Photos: WOS Members Join Stars at So Jest End

Members of the Whatsonstage.com Theatre Club mixed with the celebrity guests at last night’s (23 April 2009) gala performance of SO JEST END at the New Players Theatre at Charing Cross (See News, 3 Mar 2009). Whatsonstage.com is the official media partner for the musical comedy sketch show, which runs for the next two nights, 24 and 25 April 2009.

Producer Paul Nicholas, who hosts the late-evening entertainment, aims for SO JEST END to become a regular West End fixture. Talks are under way with various theatre owners about a future home for the show.

The Forbidden Broadway-style revue is given a contemporary twist with regularly updated material parodying the West End’s most popular musicals. Last night’s targets included Spring Awakening, Billy Elliot, Oliver!, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Wicked and Avenue Q as well as long-runners like The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables as well High School Musical and upcoming Broadway transfer Legally Blonde.

The four-strong company - We Will Rock You stars Rachel Tucker (from TV’s I’d Do Anything, nominated in this year’s Whatsonstage.com Awards for Best Takeover for the Queen musical) Jon Boydon and Ian Carlyle along with Louise Dearman – were bolstered by special guests Ian Kelsey (the Emmerdale star who played Billy Flynn in Chicago) and Sandra Marvin (Hairspray).

TO SCROLL THROUGH ALL OF SO JEST END's GALA PHOTOS,
JUST CLICK ON THE "NEXT >" LINKS BELOW THE FOLLOWING FRAME.
PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.

SO JEST END is devised, written and directed by Garry Lake (currently Pop in Queen’s We Will Rock You) and choreographed by Rebecca Howell, with musical direction by Gareth Ellis.

For Photos, our Whatsonstage.com photographer Dan Wooller was on hand at the New Players Theatre for the pre-show reception and curtain call along with the company and other guests including Sarah Lark, Helena Blackman, Antony Costa, Aoife Mulholland, Patina Miller, Jessie Buckley, Niamh Perry, Samantha Barks, Ben James-Ellis, Leanne Jones, Liz Robertson, Samantha Janus, Kerry Ellis and Ian H Watkins.

- by Terri Paddock

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