Producers of The Drifters Girl, Michael Harrison and David Ian, are delighted to announce casting for the first-ever UK and Ireland tour of the acclaimed new West End musical which tells the remarkable story of one of the world’s greatest vocal groups and the woman who made them.
Carly Mercedes Dyer, former star of Six the Musical, 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), Miles Anthony Daley (Tina Turner: The Musical, Choir of Man), Tarik Frimpong (The Wiz, Aladdin) and Dalton Harris, who won The X Factor in 2018.
The casting announcement also welcomes Jaydah Bell-Ricketts (A Little Princess, School Of Rock) to her first touring role as Girl, and completing the cast is Loren Anderson, Tre Copeland-Williams, Ethan Davis, Matthew Dawkins and Linseigh Green.
Having played to packed houses and nightly standing ovations at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End (following a triumphant run at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal), the production begins its UK Tour at Mayflower Theatre on Tuesday 12th September 2023.
Telling the remarkable story of The Drifters, one of the world’s greatest vocal groups, and the truth about the woman who made them. Faye Treadwell is the legendary manager of The Drifters who fought for three decades alongside her husband (George Treadwell) to turn Atlantic Records’ hottest vocal group into a global phenomenon.
From the highs of hit records and sell-out tours to the lows of legal battles and personal tragedy, The Drifters Girl charts the trailblazing efforts of the world’s first African American female music manager and how she refused to ever give up on the group she loved.
Thirty years and hundreds of hit songs later, there is no doubt that Faye Treadwell was and always will be, The Drifters Girl.
The Drifters Girl boasts an incredible soundtrack of some of the most famous songs in history, including Save the Last Dance for Me, Under the Boardwalk, Kissin in the Back Row of the Movies, Stand By Me, Come On Over To My Place, Saturday Night at the Movies, and many more.
Tickets for The Drifters Girl (Tuesday 12 – Saturday 16 September 2023) are on sale at mayflower.org.uk or 02380 711811.
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