Star casting is announced for the world premiere of Club Tropicana the Musical by Michael Gyngell, which comes to Aberdeen’s His Majesty’s Theatre, February 11-16, 2019.
A summer of adventure and love in the sun, with a soundtrack of smash-hit pop classics all performed live on stage. It takes a fun packed trip back in time to the electric 80’s when hair was big, shoulders were padded, girls (and boys) just wanted to have fun and mobile phones were shaped like bricks and weighed a tonne.
The star cast is led by Joe McElderry, Neil McDermott, Kate Robbins, Emily Tierney, and former Sugababe star Amelle Berrabah, making her musical theatre debut.
It is completed by Karina Hind, Calvin Hudson, Cellen Chug Jones, Megan Luch, Rebecca Mendoza, Alexandra O’Reilly, Joshua Pearson, Rory Phelan, Nye Rees, Camilla Rowland, Christina Shand, Courtney-Brogan Smalley, Tara Verloop, Kane Verrall.
Creative team: directors Samuel Holmes & Nick Winston. Choreographer Nick Winston. Set & costume designer Diego Pitarch. Lighting designer Tim Deiling. Sound designer Ben Harrison, Musical Supervision and Arrangements Greg ArrowsmithMusical Director Charlie Inglis.
Welcome to the vibrant Club Tropicana Hotel – the 1980s answer to Love Island – where the drinks are free and the whole family is invited to join the ultimate holiday musical.
Set to a soundtrack of some of the most iconic, chart topping acts from the 80s, including ABC, Cindi Lauper, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, A-ha, Culture Club, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, Bucks Fizz and Depeche Mode; experiences all their hits performed live on stage, featuring 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 in 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 many more.
When our budding bride and groom get cold feet, they decide to jet off to sunnier climes and feel the heat– but little do they know they’ve checked into the same hotel…
The sizzling summer season at the Club Tropicana sees drinks flowing and tans glowing. Will our young lovers decide to go through with the wedding? Will the hotel inspectors finally get their way and close the resort, or will the staff save the day? All will be revealed in hilarious style, to an irresistible soundtrack!
Aberdeen Performing Arts director of programming and creative projects, Ben Torrie, said: “Tickets for Club Tropicana have been flying out the door since it went on sale. There is a lot of anticipation and excitement about this show coming to HMT, and to have such a talented cast on board is fantastic news for our audiences. It’s going to be a fun, feel-good night out and just the thing to blow the winter blues away next February.”
