Calendar Girls Make Final Manchester Date

Calendar Girls recently
became the most successful play ever to tour the United Kingdom and has
taken more at the box office than the original film with ticket sales in
excess of £21 million. 

The show recently visited Liverpool and Blackpool as part of the final tour. Now, Calendar Girls
is set for Manchester starring Lynda Bellingham, Camillia Dallerup, Jan Harvey, Sue Holderness, June Watson, Jane Lambert and Ruth Madoc with Kevin Sacre as Lawrence the
photographer and Joe McGann as John.
 
A group of ordinary
women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire WI, spark a global
phenomenon by persuading one another to pose for a charity calendar with
a difference! 

Tim Firth has adapted the screenplay of his
smash hit Miramax film for the stage. The film was released in 2003 and
was an instant hit at the box office, becoming the number one grossing
film in the UK on its release.Tim’s other credits include the films Blackball and Kinky Boots and the award winning Preston Front for the BBC. His theatre credits include the plays Neville’s Island, The Safari Party, The Flint Street Nativity and the Olivier Award winning musical Our House.    

Calendar Girls is directed by Jack Ryder who recently performed in Plenty
as part of the Sheffield Crucible’s David Hare Season. Set design is by
Robert Jones, lighting by Tim Lutkin, costumes by Jack Galloway
and music by Steve Parry. The show is produced by David Pugh &
Dafydd Rogers.

Calendar Girls is at the Manchester Opera House from 19-24 March 2012.