STAGE TUBE: Go Inside Opening Night of THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL UK Premiere

By: May. 19, 2016
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Garry Lake and Waterloo East Theatre present THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL by David Nehls & Betsy Kelso. The hit off-Broadway show finally receives its London premiere, running now through 5 June 2016. Go inside opening night below!

There's a new tenant at Armadillo Acres - and she's wreaking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, arrives at Armadillo Acres and comes between the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert. - the storms begin to brew!

THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso, is a musical comic fable exploring the relationships between the tenants at the exclusive Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Florida. The show premiered at the first annual New York Music Theatre Festival in 2004 and transferred to The Dodger Stages off-Broadway in 2005, it has since played throughout the USA, Australia and Europe. This will be its British Cast Premiere.

In the cast are: Rosemary Ashe - (The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver, Les Miserables, The Witches of Eastwick - for which she was nominated for a Laurence OlivierAward for best supporting Actress in a Musical); Sabrina Aloueche - (We Will Rock You, Les Miserables); Jemma Alexander - (Sound of Music Live Wicked, Rent); Jodie Steele - (Rent, War Of The Worlds, Jesus Christ Superstar, Legally Blonde); Michelle Bishop - (Sunset Boulevard, Bend it Like Bekham, Jersey Boys, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); Adam Vaughan - (Sunset Boulevard, From Here to Eternity, Billy Elliot); and Joshua Dever - (Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Tonight's The Night).

On the creative team are: Director - Kirk Jameson (The World Goes Around, I Love you You're Perfect, Suessical, Dames at Sea; Choreographer - Rebecca Howell - (American Psycho - Funny Girl); and Musical Director - James Taylor - (Sound of Music Live).



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