Calendar Girls the musical (was: The Girls)

Well it would be the much missed Rebecca Storm who’d get me there (should I choose to take myself there in the first place). Her and Casey can more than make up for shortcomings elsewhere.

Fern might be considered stunt casting, all the rest are well known stage or screen actresses and a lot have excellent Musical Theatre pedigree. Ruth I'm sure was in one of the Calendar Girls casts but as a different role as she was younger then.

Played Marie, I believe.

She toured in The Wedding Singer just last year. If nothing else, you have to admire someone in their mid-70s signing up for a 60 week schlep around all four corners of the Britsh Isles.

Im surprised how little lack of diversity. I know it might not be a huge issue and the target audience will mainly be white but with 6 leading female roles there could’ve been some diversity to show how all women of different ages, race and shape could come together. Someone like Sharon D Clarke or Sandra Marvin

I totally understand what you mean too but I feel like it wouldn’t be an issue say if a black actress played one of the ladies. It would show the WI to look better and also maybe encourage more ethnic diversities to join their local WI. There’s just some good black actresses who could play a woman in this and this is one of the few shows with 6 women at the helm so it would’ve been nice to have seen some diversity. Not sure the ensemble will have any because the ensemble is basically family members. The London cast didn’t get outrage like half a sixpence  

Ruth is 75 years old this year, so must be in good knick if she is undertaking these long tours. I know she has "retired" from pantos as I was at a post show function a couple of years ago after a show she'd been in and she was chatting to a couple of us and someone asked if she was doing panto that year and she said she'd done her last a couple of year's earlier as they were hard work for someone in their 70's and she liked Xmas with her grandchildren now.

Can anyone else remember Rebecca Storm's hit "The Show" the theme from Connie TV series.

It seems like this show will become another Blood Brothers and constantly tour varying cities of the UK.

Isn’t it based on real women oop north rather than having a token Asian, Afro-carribean, disabled and representative of the LGBTQI+ community? Why should everything be about diversity? Hm...

Black actresses shouldn’t be restricted to only able to have a guanteed job in shows about their race.

Yes, just before she started making 'Hi-De-Hi', Ruth was appearing regularly with the Aba Daba Music Hall Company at the Pindar of Wakefield at King's Cross and a brilliant performer she was too in both comedy numbers and straight ones. Our favourite song was 'Ten Cents a Dance' which Ruth really made her own with a big interpretation of the put-upon cheap dance hall hostess, while I provided all the raucous trumpets and saxophones on the piano! I thought she was great in 'The Wedding Singer' and I am sure she will be a major asset to 'Calendar Girls'.  Go, Ruthie!