Cilla: Theatre Royal

Full cast now announced!
Kara Lily Haworth will play Cilla
Joined by Coronation Street's Andrew Lancel, Waterloo Road's Carl Au, Amy Bridges, Paul Broughton, Bill Caple, Tom Christian, Pauline Fleming, Joshua Gannon and Billie Hardy. Tom Dunlea, Gemma Brodrick-Bower and Michael Hawkins also join the cast, having previously starred in the ITV series Cilla on which this musical is based.

Cilla - The Musical is the spectacular and heart-warming musical adaptation of the critically acclaimed hit ITV television series by Bafta-Award winner, Jeff Pope. It tells the extraordinary story of the ordinary girl from Liverpool whose teenage dreams of stardom lead her to becoming one of Britain's best-loved entertainers of all time.

It's an introduciton by a young John Lennon to music mogul Brian Epstein that changes Priscilla White's life forever.  By the age of just 25 she would be known as singer and TV star Cilla Black, number one selling artist and at the forefront of the Brit-Pop music scene.

The musical score is the ultimate soundtrack to the 60's including Cilla's greatest hits Anyone Who Had a Heart, Alfie and Something Tells Me, Twist and Shout by the Beatles, California Dreamin by The Mamas and The Papas and many more.