The producers of smash-hit West End musical & Juliet have announced that Jay McGuiness will star as Shakespeare during the second leg of the tour from Bristol to Nottingham.
Jay McGuiness is a band member of The Wanted, a winner of Strictly Come Dancing, and has performed in numerous musicals and plays including Sleepless: A Musical Romance, White Christmas, and 2:22 – A Ghost Story.
Jay will play Shakespeare at Bristol, London Wimbledon, Aberdeen, Leicester, Dublin, Woking, Bradford, Milton Keynes, and Nottingham. See all dates and booking.
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Jay joins current tour cast members Gerardine Sacdalan as Juliet, Lara Denning as Anne, Sandra Marvin as Angelique, Jack Danson as Romeo, Kyle Cox as Francois and Jordan Broatch as May.
Also in the cast are Harriet Caplan-Dean as Eleanor, Alexander Kranz as Lennox, Andilé Mabhena as Augustine / Dance Team, Liam Morris as Richard, Psalms-Nissi Myers-Reid as Lucy/Alternate Juliet, Michael Nelson as Henry, Toni Paise as Violet, Katie Ramshaw as Nell / Lady C Rosie Singha as Judith, Aaron Shales as Gregory / Dance Team, Nia Stephen as Imogen and Samuel Wilson-Freeman as Fletcher / Resident Director and Dance Captain
The UK and Ireland tour of & Juliet opened at Manchester Opera House on 8 July 2024. The show is currently in Leeds to 30 November 2024, and then starts again at the Bristol Hippodrome on 14 January 2025, going on to play London Wimbledon, Aberdeen, Leicester, Dublin, Woking, Bradford, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Birmingham, Southend-on-Sea, Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield, Newcastle, Truro, and Cardiff.
Created by David West Read, the Emmy-winning writer from Schitt’s Creek, this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told and asks, what would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo?
Songs come courtesy of Max Martin, the songwriter of some of the biggest Number One hits of the century, and include Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time,” Katy Perry’s “Roar” and chart toppers “Since U Been Gone,” “It’s My Life,” “I Want It That Way,” and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”.
The show has won three Olivier Awards and 6 WhatsOnStage Awards.
The full creative team for the UK and Ireland tour of & Juliet includes David West Read (Book), Max Martin & Friends (Music & Lyrics), Luke Sheppard (Direction), Jennifer Weber (Choreography), Bill Sherman (Musical Supervision, Orchestrations and Arrangements), Soutra Gilmour (Scenic Design), Paloma Young (Costume Design), Howard Hudson (Lighting Design), Gareth Owen (Sound Design), Andrzej Goulding (Video & Projection Design) and Nina Van Houten(Hair, Wig & Makeup Design) and Dominic Fallacaro (Additional Arrangements and Orchestrations). Casting is by Stuart Burt.
Jay McGuiness said in a statement: “I love these songs; Max Martin has written hit after hit. I’ve really missed singing and dancing as the last thing I did was a play, so I’m excited to get back into it. And I love the & Juliet costumes, especially Shakespeare’s!”
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