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Full cast for Wales Millennium Centre’s Tiger Bay the Musical announced |
Wales Millennium Centre is thrilled to announce the full cast of Tiger Bay the Musical, which includes a 39-strong cast with many notable names from right here in Wales.Tiger Bay the Musical - created by a multi-award-winning team composer, Daf James, writer Michael Williams and director, Melly Still – is set in the flamboyant multi-ethnic community of Cardiff’s Butetown in the early 1900s. Extreme poverty meets supreme wealth. Gangs of street children roam the docks. Coal is King, and in the notorious public houses and alleyways of the city’s underworld, a revolution is brewing Tiger Bay the Musical follows a young woman’s determination to challenge society’s injustices, follow her heart and realise her dreams. Joining the previously announced cast John Owen Jones, Noel Sullivan, Suzanne Packer, Vikki Bebb and two local young girls, Louise Harvey and Ruby Llewellyn, will be: Dom Hartley-Harris who will complete the lead cast as Themba, an African immigrant working the Cardiff docks to avenge his family. Dom most recently played Jagwire in the new musical Bat Out of Hell. His other theatre credits include Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Accidental Brummie. Zolani Shangase (Lion King, West End and most recently Chico in the The Fugard Theatre’s production of West Side Story) will travel from South Africa to reprise the role of Yusef, following previews of the Musical in Cape Town earlier this year. Also joining from Cape Town Busisiwe Ngejane (Isango Ensemble’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Boheme, Carmen and A Man of Good hope) who will play lady of the night, Klondike Ellie and Luvo Rasemeni (Isango Ensemble’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Boheme, Carmen and A Man of Good hope) as Felize. As well as Ernestine Stuurman as part of the ensemble. Liz May Brice whose credits include (Torchwood: Children of Earth, Bad Girls, Peep Show, Black Mirror) will play clairvoyant, Leonora Piper. Ian Virgo, (The Bastard Executioner, Weapon, Before The Fall, Holby City, Spooks, The Bill) Adam Vaughan (The Wind in the Willows - London Palladium, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd) and Rhidian Marc (Les Misérables – West End, UK tour and film, Pippin, Scrooge) will play donkeymen, Bosun and Arwyn and First Mate/Locke respectively. The Centre has turned to Welsh performers to create the production’s ensemble including Zoe George (Wicked UK, Ireland and International tour as understudy for Elphaba and Nessarose), Lucy Elson (career debut) and Elin Llwyd (S4C presenter, Welsh National Theatre’s Lady from the Sea and Spring Awakening) who will play shop girls of the famed David Morgan department store. They will be joined by Jamal Andréas, Lee Dillon-Stuart, Kit Esuruoso, Soophia Foroughi, Daniel Graham, Carl Man, Kayed Mohamed-Mason, Cilla Silvia, Josh Tonks, Emma Warren and Stephanie Webber. Graeme Farrow, Artistic Director at Wales Millennium Centre said: “This is the biggest production to come from the Centre to date and we are proud to give people a snapshot of the history of our home and celebrate some of its richness and strength through music and performance. “To capture the essence of the production, we were seeking a diverse cast so we are delighted to be able to announce our full cast includes talent from across the world as well as right on our doorstep.” And to round it off, ten young Welsh actors and actresses will make up the water boys. The gang of water boys are: Amaree Ali, aged 12, Grangetown Lefi Jô Hughes, aged 10, Canton Lowri Elin Hughes, aged 14, Caerphilly Shakira Lorenza Ifill, aged 12, Butetown Amelia Jenkins, aged 14, Bridgend Mimi Nanud, aged 13, Barry Lauren Price, aged 11, Rhiwbina Mallers Saltus-Hendrickson, aged 9, Butetown Cadi-Gwen Sandall, aged 10, Whitchurch Efan Williams, aged 9, Canton A fictional story of romance, revenge, heartbreak and hope, the world premiere of Tiger Bay the Musical is on Wednesday 15 November 2017 at Wales Millennium Centre. Tickets are on sale now at www.tigerbaythemusical.com Mae Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru yn falch o gyhoeddi cast llawn Sioe Gerdd Tiger Bay, sy’n cynnwys cast o 39 gyda sawl enw nodedig o Gymru. Mae Sioe Gerdd Tiger Bay – a grëwyd gan dîm sydd wedi ennill sawl gwobr, sef y cyfansoddwr Daf James, y sgwennwr Michael Williams a’r cyfarwyddwr Melly Still – wedi’i gosod yng nghymuned aml-ethnig liwgar Butetown yn negawd cynta’r ugeinfed ganrif. Byd o arian mawr a thlodi mawr. Gangiau o blant y stryd yn crwydro’r dociau. Mae Glo yn Frenin, ac yn nhafarndai a strydoedd cefn isfyd Caerdydd, mae chwyldro ar gerdded. Mae Sioe Gerdd Tiger Bay yn dilyn menyw ifanc a’i phenderfyniad i herio anghyfiawnderau cymdeithas, dilyn ei chalon a gwireddu ei breuddwydion. Mae rhai o’r cast wedi’u cyhoeddi eisoes, sef John Owen Jones, Noel Sullivan, Suzanne Packer, Vikki Bebb a dwy ferch ifanc leol, sef Louise Harvey a Ruby Llewellyn. Yn ymuno â nhw bydd: Dom Hartley-Harris, fydd yn cwblhau’r prif gast fel Themba, mewnfudwr o Affrica sy’n gweithio ar ddociau Caerdydd gyda’r bwriad o ddial cam ei deulu. Yn fwyaf diweddar bu Dom yn chwarae Jagwire yn y sioe gerdd newydd Bat Out of Hell. Mae ei waith arall yn y theatr yn cynnwys Beautiful: The Carole King Musical ac Accidental Brummie. Bydd Zolani Shangase (Lion King, West End ac yn fwyaf diweddar Chico yng nghynhyrchiad Theatr Fugard o West Side Story) yn teithio o Dde Affrica i chwarae rhan Yusef unwaith eto, yn dilyn rhagddangosiadau o’r Sioe Gerdd yn Cape Town yn gynharach eleni. Hefyd yn ymuno o Cape Town bydd Busisiwe Ngejane (cynyrchiadau Ensemble Isango o Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Boheme, Carmen a Man of Good Hope) fydd yn chwarae rhan un o ferched y nos, Klondike Ellie a Luvo Rasemeni (cynyrchiadau Ensemble Isango o Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Boheme, Carmen a Man of Good Hope) fel Felize, yn ogystal ag Ernestine Stuurman fel rhan o’r ensemble. Bydd Liz May Brice (Torchwood: Children of Earth, Bad Girls, Peep Show, Black Mirror) yn chwarae rhan y clirweledydd Leonora Piper. Bydd Ian Virgo (The Bastard Executioner, Weapon, Before The Fall, Holby City, Spooks, The Bill), Adam Vaughan (The Wind in the Willows – Palladium Llundain, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd) a Rhidian Marc (Les Misérables yn y West End, taith Prydain a’r ffilm, Pippin, Scrooge) yn chwarae dynion yr injan fach, Bosun ac Arwyn a’r Is-Gapten/Locke yn y drefn honno. Mae’r Ganolfan wedi troi at berfformwyr o Gymru i greu ensemble y cynhyrchiad, gan gynnwys Zoe George (taith Prydain, Iwerddon a thaith ryngwladol Wicked fel dirprwy ar gyfer Elphaba a Nessarose), Lucy Elson (dechrau ei gyrfa) ac Elin Llwyd (cyflwynydd ar S4C, Y Fenyw Ddaeth o’r Môr a Deffro’r Gwanwyn Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru) fydd yn chwarae rhan merched siop enwog David Morgan. Yn ymuno â nhw bydd Jamal Andréas, Lee Dillon-Stuart, Kit Esuruoso, Soophia Foroughi, Daniel Graham, Carl Man, Kayed Mohamed-Mason, Cilla Silvia, Josh Tonks, Emma Warren a Stephanie Webber. Meddai Graeme Farrow, Cyfarwyddwr Artistig Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru: “Dyma gynhyrchiad mwya’r Ganolfan hyd yma, ac rydyn ni’n falch o gael rhoi cipolwg ar hanes ein cartref i bobl a dathlu ychydig o gyfoeth a chryfder y gymuned drwy gerddoriaeth a pherfformiad. “Er mwyn cael naws y cynhyrchiad yn iawn, roedden ni’n awyddus i gael cast amrywiol, felly rydyn ni’n falch iawn o gael cyhoeddi bod y cast llawn yn cynnwys doniau o bedwar ban byd ac o'n milltir sgwâr ni hefyd.” Yn goron ar y cwbl, bydd deg actor ac actores o Gymru yn chwarae rhan bechgyn y dŵr. Dyma’r criw o fechgyn y dŵr: • Amaree Ali, 12 oed, Grangetown • Amelia Jenkins, 14 oed, Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr · Cadi-Gwen Sandall, 10 oed, yr Eglwys Newydd · Efan Williams, 9 oed, Treganna · Lauren Price, 11 oed, Rhiwbeina · Lefi Jô Hughes, 10 oed, Treganna • Lowri Elin Hughes, 14 oed, Caerffili • Mallers Saltus-Hendrickson, 9 oed, Butetown • Mimi Nanud, 13 oed, y Barri • Shakira Lorenza, 12 oed, Butetown Stori ddychmygol am ramant, dial, torcalon a gobaith yw Sioe Gerdd Tiger Bay, a bydd première byd y sioe nos Fercher 15 Tachwedd 2017 yng Nghanolfan Mileniwm Cymru. Mae’r tocynnau ar werth nawr yn www.tigerbaythemusical.com |
| Wales Millennium Centre web site: www.wmc.org.uk |
| Tiger Bay PR e-mail: TigerBayPR@wmc.org.uk |
Thursday, October 5, 2017 |
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