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P R I N C E S S O F W A L E S T H E A T R E

DAVID MIRVISH & GLOBAL CREATURESin association with WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE

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Created by BAZ LUHRMANNBook by BAZ LUHRMANN & CRAIG PEARCE

Adapted by TERRY JOHNSON

Introducing new musical numbers byDAVID FOSTER SIA FURLER ISAAC HASSON

BERNIE HERMS BAZ LUHRMANN MOZELLA NEFF-UCRAIG PEARCE EDDIE PERFECT LINDA THOMPSON ELLIOTT WHEELER

Orchestrations bySIMON HALE

Vocal arrangements by Dance arrangements by DAVID CADDICK BEN ATKINSON

Musical DirectorBEN ATKINSON

Associate Director Associate ChoreographerCHARLOTTE CONQUEST SIMON HARDWICK

Associate Lighting Designer Associate Sound Designer Wigs SupervisorMAX NARULA OLLY STEEL BETTY MARINI

Production ManagerMATT TOWELL

Casting Director Canadian Children's CastingJAMES ORANGE CDG STEPHANIE GORIN CDC, CSA

Producer Executive Producer CARMEN PAVLOVIC PATRICK MURPHY

Musical Supervision by Sound Design by Lighting Design by DAVID CADDICK GARETH OWEN TIM LUTKIN

Costume Design by Set Design by CATHERINE MARTIN SOUTRA GILMOUR

Directed & Choreographed byDREW MCONIE

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T H E C A S T

Scott Hastings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SAM LIPSFran (Just Fran) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEMMA SUTTON

Shirley Hastings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TAMSIN CARROLLJJ Silvers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RICHARD DEMPSEYBarry Fife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIUS D’SILVATina Sparkle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLOTTE GOOCHLes Kendall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RICHARD GRIEVEWayne Burns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIAM MARCELLINODoug Hastings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEPHEN MATTHEWSRico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FERNANDO MIRAAbuela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . EVE POLYCARPOULiz Holt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREN STROUDKen Railings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GARY WATSON

Vanessa Cronin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JADE ALBERTSENPam Short & Natalie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHELLE BISHOPMerv & Clarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ZAK NEMORIN Kayleen West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FREYA ROWLEYRory West & Nathan Starkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LUKE JACKSONEmily Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .COURTNEY-MAE BRIGGSJonathan Drench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAVIER SANTOS Muriel Shunt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ALEXZANDRA SARMIENTO Tommy Arbunt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JAMES BENNETT Stephanie Shanks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SELINA HAMILTON Liam Lamb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGE HINSON

Ensemble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JADE ALBERTSEN, JAMES BENNETT, MICHELLE BISHOP, COURTNEY-MAE BRIGGS, SELINA HAMILTON, GEORGE HINSON, LUKE JACKSON, ZAK NEMORIN, FREYA ROWLEY, JAVIER SANTOS, ALEXZANDRA SARMIENTO

Swings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRIS BENNETT, REBECCA LISEWSKI, LINDSAY McALLISTER, DALE WHITE

Kylie Hastings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MEGAN DUNN or EVLYN O'TOOLELuke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AIDEN BUSHEY or WILLEM SADLER

Co-Dance Captain — ALEXZANDRA SARMIENTOCo-Dance Captain — DALE WHITE

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T H E C A S T

UNDERSTUDIESScott Hastings — LIAM MARCELLINO, DALE WHITE

Fran — SELINA HAMILTON, COURTNEY-MAE BRIGGS Shirley Hastings — MICHELLE BISHOP, REBECCA LISEWSKI

JJ Silvers — CHRIS BENNETT, DALE WHITEBarry Fife — CHRIS BENNETT, LUKE JACKSON

Tina Sparkle — REBECCA LISEWSKI, FREYA ROWLEYLes Kendall — ZAK NEMORIN, CHRIS BENNETTWayne Burns — JAMES BENNETT, DALE WHITE

Doug Hastings — CHRIS BENNETT, ZAK NEMORINRico — JAVIER SANTOS, ZAK NEMORIN

Abuela — REBECCA LISEWSKI, SELINA HAMILTONLiz Holt — LINDSAY McALLISTER, COURTNEY-MAE BRIGGS

Ken Railings — LUKE JACKSON, CHRIS BENNETTVanessa Cronin — REBECCA LISEWSKI, FREYA ROWLEY

Pam Short & Natalie — REBECCA LISEWSKI, LINDSAY McALLISTERMerv & Clarry — CHRIS BENNETT, DALE WHITENathan Starkey — DALE WHITE, ZAK NEMORIN

ORCHESTRAMusical Director/Piano — BEN ATKINSON

Associate Musical Director/Keyboards — WAYNE GWILLIMDrums/Percussion — GUY RICHMAN

Percussion — NICK COULTERGuitar — WILLIAM BRIDGES

Bass — JON MAHARAJViolin — ERICA BESTON

Trumpet — REBECCA HENNESSYWoodwinds 1 — HARVEY KOGENWoodwinds 2 — MARK PROMANE

Contractor — RICK WHITELAW

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches.

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S C E N E S & M U S I C A L N U M B E R S

Strict ly Ballroom The Musical has a running time of 2 hours and 30 minutes, including intermission.

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The action takes place in Australia, 1985

ACT ONE

Prologue: When You're Strictly Ballroom . . . . . . . .Scott Hastings, Liz Holt & CompanyOpen Latin Final: All Out War . . . . Scott Hastings, Liz Holt, Ken Railings, Pam Short, Shirley Hastings, Les Kendall, Barry Fife & CompanyTwo To Tango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley Hastings, Les Kendall, Liz Holt, Scott Hastings, Ken Railings & CompanyOn The Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott HastingsWhat Was It All For? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley & Doug HastingsTime After Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott Hastings & FranTime After Time Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FranDance To Win . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry FifeLife After Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tina Sparkle & Scott HastingsPerhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott Hastings & FranFran’s Epiphany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fran¡Magnifico! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abuela, Fran, Rico & Company

ACT TWO

Beautiful When You Dance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JJ Silvers & CompanyLove Is A Leap Of Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abuela & FranDance To Win Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry FifeLove Is In The Air Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Scott Hastings, Fran & CompanyFlashback Sequence: The Looks, The Charm / Yesterday's Hero / Waltz (I’m Sick Of Strictly Ballroom) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Fife, Les Kendall, Doug Hastings & CompanyWhen Your Strictly Ballroom Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The CompanyYou Can't Have Everything / Beautiful Surprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Fran & Scott HastingsLet's Dance! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kylie Hastings, Luke & CompanyWhat Was It All For? Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shirley & Doug HastingsOn The Edge Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott HastingsLove Is In The Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Company

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T H E C O M P A N Y

SAM LIPSScott HastingsSam Lips recently starred in the US national tour of Pippin as the title role. Broadway credits include

Cinderella, Pippin, and the US tour of Wicked. He played Action in West Side Story at Carnegie Hall. He received glowing reviews for his work as Bobby Child in the Merry Go Round Playhouse production of Crazy For You. Special thanks to everyone at Nicolosi & Co., and to my wonderful family for supporting me at every step of this adventure. @slipsgoblue.

GEMMA SUTTONFran (Just Fran)Training: ArtsEd, London, UK. Theatre: West End: The Go-Between (Apollo), Gypsy (Savoy), Legally

Blonde (Savoy), Imagine This (New London), Gone With The Wind (New London). London: Carousel (Arcola), Blues in the Night (Hackney Empire), Macbeth and A Midsummer Nights Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air) UK Tours/Regional/International: Strictly Ballroom (WYP), The Sound of Music (Cairo), Gypsy (Chichester), Chicago (Leicester Curve), Hairspray (UK Tour), Oklahoma! (UK Tour). TV and Film: Cilla (ITV), Doctors (BBC), West Side Stories (BBC), Gypsy (Universal).

TAMSIN CARROLLShirley HastingsTamsin’s theatre credits include Oliver!, Barnum and Miss Saigon for Cameron Mackintosh, Ragtime and

A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Regent’s

Park, The Magistrate National Theatre, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang West Yorkshire Playhouse, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Crucible Theatre, Casa Valentina Southwark Playhouse, Measure for Measure Bell Shakespeare Company, Australian National tour of Dusty, Dusty Productions, Into the Woods Melbourne Theatre Company, Harbour Sydney Theatre Company. Film/TV credits include Holy Smoke Jane Campion director, Goddess Mark Lamprell director, Heartbreak High ABC, Eastendenders BBC.

RICHARD DEMPSEYJJ SilversRichard appeared in the Original West End Productions of Into The Woods (Jack), Fame (Nick)

and Dirty Dancing (Neil). Also Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Mr. Bucket, also appearing as Willy Wonka) and The Michael Grandage Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other Theatre; Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hermione in The Winters Tale (Propeller) as well as The Merchant Of Venice (BAM New York). Honk and Citizenship for The National Theatre and recently The Cocktail Party and Home Chat in London. TV/Film includes Genius, Downton Abbey, Doc Martin and The Chronicles Of Narnia (BBC/Peter).

JULIUS D’SILVABarry FifeJulius most recently filmed Seasons 1 & 2 of The Crown (Netflix/Sony) Golden Globe best TV Drama

2017. Theatre includes: Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre), Anne Boleyn, Macbeth

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and Eternal Love at Shakespeare’s Globe London and Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).Twelve productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company including Michael Boyd’s Olivier Award winning “Histories” ensemble, Richard II directed by Steven Berkoff. BBC Radio 4 The Flea by John Donne and Vincent Van Gogh – The Letters with Mark Rylance.

CHARLOTTE GOOCHTina SparkleCharlotte trained professionally at Laine Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include the lead

role of Dale Tremont in the Olivier award-winning Top Hat (West End and UK Tour), Penny Johnson in Dirty Dancing (West End, first-ever National Tour and original German production in Berlin), Margot in Legally Blonde (Opera House, Korea) Bombalurina in Cats (European Tour) and Patty Simcox/Sandy in Grease (UK Tour). On television Charlotte appeared as a professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing during the 2015 season. www.charlottegooch.com.

RICHARD GRIEVELes KendallTheatre credits: High Society (Old Vic); Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (West End & UK Tour), The

Sound of Music (Dubai); An Ideal Husband (Frankfurt); A Daughter’s A Daughter, and Bells Are Ringing. UK tours of Footloose – The Musical, Copacabana, Daisy Miller, Dial M for Murder, Teen Scream, and There’s no Place Like a Home. Theatre in Australia: The Misanthrope (MTC), Design for Living (STC), The Will, Mame, The Boy from Oz, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. His film credits include: The Hay

Makers, and Waltzing Matilda. Television Credits: Neighbours, Home and Away, Emmerdale, The Man from Snowy River; The Series, Newlyweds, State Coroner, E Street and Wintertime.

LIAM MARCELLINOWayne BurnsTraining: London Studio Centre, receiving the Dame Anna Neagle Award on behalf of Cameron

Mackintosh. Recently played Chino in West Side Story (Salzburg Festival, Austria), Understudied and played Chris in Miss Saigon (Prince Edward, London), Sky cover in Mamma Mia! (Novello, London), Understudied and played Felicia in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (UK Tour), cover Teen Angel/Doody in Grease (UK Tour), Understudy Troy in High School Musical (Asian Tour), cover Billy Kostecki/Neil Kellerman in Dirty Dancing (UK Tour).

STEPHEN MATTHEWSDoug HastingsTheatre: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Monsieur Popular, Anything Goes, The Boy Who Fell Into A Book, The

Lion King, The Producers, Round The Horne, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle & Dick, Disney’s Beauty & The Beast, Is There Life After High School?, Pirates, Snoopy!, On The Twentieth Century, Oliver!, Les Misérables, Grease, Death of a Salesman, Little Shop of Horrors, Lady in the Dark, Crows, Show Boat, Treasure Island, Prisoner Cell Block H, Sherlock Holmes, Pinafore, An Inspector Calls. Film/TV: Holby City, The Night Watch, The Bill, The Quest, David The True Believer, Les Misérables.

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FERNANDO MIRARicoFernando has performed extensively throughout Australia and overseas. Credits include: English

National Opera, Victorian State Opera and Opera Australia. Special guest performer in Spain for the Andalusian government. Fernando’s film and television experience include: The Man from Snowy River, Amy, Noah’s Ark, True Love and Chaos and Soul Mates etc. In 2013, Fernando originated the role of Rico in the World Premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s Australian production of Strictly Ballroom. Fernando wishes to thank his teachers, family and agents at Ian White Management for their support.

EVE POLYCARPOUAbuelaIntroduced to Canada in the early 1970s... still spellbound by Niagara Falls! Then in the late 70s

toured Toronto, Quebec, Montreal and North America as guest singer Eve Adam on Max Bygraves live show having been a finalist in the U.K.TV talent show New Faces. Amongst Eve’s extensive acting and singing career, in 2009 she was nominated for best actress award by Manchester Evening News for playing the part of Nehrjas in renowned Canadian writer, Judith Thompson’s, award-winning UK premiere, Palace of The End. Now Eve is thrilled to be back in Toronto many moons later, as Abuela!

LAUREN STROUDLiz HoltLauren trained professionally at Laine Theatre Arts, graduating with her National Diploma

in Musical Theatre (TRINITY, London). Most recently, Lauren played the role of Amber in the Hairspray UK Tour. Other theatre credits include: Ensemble in Dance Til’ Dawn (UK Tour); Swing/Cover Glinda in Wicked (West End); Ensemble/Cover and played the role of Doralee Rhodes in 9 to 5 (UK Tour); Frenchy/Cover Sandy in Grease (UK Tour); Ensemble/Cover Penny Pingleton in Hairspray (UK Tour); Sharpette/Cover Sharpay Evans in Disney’s High School Musical (UK Tour).

GARY WATSONKen RailingsNick Massi in Jersey Boys (Piccadilly Theatre), Norman in Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be (Stratford

East), Don and understudy Zach in A Chorus Line (London Palladium), G.K. Chesterton in Finding Netherland (Curve, Leicester), Rudolpho in Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre/RSC), Sky in Mamma Mia! (International Tour), Marius in Les Misérable (Queens Theatre), Rum Tum Tugger in Cats (UK Tour), Evita (Adelphi Theatre), Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria Theatre), Hortensio in Kiss Me Kate (Royal Albert Hall) and Michael Ball’s Heroes (UK Tour).

JADE ALBERTSENVanessa Cronin, EnsembleTrained at Liz Burville Performing Arts. Completed her training at Bird College graduating

2011. Theatre credits: 42nd Street (Curve Theatre), Loserville (WYP, Garrick Theatre, West End), Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre, West End), Twentieth Century Boy (UK Tour), Dancing In The Streets, The Bodyguard (UK Tour) and Bugsy Malone (Lyric Theatre). TV Credits: X Factor, Brit Awards,

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James Morrison Music Video, Royal Variety Performance.

MICHELLE BISHOPPam Short, Natalie, EnsembleTraining: Laine Theatre Arts. Theatre: West End/London: Sunset Boulevard,

The Great American Trailer Park, Bend it Like Beckham, White Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kiss Me, Kate, Lend Me a Tenor, Company, Jersey Boys, Fame, Snow White. Regional: Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Monkee Business, Guys and Dolls, Footloose, The Wedding Singer, Grease, Jus’ Like That, Seasonal Sauce. International: Saturday Night Fever, Ultimate Broadway. Film: Mrs Henderson Presents. Television: Galavant, The Royal Variety Performance. www.access-uk.com.

ZAK NEMORINMerv, Clarry, EnsembleTraining: Millennium Performing Arts, London Studio Centre, The BRIT School. Theatre: West End/

London: Lets Dance Again, High Society, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Viva Forever!, Sweet Charity, Carousel, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, Chicago, We Will Rock You. UK & International: West Side Story, Legally Blonde, She Loves Me, Cats, Saturday Night Fever. Television: Absolutely Fabulous, Showtime at the Stadium, Emma Bunton’s Maybe. Choreography: All Quiet On The Western Front (Off Broadway), Story Of Our Youth (NYT), HERE, London Road, Standing By (Stanwix), POSH! (Warwick), Dorian Gray (Incognito), XmasXerts (Denmark). Panellist for Kevin Spacey’s Artists Of Choice Awards 2016.

FREYA ROWLEYKayleen West, EnsembleFreya Rowley trained at Laine Theatre Arts. Credits include: Cross Swing in Disney’s Tarzan The

Musical (Neue Flora Theatre, Hamburg), Ensemble in Stage Entertainment's arena tour Best of Musicals, Germany. Cats UK tour as Swing and understudy Demeter, Jellylourum and Jennyanydots, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels UK Tour as onstage Swing, Usherette and cover Jolene. Swing in Disney’s Tarzan the Musical (Apollo Theatre, Stuttgart) and Drew McOnie’s production of Jekyll and Hyde (The Old Vic Theatre) as Lilly and understudy Ivy.

LUKE JACKSONRory West, Nathan Starkey, EnsembleLuke, originally from Leicester, England trained at Laine Theatre Arts. He

competed in BBC So You Think You Can Dance series 2, gaining 2nd place. West End/London credits include: Kinky Boots, Viva Forever (Spice Girls Musical), Priscilla Queen Of The Desert, Grease, The Producers and The Phantom of the Opera. Tour Credits include: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Cats, West Side Story, The Most Incredible Thing (Saddlers Wells), Copacabana and Saturday Night Fever. Film credits: Finding Neverland and The Phantom Of The Opera.

COURTNEY-MAE BRIGGSEmily Waters, EnsembleCourtney’s credits include: In the Heights (Southwark Playhouse/King’s Cross Theatre), Barnum (No 1

Tour), Kiss Me, Kate (BBC for The Royal Albert Hall), Kerry Ellis Live (London Palladium), Peter Pan (UK Productions).

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JAVIER SANTOSJonathan Drench, EnsembleTheatre credits include: Kinky Boots (Adelphi Theatre), Dirty Rotten

Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (UK Tour), Strictly Confidential (UK Tour), Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing (Future Cinema), The Beauty and the Beast (Barcelona), High School Musical (Madrid and Spanish tour). Film: Semifinalist in Got To Dance (ITV1), featured dancer in Walking on Sunshine, dancer for Strictly Come Dancing. Event: dancer for the Olympic Ceremonies 2012, dancer for Naming of the Brittania for HM the Queen of England with Strictly Come Dancing.

ALEXZANDRA SARMIENTOMuriel Shunt, EnsembleTraining: LaGuardia High School of Music and Art & Performing

Arts in NYC; SUNY Purchase College Dance Conservatory; National Young Arts Foundation Level 1 Winner in Dance-Modern. Theatre credits: A Chorus Line (London Palladium, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Cabaret (Rufus Norris UK Tour), Fame (25th Anniversary UK Tour), Associate Choreographer for In The Heights (King’s Cross Theatre), Jekyll and Hyde (The Old Vic) Broad Shadow (National Theatre). Alex sends love to mom and Al!

JAMES BENNETTTommy Arbunt, EnsembleTheatre credits: Dance Captain Dirty Dancing (UK, European Tour), We Will Rock You (Dominion

Theatre), IQ, Hairspray (Shaftesbury

Theatre), Carmen (02 Arena, Royal Albert Hall) Dance Captain, We Will Rock You (UK, European tour), Santa Claus The Musical (Singapore), Dance Captain, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Birmingham Hippodrome). Television: Genie in the House (Nickelodeon), Spooks: Code 9 (BBC), Britain’s Got Talent, Children in Need (BBC), The Paul O’Grady Show (Channel 4). See You Soon (film), Dance Party 2 (Universal). The X Factor 2012 Launch.

SELINA HAMILTONStephanie Shanks, EnsembleHavana Diva in Guys and Dolls (Savoy Theatre) understudy Baby and

Vivian Pressman in Dirty Dancing (UK Tour). Original London cast Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre). Constance Sack in Rock of Ages (Shaftesbury/Garrick Theatre), Mamma Mia! (International tour), understudy Cha Cha and Marty in Grease (Piccadilly Theatre), Original London cast Spamalot (Palace Theatre), 2012 Olympic ceremony, professional dancer, directed by Danny Boyle. Classical Spectacular (Royal Albert Hall). Feature Film: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Debutante, directed by Bill Condon.

GEORGE HINSONLiam Lamb, EnsembleGeorge trained at Performance Preparation Academy (PPA) in Guildford. Theatre Credits:

Ensemble/Onstage Swing in 42nd Street (Paris), Sister/US Josephine in UK All Male Tour of HMS Pinafore, Ensemble/Muzzy’s boy in Thoroughly Modern Mille (Landor), Ensemble for West End Heroes (Dominion), Fredric Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (Palladium), Ensemble/US Widow

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Twankey in Aladdin (Milton Keynes.) Twitter: @hinson_george.

CHRIS BENNETTSwingChris has performed in ten West End shows including Oliver! for Cameron Mackintosh,

Guys & Dolls by Michael Grandage and Starlight Express by Trevor Nunn. Included in eight National and International Tours are Chicago by Scott Faris and Crazy for You by Susan Stroman. He has performed at the Barbican, The National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Sheffi eld Crucible and West Yorkshire Playhouse. Recordings include Oliver! and Anything Goes. Numerous Television appearances include The Sound of Music Live, Galavantand EastEnders.

REBECCA LISEWSKISwingTheatre Credits: The Last Tango (UK Tour), Puttin’ On The Ritz (Tour), Dance Til’ Dawn (Tour), Tiger Lily

in Peter Pan (Milton Keynes), Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance (Tour), Carousel (West End), Mamma Mia! (West End), Volta/Pearl in Starlight Express (Tour), Wrench in Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany), Understudy Serena in Fame (West End), Cinderella in Cinderella (First Family Entertainment).

LINDSAY MCALLISTERSwingTraining: Doreen Bird College. Theatre Credits include: Dance Captain/Swing in Bugsy Malone

(Lyric Theatre Hammersmith), Dance Captain/Ensemble in Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (UK Tour), Ensemble in

Cinderella (Milton Keynes Theatre), Bebe in A Chorus Line (Tel Aviv), Cloud Dance(Cochrane Theatre), Big Dance Festival(Big Dance Bus, Kilburn), Tara in Buffy(Workshop). Other credits include: 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony.

DALE WHITESwingTraining: Performers College. Theatre credits: Ensemble/Resident Choreographer Bugsy

Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Starlight Express (Bochum Germany), Jack and the Beanstalk (Hackney Empire), Cinderella(Manchester Opera House). Other Credits: Olivier Awards 2016 (Royal Opera House), Sunday Night at the Palladium, The BBC One Show. Dale is also a former British Ballroom and Latin American Champion.

AIDEN BUSHEYLukeAiden is thrilled to be joining the cast of Strictly Ballroom! Theatre credits include Bruce in Matilda

The Musical in Toronto and US National Tour. Many thanks to his Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre family and Deborah Lundmark, Carmen Duncan, Nicole Nigro, Meredith Thompson and Ryan Scheel who encouraged his love of dance and the arts from a young age. Love and gratitude to Stephanie Gorin, Michael Caruana, Rosalind Mills, Ida Neufeld, Midtown Music School, Brent Thiessen, ETM’s Maria Ralley and all of his teachers, friends and family for their love and support. You can go as far as you dream, think and imagine.

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MEGAN DUNNKylieMegan is thrilled to have her professional debut with Mirvish Productions! After

performing in New York City with “Arts for Autism” and winning four gold medals in the World Championships of Ballet, Jazz and Modern this past fall, working with the cast of Strictly Ballroom will be a true highlight of her year. Many thanks to Daniel at Talent House, her dance family at Turning Pointe Academy of Dance and Mom, Dad and brother James.

EVLYN O'TOOLEKylieEvlyn is overjoyed to be joining the Strictly Ballroom family! Theatre credits: Carousel

(Stratford Festival), Frog in Ballet Jorgen’s The Nutcracker, Glynnis in Those Camelot Days (Registry Theatre). Training: The Singer’s Theatre, The Acting Center, and In.Motion School of the Performing Arts. Love and a huge thanks to Mom, Grandma, Shari at AMI and her fantastic team. Hard work does pay off!

WILLEM SADLERLukeWillem is excited to be making his Mirvish debut joining the cast of Strictly Ballroom. Willem

has been training in dance since age eight when he started taking hip hop classes. As his passion for dance grew he has now expanded his training to include ballroom, ballet, and lyrical. Willem loves performing and has

played Young Simba and Lefou in his school productions of The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast.

LORNA COBBOLD Company and Stage ManagerMost recently she was Production Coordinator for Les Misérables in

São Paulo and prior to this Company Manager on the Australian production and International tour. Her other shows for Cameron Mackintosh include Mary Poppins in Auckland, Betty Blue Eyes and Barnum. Credits include: The Pajama Game, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, A Little Night Music, Zorro the Musical, Into the Hoods, Contact, King Lear, Noises Off, Otherwise Engaged, Whose Life is it Anyway?, Hamlet, Happy Days, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Antarctica, Ghosts, A Streetcar Named Desire, Othello, Don Juan in Soho, Frost Nixon, The Cut, This is How it Goes and Hecuba.

NICKI BARRY Deputy Stage ManagerTheatre includes: Ariadne Auf Naxos (Norway), An Inspector Calls (West End), Jekyll and Hyde

(Old Vic), X (Royal Court), Oresteia (West End), Matthew Bourne’s Car Man (UK Tour and Sadler’s Wells), The Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic and West End), The Most Incredible Thing (Sadler’s Wells), Matthew Bourne’s Nut Cracker (UK tour and Sadler’s Wells), Monty Python’s Spamalot(West End).

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BAZ LUHRMANNCreator & Book WriterBorn in Sydney, Australia, Baz Luhrmann has captured the popular and critical imagination internationally with a diverse range of award-winning projects in film, opera, theatre, and music, making him one of world’s most recognisable creative forces. Currently Luhrmann is writing, producing, and directing on The Get Down, an original series for Netflix which premiered in 2016. Set in 1970s New York City, The Get Down is a mythic saga of how a battered city at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco – told through the lives and music of the South Bronx kids who changed the city and the world, forever.

His most recent film is the extraordinary, Oscar® winning 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (2013), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton. Earlier works include the ambitious epic Australia (2008), starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, the Oscar® winning Moulin Rouge! (2001) featuring Kidman and Ewan McGregor, his boldly luminous version of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996), starring DiCaprio and Claire Danes, and the celebrated Strictly Ballroom (1992), starring Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice. The soundtrack albums for The Great Gatsby, Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge! executive produced by Luhrmann,

KEVIN BOWERSAssistant Stage ManagerFor Mirvish Productions: Kinky Boots, Once, Crazy For You, Les Misérables, The Good Times Are Killing

Me, Racing Demon, Oliver! Opera credits include: Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, Tosca, Aida (twice), Eugene Onegin, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, The Magic Flute, La Boheme. For PBS Television: Bowfire. Tarragon Theatre: Seven Stories, Democracy, Nigredo Hotel. Factory Theatre: Problem Child, Adult Entertainment. Other terrific shows include The Wakowski Brothers, Forever Plaid, Lost in Yonkers, Dee Snider’s Rock n Roll Christmas Tale, and international touring with Theatre Beyond Words. Mr. Bowers holds a MA in Theatre History from University of Essex in England.

LISA HUMBERAssistant Stage ManagerLisa is thrilled to be joining Strictly Ballroom. Selected Credits: Butcher (Why Not Theatre/

Mirvish Productions), The Heart of Robin Hood, Les Misérables, War Horse (Mirvish Productions), Sleeping Beauty (Ross Petty Productions), The Wizard of Oz (YPT), Grey Gardens (Acting Upstage), It Comes In Waves (PANAMANIA/Bluemouth Inc/Necessary Angel), Slapshot (Second City Toronto). Lisa has worked in theatres across Canada and sits on the Professional Advisory Committee for the Theatre Production Program at Humber College. Upcoming: Party Game (Necessary Angel/Bluemouth Inc) at The Traverse Theatre Festival in Edinburgh.

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have sold more than 14 million copies worldwide. The Great Gatsby received 2 Academy Awards® for Art Direction and Costume Design, a BAFTA for production design and 13 AACTA awards. Moulin Rouge! won three Golden Globes® and received eight Academy Award® nominations, with Catherine Martin winning two for Art Direction and Costume Design. Australia won four AFI® Awards. It is the second highest-grossing Australian film of all time. The phenomenally successful Strictly Ballroom was originally conceived by Luhrmann as a short play while still a student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). It was while producing an extended version under the auspices of the Sydney Theatre Company in 1988 that he met Catherine Martin, one of the company’s designers. He later directed and co-wrote the film version which premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the Prix de la Jeunesse. It would go on to win eight AFI® Awards. In 1997, Luhrmann married Catherine Martin, his longtime creative collaborator. They have two children, Lillian and William. The same year they founded Bazmark, an innovative multi-media company with the motto “A life lived in fear is a life half lived”. Baz Luhrmann is one of Australia’s most imaginative and strikingly original opera directors. His signature production of Puccini’s La Bohème for Opera Australia won considerable acclaim in 1990 when it starred Cheryl Barker and David Hobson. His later production of La Bohème on Broadway in 2002 was lauded by critics for its sensuality and glorious production design. It was nominated for seven Tony® Awards, including Best Revival and Best Director for Luhrmann. It won the Tony® Award for Best Scenic Design. Previous opera productions include Lake

Lost, which won a Victorian Green Room Award for Best Director in 1988, and Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It received a Victorian Green Room Award for Best Director, a Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle award for Best Director and the Critic’s Prize at the Edinburgh Festival in 2003. Luhrmann came full circle when he directed the stage musical adaptation of Strictly Ballroom which opened in Sydney, Australia in April 2014.

CRAIG PEARCEBook WriterBorn on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Craig Pearce studied acting at Australia’s premiere theatre school, the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Craig worked as an actor for a number of years and was part of Baz Luhrmann’s theatre ensemble Six Years Old, established under the auspices of the Sydney Theatre Company. Here, he collaborated with Luhrmann and other company members to develop an extended version of Strictly Ballroom. The production was acclaimed by critics and audiences and became the catalyst for the 1992 film version, which Craig co-wrote with Baz. The film of Strictly Ballroom won eight Australian Film Institute awards (including Best Screenplay) was nominated for five BAFTAS (including Best Screenplay), won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Best Screenplay. Craig and Baz then adapted William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for the screen. The film, starring Leonard Di Caprio, broke box office records for Shakespeare worldwide. Among its many nominations and awards, it won the Alfred Bauer Award, the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and four BAFTAs (including Best Screenplay). Craig also co-wrote with

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TERRY JOHNSONAdaptationTerry Johnson is the recipient of a dozen major theatre awards including the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical 2010, Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and Critics Circle Best Musical 2009 for La Cage Aux Folles. He also won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy of 1994 and of 1999, Playwright of the Year 1995, Critics Circle Best New Play 1995, The League of American Theatres and Producers Best Touring Play 2001, two Evening Standard Theatre Awards, Time Out Best Play Award 1995, Writers Guild Best Play 1995, Writers Guild Best play 1996, the Mayer-Whitworth Award 1993 and the John Whiting Award 1991. West End and Broadway credits include: Mrs Henderson Presents, The Duck House, End of The Rainbow, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, La Cage Aux Folles, Rain Man, Whipping It Up, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Hitchcock Blonde, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Graduate, Dead Funny, Hysteria, Elton John’s Glasses and The Memory of Water. Other theatre credits include: Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, The London Cuckolds and Sparkelshark (Royal National Theatre). Lost Land and The Libertine, which was nominated for five Jeff Awards, including Best Production (Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago). Hysteria, Race, Old Money, Seminar, Ken (Hampstead Theatre). In 2014 he celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Joan Littlewoods legendary Theatre Workshop with revivals of Oh What a Lovely War and Fings Ain’t What They Used T’Be. (Theatre Royal Stratford East). He is a former Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre where he has had five of his own plays; Insignificance, Cries From The Mammal House, Hysteria, Hitchcock Blonde and Piano/Forte produced, and has directed two

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further premieres including Joe Penhall’s Dumb Show. Work for television includes: Not Only But Always (CH4), which won five International Award nominations, Best Film at Banff and the Best Actor Bafta for Rhys Ifans. The Man Who Lost His Head and Cor, Blimey! for ITV. The Bite for the BBC and ABC Australia. His film Way Upstream was chosen for the London Film Festival and Insignificance was the official British Entry at Cannes in 1985.

DREW McONIEDirector and ChoreographerDrew is fast becoming one of Britain’s most sought-after emerging director and choreographers. He is the Artistic Director of The McOnie Company and a proud Associate Artist at The Old Vic theatre. Theatre credits as a choreographer include: Jesus Christ Superstar (Olivier Award Nomination for Best Theatre Choreography – Regents Park), Kinky Boots (Malmo Opera), In the Heights (Olivier Award 2016 for Best Theatre Choreography, WhatsOnStage Award Nomination for Best Choreography, Winner of the ‘Off West End Theatre Award’ for Best Choreography – Southwark Playhouse and Kings Cross Theatre), The Lorax (Old Vic), Hairspray (BroadwayWorld award winner for Best Choreography – UK Tour), Bugsy Malone (Lyric Hammersmith), Oklahoma! (National Tour), The Sound of Music (Curve Theatre Leicester), Little Red Riding Hood (NYB), Chicago (Curve Theatre Leicester), West Side Story (NYMT), British Style (Collaboration with Matthew Bourne at Buckingham Palace – BBC), Laurel and Hardy (The Watermill), James and the Giant Peach (National Tour), 13 (Directed by Jason Robert Brown – West End), Tommy (European Tour), Spring Awakening (German Premier- Frankfurt), The Full

Monty (German Premier, Frankfurt), Kes (Liverpool Playhouse & UK Tour). Film credits include: Me Before You (Directed by Thea Sharrock) and Recordare: Days of Remembrance (pre-selected for the Cannes & Berlin Film Festival). For the McOnie Company: Jekyll and Hyde (Old Vic Theatre), DRUNK! (Curve Theatre Leicester/The Bridewell Theatre London) which lead to him being nominated for the ‘Emerging Artist Award’ at the National Dance Awards, Making Midnight (Jermyn Street Theatre/Latitude Festival), Slaughter (Audience Choice Award Winner- The Place Prize) and Be Mine! (Robin Howard Theatre). Upcoming work includes: Director/Choreographer of The Wild Party (The Other Palace/St James Theatre).

SOUTRA GILMOURSet DesignerTheatre: Les Blancs, Evening at the Talk House (costume), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (costume), Strange Interlude, Antigone (Evening Standard Award, Best Design), Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Double Feature, Shadow of a Boy (RNT). Hecuba, Candide, The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes (RSC); The Commitments (Palace Theatre); From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury); Urinetown (Apollo/St James Th); Dr Faustus, The Homecoming, The Ruling Class, Richard 111, The Pride, The Hothouse, Macbeth (Jamie Lloyd Company/Trafalgar Transformed); Merrily We Roll Along (Menier Th/Harold Pinter), Assassins & Torchsong Trilogy (Menier Th); Cyrano de Bergerac (Roundabout, New York – Tony nomination Best Costume Design); The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic); Reasons to be Pretty (Almeida); Inadmissible Evidence (Evening Standard Award, Best Design), Piaf (& Vaudeville/Teatro Liceo, Buenos Aires, Olivier nomination

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CATHERINE MARTINCostume DesignerCatherine Martin is one of Australia’s foremost designers for film, opera, theatre, music, multi-media and events. Catherine has collaborated with the director and visualist Baz Luhrmann on the distinctive look of all his films and theatre productions for more than 20 years. Along with Luhrmann, Martin is a partner in Bazmark, one of the world’s most innovative producers of film, theatre and entertainment. A graduate

of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Martin began collaborating with Luhrmann in 1988 during her final year at NIDA when she joined his experimental theatre company Six Years Old to co-design his production of Lake Lost with Angus Strathie for the then Australian Opera. This earned Martin and colleague Angus Strathie a Victorian Green Room Award for Best Design. Martin has since designed all of Luhrmann’s subsequent productions including Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critic’s Award for Best Opera Design, and a striking version of Puccini’s opera La Bohème set in 1957. The latter went on to open on Broadway in 2002 to critical acclaim and won Martin the coveted Tony Award® for Scenic Design. Martin made her film debut with Luhrmann on the hugely successful Strictly Ballroom. Her design on the film earned her Best Production Design and Best Costume Design at both the BAFTA® and AFI® Awards. The achievement was followed in 1996 with William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, also directed by Luhrmann, for which she was awarded another BAFTA® for Best Production Design and an Academy Award® Nomination for Best Art Direction. In 2001, Martin won two Academy Awards® for Costume Design and Art Direction for her work on Moulin Rouge! as well as AFI® awards for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, and a Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Best Production Design among numerous others. Martin was Production & Costume Designer and Co-Producer of Luhrmann’s epic film Australia, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, in 2008. Catherine served as Production & Costume Designer and Co-Producer, on the visually stunning 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

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The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton. Her work earned her two Academy Awards® for Best Production Design & Costume Design. Martin has also been developing her own homewares brand, Catherine Martin Home, collaborating with Designer Rugs and Mokum (fabrics and wallpaper). In 2015 Luhrmann and Martin designed the interiors for the Faena Hotel, Miami Beach using many of Martin’s designs for Mokum and Designer Rugs. Her latest venture with Lurhmann is as Executive Producer, Costume and Production Designer on Episode one of the Netflix Original Series The Get Down, a show chronicling the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx in the late 1970’s. She divides her time between Sydney, New York and Paris and has two children with Luhrmann, Lillian and William.

TIM LUTKINLighting DesignerTim is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He recently won Best Lighting Design in the 2014 Laurence Olivier Awards for Chimerica at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Recent design includes: Les Blancs (National Theatre); The Rover, Candide and All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC); BIG – The Musical (Plymouth & Dublin); The Go-Between (Apollo Theatre); Dynamo Live: Seeing Is Believing (Hammersmith Apollo and UK Arena Tour); Mickey and the Magician (Walt Disney Imagineering); The Hotel Cerise (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Girls – The Musical (Leeds and Manchester); Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined (Menier Chocolate Factory and Criterion); Elf – The Musical (Plymouth, Dublin and Dominion); The War Has Not Yet Started (Drum, Plymouth); Single Spies (Chichester and UK Tour); Impossible

(Noel Coward 2015); Rebecca (Kneehigh Theatre, UK Tour); The Crucible (Old Vic); Dynamo: The Power of X (Copper Box Arena, London); Strangers On A Train (Gielgud); Chimerica (Almeida/Pinter); Philadelphia Here I Come! (Donmar); The Full Monty (Noel Coward and UK Tours); Ghost – The Musical (UK Tour – co-design with Hugh Vanstone); Calendar Girls (UK Tours); Once A Catholic (Tricycle & Royal Court Liverpool); Cyrano de Bergerac and Merlin (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); State Red (Hampstead Downstairs); The Deep Blue Sea and A Bunch of Amateurs (Watermill); Pan Oedd Y Byd Yn Fach (Theatr Genedlaethol); Children of the Smoke (Glasgow Green/Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme); Hope Place (Everyman, Liverpool); The Summer Book (Unicorn); The Life of the Party (Menier Chocolate Factory & TheatreWorks, USA); Venice Preserv’d (Paynes & Borthwick Wharf, Greenwich); Minotaur (Polka); Megan Mullally & Supreme Music Program, Alan Cumming – I Bought a Blue Car Today (Vaudeville); Party (Arts); The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs (Belgrade, Coventry); Our Brother David (Watford Palace); Wondershow (Roundhouse); The Go Between (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Bronte (Shared Experience); The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Royal Festival Hall); My Dad’s a Birdman (Crucible, Sheffield); That Face (Tron, Glasgow); Restoration (Salisbury Playhouse); Fuchsia (White Bear); Lucky You (Assembly Rooms); The Calling of Maisy Day (Welsh National Opera).

GARETH OWENSound DesignerGareth’s awards include the Olivier Award for Mempis, the Olivier Award for Merrily We Roll Along, a Tony nomination for A Little Night Music, a Tony nomination for End Of The Rainbow, an Olivier nomination for Top Hat, and an Olivier nomination

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for End Of The Rainbow. He has designed more than 280 commercial musicals. Recent shows include: Bronx Tale, Come From Away and Spring Awakening on Broadway, Bat Out Of Hell, Wind In The Willows, Young Frankenstein, and 42nd Street on London’s Westend; Disney’s Hunchback Of Notre Dame worldwide, Sister Act in seven countries; Disney’s Little Mermaid worldwide; Hairspray around the world; Disney’s Beauty & The Beast worldwide, Singin’ In The Rain worldwide, Schikaneder in Austria, Bodyguard in Holland & Madrid; Evita and Spring Break in Las Vegas; and Our House, The Rocky Horror Show, and Top Hat on tour in the UK. For more information, please see www.garethowensound.com.

DAVID CADDICKMusical SupervisorDavid Caddick was born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire and studied Piano, Organ and Conducting at The London College of Music and The Royal College of Music. He now lives in New York. Music Director for Evita, Cats, Song & Dance, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard, Mary Poppins, Madame Sousatzka (The Elgin Theatre), and Strictly Ballroom. He was the Executive Producer for the Broadway productions of Oklahoma! And Putting it Together; Music Director for the world premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce and Music Director for the film of Evita starring Madonna. He has served on the Tony Awards nominating committee and on the board of The Recording Academy. He’s won two Grammy Awards for producing the cast album recordings of Les Misérables and West Side Story; he produced the cast album recordings of Oliver, Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line

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SIMON HALEOrchestratorWest End/Broadway: Spring Awakening, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Drama Desk Award nomination), Finding Neverland. Others: Side Show (Southwark Playhouse), Company (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield), Whisper House (Old Globe), One Love (Birmingham Rep). Simon studied music at Goldsmiths College, London and later went on to play keyboards for Gail Ann Dorsey and Seal. As arranger/orchestrator Simon has worked for Gary Barlow, George Benson, Björk, Sarah Chang, Ray Davies, Robin Gibb, Josh Groban, Jamiroquai, Lang Lang, George Michael, Oasis, Sade, Alicia Keys, Duncan Sheik and Simply Red. After working on Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour (Grammy nomination) Simon orchestrated and conducted the Golden Globe and Oscar-winning Writing’s on the Wall from Spectre as well as conducting the orchestra for the performance at the Academy Awards in 2016. Simon orchestrated and co-composed the soundtrack for the video game L.A.Noire which won him a BAFTA award for original music. www.simonhale.co.uk @simonhaleuk.

BEN ATKINSONMusical Director & Dance ArrangerBen Studied Music at Cambridge University, graduating in 2011, where he was the senior organ scholar at Sidney Sussex College. Most recently he was MD on Chicago UK Tour for David Ian Productions. Prior to that he was MD on Oliver! at The Curve Theatre, Leicester

and Hairspray UK Tour; a show he re-orchestrated and is the current music supervisor. Other musical theatre credits include (Leicester Curve unless stated): Oklahoma! (UK Tour, MD), The Sound of Music (MD/Orchestrator), Hairspray (MD/Orchestrator), Chicago (MD/Orchestrator), Hello, Dolly! (MD), Piaf (MD/Orchestrator), Oliver! (MD), Rent (MD), Annie (MD/Orchestrator), Sweeney Todd (MD/Orchestrator), The King and I (UK Tour, Assistant MD). Hitchhiking Across America (Arts Ed, MD/Orchestrator).

JAMES ORANGE CDGCasting DirectorJames established James Orange Casting in 2007 and was Casting Director for Cameron Mackintosh from 2010 to 2014. Current projects include An American in Paris (West End), On the Town (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park), The Addams Family (UK Tour) and Shirley Valentine (UK Tour). For Cameron Mackintosh, James cast Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Betty Blue Eyes, Oliver!, Avenue Q and Barnum. Other London credits include Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park), La Cage Aux Folles (Playhouse), Imagine This (New London), Never Forget (Savoy & UK Tour), High School Musical (Hammersmith Apollo). UK Theatre includes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Love Me Tender, The Producers, Oklahoma!, Our House (UK Tours), A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival), Sweeney Todd (Welsh National Opera), Walking With Dinosaurs (International Tour). Film and Television projects include ensemble casting for the film versions of Mamma Mia!, Les Misérables and The Phantom of the Opera and acting as Casting Consultant on Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV), Any Dream Will Do, I’d Do Anything

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and Over The Rainbow (BBC). James is a member of the Casting Directors’ Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.

STEPHANIE GORIN CDC, CSACanadian Children's CastingStephanie Gorin, C.D.C., C.S.A., has been casting for 25+ years. Emmy nominations for The Tudors, winning the 2014 Emmy and Artios for Fargo. Artios nominations include: Les Misérables (Broadway), Mamma Mia! (Broadway), Backpackers. Recent credits: Anne, Black Mirror, Taken, Private Eyes, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Heroes Legion, IT, Race, Saw Legacy, Kinky Boots, The Heart of Robin Hood, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, War Horse, Rock of Ages. Stephanie co-created Canadian Comedy Award winner: The Casting Room. www.thecastingroom.biz.

CARMEN PAVLOVICProducerThroughout the 1990’s, Carmen’s career spanned various theatre companies including The Really Useful Company where she was the Executive Producer. In 2001 Carmen relocated to London and took up the role of Executive Producer at Clear Channel Entertainment. Later she became the Director of the International Production Department for Stage Entertainment, responsible for establishing new territories (including Russia, Italy and France), licensing and programming of 25 theatres across Europe; and overseeing all productions in the UK, Germany, Holland, France, Italy, Spain and Russia. For Stage Entertainment Carmen was also the International Executive Producer of the European premier of Dirty Dancing in Germany and subsequently Holland, the Russian speaking productions of Cats and Mamma Mia! (the first

open-ended musicals in Moscow), the German-speaking production of Wicked; the Spanish-speaking production of The Producers; the French-speaking productions of Sam Mendes’ Cabaret at the prestigious Folies Bergere and The Lion King at the Mogodor Theatre in Paris. In 2008 Carmen returned to Australia to set up Global Creatures with her business partner Gerry Ryan and also take up the role of CEO. Since that time she has rapidly expanded the organisation and production slate. For Global Creatures, Carmen is the Producer of Walking With Dinosaurs The Arena Spectacular, How To Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, King Kong, Strictly Ballroom The Musical, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Muriel’s Wedding The Musical and the Australian production of the National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of War Horse.

GERRY RYAN OAMProducerGerry is a Melbourne-based entrepreneur and Managing Director with diverse business interests in Australia and overseas. These interests span the manufacturing, property, entertainment, leisure and tourism industries. Gerry is the Chairman of Global Creatures and the world-class animatronics workshop Creature Technology Company, the creative force behind Walking With Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular. It was Gerry’s strong belief in that show’s potential and his steadfast financial support that allowed a dedicated and hugely talented creative team of artists, designers, engineers, puppeteers and technicians to develop the production in Melbourne over several years. Gerry feels privileged to have worked with this team to bring a new form of world-class entertainment to the global

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stage, and he takes great pride in the fact that the show continues to amaze and delight audiences wherever it is staged. How to Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular followed and then War Horse and the award-winning smash hit King Kong, which had its world premiere season in Melbourne. In recognition of his contribution to the nation’s manufacturing, leisure, sports and tourism industries, Gerry was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999. Through his vision, drive and business leadership, Gerry continues to make a much valued contribution to the wider community.

PATRICK MURPHYExecutive ProducerPatrick graduated from Bretton Hall College (Leeds University) with a degree in Dramatic Arts, though he determined during his course that he would never walk the boards professionally. After a brief career in politics he moved into venue management running theatres in both Liverpool and London’s West End. Patrick’s production career has spanned 20 years (with a year’s sabbatical in events) and he has produced and general managed shows for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Really Useful Group across the World. His credits include: 16 shows in the West End, including 6 new productions of Lloyd Webber titles, 4 Broadway shows, numerous tours throughout Europe and the Americas and sit down productions in Canada, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, Japan and Russia. He has worked on 11 productions of The Phantom of the Opera but never one performed in English. Through these theatrical

productions Patrick has worked on TV shows, arena productions, a Vegas spectacular, major events and within record, film and DVD production.

DAVID MIRVISHProducerDavid Mirvish is a Toronto-based theatrical producer. He owns and operates four theatres in Toronto — the Royal Alexandra, the Princess of Wales, the Ed Mirvish and the Panasonic. Mirvish Productions has produced plays and musicals for these and other venues throughout Canada, on Broadway and in London’s West End. In addition, Mirvish Productions has presented more than 500 touring productions in the city of Toronto.

GLOBAL CREATURESProducerAwe-inspiring. Magical. Dynamic. Global Creatures is at the forefront of innovative stagecraft and spectacular theatricality. Global Creatures’ first venture was Walking with Dinosaurs – The Arena Spectacular. Based on the eponymous award-winning BBC-TV series, the live show was developed through the integration of state-of-the-art animatronics. Global Creatures’ Walking with Dinosaurs was conceived and developed in Australia and made its international debut in 2007. The show has since toured the world and become a phenomenal global success story. Global Creatures’ second production, How To Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular, completed a North American tour in 2013 after successful seasons in Australia and New Zealand. The co-production with Dreamworks Theatricals further revealed Global Creatures ingenuity and visual prowess in bringing mythical dragons to vivid life. In a fitting partnership, Global

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Creatures joined forces with The National Theatre of Great Britain to produce the Australian premiere season of the acclaimed Tony Award-winning theatre show, War Horse. The intimate and epic production presented a seamless blend of exceptional puppetry, fine acting and authentic storytelling. Five years in the making, the ground-breaking theatre production King Kong had its world premiere at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne, in 2013. The show’s “leading man” is arguably the most authentic, technologically-advanced puppet in the world. Audiences have been stunned and spellbound by Kong’s life-like attributes, both physical and emotional. Global Creatures joined with Bazmark to bring Baz Luhrmann’s popular 1992 hit Australian film Strictly Ballroom to the stage. Strictly Ballroom The Musical had its global premiere at the Sydney Lyric Theatre, Sydney, in 2014. The first international staging of Strictly Ballroom The Musical premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse, England, in December 2016. On September 1st 2016 Global Creatures announced that Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film Moulin Rouge! will come to the stage as a new musical, with a book by John Logan and directed by Alex Timbers. Most recently Global Creatures announced that it will join forces with Sydney Theatre Company to produce the World Premiere of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical which will play at Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre, as a major highlight of Sydney Theatre Company’s 2017 season.

WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSEProducerThe home of incredible stories. West Yorkshire Playhouse has been at the heart of the city of Leeds in the northern county of Yorkshire for almost 50 years,

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initially as Leeds Playhouse and then, with the opening of a new theatre in 1990 as West Yorkshire Playhouse. It rapidly became one of the leading producing theatres in the country, with workshop facilities that have enabled it to tackle the biggest of projects. However its remit has always been about its relationship with its communities and its audiences and its productions operate on all scales from very intimate studio productions, through mid-scale repertory to the large scale, such as restaging Martin Guerre for Cameron McIntosh, a major UK tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and, of course, the UK premiere of Strictly Ballroom The Musical with Global Creatures. However, while Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was playing to thousands of people in the UK’s largest cities, its rural tour of Beryl, a Yorkshire cycling legend, was playing village halls of a hundred or less. The Playhouse has one of the largest Creative Engagement departments of any theatre in the UK and has an enviable record in its work with all the communities in Leeds and West Yorkshire. It was the first theatre in the country to become a Theatre of Sanctuary, offering a safe environment for refugees and asylum seekers, and in 2015 won two major national awards in recognition of its pioneering work on Dementia Friendly performances. In 2008 it had introduced Relaxed Performances to the UK, which are now commonplace on the UK theatre scene. In 2018 the Playhouse will undergo a major £15m redevelopment to further improve accessibility to the theatre, create a new studio space and upgrade kit, which is now 27 years old. West Yorkshire Playhouse – Vital theatre.

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FOR GLOBAL CREATURESChairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GERRY RYAN CEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CARMEN PAVLOVICExecutive Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE NORMANChief Financial Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK NARBOROUGHAccountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CITRA DEWIHead of Legal & Business Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NICK HARTLegal Affairs Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRISTINE NEWMANHead of HR & Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JUDY FUCCILLIExecutive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANGELA DALTONExecutive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .PATRICK MURPHYAssociate Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROBERT STOKERCreative Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JONATHAN CHURCH Creative Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BILL DAMASCHKE

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Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MATT TOWELLAssociate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLOTTE CONQUESTAssociate Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIMON HARDWICKAssociate Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAX NARULAAssociate Sound Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OLLY STEELCostume Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KAREN LARGEWardrobe Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TERRY HERFIELD-COLLIEWigs Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BETTY MARINIVocal & Accent Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GEMMA MADDOCKChildren's Rehearsal Director (Canada) . . . . . . . MISHA RASAIAHChildren's Dialect Coach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ERIC AMSTRONGProduction Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSHUA FRANCIS-RALPHSProduction Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRIS VAUGHANProduction Sound Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDY GREENProduction Sound Operator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MIKE RYLESProduction Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANGUS FROSTEProduction Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS HARRISONRehearsal Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . GEORGINA PEADMusic Preparation . . . . . JILL STREATER, GLOBAL MUSIC SERVICEMusic Copyist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOM CURRANKeyboards/Synth/Drum Programming . . . . . . JIM JAYAWARDENAProduction Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALASTAIR MUIREPK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STEAMInsurance . . . . . . . . . . . INTEGRO INSURANCE BROKERS LIMITED Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANDERSON & PENNINGTONLegal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JONATHAN HULL ASSOCIATESScenic and Prop Construction & Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSECoke Sign Painting . . . . . RICHARD NUTBOURNE SCENIC STUDIOAdditional Banner Painting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LUCA CRESTANISound Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STAGE SOUND SERVICESSound Equipment (North America) . . . . SOUND ASSOCIATES INCLighting Equipment . . . . . . . . . . PRODUCTION RESOURCE GROUPEngineering & Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STAGE ONEFreight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROCK-IT CARGOTravel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .STAGE & SCREEN AND DIAL A FLIGHT

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FOR WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSEArtistic Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES BRININGExecutive Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ROBIN HAWKESChairman of the Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RODNEY BROOKE CBE

FOR MIRVISH PRODUCTIONSProducer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DAVID MIRVISHExecutive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN SEWELLManaging Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MUCCIDirector of Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMILLO CASCIATODirector of Sales & Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . JOHN KARASTAMATISDirector of Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KELLY ROBINSONDirector of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCOT WHITHAMDirector of Labour Relations & Business Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK LAVAWAYAssociate Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDA INTASCHIAssociate General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES CHUAssistant Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH SISKOGeneral Management Associate. . . . . . . . . . . . HANNAH MIRVISHProduction Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRIS PRIDEAUXProduction Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN GILESProduction Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DESIRÉE PROVEAUCommunications Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SUE TOTHPress & Public Relations Manager . . . . . . . . . J. RANDY ALLDREADDigital, CRM & Loyalty Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUBREY STORKMarketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ANTONIO TANGraphic Design Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OTTO PIERREMarketing Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRANCA LONGOBARDIWeb Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JENKINSVideographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TRISTAN GOUGH Assistant Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANIKA NATERHuman Resources & Operations Assistant . . MICHAEL KATAMBAIT Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSIE DI LUZIOSystem Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHARLES BARTHMANN, PHILLIP DREW, KATHARINE POSAVADAnalyst/Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REG DUNCANController . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON YIPAccountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TINA MARSHALLShow Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACQUEL FROSTAccounting Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE LOGAN, KIM SITUPayroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LILIAN SIUAssistant to David Mirvish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREL PURVISReceptionists . . . . . . . . . . . . HELDER BRUM, AMY CUNNINGHAM, DAN GALEA, REBECCA RAFTUS

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