1st Night Photos: Owen Raises Voice for Vickers
There were popstars aplenty at the Vaudeville Theatre last night (20 October, previews from 8 October), as Take That’s Mark Owen turned out to support X Factor finalist Diana Vickers as she made her stage debut in Terry Johnston’s revival of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice.
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice concerns a painfully shy,
diminutive Little Voice (LV – the role created by Jane Horrocks), who lives alone in the north of England
with her mother, Mari. Mari’s drunken, overbearing personality has
driven LV into seclusion in her bedroom, where she listens to her late
father’s records and has perfected faultless impersonations of the
greatest divas, including Judy Garland and Dame Shirley Bassey.
When
Mari’s latest boyfriend, small-time working men’s club impresario
Ray Say, overhears LV singing, he puts in place a tragic sequence of
events as he pushes her towards stardom she doesn’t want and is
literally terrified of.
TO SCROLL THROUGH ALL OF LITTLE VOICE’s 1st NIGHT PHOTOS,
JUST CLICK ON THE “NEXT >” LINKS BELOW THE FOLLOWING FRAME.
PHOTOS BY DAN WOOLLER FOR WHATSONSTAGE.COM.
Vickers is joined in the cast of the new production by Lesley
Sharp (as Mari), Marc Warren (Ray Say), Rachel Lumbert (Sadie) and
the playwright’s 24-year-old son James Cartwright (Billy). Little Voice
is designed by Lez Brotherston, with musical supervision by
Nigel Lilley, lighting by Mark Henderson and sound by Ian Dickinson.
It’s produced in the West End by Nica Burns, Max Weitzenhoffer, TFP,
Josephine Genetay.
