Carly Mercedes Dyer will star in The Drifters Girl UK tour which opens at the Mayflower Theatre on 12 September 2023.
Carly Mercedes Dyer, former star of Six the Musical and who delighted audiences with her performances as Erma in Anything Goes, will play music industry change-maker, Faye Treadwell.
Carly will star alongside Ashford Campbell (who hit UK screens in ITV’s The X Factor as member of The Risk and now continues his journey with The Drifters Girl having performed as part of the West End company), Miles Anthony Daley (Tina Turner: The Musical, Aldwych Theatre; Choir of Man, Arts Theatre), Tarik Frimpong (The Wiz, Hope Mill Theatre; Aladdin, Prince Edward Theatre) and Dalton Harris, who won The X Factor in 2018.
Jaydah Bell-Ricketts (A Little Princess, Royal Festival Hall; School Of Rock, Gillian Lynne Theatre) will make her her first touring role as Girl.
Completing the cast is Loren Anderson, Tre Copeland-Williams, Ethan Davis, Matthew Dawkins and Linseigh Green.
Kicking off the tour at the Mayflower Theatre on 12 September 2023, the show will travel to Norwich, Sheffield, Bradford, Manchester, Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Leicester, Southend, Newcastle, Woking and Dartford in 2023. The tour will then pick up in January 2024 going to Bristol, Stoke, Llandudno, Dublin, Belfast, Plymouth, Nottingham, Liverpool, Oxford, Hull, Leeds, Sunderland, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Birmingham, Bromley, Edinburgh and Cardiff.
