Wendi Peters to Star in UK Tour of SALAD DAYS

Having charmed audiences around the world with their award-winning Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore and The Mikado, Regan De Wynter Williams returns with one of Britain's best-loved and sunniest musicals with TV and West End star Wendi Peters (Coronation Street, ITV; Hetty Feather, BBC; White Christmas, Dominion Theatre).

Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds' musical is an absolute romp of polite naughtiness and saucy encounters, with an energetic and peppy score featuring songs such as 'We Said We Wouldn't Look Back', 'Look At Me, I'm Dancing', and 'We're Looking For A Piano'. It puts a smile on your face and a tap in your toes.

Director Bryan Hodgson comments, I am thrilled to be able to stage Salad Days again this autumn - it serves as one of the greatest romps in musical theatre history, and really brings us a timeless sense of enjoyment and nonsense, which is always welcome in counteracting the sometimes overwhelming seriousness of today. With the fabulous Wendi Peters joining the cast too, it will simply be a fun and delightful evening out, and I cannot wait to get the magic piano and spaceship ready for its latest trip around the charming British countryside!

Written in 1952 as a summer musical for the Bristol Old Vic, Salad Days then transferred to the Vaudeville where it ran for 2,283 performances. Salad Days is a phrase first coined in Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra, referring to Anthony's youth; the show tells the light-hearted tale of recent graduates Timothy and Jane. Unhappy with their pushy parents, they decide to get jobs and take on the responsibility of looking after a piano in a park! Little are they prepared to deal with the magic and madness that follows.

Tickets are available from individual theatre box offices.

5th - 8th September
Theatre Royal Brighton
New Road, Brighton BN1 1SD

10th - 15th September
Richmond Theatre
Little Green, Richmond TW9 1QJ

19th - 22nd September
Belgrade Theatre
Belgrade Square, Corporation St, Coventry CV1 1GS

25th - 29th September
The Lowry, Salford
Pier 8, The Quays, Salford M50 3AZ

2nd - 6th October
Malvern Theatre
Grange Road, Malvern WR14 3HB

8th - 13th October
Theatre Royal Winchester
Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8SB

16th - 18th October
Pomegranate Theatre
Corporation St, Chesterfield S41 7TX

22nd - 27th October
Salisbury Playhouse
Malthouse Lane, Salisbury SP2 7RA

30th October - 3rd November
Northcott Theatre
Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QB

6th - 10th November
Bridlington Spa
South Marine Drive, East Riding, Bridlington YO15 3JH

15th - 17th November
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre
Millbrook, Guildford GU1 3UX

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