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Brian Conley
August 19, 2009 01:46 PM
©2009 Hugo Glendinning
Brian Conley
Brian Conley is one of Britain's best-known TV personalities, a regular presence on the small screen who has also spent much of his career lighting up the stage. The London-born actor had a career high in 1995 playing the title character in the Olivier Award-winning musical Jolson, a venture that kept him busy for three years between the U.K. and Canada. (Conley received his own Olivier nomination for that same show.) Since that time, he has taken over in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Palladium as Caractacus Potts and played Harold Hill in Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Now Conley is headlining at the Shaftesbury Theatre as the slow-blooming Baltimore housewife Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, offering the growliest matron this buoyant musical has had since Tony winner Harvey Fierstein led the Broadway premiere. Broadway.com caught up with the gregarious performer about takeovers, fat suits and discovering his latent femininity. ...
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Chloe Hart and Liam Tamne Set to Join the West End's Hairspray
April 21, 2009 01:37 PM

Liam Tamne
Chloe Hart and Liam Tamne will join the cast of the West End production of Hairspray, playing Tracy Turnblad and Link Larkin, respectively. The new additions begin performances with the previously announced Brian Conley in the role of Edna Turnblad on July 25 at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Hart makes her West End debut as Tracy, following graduating from the Guildhall School of Acting. Tamne was recently seen in the ensemble of the West End production of Wicked and also starred as the Prince in the Manchester Opera House's production of Snow White.

The winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Best Musical, Hairspray has a book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman. The musical is based on the 1988 film, written and directed by John Waters. Along with Ball, the current cast includes Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad, Leanne Jones as Tracy Turnblad, Ben James-Ellis as Link Larkin, Nigel Planer as Wilbur, Sandra Martin as Motormouth Maybelle, Adrian Hansel as Seaweed, Liz Robertson as Velma Von Tussle, Zoe Rainey as Amber Von Tussle and Verity Rushworth as Penny Pingleton.


Brian Conley to Succeed Michael Ball as Edna in Hairspray
April 10, 2009 12:04 PM


Brian Conley is set to take over the role of Edna Turnblad in the West End production of Hairspray. The actor succeeds original cast member Michael Ball, who departs the production on July 25.

Conley is best known for starring on television in Brian Conley: This Way Up, The Brian Conley Show and Time After Time. On stage, he's starred in The Music Man at Chichester Festival Theatre, as Al Jolson in Jolson, as Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the West End productions of Me and My Girl and Elton John's Glasses. His recording career includes albums Stage to Screen, Let the Good Times Roll and Brian Conley Sings....
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Planer and Rushworth to Join Cast of Hairspray
January 20, 2009 12:51 PM
© 2009 Hugo Glendinning
Leanne Jones and Verity Rushworth
in Hairspray
Nigel Planer and Verity Rushworth are set to join the cast of the West End production of Hairspray. Beginning February 2, Planer will take on the role of Wilbur Turnblad with Rushworth playing Penny Pingleton. The new additions join stars Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad, Leanne Jones as Tracy Turnblad and Ben James-Ellis as Link Larkin, all of whom have signed on through July 25, 2009.

Planer is best known for his comedic work in The Comic Strip Presents…, The Young Ones, Shine On Harvey Moon, Blackadder and Terry Prachett’s The Colour of Magic. He’s been seen in the West End in Wicked, Chicago and The Rocky Horror Show. Verity is best known for playing Donna Windsor-Dingle on the popular show Emmerdale. ...

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Tracie Bennett
June 12, 2008 03:50 PM
©2008 Dave M. Benett for Broadway.com
Tracie Bennett
Tracie Bennett has the golden touch when it comes to scooping an Olivier Award. The gifted actress/singer nabbed one 13 years ago for her Ilona in the Scott Ellis-directed revival of She Loves Me, opposite fellow Olivier winners Ruthie Henshall and John Gordon Sinclair. And she was...
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Hairspray Wins Big at the 2008 Olivier Awards
March 09, 2008 07:39 PM
©2008 Dave M. Benett for Broadway.com
Olivier winners Leanne Jones< and Michael Ball
The Broadway musical Hairspray continued its long march on London’s West End, winning four prizes—the most of the night—at the 2008 Laurence Olivier Awards, honoring the best of the preceding year in theater and also opera and dan...
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Michael Ball
January 28, 2008 12:00 AM
©2007 Jason Bell
Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad
Michael Ball needs no introduction as one of the few bona fide musical theatre marquee names in the U.K., a diverse talent who has expanded from his juve-role origins in Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera to star above the title in Stephen Sondheim’s Passi...
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Ian Talbot Joins the Cast of London's Hairspray
January 14, 2008 10:30 AM

Ian Talbot
Ian Talbot is joining the cast of the West End production of Hairspray. He will replace Mel Smith in the role of Wilbur Turnblad beginning on 28 January at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Talbot, who ran the New Shakespe...
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