Ray Quinn & Claire Sweeney starring in Aladdin at Liverpool

Ray Quinn recently won Dancing on Ice Champion of Champions and is currently doing a series of intimate concerts before he heads of the the US to do some recording.

But he will be in the UK this Christmas playing Aladdin at the Liverpool Empire from 12th December-4th January next year,

The pantomime will feature a Liverpudlian cast including Claire Sweeney (who is due to have a baby soon) as Genie of the Ring,  Radio City's Leanne Campbell as Princess Jasmine and Pete Price as the Emperor.

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Claire Sweeney & Wendi Peters in White Christmas at Lowry

Claire Sweeney and Wendi Peters are playing Betty Haynes and Martha Watson in the musical based on the classic 1954 movie White Christmas at the Lowry Theatre in Manchester from 29th November- 5th January.
 
Claire is a seasoned musical theatre performer (Guys & Dolls, Shout, Fosse, Chicago, Tell Me On A Sunday) and television (Brookside, Clocking Off, Loose Women).  She is currently on a UK tour of Educating Rita with Matthew Kelly.

Wendi Peters is probably best known for her role as Cilla Battersby-Brown on Coronation Street but her stage credits include (Follies, The Vagina Monologues, Grumpy Old Women, The Mystery of Edwin Drood).

White Christmas has an ensemble of over thirty accompanied by a 17 piece orchestra. It is full of classic Irving Berlin hits including Blue Skies, How Deep Is The Ocean, Happy Holidays, Sisters and White Christmas.

Casting for the two male leads (played in the movie by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) has yet to be announced.

Book tickets www.thelowry.com

Claire Sweeney taking over from Liz McLarnon in Legally Blonde tour

The tour of Legally Blonde the musical is currently playing at the Liverpool Empire Theatre with Ex-Atomic Kitten Liz McClarnon playing divorced manicurist Paulette until 17th September. The part will then be taken over by Claire Sweeney from 19th September to 3rd December.

Claire has been on an extensive UK tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s one woman show Tell Me On A Sunday which ends on 13th August.

She has a string of credits to her name on stage and screen including TV dramas Brookside (Lindsay Corkhill), Clocking Off and Merseybeat. She has presented numerous television programmes including 60 Minute Makeover, Loose Women, My Big Fat Diet, Here Comes the Sun and Challenge of a Lifetime. She has also taken part in Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Come Dine with Me.

Roles in the West End roles include Roxie Hart in Chicago and Miss Adelaide opposite Patrick Swayze in Guys and Dolls. Claire headlined in Fosse - The World Tour and starred in the musical Shout! She has also performed duets with International Opera stars Bryn Terfel and Jose Carreras at The Royal Albert Hall.

Claire Sweeney & Jodie Prenger in Candy Cabs

Claire Sweeney is currently touring in  Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me On A Sunday and Jodie Prenger is appearing as Lady of the Lake in the tour of Monty Python’s Spamalot, but you can see them both in Candy Cabs which a new comedy drama about the lives and loves of a group of northern women launching an all-female cab company. 

There are three episodes being broadcast on BBC1 at 9:00 pm on Tuesdays 5th, 12th and 19th April.

Claire Sweeney touring in Tell Me On A Sunday again next year

Claire Sweeney is about to appear in the panto Snow White at the Woking New Victoria Theatre from 11th December to 16th January.

She then gets a short break before starting a new whistle stop tour of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black musical Tell Me On A Sunday.

She toured with this show earlier this year, but it was so successful that the producers have persuaded her to do it again starting at the Churchill Theatre Bromley on 8th February and currently ending at the Jersey Opera House on 23rd July with more dates to be announced.

Claire Sweeney Tell Me On A Sunday Tour coming to close

If you still haven’t managed to catch Claire Sweeney in the re-worked tour of the Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Don Black musical Tell Me On A Sunday you are fast running out of time as the production ends on 21st November.

Claire’s remaining venues for mostly one night performances are Grimsby, King’s Lynn, Weston Super Mare, Yeovil, Southport, Birmingham Swindon and Wycombe.

She has been on a whistle stop tour which would suggest a break is well earned, but Claire is straight into rehearsals for pantomime as she is appearing in Snow White at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking from 11th December to 16th January 2011.

Updated Tell Me on a Sunday tour

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s Tell Me On A Sunday tour is about to finish its opening week at the Royal & Derngate Theatre in Northampton before embarking on a one of two night stop countrywide tour.

Claire Sweeney is starring in this very demanding role which is full of quick costume changes and testing vocals covering just about every emotion.

The show was written in 1981 and is about  a single British woman looking for love in all the wrong places in New York and LA.  There have been a few adjustments to accommodate Sweeney’s Liverpudlian roots and accent with new references to Merseyside and Liverpool.. Changes have also been bring the show up to date with the letters home to Mum which describe her failed romances now becoming emails.

Is Claire Sweeney is a bigger celebrity than Jack Tweed?

Claire Sweeney is about to start a nationwide tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me On A Sunday starting at the Northampton Royal & Derngate on 30th August.

Let’s hope the regional hotpots are more welcoming than Mahiki in London was last night when she was out and about wearing a fabulous Herve Leger bandage dress looking incredibly glamorous but was turned away from the celebrity hotspot which is frequented by Princes William and Harry.

Goodness only knows where they got the doorman from as later on he welcomed very casual and scruffy-looking Jack Tweed whose only claim to fame is being married to the late Jady Goody and appearing in court of a fairly regular basis.

Full tour dates announced for Claire Sweeney’s Tell Me on a Sunday

The UK tour of Tell Me on a Sunday starring Claire Sweeney starts on 30th August in Northampton and plays at over 40 venues before it comes to an end at the Wycombe Swan Theatre on 21st November.

Claire Sweeney has a string of credits to her name on stage and screen including TV dramas Brookside (Lindsay Corkhill), Clocking Off and Merseybeat. She has presented numerous television programmes including 60 Minute Makeover, Loose Women, My Big Fat Diet, Here Comes the Sun and Challenge of a Lifetime. She has also taken part in Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Come Dine with Me.

Roles in the West End roles include Roxie Hart in Chicago and Miss Adelaide opposite Patrick Swayze in Guys and Dolls. Claire headlined in Fosse - The World Tour and starred in the musical Shout! She has also performed duets with International Opera stars Bryn Terfel and Jose Carreras at The Royal Albert Hall.

Claire Sweeney Battle of Britain Concert

Claire Sweeney is touring in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s  Tell Me On A Sunday in the autumn but before that she is also preparing for a special Battle of Britain Concert with conductor/composer Carl Davis and a 60 piece orchestra at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Sunday 4th July at 19:30.

Claire will be keeping the home fires burning in her native city for a special concert to commemorate the Battle of Britain featuring wartime classics, including ‘Lili Marlene’, ‘Goodnight Children Everywhere’, ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’ and  ‘We’ll Meet Again’ with the audience invited to join in and sing along.


To book tickets visit: www.liverpoolphil.com

Latest tour dates for Claire Sweeney’s Tell Me On Sunday

As previously reported, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s Tell Me on a Sunday is to tour the UK later this year with Claire Sweeney.

The show has been re-worked for her with a new song "I Still Believe in Love". Other numbers include "Take That Look Off Your Face", "Unexpected Song" and the title track "Tell Me on a Sunday".

You can book tickets at: www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Below are the latest tour dates:

Northampton Royal & Derngate Theatre - 30th August- 4th September
Llandudno Venue Cymru -  7th September
Bishop’s Stortford Rhodes Centre -15th September
Oxford  New Theatre - 16th September
Buxton  Opera House - 4th October
York  Grand Opera House -12th October
Whitley Bay  Playhouse -16th October
Newcastle upon Tyne Journal Tyne & Wear -17th October
Southsea  King’s Theatre -19th-23rd October
Bournemouth  Pavilion Theatre - 2nd November
Southend on Sea  Palace Theatre - 6th November
Grimsby Grimsby Auditorium - 8th November
Southport  Southport Theatre - 15th November
Birmingham  Alexandra Theatre - 16th November