STAGE and screen leading man Maxwell Caulfield and Coronation Street favourite Vicky Binns star in the critically acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre production of Singin’ in the Rain, which heads to The Mayflower next year direct from the West End.
Don Lockwood is a silent movie star with everything he could want – fame, adulation and a well-publicised “romance” with his co-star Lina Lamont. But Hollywoodis about to change forever. There is rumour in the studio of a new kind of film, where the actors actually talk…and sing...and dance. Can Don and the uniquely voiced Lina make the transition and will chorus girlKathySelden fulfil her dreamof stardom and capture Don’s heart along the way?
Maxwell Caulfield is best known to TV audiences for Emmerdale, Casualty, Holby City and Dynasty. His film work includes Grease 2 and he has appeared in Chicago, An Inspector Calls and The Rocky Horror Show on stage.
Maxwell, who plays studio boss R F Simpson, said: “As a huge fan of the original movie, the chance to bring this story to life on stage is something I couldn’t pass up.
Having dealt with a few studio bosses in my time too, I relish the opportunity to play R F Simpson in this glorious production.”
Vicky Binns, who played Molly Dobbs in Coronation Street for five years, is known to millions as Tyrone’s wife.
She said: “The part of Lina Lamont is a gift of a role as the writing is packed with humour, pathos and, well...fabulousness!”.
Singin’ in the Rain is at The Mayflower from September 16 to October 5, 2014.
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