Exclusive: The Wanted’s Siva Kaneswaran and Inês Fernandez to join Pasha Kovalev in new musical La Bamba!

Exclusive: The Wanted star Siva Kaneswaran (Dancing On Ice) is set to make his theatrical stage debut in the world premiere of La Bamba!.

Kaneswaran will star as Mateo alongside Inês Fernandez as Sofia, joining previously announced Strictly Come Dancing winner Pasha Kovalev (Burn the Floor, Here Come the Boys), who will be making his musical theatre debut as Ricardo and is currently scheduled to appear until 2 September.

The company is completed by Stefani Ariza (as Elena) and ensemble members Bethan Mitchell, Julia Ruiz Fernandez, Nicolle Matheu, Gabriella Rose-Marchant, Alex Sturman, Tristan Ghostkeeper and Luke Jarvis.

The show will feature music from across the Latin genre from traditional folk songs to recent chart hits. It will also be choreographed by Kovalev’s Strictly co-star Graziano Di Prima.

See what Di Prima had to say during the audition process in the video below:

La Bamba! is directed by Ray Roderick, with musical supervision and arrangements by Alfonso Casado-Trigo, co-choreography by Erica Da Silva, associate choreography by Giada Lini and lighting design by Jack Weir.

Presented by Paul Morrissey Ltd, the tour kicks off at Curve in Leicester (1 to 5 August 2023), before visiting Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe (8 to 12 August), The Lowry, Salford (17 to 19 August) and a West End stint at the Peacock Theatre (22 August to 2 September). Further stops include Swansea Grand (5 to 9 September), Theatre Royal, Brighton (19 to 23 September), Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (26 to 30 September), Regent Theatre, Stoke-On-Trent (3 to 7 October), New Theatre, Cardiff (10 to 15 October), Princess Theatre, Torquay (17 to 21 October), Wyvern Theatre, Swindon (24 to 28 October), Orchard Theatre, Dartford (31 October to 4 November), Grand Opera House, York (7 to 11 November), and Grand Theatre, Blackpool (21 to 25 November).

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