ALL ABOARD! CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR FISHERMAN’S FRIENDS

It’s time to set sail on a feel-good voyage of friendship, community and music

with cast announced for Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical which will be

dropping anchor at Newcastle Theatre Royal Tue 11 – Sat 15 Oct 2022.

James Gaddas (Casualty, Bad Girls, Coronation Street, The Girls, Billy Elliot, Monty

Python’s Spamalot, MAMMA MIA!) will play Jim, with Parisa Shahmir (The Snow

Queen, The Last Ship, MAMMA MIA!) playing the role of his daughter, Alwyn.

They will be joined by Robert Duncan (Drop the Dead Donkey, Casualty, Where the

Heart Is, Twelve Angry Men) who will play Jago with Susan Penhaligon (Bouquet of

Barbed Wire, Emmerdale, A Fine Romance, Three Sisters, The Real Thing, Mr Love,

The Maintenance Man, Dangerous Corner, Of Mice and Men) as his wife, Maggie

and Anton Stephans (The X Factor, Blues Brothers Meet Soul Sisters, Porgy and

Bess, Starlight Express, Smokey Joe's Café) as Leadville.

Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical is based on the true story of the Cornish singing

sensations, Fisherman’s Friends, and the hit 2019 film about their life.  When a

group of Cornish fishermen came together to sing the traditional working songs

they’d sung for generations, they hoped to raise a few quid for charity. Nobody,

least of all the fishermen, expected their story to end on the Pyramid stage of

Glastonbury.

Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical features hit shanties made famous by the band

including Keep Haulin’, Nelson's Blood, No Hopers Jokers & Rogues and many

more.

Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical plays at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tue 11 –

Sat 15 Oct 20232. Tickets are priced from £15.00 and can be purchased at

www.theatreroyal.co.uk or from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 0191 232 7010.

29th June 2022

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