X Factor star in rehearsals for Club Tropicana musical heading to Wolverhampton
X Factor winner Joe McElderry has joined castmates in rehearsals for a stage production celebrating all things 80s.
Club Tropicana The Musical, by Michael Gyngell, features a soundtrack of smash-hit pop classics as it arrives on stage at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre.
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The production will be shown between April 29 and May 4, with X Factor winner Joe McElderry heading up the cast.
Rehearsals have begun for the production, which follows a couple at the vClub Tropical Hotel, called the '1980s answer to Love Island', where a budding bridge and groom visit after both getting cold feet – not knowing the other is visiting.
Neil McDermott, Kate Robbins, Emily Tierney will be performing – along with former Sugababe star Amelle Berrabah making her musical theatre debut.
The cast is completed by Karina Hind, Calvin Hudson, Cellen Chugg Jones, Megan Louch, Rebecca Mendoza, Alexanda O’Reilly, Joshua Pearson, Rory Phelan, Nye Rees, Camilla Rowland, Christina Shand, Courtney-Brogan Smalley, Tara Verloop and Kane Verrall.
Music ranging from ABC, Cyndi Lauper, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, a-ha, Culture Club, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Bucks Fizz and Depeche Mode will be performed – including hits Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, Take On Me, Just Can’t Get Enough, Oops Upside Your Head, The Look of Love, Making Your Mind Up, Relax, Islands on the Stream, She Drives Me Crazy, Don’t Go, La Dolce Vita, Surprise, Surprise, Church of the Poison Mind, Fantasy Island, Up Where We Belong, I Could Be So Good for You, Fantastic Day and more.
For tickets, call 01902 42 92 12 or visit grandtheatre.co.uk
