Grab Your Coat and Get Your
TOP HAT!
Southend Theatres are delighted that The Chichester Festival Theatre Production of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat dances it way into Southend in February with a fantastic, award winning cast.
Top Hat plays the Cliffs Pavilion from Tuesday 24 February until Saturday 28 February
TOP HAT!
Southend Theatres are delighted that The Chichester Festival Theatre Production of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat dances it way into Southend in February with a fantastic, award winning cast.
Top Hat plays the Cliffs Pavilion from Tuesday 24 February until Saturday 28 February
The musical equivalent of the finest vintage champagne – effervescent, elegant and exhilarating – Top Hat is a heady romantic cocktail laced with sparklingly witty dialogue, stunning choreography, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes. Irving Berlin’s irresistible score includes some of Hollywood’s greatest songs: the immortal Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Top Hat White Tie and Tails and Puttin’ on the Ritz.
When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with model Dale Tremont, whose beauty sleep is rudely interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her heart – but the path of true love never does run smooth. Especially since Dale has mistaken Jerry for his hapless producer Horace, who’s trying to avoid the wrath of his formidable wife Madge, and Dale’s own fiery Italian admirer is planning a trip to Venice for her to showcase his couture gowns.
Based on the classic 1935 film which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the stage adaptation’s original West End production won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out.
Reprising their roles from Chichester Festival Theatre will be Phillip Attmore (So You Think You Can Dance) as Jerry Travers, Sally Ann Triplett (Cabaret) as Madge Hardwick and James Clyde (Matilda the Musical) as Bates.
Phillip Attmore is one of Broadway’s most exciting performers and winner of the Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer for Shuffle Along and the Playbill Breakout Performance Award for On the 20th Century. He makes his UK debut as Jerry Travers. Amara Okereke won the 2018 Stage Debut Award for her role as Cosette in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre.
James Hume won the Toni Fell Competition and Hilda Deane Award for Outstanding Achievement. Sally Ann Triplett has enjoyed many distinguished London roles including Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gran in The Witches and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes for which she won a WhatsOnStage Award (National Theatre). James Clyde’s extensive theatre credits include Mr. Wormwood in Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre, and various roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company including in King Lear, Cymbeline, Tamburlaine, Tartuffe, Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet, Days of Significance, Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night. With such a cast, this is an uplifting show not to be missed.
With Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Top Hat is adapted for the stage by Matthew White & Howard Jacques. The UK and Ireland tour of Top Hat is produced by Kenny Wax and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions.
Top Hat
Tue 24 - Sat 28 Feb
Cliffs Pavilion
Station Rd, Southend-on-Sea SS0 7RA
thecliffspavilion.co.uk
0343 310 0030
When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with model Dale Tremont, whose beauty sleep is rudely interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her heart – but the path of true love never does run smooth. Especially since Dale has mistaken Jerry for his hapless producer Horace, who’s trying to avoid the wrath of his formidable wife Madge, and Dale’s own fiery Italian admirer is planning a trip to Venice for her to showcase his couture gowns.
Based on the classic 1935 film which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the stage adaptation’s original West End production won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out.
Reprising their roles from Chichester Festival Theatre will be Phillip Attmore (So You Think You Can Dance) as Jerry Travers, Sally Ann Triplett (Cabaret) as Madge Hardwick and James Clyde (Matilda the Musical) as Bates.
Phillip Attmore is one of Broadway’s most exciting performers and winner of the Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer for Shuffle Along and the Playbill Breakout Performance Award for On the 20th Century. He makes his UK debut as Jerry Travers. Amara Okereke won the 2018 Stage Debut Award for her role as Cosette in Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theatre.
James Hume won the Toni Fell Competition and Hilda Deane Award for Outstanding Achievement. Sally Ann Triplett has enjoyed many distinguished London roles including Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gran in The Witches and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes for which she won a WhatsOnStage Award (National Theatre). James Clyde’s extensive theatre credits include Mr. Wormwood in Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre, and various roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company including in King Lear, Cymbeline, Tamburlaine, Tartuffe, Timon of Athens, Romeo and Juliet, Days of Significance, Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night. With such a cast, this is an uplifting show not to be missed.
With Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Top Hat is adapted for the stage by Matthew White & Howard Jacques. The UK and Ireland tour of Top Hat is produced by Kenny Wax and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions.
Top Hat
Tue 24 - Sat 28 Feb
Cliffs Pavilion
Station Rd, Southend-on-Sea SS0 7RA
thecliffspavilion.co.uk
0343 310 0030
