NATIVITY THE MUSICAL TOUR

Back by popular demand and after sold out performances this year, the producers of NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL are delighted to announce a new UK tour for 2019, opening at Wolverhampton Grand Theatre on 29th October 2019.

For the London dates Sharon Osbourne will be joining the company as ‘President of Parker Pictures’, aka  Crystal Collins - mother in law to Harry Parker who will be played by  Danny Dyer who  is back as ‘The Hollywood Producer’ by popular demand following a very successful Christmas season at the Eventim Apollo last year.His daughter and winner of ‘Love Island’ 2018 Dani Dyer also returns as ‘Polly Parker (in Wolverhampton, Cardiff, Southampton and London) with the previously announced Rylan Clark-Neal completing the guest star line up as The Critic. Simon Lipkin  will reprise his role as the hilarious ‘Mr Poppy’ in London for a third year after critical and audience acclaim. The role will be played by Scott Paige at other venues.

They will be joined by Scott Garnham as ‘Mr Maddens’ and Ashleigh Gray as ‘Jennifer Lore’ who both return for a second year. Completing the cast will be Jonathan Bourne as ‘Lord Mayor’, Charles Brunton as ‘Mr Shakespeare’, Jamie Chapman as ‘Patrick Burns’ and Penelope Woodman as ‘Mrs Bevan’. They will be joined by Dawn Buckland, Connor Ewing, Kade Ferraiolo, Amy Oxley, Helena Pipe and Billy Roberts. They will  will play all UK tour venues and London.

Scott Paige will play ‘Mr Poppy’ in Wolverhampton, Cardiff, Southampton, Aylesbury and Plymouth and the role of ‘Mr Rye’ in London.

Childrens casting so far includes St Bernadette's Team Nazareth; Niamh Crowley, Lucas Haywood, Kheiri Isaac-Osmani, Evie Mallen, Joshua Millard-Lloyd, Ana Morgan, Ela Morgan, Amy-Louise Mulhall, Tega Oduko, Kayan Parmar, Katelyn Rollason, Teddy Saberton and Thomas Bastable St Bernadette's Team Bethlehem: Evie Bennell-Low, Olivia Brooks, Erin Freeman, Alexander Hogg, Isabel Landers, Alastair Ngwenya, Gerald Ngwenya, Lyla Peters, Grace Townley and Nicholas Vakis

Nativity! The Musical is written and directed by Debbie Isitt -  creator and director of the films, with music and lyrics by Nicky Ager and Isitt, Nativity! It will be choreographed by Andrew Wright, designed by David Woodhead, with lighting design by Tim Mitchell, sound design by Tom Marshall and musical supervision and orchestrations by George Dyer.

The Nativity! film series began in 2009 with a cast including including Martin Freeman, David Tennant and Catherine Tate. It is one of the most popular UK Christmas recent film franchises:  Nativity! Nativity 2 Danger in the Manger! and Nativity 3 Dude Where’s My Donkey? have all gone on to reach top box office positions on theatrical release and sold nearly 2 million DVDs. A fourth film Nativity Rocks! was released at the end of 2018.

THIS MUSICAL ENDED ITS RUN ON 29TH DECEMBER 2019

@@ Simon Lipkin playing Mr Poppy.

$$ Rylan Clark-Neal as ‘The Critic’