellylorum, Jennyanydots and Grizabella in Cats 

(25th Anniversary No.1 tour), Nellie and covered and 

performed Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde with Paul Nicholas 

(UK Productions No.1 tour), Betty Blake in The Will 

Rogers’ Follies (US tour), Lead Vocalist in Brecht on 

Brecht (Producers Club II, NYC), Yitzak in Hedwig 

and the Angry Inch (Contemporary American Theatre, 

OH), lead vocalist in Blues in the Night (Central 

American tour), Lorraine in 42nd Street, Anita in West 

Side Story, Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof and 

Angel in Anything Goes (Mac-Haydn Theatre, NY). 

Workshops include: Patience in Moonshadow. 

Film and television include: The Yard and 

New York Undercover. 

Recordings include: various musical theatre 

numbers for TER/JAY Records and the concept 

albums of The Postman and the Poet, Ha’Penny 

Bridge (Dublin!), Adore and Van Winkle. Also, the 

cast recording of the Cat Stevens’ musical Moonshadow. 

STUART HICKEY 

ENSEMBLE 


Ensemble in MAMMA 

MIA! (UK tour), tenor 

in The 12 Tenors 

(European/China tour), 

Big Ben in Merry 

England (Finborough), 

Irish tenor in The 12 

Irish Tenors (Spirit of 

the Dance Productions), 

Ensemble and understudied Peron in Evita (UK tour), 

Cousin Tim in Our Miss Gibbs (Finborough), 

Watson in Parade (Edinburgh Festival), The Wiz 

in The Wiz (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Apostle 

and understudied Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar 

(European tour), Ensemble and understudied Wizard/ 

Lion in The Wizard of Oz (Hexagon, Reading) and 

Able Pirate Who in Peter Pan (Millfield Theatre). 

Other work includes: Tim in Heartbeat, lead vocalist 

on Seabourn Cruise Lines (Belinda King Creative 

Productions), lead vocalist on Queen Elizabeth 

(Belinda King Creative Productions) and backing 

singer for Elton John (UK tour).

MATT JORDAN-PIDGEON 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: Wilkes 

Academy of 

Performing Arts. 


Ensemble in Cinderella 

and Peter Pan (First 

Family Entertainment). 

Other work includes: 

Dancer on Soccer Aid 

TV and at Mercedes 

Benz Show. Matt is also four-times World Tap Dance 

Champion IDO. 

He joins MAMMA MIA! at the Novello as his first 

professional show. 

TYLER KENNINGTON 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: The Italia 

Conti Academy of 

Theatre Arts. 


Oliver! for Cameron 

Mackintosh (Theatre 

Royal, Drury Lane), 

Tober in The Killing 

Class for Y&T Rep 

Theatre (Oxford House 

Theatre), Jamie in Dying Out Loud for Y&T Rep 

Theatre (Spotlight Theatre) and A Night of Dirty 

Dancing (UK tour). 

Film and television include: Albion in Camelot, 

Dancing on the Edge, School for Stars, Stepping Out, 

Sam in Punctuation (short film), Michael in Monsters 

and Rabbits (short film) and Hal in Youth of Today 

(short film). 

This will be Tyler’s first time back in the West End 

since appearing in Oliver! at Drury Lane eight 

years ago! 

ROBERT KNIGHT 

SWING/DANCE CAPTAIN 



London. 


Swing/Dance Captain 

in Ghost (Asian tour), 

Fender in Hairspray 

(Bronowski Productions), 

Ensemble in Evita 

(Ljubljana Festival, 

Slovenia), Swing/Assistant Dance Captain in Ghost 

(UK tour), Dance Captain in Ultimate Broadway 

2011/12 choreographed by Ashley Wallen (Shanghai), 

Ensemble/understudy Aladdin in Aladdin Richmond), 

A-Rab in West Side Story with original choreography 

by Will Tuckett (The Sage, Gateshead), Ensemble in 

White Christmas (UK tour), Ryan in High School 

Musical (Indonesia), Featured Ensemble in Edges 

(Landor Theatre), Ensemble and understudy to 

Paul O’Grady’s Lily Twankey in Aladdin (Southampton 

Mayflower), Ensemble/understudy Ryan in 

High School Musical (Asian tour), Dance Captain 

in Cinderella (Chelmsford) and Ensemble in 

Christmas in New York. Robert is also the Associate 

Choreographer of the Australian tour of Ghost. 

Robert is delighted to be taking over as Dance 

Captain in the 2017/18 cast of MAMMA MIA! 

MADELEINE LESLAY 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: Bristol Old 

Vic Theatre School 

and the Royal Academy 

of Music. 


Desdemona in Othello 

(Stafford Gatehouse 

Theatre), Hero in 

Much Ado About 

Nothing, 

Luciana in The Comedy of Errors (UK tour) and 

Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyceum, Sheffield). 

Television includes: The Best of Men. 

Madeleine is thrilled to be performing in 

MAMMA MIA! as her West End debut. 

STACEY LEANNE MILLS 

SWING 



London. Credits while 

training include: 

Ensemble in Bonnie 

and Clyde, Velcro in 

Soho Cinders, dance 

captain and Girlfriend 

in Catch Me if You Can 

(Arts Ed) 

and Candide (workshop, London). 

Film and television include: Karin Moon in 

Frame of Mind (short film). 

Other work includes: Assistant Choreographer 

for You’ll Never Walk Alone (Stage Acts Productions), 

The Confession Room (original cast recording) 

and Olympia Horse Show (Kensington). 

Stacey would like to thank her family for their 

ongoing love and support. 

NATASHA O’BRIEN 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: The Randolph 

Academy for the 

Performing Arts – Triple 

Threat Program (Toronto). 

Theatre includes: Belle 

in A Christmas Carol 

(Rose Theatre), Hope 

Cladwell in Urinetown: 

The Musical (Bathhurst 

Street Theatre), 

Dot/Queenie in HONK! (Globe), Lily St Regis 

in Annie (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre) and Eve/Mama 

in Children of Eden (Union). 

MAMMA MIA! marks Natasha’s West End debut. 

ALICE O’HANLON 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: Mountview 

Academy of Theatre Arts. 

Credits while training 

include: Mrs Wilkinson 

in Billy Elliot, Karen in 

Girlfriends and The 

Baker’s Wife in Into the 

Woods. She was also a 

Ballet Girl in Billy Elliot 

at the Victoria Palace 

when she was 13. 

Alice is excited to be making her West End debut in 

MAMMA MIA!

ALEXANDA O’REILLY 

ENSEMBLE 


Arts and Birmingham 

Ormiston Academy. 


Cinderella (Bristol 

Hippodrome), Eugenius 

(London Palladium), 

Cinderella (Manchester 

Opera House), Monty in 

Saturday Night Fever, 

Is There Life After High School? and East End Tales 

(LTA Studio Theatre), Laine Aflame and Laine Leaps 

Ahead (Epsom Playhouse Theatre). 

Other work includes: Tropics Skincare corporate 

event (Birmingham NEC). 

OLI REYNOLDS 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: Guildford 

School of Acting (2014), 

First Class BA (Hons). 

Credits while training 

include: Freddie Trumper 

in Chess and Roger 

in Rent. 


Kayama in Pacific 

Overtures (Union), 

The 12 Tenors (international tour), Young Ebenezer 

in A Christmas Carol (Blackpool Opera House), 

Bobby C in Saturday Night Fever (Royal Caribbean) 

and The Story of Bart (Mirth). 

Film includes: Superboy/Connor Kent in Superboy: 

Son of Tomorrow (SCFA Best Actor in a Drama), 

Richard in I Am the Doorway (LAIFFA Best Cast), 

One Shot and Brighton Rock. 

Other work includes: Friday Night is Music Night, 

The Devil’s Advocate, Sir Lancelot in The Romance 

of The Rose, Eyes Closed, Ears Covered and LHO: 

Lee Harvey Oswald. 

Oli is making his West End Debut in MAMMA MIA! 

ADAM PAUL ROBERTSON 

SWING 

Training: Wilkes 

Academy of 

Performing Arts. 


Tiny Tim in Scrooge 

(Sunderland Empire), 

Ensemble in Dick 

Whittington and 

Aladdin (First Family 

Entertainment). 

Other work includes: Dancer in Lucozade and Ribena 

flash mob, Iceland corporate event (ICC Birmingham) 

and The Arc of Nirvana (Chris Manoe/Dancers INC). 

Adam is extremely proud to be joining MAMMA MIA! 

in the West End for his first professional contract. 

ROBBIE SCOTCHER 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: London 

School of 

Musical Theatre. 


MAMMA MIA! 

(international tour), 

Jerome in Merrily 

We Roll Along 

(Harold Pinter 

Theatre and Menier 

Chocolate Factory), The Arbiter in Chess (Aarhus 

Theatre, Denmark and tour), Sky Masterson in 

Guys and Dolls (a co-production between Theatre 

Clwyd, Salisbury Playhouse and New Wolsey 

Theatre), Road Show (Menier Chocolate Factory), 

On the Twentieth Century (Union), The Narrator in 

Blood Brothers (UK tour), Chuck in Footloose (UK 

tour) and he was part of the original cast and took 

over as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings (Theatre Royal, 

Drury Lane). 

Film includes: 10 x 10. 

Other work includes: Soho Cinders for Jonathan 

Butterell (Queen’s), Christian in Grim – Hardcore 

Fairy Tales (King’s Head), Harry the Horse and 

understudied the roles of Sky and Big Jule in 

Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly Theatre), Kenickie in 

Grease (UK tour), Garforth in The Far Pavilions 

(Shaftesbury), American GI in Miss Saigon 

(original UK tour), Anything Goes (Landor), 

16 Gobs (King’s Head) and News Revue (Canal Cafe). 

Twitter: @RobbieScotcher 

KATY STREDDER 

ENSEMBLE 

Training: The London 

Studio Centre where 

she was awarded the 

Tom Merrifield Bursary. 

Credits while training: 

Godspell (Greenwich), 

Sandy in Grease, 

Adelaide in Guys and 

Dolls, Fantine in Les 

Misérables and Ellen 

in Miss Saigon. 

Theatre includes: Ensemble and understudied 

Ali in MAMMA MIA! (international tour), Ensemble 

in The Bodyguard (Adelphi), Ensemble and 

understudied Lady of the Lake in Monty Python’s 

Spamalot (English Theatre, Frankfurt) and Durla in 

the highly acclaimed The Best Little Whorehouse in 

Texas (Union). Katy has appeared in pantomime for 

two years as Ensemble in Jack and The Beanstalk, 

and Sleeping Beauty for Bill Kenwright Ltd (Theatre 

Royal, Windsor). She has also played the role of 

Gracie, in the original UK tour of Angelina Ballerina 

– The Mousical.


Björn Kristian Ulvaeus was born in Gothenburg on April 25, 1945. When he 

was six years old the family moved to the small town of Västervik, and this 

is where Björn grew up. In the mid-Fifties Björn fell in love with rock’n’roll 

and skiffle. By the early Sixties he was a member of a folk group called the 

West Bay Singers. In 1963 they entered a talent contest arranged by 

Swedish radio. This led to discovery by songwriter and publisher Stig 

Anderson and his partner, Bengt Bernhag. Stig and Bengt had recently 

started a record company called Polar Music. The band acquired a new 

name, the Hootenanny Singers, and quickly became one of Sweden’s most 

popular groups of the Sixties. 

In 1966, Björn had a chance meeting with Benny Andersson, himself a 

member of Sweden’s number-one pop group, The Hep Stars. They hit it 

off and wrote their first song together, ‘Isn’t It Easy To Say’.Björn recorded 

a couple of solo singles in the late Sixties, at which point he also started 

concentrating more on his collaboration with Benny Andersson. In 1970 

the pair started releasing records as a duo and also staged a cabaret show 

together with their fiancées, Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. 

On July 6, 1971, Björn and Agnetha got married. 

From 1972 and a decade onwards Björn was occupied by his work with 

ABBA. In 1983 Björn and Benny started writing the musical Chess with 

lyricist Tim Rice. A concept album was released in the autumn of 1984, 

and in May 1986 the musical opened in London’s West End. In 1988 Chess 

received its Broadway première. A reworked version of the musical opened 

in Stockholm, Sweden in 2002. 

By 1990, Björn and Benny had decided to write a new musical. This time 

they wanted to write exclusively in Swedish, and they chose the Emigrants 

novel series by author Vilhelm Moberg as basis for their work. The musical 

Kristina från Duvemåla (Kristina From Duvemåla) opened in October 1995. 

The show ran for three and a half years at various theatres in the 

Swedish cities of Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm. Björn and Benny’s 

most recent musical is Hjälp sökes (Help Wanted), a collaboration with 

playwright Kristina Lugn and Kristina director Lars Rudolfsson. Björn 

writes many of the lyrics for the Benny Andersson Orchestra, and has 

involved himself in the stagings of MAMMA MIA!, as well as the 2008 

movie version. Björn is one of the producers for MAMMA MIA! The Party, 

which opened in Stockholm in January 2016. 

GÖRAN BROR BENNY ANDERSSON 

Born 16 December 1946 in Stockholm.1952 Received accordion lessons 

from his father and grandfather. 

1964-68 Member of the Hep Stars, Sweden’s most popular rock band in 

the 1960s. During this time, he began composing music. ‘Sunny Girl’ and 

‘Wedding’ were huge hits for the Hep stars. 

1972-82 ABBA. 

1982-84 Composed the music (together with Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice) 

for the musical, Chess. 

1987 Began collaborating with Orsa Spelmän. Recorded three albums 

deeply rooted in Swedish folk music: Klinga Mina Klockor, November 1989 

and Fiolen Min. 

In 2001, this collaboration led to the formation of Benny Andersson’s 

Orchestra, a 16-man constellation with vocalists, Helen Sjöholm and 

Tommy Körberg. Thus far, this has resulted in seven CD albums and 

several summer tours. 

1990-95 Composed the music to Kristina from Duvemåla. Premiered in 

October 1995. 

1995 Received the title of professor from the Swedish government. 

Inducted to in the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2007. 

Appointed Honorary Doctor of the College of Humanities at Stockholm 

University in 2008, and at Luleå University of Technology in 2012. 

Benny Andersson is married to former TV producer, Mona Nörklit. They 

have one child, Ludvig Andersson. Benny also has two children from a 

previous marriage, Peter Grönvall and Helene Odedal. He has five 

grandchildren: Charlie, Felix, Fabian, Malin and Viola. 

Photograph by Torbjörn Andersson / Pressens Bild

THE PRODUCTION TEAM 

CATHERINE JOHNSON 

BOOK 


Rag Doll, Renegades, 

Suspension (Bristol Old 

Vic), Too Much Too 

Young (Bristol Old Vic 

and London Bubble), 

Boys Mean Business, 

Dead Sheep, Little Baby 

Nothing (Bush Theatre, 

London), Shang-a-Lang 

(Bush Theatre and UK tour) and MAMMA MIA! 

(worldwide). Also, Through the Wire and A Letter to 

Lacey (NT Connections). 

Film includes: Catherine wrote the screenplay for 

the MAMMA MIA! movie released in July 2008. 

Television includes: Casualty, Byker Grove, Love 

Hurts, Gold, Linda Green, original screenplays for 

Rag Doll and Where’s Willy? (HTV) and Sin Bin (BBC), 

the series Love in the 21st Century (Channel 4) and 

Dappers (BBC3). 

Other work includes: Creative Consultant on ABBA 

the Museum, Stockholm. 

Awards include: Catherine has won the Bristol Old Vic/ 

HTV Playwriting Award, Thames Television’s 

Writer-in-Residence Award and Thames Television’s 

Best Play Award and was nominated in 2002 for a Tony 

Award for Best Musical Book for MAMMA MIA! 


CHOREOGRAPHER 

Anthony trained at 

the London School of 

Contemporary Dance, 

later joining the company 

as both performer and 

choreographer. 


Side Show (Broadway), 

MAMMA MIA! 

(worldwide – Dora Mavor 

Moore award and Helpman award nomination), Sister 

Act (worldwide – Olivier nomination), Bombay Dreams 

(London/Broadway – Tony nomination), Joseph and 

the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (worldwide – 

Olivier award nomination, Dramalogue award), Jesus 

Christ Superstar (London/Broadway), Whistle Down 

the Wind (London) and also for Andrew Lloyd 

Webber’s Song and Dance (Green Room award), 

Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods and A Little Night 

Music, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (Olivier award) 

and Hair (Old Vic). 

He has made many shows for people including Ant and 

Dec, Mika, Kate Bush, Sarah Brightman, Barry 

Humphries (Dame Edna) and in Las Vegas, Siegfried 

and Roy and Michael Crawford. Creative Director for 

Batman Live! (world arena tour). 

Film includes: Beauty and the Beast (Disney), 

MAMMA MIA!, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, 

The Sex Pistols’ Great Rock and Roll Swindle, 

Never Say Never Again, Excalibur, Hope and Glory, 

Jesus Christ Superstar (Emmy award) and Joseph 

and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. 

In 1999 he was awarded the MBE for services 

to Dance. 


DIRECTOR 

London theatre: Henry IV 

(Donmar Warehouse/St 

Ann’s Warehouse NY), 

Julius Caesar (Donmar 

Warehouse/St Ann’s 

Warehouse, NY), 

Mary Stuart (Donmar 

Warehouse, Apollo 

and Broadway – 

Tony nomination), 

The Threepenny Opera, Boston Marriage (Donmar 

Warehouse), Josephine and I (Bush Theatre/Public 

Theatre, NY), MAMMA MIA! (London, Broadway and 

worldwide), Six Degrees of Separation, Hysteria, 

Wild East (Royal Court), The Rime of the Ancient 

Mariner (Old Vic Tunnels), The Way of the World, 

Pericles, What the Butler Saw, The Prime of Miss Jean 

Brodie, The Duchess of Malfi (Royal National Theatre), 

Artists and Admirers and The Virtuoso (RSC). 

Film includes: The Iron Lady (Pathe/DJ Films/Film 

Four), MAMMA MIA! (Universal) and Gloriana a Film 

(Illuminations Films). 

Opera includes: La Boheme, Medea, Carmen, L’Etoile, 

Gloriana, Albert Herring, Peter Grimes (Opera North), 

Macbeth (Paris/ROH) and The Handmaid’s Tale 

(Copenhagen, ENO and Toronto). 

MARK THOMPSON 

PRODUCTION DESIGNER 

Theatre includes: Charlie 

and the Chocolate Factory 

(Theatre Royal, Drury 

Lane), MAMMA MIA! 

(worldwide), Joseph and 

the Amazing Technicolor 

Dreamcoat (worldwide), 

Doctor Doolittle 

(Hammersmith Apollo), 

Bombay Dreams 

(London/Broadway), Art (worldwide), The Children’s 

House (Comedy), The Lady in the Van (Queen’s), La 

Bête (Comedy/NY) and God of Carnage (Gielgud/ 

Broadway). 

For the National Theatre: Three Days in the Country, 

One Man, Two Guvnors (West End/Broadway), London 

Assurance, She Stoops to Conquer, England People 

Very Nice, What the Butler Saw, The Rose Tattoo, The 

Madness of George III, The Day the Earth Stood Still, 

The Alchemist, The Duchess of Malfi, Life x 3, Arcadia, 

Once in a Lifetime, Henry IV parts I and II and The 

Wind in the Willows. 

For the Donmar Warehouse: Welcome Home, Captain 

Fox!, The Blue Room (also Broadway), Company (also 

West End), Insignificance, The Front Page and Uncle 

Vanya/Twelfth Night (costumes only, also BAM). 

For the Royal Court: Tribes, Birthday, Mouth to Mouth, 

Wild East, Hysteria, Six Degrees of Separation and 

The Kitchen. 

Other theatre includes: Rope, Betrayal, Party Time, 

Volpone (Almeida), The Unexpected Man, Measure for 

Measure, Hamlet, The Wizard of Oz, Much Ado About 

Nothing, The Comedy of Errors (RSC) and Funny Girl 

(Chichester). 

Opera includes: Macbeth, The Queen of Spades 

(The Metropolitan, NY), The Mikado (Lyric, Chicago), 

Peter Grimes (Opera North), Montag aus Licht 

(La Scala, Milan), Hansel and Gretel (Sydney Opera 

House) and Carmen (Opera Comique, Paris). 

Film includes: Costume Design for The Madness 

of King George. 

Awards include: Five Olivier Awards, two Critics’ Circle 

Awards and five nominations for Tony Awards. 


LIGHTING DESIGNER 

Current and recent 

theatre credits include: 

West End: MAMMA MIA! 

(worldwide), Mary 

Poppins (also Broadway), 

The Importance of Being 

Earnest, Harvey, Neville’s 

Island, The Pajama 

Game, Dirty Rotten 

Scoundrels, VIVA 

FOREVER!, Loserville, Abigail’s Party, Relatively 

Speaking, Backbeat, Butley, Glengarry Glen Ross, 

Love Story, Guys and Dolls, Ragtime, The Witches of 

Eastwick, Oleanna, Donkeys’ Years, Heroes, Macbeth 

(also Broadway), Rag Time and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Royal 

Court and Broadway). 

For the Donmar Warehouse: City of Angels, Anna 

Christie, Creditors (NY) and Tales from Hollywood. 

Opera and ballet incudes: The Barber of Seville 

(Lyric Opera Chicago), Die Fledermaus (Welsh National 

Opera) and Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! and Edward 

Scissorhands (Sadler’s Wells, UK and US tours),

Strictly Gershwin, Romeo and Juliet and Swan Lake 

(English National Ballet at the Royal Albert Hall). 

For Chichester Festival Theatre: Damsel in Distress, 

Mack and Mabel, An Ideal Husband, Neville’s Island, 

The Music Man, The Circle, Twelfth Night, Love 

Story, Macbeth, The Pajama Game and The Way of 

the World. 

For the Old Vic: The Playboy of the Western World, 

Inherit the Wind and Complicit. 

Other theatre includes: Dinner with Sadam, Abigail’s 

Party (Menier Chocolate Factory), Earthquakes in 

London (NT), The Bomb (Tricycle Theatre), Oliver! 

and Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible), King Lear 

(Liverpool and Young Vic), In a Dark Dark House and 

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida). 

Howard has been nominated nine times and has been 

twice awarded the Olivier Award for Best Lighting 

Designer in 2008 and again in 2015. In 2012 he 

received the Knight of Illumination Award for his 

work on Anna Christie at the Donmar. He has been 

nominated twice for Broadway’s Tony Awards. 

ANDREW BRUCE 

SOUND DESIGNER 

Andrew Bruce began 

his theatre career at 

Glyndebourne Festival 

Opera in 1968 and was 

appointed Head of Sound 

at the Royal Opera House 

in 1971. A year later he 

co-founded Autograph 

Sound Recording, a 

leading British sound 

design and equipment rental company, now 

responsible for numerous productions worldwide. 

He was Associate Designer on several landmarks 

of British musical theatre such as Evita, Cats and 

Starlight Express. Original design credits include: 

Song & Dance, Abbacadabra, Little Me, Les 

Misérables, Chess, Follies, Into the Woods, The Card, 

Miss Saigon, Children of Eden, City of Angels, Martin 

Guerre, The Fix, The Witches of Eastwick, The Secret 

Garden, Alice in Wonderland, MAMMA MIA!, Sweeney 

Todd, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins. 

His latest work includes Seven Deadly Sins, Isadora 

and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the Royal 

Ballet and Mother Courage and her Children for the NT. 

BOBBY AITKEN 

SOUND DESIGNER 

Bobby has been involved 

with Theatre Sound for 

over 30 years. 


Notable/recent work 

includes: Mackie Messer 

– Salzburg Festival, 

VIVA FOREVER! 

(London), Ghost 

(London, Broadway and 

worldwide), Dirty Dancing (London and worldwide), 

MAMMA MIA! (London, Broadway and worldwide), 

We Will Rock You (London and worldwide), Grease 

(London and worldwide), Lennon (Broadway), 

Return to the Forbidden Planet (London, USA, 

Japan and Australia) and Five Guys Named Moe 

(London and tours). 

Regional work in the UK: Includes productions at The 

Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Derby Playhouse, Sheffield 

Crucible, Manchester Royal Exchange, Palace Theatre, 

Watford Leicester Haymarket and The New Wolsey. 

Olympic Ceremonies: Bobby was the Sound Designer 

for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 

London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games. 

He has also served as a Consultant for the Sochi 2014 

Winter Olympics and 2016 Opening Ceremony in Rio. 

Opera includes: For the past few years, Bobby has 

been working to create techniques to deliver credible 

sound reinforcement for large scale, in-the-round 

opera production. Credits include: Carmen, Madame 

Butterfly, Aida, Tosca, La Bohème, Cavalleria Rusticana 

and Pagliacci. 

MARTIN KOCH 

MUSICAL SUPERVISOR, ADDITIONAL MATERIAL 

& ARRANGEMENTS 

Martin runs a successful 

music production 

company and recording 

studio with colleague 

Nick Gilpin which 

undertakes television, 

film, CD and DVD 

projects. Currently 

working on the film 

Consider Yourself 

for Mob Films and PTL, a musical written by Sir 

Elton John. 

Training: Royal College of Music (Scholar). 

Theatre includes: London (Musical Director): Chicago 

(Cambridge Theatre), Pirates of Penzance (Theatre 

Royal, Drury Lane), The Boy Friend (Albery), Blondel 

(Aldwych) and Follies (Shaftesbury). International 

(Musical Supervisor): Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, 

Oliver!, MAMMA MIA! and Billy Elliot. 

Orchestrations include: Just So, Moby Dick, Which 

Witch, Tutankhamen, MAMMA MIA!, Jerry Springer 

the Opera, Billy Elliot, Bad Girls, Kombat Opera, 

Shoes and VIVA FOREVER! Also, for Shirley Bassey, 

Charles Aznavour, Jennifer Rush, Michael Ball, Sir 

Elton John, Anastasia, Denise Van Outen, Jamelia, 

John Barrowman, Emeli Sandé, Lesley Garrett, 

Vanessa Mae, Will Young, Beverley Knight, Birdy 

and John Newman. 

Recordings include: Over 30 albums including: 

Les Misérables (original cast and symphonic), 

Miss Saigon, Oliver!, Hey, Mr Producer!, MAMMA 

MIA!, Jerry Springer the Opera, Billy Elliot, Bad Girls, 

John Barrowman – The Album and Shoes. 

Film includes: Sam written and directed by 

Nick Brooks. 

Television includes: The Olivier Awards 1993-2001 

(composer, arranger, musical supervisor), The Royal 

Variety Show 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 (composer, 

arranger and musical supervisor), BAFTAs 1995-2003 

(composer, arranger and musical supervisor), 

Sports Personality of the Year 2006-2014 (composer, 

arranger and musical supervisor), Kombat Opera 

(5 mini operas for BBC TV – orchestrator) and Music 

Live (composer, arranger and musical supervisor). 

Conducting includes: London Philharmonic, Atlantic 

Symphony Orchestra, Metropole Orchestra, SWF 

German Radio Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, 

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and The London 

Symphony Orchestra. 

Other work includes: Music Supervisor for Cameron 

Mackintosh Ltd 1988-1999, Eurovision Song Contest 

1998 (wrote the opening and closing titles, and music 

supervisor), Commonwealth Games Handover in Delhi 

2010 (composer, orchestrator and music supervisor), 

London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Ceremonies 

(music supervisor to all four ceremonies and 

composer to the Paralympic Opening). 

Awards and nominations: Grammy and Tony 

nomination 2002 for MAMMA MIA!, Tony and Drama 

Desk winner 2009 for Billy Elliot. 

DAVID GRINDROD ASSOCIATES 

CASTING CONSULTANT 


MAMMA MIA! 

(worldwide), Groundhog 

Day, Jekyll & Hyde ( 

Old Vic), Matilda, Mrs 

Henderson Presents, 

The Commitments (UK 

tour), Sunset Boulevard, 

Sweeney Todd (English 

National Opera), 42nd

Street, Singing in the Rain, Kiss Me, Kate 

(Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Chicago (UK tour) 

and Hairspray (UK tour). 

Regional casting: Jesus Christ Superstar, Hello, 

Dolly!, Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), 

The Etienne Sisters, Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be 

(Theatre Royal, Stratford), Monty Python (O2 Arena), 

Jesus Christ Superstar (arena tour), Oliver! and My 

Fair Lady (Sheffield Crucible), Paper Dolls (Tricycle) 

and Secret Garden (Edinburgh and Toronto). 

Film includes: Musical Casting: Beauty and The Beast 

(Disney) directed by Bill Condon. UK Dancer Casting: 

Nine (directed by Rob Marshall). Ensemble Casting: 

MAMMA MIA! (directed by Phyllida Lloyd) and The 

Phantom of the Opera (directed by Joel Schumacher). 

Television includes: Sound of Music Live (ITV), 

Superstar (ITV), Over the Rainbow (TalkbackThames), 

I’d Do Anything, Any Dream Will Do, How Do You 

Solve a Problem like Maria? (BBC1, 2007 Emmy 

Award), Kombat Opera presents… (BBC2, 2008 

Golden Rose Montreux Award), Hollyoaks (Channel 4) 

and West End Star (TV3 Sweden). 

David Grindrod Associates are members of The 

Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain and have 

recently been appointed as associate artist of the Old 

Vic Theatre under Matthew Warchus’ artistic direction. 

Associate Casting Director: Will Burton CDG 

Casting Assistant: Ella Darbyshire 

PAUL GARRINGTON 

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR 

Paul has staged 

productions of MAMMA 

MIA! in Germany, 

Russia, Holland, Sweden, 

Spain, Korea and Japan, 

all in the local languages, 

as well as the English 

International Tour. 

Recently he directed 

Joseph in Holland and 

Dirty Dancing, which is currently playing in Germany, 

the UK, Holland and the USA. Other productions 

include Dancing Shadows in Korea and numerous 

plays in London, including Picasso’s Women, Take the 

Fire, Broken Journey, Anyroad, The Lifeblood and 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has enjoyed a long 

association with the Royal Shakespeare Company, 

directing La Nuit de Valognes in Stratford and working 

as an associate to Peter Hall and Adrian Noble. 

In the West End he has worked with Andrew Lloyd 

Webber on Whistle Down the Wind and the Pet Shop 

Boys on Closer to Heaven. Awards include a Golden 

Mask for MAMMA MIA! in Sweden and a Korean Tony 

for Dancing Shadows. 

STEVEN PALING 

RESIDENT DIRECTOR 

Training: Laine 

Theatre Arts. 

Direction and 

choreography includes: 

Associate Director for 

Batman Live – World 

Arena Tour (Warner 

Brothers and Water Lane 

Productions), Associate 

Director for MAMMA 

MIA! (international tour), Choreographer for Anthems 

starring Kerry Ellis and Brian May (Royal Albert Hall 

– winner of Best Solo Performance, WOS Awards), 

Resident Director for the London production of 

MAMMA MIA! (Prince of Wales), directed MAMMA 

MIA! in South Africa (nominated for Best Direction and 

Best Production), directed On the Edge and The Great 

British Song Book starring Kerry Ellis (one-woman 

shows), directed DEFECT (workshop) written by Craig 

Adams and Clare Prenton, Choreographer for The 

Night Of 1000 Voices (Royal Albert Hall), Resident 

Director on Chicago (Adelphi), Assistant Director/ 

Choreographer on Chicago (UK tour), Choreographer 

of West End Comes East (Kenneth More Theatre, 

Ilford) and Born in a Trunk starring Sally Ann Triplett 

(Pizza on the Park, London), Associate Choreographer 

for The Mask (world premiere), Assistant 

Choreographer on The Magic of the Musicals (UK and 

European tours) and Director of The Wild Party, Hot 

Mikado, Copacabana and Crazy for You (Arts Ed, Tring). 

Theatre performing credits include: Chicago (Adelphi), 

Summer Holiday (Blackpool), Peter Pan (New Victoria 

Theatre, Woking) and Aladdin (Hackney Empire). 

Television includes: Assistant Choreographer on 

Grease is the Word (ITV), Assistant Choreographer 

on Musicality (C4), Rania’s Request Show (NBC) and 

Jade’s Journey (HTV). 

Concert performing credits include: The Stars of the 

Musicals (Kuala Lumpur) and The Magic of the 

Musicals (UK tour). 

NICHOLA TREHERNE 

ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER 

Choreography/Musical 

Staging includes: 

Associate Creative 

Director and staging 

for Batman Live 

(world arena tour), 

Choreographer for 

La Cage aux Folles 

(Holland), Company 

(Jerwood Vanbrugh 

Theatre, RADA) and High School Musical (Holland, 

Stichling Award for Best Choreography), staging for 

Dirty Dancing (Hamburg), Associate Choreographer 

for MAMMA MIA! (worldwide and movie), Burn the 

Floor (world tour), Sarah Brightman’s world tour, 

Bombay Dreams (Apollo, Victoria), Whistle Down the 

Wind (Aldwych), Grease (Scandinavia), Jesus Christ 

Superstar (UK tour), Shall We Dance (Oslo), Carmen 

Jones (Germany) and Hair (Old Vic) and Choreographer 

for Model Girl (Greenwich), Romeo and Juliet 

(Chichester), The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber 

(Sudeley Castle Gloucestershire, Kiev, Ukraine) 

and Yusopov (Sydmonton Festival). 

Direction includes: Director/Choreographer of 

Moonshadow (Yusuf’s ‘I’ll Take My Time’ UK tour), 

Associate Director/Choreographer of Joseph and the 

Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium 

and Adelphi), Director/Choreographer Chess 

(Oslo), Director/Staging of Fame (Oslo), Assistant 

Director of By Jeeves (London) and Artistic Supervisor 

of Starlight Express (London/Japan). 

MARCUS J. SAVAGE 

LONDON MUSICAL DIRECTOR 

Marcus Savage 

graduated from 

the Guildhall School 

of Music and Drama 

in 1985. 


Musical Director for 

Chicago (Adelphi), 

Saturday Night Fever 

(London Palladium) 

and Black Goes with Everything (Churchill, Bromley). 

Assistant Musical Director: Cabaret (UK tour), The 

Rink (Cambridge Theatre), Me and My Girl (Adelphi), 

Grease (Dominion and Cambridge) and Starlight 

Express (Apollo Victoria). Freelance Keyboard Player: 

West End productions of Chess, Les Misérables, Crazy 

for You, Leonardo, The King and I, Kiss Me, Kate and 

Thoroughly Modern Millie. 

Other work includes: solo on-stage piano role of 

Oscar in 42nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), 

MD for Grange Hill (BBC TV), composing background 

music for Rediffusion International and vocal 

coaching at various stage schools.In 2010 Marcus 

was Associate Musical Supervisor for a new Italian 

production of MAMMA MIA! in Milan. Marcus is 

delighted to be staying with MAMMA MIA! for a 

further year.

LEAH-SUE MORLAND 

ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER 


Assistant Choreographer 

on the London production 

of MAMMA MIA! and 

assisted on the USA 2nd 

National Tour, Hamburg, 

Utrecht and Stuttgart 

productions. She is also 

the Associate Choreographer 

for the Japanese, Korean 

and Chinese productions. Leah has been the Dance 

Captain on several shows, the Assistant Choreographer 

on the 1994 production of Oklahoma! and also assisted 

the late Richard Sampson. 

As an artist, Leah performed with Disney, and in 

The Muppet Show, as well as the musicals West Side 

Story, Me and My Girl, Starlight Express (Japan), Cats 

(1992-94, 1996-98), Grease, Mr Producer, Fame, Dick 

Whittington, the Cats video and MAMMA MIA! (original 

cast and cast album). She has performed on numerous 

television shows in England and Europe, including the 

Royal Variety and Olivier Awards and worked with pop 

artists Heatwave, Cliff Richard and Kylie Minogue. 

JONATHAN ALLEN 

ASSOCIATE SET DESIGNER 


Jonathan Allen is 

Associate Set Designer 

for MAMMA MIA! and 

has reproduced the show 

in Canada, Holland, China, 

Japan, Korea, Australia, 

Russia, Spain, Sweden, 

Norway, Finland, France, 

Denmark, Belgium, 

Germany and for the International Tour. He has worked 

with Mark Thompson on productions of Blast!, Doctor 

Dolittle, The Wind in the Willows, Art, Life x 3, The Lady 

in the Van, Kean, And Then There Were None, Bombay 

Dreams and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor 

Dreamcoat. He was Maria Björnson’s assistant on The 

Phantom of the Opera and has reproduced the show 

worldwide as well as assisting her on productions 

for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Royal 

Shakespeare Company, Glyndebourne Festival 

Opera, English National Opera and La Scala, Milan. 

Other work includes: designs for Scottish Opera, 

Kent Opera, Welsh National Opera and the West End. 

LUCY GAIGER 

ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGNER 


Associate Costume 

Designer on MAMMA 

MIA! worldwide, including 

the Royal Caribbean 

International production. 

Other work includes: 

productions for the RSC, 

NT, Almeida and Donmar 

Warehouse. 

Musicals include: Bombay Dreams, The Phantom of 

the Opera, Nine, Moby Dick, Into the Woods, Carmen 

Jones and The Wizard of Oz. Lucy has supervised many 

plays and designed costumes for Sarah Brightman’s 

2009 and 2013 world tours. 

Film includes: The Madness of King George. 

DAVID HOLMES 

ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER 


Backbeat (Duke of York’s, 

Toronto and Los Angeles), 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 

(Novello), King John, 

The Gods Weep and Days 

of Significance (RSC), 

A Midsummer Night’s 

Dream (Headlong), 

Remembrance Day, 

Alaska (Royal Court), Belongings (Hampstead and 

Trafalgar Studios), Donny’s Brain, Hello/Goodbye 

(Hampstead), La Serva Padrona, To Hell and Back 

(Viana do Castelo, Portugal), The Aliens (Bush), Duke 

Bluebeard’s Castle (Royal Festival Hall, European tour, 

San Francisco Symphony), Die Walkure, Il Prigionero, 

Gurrelieder (Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Festival 

Hall), Ma Vie en Rose (Young Vic), Victory, The Road to 

Mecca (Arcola), The Chairs, Gagarin Way (Bath), Blood 

Wedding (South Bank), Cannibals, A Taste of Honey, 

See How They Run, Widower’s Houses, Cyrano de 

Bergerac, Harvey, Roots (Manchester Royal Exchange), 

How to be an Other Woman (Gate), Rusalka (ETO), 

Goalmouth (Sage, Gateshead), Moonlight and 

Magnolias, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Watermill), 

Sweetness and Badness (WNO), After Miss Julie, Othello 

(Salisbury), Humble Boy (Northampton), Stallerhof 

(Southwark), The Aliens, Cruising (Bush), Inside (Jean 

Abreu Dance), The Fantasticks, Ain’t Misbehavin’ 

(Harrogate) and The Secret Rapture (Chichester). 

David has been Associate Lighting Designer for 21 

productions of MAMMA MIA! since 1999. 

ANDREW VOLLER 

ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER 

AND PROGRAMMER 


lighting designs for 

Hinterm Horizont 

(Berlin), All Shook Up 

– Love Me Tender 

(Netherlands tour), 

Buddy (Essen), Ich Will 

Spass (Essen), Ich War 

Noch Niemals in New 

York (Hamburg, Stuttgart 

and Vienna), Miami Nights (German tour), Hans Klok’s 

The Beauty of Magic (Las Vegas) and Faster than 

Magic (European tour), Rebecca (Vienna), Rockville, 

Aida, Hair, Carmen Cubana, Jesus Christ Superstar, 

Footloose, Wild Party, Tommy (Amstetten), Grease (St 

Gallen), Parsifal (Finnish National Opera), Romeo and 

Juliet (Vienna), Saturday Night Fever (German tour), 

Elisabeth (2003 revival, Vienna and Japan) and Hair 

(Vienna and Bremen). Also, Associate Lighting Designer 

and Programmer for MAMMA MIA! (London, New 

York, Australia, Toronto, USA tours, Japan, Las Vegas, 

Korea, South Africa and the international tour), 

Cyberjam (Queen’s), Napoleon (Shaftesbury) and Tanz 

der Vampire (Vienna, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Oberhausen). 

Programming includes: Bombay Dreams (London and 

Broadway) and The Blue Room (Donmar Warehouse 

and Broadway). 

BRIAN BUCHANAN 

ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER 


Associate Sound 

Designer for MAMMA 

MIA! in London and on 

the many international 

productions. Brian was 

Sound Designer for the 

English Shakespeare 

Company for a number 

of years, before becoming 

Resident Sound Designer at Das Deutsches Schauspielhaus 

in Hamburg. He has worked on many West End 

musicals, such as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor 

Dreamcoat, Oliver!, Saturday Night Fever, Miss Saigon 

and Jesus Christ Superstar. He has also worked extensively 

on international shows such as Sunset 

Boulevard, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. 

Brian is currently Associate Sound Designer for 

MAMMA MIA! productions in London and New York.

NICK FINLOW 

ASSOCIATE MUSICAL SUPERVISOR 

Nick is the Musical 

Supervisor for Dream 

Girls – London. 

He is also the Musical 

Director for The Book 

of Mormon, Associate 

Musical Supervisor for 

Jersey Boys London and 

MAMMA MIA! – London 

and international tour. 

Previous work includes: Musical Supervisor: 

Memphis (London), Avenue Q (UK tour) and 

Les Misérables (UK tour). 

Musical Supervisor and Arranger for Dancing 

Shadows in Seoul, South Korea. 

Musical Director: Jersey Boys (London), Avenue Q 

(Noël Coward), Victoria Wood’s musical Acorn 

Antiques (Theatre Royal Haymarket), MAMMA MIA! 

(London), Tonight’s the Night (Victoria Palace), 

Tell Me on a Sunday (Gielgud Theatre), Rent 

(Shaftesbury Theatre), Stairway to Heaven (King’s 

Head), Kiss Me, Kate (Norwich Playhouse) and the 

BAFTA-nominated film Tomorrow La Scala! 

He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music 

and has a postgraduate diploma in Advanced 

Instrumental Studies (Piano). 

STEPHEN CROCKETT 

ASSOCIATE CASTING DIRECTOR 


Stephen is Casting 

Associate at David 

Grindrod Associates. 

He is the casting 

director for the London 

and international tour 

productions and has 

been casting consultant 

on productions 

in Germany, Holland, Norway, Italy, Spain and Russia 

of MAMMA MIA! He is also responsible for the 

casting of the multi award-winning Jerry Springer 

– The Opera and the London company and UK tour 

of Chicago. Other casting includes: Starlight Express, 

Bombay Dreams, Ragtime, Our House, The Full 

Monty, Kiss Me, Kate, Sunset Boulevard, The 

Beautiful Game, Whistle Down the Wind, Carousel, 

Hairspray, the European premiere of The Light in the 

Piazza for The Curve, Leicester, and productions in 

Chichester, Bristol and Sheffield. Also, Hello, Dolly! 

for the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park. 

NICHOLAS GILPIN 

SYNTHESIZER PROGRAMMER 


Les Misérables (eight 

productions worldwide), 

Miss Saigon (four 

productions worldwide), 

Cats (London), Oliver! 

(London), Martin Guerre 

(UK tour) and MAMMA 

MIA! (14 productions 

worldwide). 

Orchestrations include: Just So, Moby Dick, 

Tutankhamun, Which Witch?, MAMMA MIA! (Tony 

nomination 2002), Jerry Springer – The Opera, Billy 

Elliot and Kombat Opera (five half-hour operas for TV). 

Koch & Gilpin: Martin Koch started this music 

production company with longtime friend and 

collaborator Nick Gilpin. They have been responsible 

for the production and composition of numerous 

television programmes and produced many albums, 

including MAMMA MIA! (Grammy nomination 2002), 

Jerry Springer – The Opera and Billy Elliot. 

kochandgilpin.co.uk 

RICHARD EAST 

PRODUCER 

Richard is an originating 

producer of MAMMA 

MIA!, having been 

involved since its 

inception. A Tony 

nominee, he has worked 

in the entertainment 

business for 35 years 

in Australia, London 

and the US. 

ANDREW TREAGUS 

INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER 

Andrew is the 

International Executive 

Producer for MAMMA 

MIA! He has managed 

a large number of 

musicals in the West 

End, including A Chorus 

Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, 

Annie, On Your Toes, 

Starlight Express, Time, 

Aspects of Love, City of Angels, Dancin’, Grease, 

The Rocky Horror Show, Joseph and the Amazing 

Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Hired Man, Girlfriends, 

Budgie, Saturday Night Fever, The Pirates of 

Penzance and La Cage aux Folles. 

JUDY CRAYMER 

PRODUCER 

Judy Craymer graduated 

from the Guildhall 

School of Music 

in 1977 and has since 

worked extensively 

in the theatre, film, 

television and music 

industries. 

Judy originated the idea 

of MAMMA MIA! and, 

in 1996, formed Littlestar Services Limited with 

Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Richard East, 

to produce the stage musical in London. Since then, 

she has produced 50 productions of MAMMA MIA! 

in 16 languages around the world. 

In 2002, Judy was presented with a Woman of the 

Year Award in recognition for her international 

success with MAMMA MIA!. In the Queen’s birthday 

honours list of 2007, she was honoured with an MBE 

for her contribution to the music industry. 

In 2008, Judy produced MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE, 

starring Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan. That same 

year, she was honoured with the Women in Film ITV 

Achievement of the Year Award. MAMMA MIA! THE 

MOVIE was also nominated for a Golden Globe for 

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, a BAFTA 

for Outstanding British Film, and Judy was personally 

nominated by BAFTA for the Carl Foreman Award for 

Special Achievement. MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE is 

the highest grossing live-action musical film 

worldwide. 

In 2010, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation 

presented Judy with its Humanitarian Award for her 

commitment to raising breast cancer awareness and 

research funding around the globe with MAMMA 

MIA! and through the sale of the specially created 

Rock Chick Supremo T-shirts. 

Following a passion for horses and showjumping, 

Judy was asked to be an ambassador for British 

Showjumping, and is proud to support the 

British Team. 

Judy also produced VIVA FOREVER!, an original 

musical based on the songs of The Spice Girls.

Production photographs are of the 2017/18 cast.

For LITTLESTAR SERVICES LIMITED 

Directors 

JUDY CRAYMER 



International Executive Producer ANDREW TREAGUS 

Business & Finance Director ASHLEY GRISDALE 

General Manager 

PHILIP EFFEMEY 

PA to Judy Craymer 

AMANDA BREWSTER 

Marketing & Communications Manager CLAIRE TEARE 

Marketing & Communications Assistant SADHBH McCOY 

Head of Accounts 

JO REEDMAN 

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NOVELLO THEATRE Highlights 

1904/5 Theatre designed by W G R 

Sprague as part of the major redevelopment 

of the Aldwych and Kingsway. Décor and 

furnishing was by Waring & Gillow in the Louis 

XIV style with rich use of marble and gilt. 

1905 Opened as the Waldorf Theatre on 

22 May with the operas Il Maestro di Capella 

and I Pagliacci followed by an eight-week 

season of operas and plays. Remained the 

Waldorf Theatre until 1909 when it became 

known as the Strand Theatre. 

1911 An American manager called Frank 

Whitney bought the lease of the theatre and 

for a short time it was called the Whitney 

Theatre before reverting to the Strand Theatre 

again in 1913. 

1913 Mr Wu, an Anglo-Chinese play 

starring Matheson Lang, ran for 403 

performances and was the theatre’s first 

major success. 

1915 The theatre was bombed during 

a Zeppelin raid on 13 October, but the 

performance of The Scarlet Pimpernel, starring 

Fred Terry, continued. 

1923 Anna Christie, the first Eugene 

O’Neill play to be performed in the West End, 

was presented by C B Cochran and ran for 103 

performances. 

1924 Fred and Adele Astaire appeared in 

the musical farce Stop Flirting. 

1930 Leslie Henson and Firth Shephard 

co-leased the theatre and presented a series 

of popular farces and musical comedies 

including It’s A Boy!, It’s A Girl!, Nice Goings 

On! and Aren’t Men Beasts! 

1935 1066 And All That, a comic history 

with music by Alfred Reynolds, ran for 387 

performances. 

1940 The theatre was bombed during 

the Blitz, but remained open with Donald 

Wolfit presenting lunchtime performances 

of Shakespeare. 

1942 Arsenic and Old Lace broke all 

records for the longest run at the theatre 

with 1,337 performances. On 3 June 1943 the 

Royal Family attended the play. It was the first 

time the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret 

had been allowed to go to an evening 

performance in the West End. 

1955 Sailor Beware! made a star of Peggy 

Mount as Emma Hornett, ‘the mother-in-law to 

outrival all mothers-in-law’. Film rights to the 

show were bought four days after the first night. 

1960 Orson Welles’ famous production 

of Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco, starring 

Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Michael 

Gough and Peter Sallis, transferred from the 

Royal Court. 

1963 Stephen Sondheim’s third Broadway 

musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the 

Way to the Forum, ran for two years. Frankie 

Howerd’s performance as the slave Pseudolus 

was a highlight of his career. 

1971 No Sex Please – We’re British opened 

and became a British institution and a tourist 

attraction when it settled at the Strand for 

11 years. The opening cast included Michael 

Crawford, Evelyn Laye and Anthony Valentine. 

1982 The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard’s 

touching play about affaires de coeur, 

premiered at the theatre where it enjoyed a 

two-year run with Felicity Kendal and Roger 

Rees in the leading roles. 

1987 Barry Humphries, alias the gladdiethrowing 

Edna Everage, set new box office 

records with over 200 sold-out performances 

of Back With a Vengeance! 

1995 ‘A hugely enjoyable piece of 

singalong nostalgia’ was how The Evening 

Standard described Alan Janes’ musical 

Buddy about the life of Buddy Holly that had 

audiences dancing in the aisles for more than 

seven years. 

2003 The Rat Pack, a re-enactment of 

the famous Las Vegas cabaret performances 

given by Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr and 

Dean Martin in 1960, transferred for a highly 

successful run. 

2005 The Strand Theatre closed on 28 

May for a major refurbishment and reopened 

on 8 December with a season given by the 

RSC, under its new name of the Novello 

Theatre. The RSC went on to present three 

notable Shakespeare seasons at the theatre. 

2009 Debbie Allen’s compelling 

production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 

transferred from Broadway. 

2011 The musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes, 

set in impoverished 1947 Britain and adapted 

from Alan Bennett’s screenplay for the film A 

Private Function, lifted our spirits in today’s 

austerity Britain. 

2012 Mamma Mia! transferred from the 

Prince of Wales Theatre in September. On 

17 December 2015 it celebrated its 7,000th 

performance in London. 

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FOLLIES 

As a new production of Follies plays at the National Theatre, actress JULIA MCKENZIE – who starred 

in the 1987 Cameron Mackintosh production – reflects on working with the legendary Stephen Sondheim 

When I first met Stephen Sondheim 

I was in shock! 

I had been a fan ever since I first heard his 

incredible work. And here was I, face to face 

with Him, on the night I’d just opened with the 

American cast of Company – which was an 

education in itself. I learned at first hand what 

it is to work with that kind of energy – it was 

like being shot out of a cannon! Such a shock 

that I only vaguely remember seeing someone 

who might have been Steve lurking in the 

wings. But later we not only met, but worked 

closely together in Side by Side by Sondheim, 

Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd and co-devised 

and directed Putting it Together here and in 

New York. 

I was thrilled to be asked to play Sally in the 

original West End production of Follies. For so 

many years I had been living with the recording 

of the glorious Barbara Cook – and now came 

the chance to sing ‘In Buddy’s Eyes’ and ‘Losing 

My Mind’. Manna from heaven! But the dancing 

was a challenge – Jerry Mitchell, who was 

assistant choreographer on the show, is quoted 

as saying that he managed to extract the 

fabulous dancing with ‘a chair and a whip’ and he 

was basically talking about me. I’m a terrible 

dancer – and I had to do a six-minute tap routine! 

Follies also saw me reunited with producer 

Cameron Mackintosh, with whom I’d worked 

on Side by Side by Sondheim. To say that 

Cameron is hands-on is an understatement – 

he’s legs, arms and heart too! He’s totally in 

love with theatre. 

Dolores Gray broke her ankle during the run but, 

true to her theatrical guts, went on – even taking 

curtain calls in a wheelchair. I began to think she 

really quite enjoyed it. There are so many 

enduring memories from the show. But I 

particularly remember shedding tears, along with 

the rest of the company, the first time we heard 

that tinkling piano bursting into the full orchestral 

overture. A year or two ago, Simon Green (young 

Ben) organised a reunion for the remaining cast 

members – a mini Follies I suppose, but held at 

Joe Allen’s restaurant. It was a magical reunion – 

Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson did a little of ‘Rain 

on the Roof’ and the years rolled away as Eileen 

Page and Michelle Todd reprised ‘One More Kiss’ 

as if it were yesterday. More tears. I guess it’s that 

sort of show. 

After 45 years of knowing Steve, I feel I have an 

instinct for his work. I do know that working for 

him has changed my life tremendously. As a 

performer, his work challenges your intelligence 

as an actor, and your technique as a singer. You 

can’t simply get away with a voice and a big 

smile anymore. It takes you all your time to try to 

be equal to what he asks of you. 

I am, of course, looking forward to seeing the 

National’s new production – as is everyone else I 

know. I just hope I can still get a ticket! What a 

cast they have assembled – it’s so exciting. 

And to any actors performing Sondheim 

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thankful. His work will be a joy to you and 

will inform everything else in your 

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BACK IN TOWN! 

five guys 

On the opening of the new production 

of Five Guys Named Moe at the 

purpose-built Marble Arch Theatre, 

writer, director – and Hollywood star – 

Clarke Peters reminisces about how 

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jazz musical to life 

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Where did this idea come from? Like the Five Guys, 

out of nowhere. That would be a stock answer. But 

actually, the idea came out of my cassette player 

during endless hours of driving from the north of 

England to the south west. 

Without Paulette Randall (who helped structure 

the script), Charles Augins (choreographer), Chapman 

Roberts (vocal arrangements) and Neil McArthur 

(orchestrations), Five Guys Named Moe would have 

stayed in the radio. The guys would have remained 

one-dimensional characters in my imagination. 

Prior to putting together this team, I staged one 

song for an evening’s entertainment while on the 

road with Carmen Jones: ‘Five Guys Named Moe’. 

It was quirky, fun and enjoyed by everyone. That 

was the seed. If I could find more of Louis’s songs 

and treat them in the same way, there might be 

something in this… Over the next four years, life 

presented me with an abundance of ‘Nomax’ [the 

main character] situations to draw on. 

In 1989, I asked David Aukin at the National 

Theatre for permission to present the Guys in the 

Cottesloe. During the three-night presentation, 

Phillip Hedley saw the taster and, months later, 

asked if I could develop it for Stratford East. 

Without a moment’s hesitation, I put together my 

dream team. Cameron Mackintosh came to see 

it at Stratford, picked it up, sprinkled it with some 

Mackintosh magic and took it to the West End… 

and the rest is history. 

Clarke Peters is directing the new production 

of Five Guys Named Moe – presented by Underbelly 

Productions in association with Cameron Mackintosh 

– at Marble Arch Theatre until 25 November 2017. 

For information and to book tickets, call 0844 

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