The Great American Trailer Park Musical - Waterloo East Theatre
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
HIT off Broadway show, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, receives its London premiere at Waterloo East Theatre, where it runs from May 11 to June 5, 2016.
There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres – and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, arrives at Armadillo Acres and comes between the Dr. Phil-loving agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert. – the storms begin to brew!
The Great American Trailer Park Musical, with music and lyrics by David Nehls and book by Betsy Kelso, is a musical comic fable that explores the relationships between the tenants at the exclusive Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Florida.
The cast includes Rosemary Ashe (The Phantom of the Opera, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Les Miserables, The Witches of Eastwick – for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical); Sabrina Aloueche (We Will Rock You, Les Miserables); Jemma Alexander (The Sound of Music Live, Wicked, Rent); Jodie Steele (Rent, War Of The Worlds, Jesus Christ Superstar, Legally Blonde); Michelle Bishop (Sunset Boulevard, Bend it Like Bekham, Jersey Boys, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Adam Vaughn (Sunset Boulevard, From Here to Eternity, Billy Elliot).
Presented by Garry Lake and Waterloo East Theatre, The Great American Trailer Park Musical is directed by Kirk Jameson, with choreography by Rebecca Howell and musical direction by James Taylor.
The Great American Trailer Park Musical premiered at the first annual New York Music Theatre Festival in 2004 and transferred to The Dodger Stages off-Broadway in 2005. It has subsequently played throughout the USA, Australia and Europe.