According to the Daily Mail, TV personality Ferne McCann has been tapped to play 'Myrtle' in Ruby in the Dust's spring production of GATSBY at The Union Theatre.
"I sing all day long -- and drive my mum and friends mad!' told the Mail when asked about her voice. "If I see a karaoke, then I'm straight up there."
McCann sings in her spare time learning to drive a bus at Stagecoach -- everyone from Adele to Frankie Valli.
The actress performed in school plays and musicals before heading off into television.
McCann is currently a reporter for THIS MORNING and is well known for her time on the reality show THE ONLY WAY IS ESSEX. In 2015, she took part in the 15th series of I'M A CELEBRITY...GET ME OUT OF HERE! and finished in third place.
Also in the cast will be Nicolas Fagerberg, Joanna Brown and Blair Robertson.
GATSBY begins April 6th and runs through April 30th at The Union Theatre, with opening night slated for April 12th, 2016.
Ruby in the Dust presented their first show at The Union Theatre in March 2006. To mark their tenth anniversary, they are returning with their iconic production of GATSBY, specially tailored to suit the seductive environs of the Union Theatre's intimate space.
The official description of GATSBY reads: "We find Meyer Wolfsheim in his favourite 'speakeasy' having received the shock of his life. "When a man gets killed - I keep out!". But this time there's something else; something - or someone - that draws him into Gatsby's world. Watch the characters of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby come to life as they weave their way through the famous story and unravel the mystery that is Jay Gatsby. GATSBY: the epitome of glitz, glamour and the end of the American Dream. The Roaring Twenties are heading towards their invariable crash, the party's almost over."
GATSBY was first presented by Ruby in the Dust in 2012 at the King's Head Theatre, and again in 2013 at the
Riverside Studios, and was greeted with wide acclaim and sell out audiences on both occasions.
Ruby In The Dust have gained a reputation for integrating original music into the text, and in their decade as a theatre company, have proven themselves to be a launching pad for some of the exciting, emerging talent in the theatre industry, including
Olivia Vinall (National Theatre),
Matthew James Thomas (Spiderman and Pippin on Broadway),
Jack Fox (Fresh Meat and Mr Selfridge),
Daisy Bevan (Elizabeth and The Two Faces of January) and
Matilda Sturridge (Pramface and The Borgias).
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