Northampton gets set for Manilow Musical
October 27, 2008
Singer/songwriter Chesney Hawkes will be starring in the brand new show Can’t Smile Without You, when it comes to Northampton’s Royal & Derngate from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 November. This musical love story features all the timeless classics from music legend Barry Manilow.
Pop icon Hawkes is best known for his Number One Smash Hit The One and Only, which spent no less than five weeks at the top of the UK Single Charts and went on to become an international phenomenon and one of the most successful tracks of the decade.
Joining Chesney as love interest Mandy is twenty-three year old Siobhan Dillon, who first came to the nation’s attention as runner up in the BBC’s hit TV show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria. Siobhan went on to make her West End debut in Grease. The show also stars Francesca Jackson, finalist from the recent hit BBC show I’d Do Anything. No stranger to the musical stage, Jackson toured in Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s the Night in 2006, and most recently played New York lawyer Joanne Jefferson in West End musical Rent.
This fantastic new musical, fully endorsed by Barry Manilow, includes over 30 of Barry’s hit songs including Could it be Magic, It’s a Miracle, I Write the Songs, Mandy, I Made it through the Rain and of course Can’t Smile Without You.
It tells the tale of the lead singer of an aspiring young band that gets the chance to appear on the latest reality TV show to find the next pop music sensation. He thinks he’s about to realise his dream, but when he is caught up in a tragic sequence of events, it looks like his dream is over. Left with no memory, his only hope lies in the music he loves and his feelings for a girl he once knew called Mandy…
Can’t Smile Without You takes to the Derngate stage from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 November, at 7.30pm nightly, with matinees at 2.30pm on Wednesday and Saturday.
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