Lesley Sharp, Marc Warren and Diana Vickers are headlining the first major West End revival of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. The production, directed by Terry Johnson, will begin performances at the Vaudeville Theatre on October 8 with opening night set for October 20.
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice is a black comedy about painfully shy, diminutive Little Voice (LV), 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, Edith Piaf and 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....