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Royal Court Liverpool and Jamie Wilson present
A BRAND NEW COMEDY
Men, dating and finding Mr Right!
Starring
Claire Sweeney & Mandy Muden Directed by
Ken Alexander
9 May to 7 June
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Welcome to this performance of
YNWA
The Official History of Liverpool Football Club
Bill Shankly said: “I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life” And theatre is like that. We’ve put a great team together who are going to play their hearts out for you. We have a great backline of musicians but they’re versatile. You’ll see them moving out of position and moving more to centre stage to deliver some lovely cameo performances. There is so much music in this show – well there had to be in a show about LFC, home of the most musical fans in sport and set in a city that has music so entwined in its history and its soul. So the captain for this match is Howard Gray our Musical Director. Just the man to lift the team when they need it. Not that they really do. And a big kop roar for Bob Eaton. First team coach and strategist who has led the squad through some testing training sessions.
This team of theatrical players is one of the most talented and hard working I have had the pleasure of putting together. They are versatile players taking up various positions and popping up when you don’t expect them (literally in one scene) to deliver a beautiful line. Throughout rehearsals I have watched this team play for each other. If ever there was a stage show that did theatre the way Liverpool do football, then this could be it. I’d like to think Bill Shankly would have been proud of how our talented and committed team play. I hope you will be.
Kevin Fearon Chief Executive
A Message From Your Writer The only play I wanted to write at this moment in time was The History of Liverpool Football Club. After a tumultuous few years which included defeat in Athens, takeover upheaval, the setting up of The Supporters Union followed by demonstration and division, it seemed like the right time.120 years of highs and lows, the building of a bastion - and potentially the biggest football club in the World - this story has everything. The difficulty was always going to be: How do you tell it? With Liverpool having the most knowledgeable fans in the country every last one of them has a story to tell, and every one of them has the potential to tell the history of our club in their own way. Personally, I will be a Mad-Red till the day I die but, it is only when I look back that I realize what a fanatical Red-man I was. My fanaticism was cured by the club being hawked around and being leveraged by businessmen with no real feeling for what it meant to people, or what it was all about.
Thankfully, those days are way behind us. The new owners JW Henry and Tom Werner have gone about their business in the right way - The Liverpool Way. And, long may it continue. I feel we now have savvy owners who want to WIN! I’ve travelled to a few away games this season and they have felt a lot like ‘business as usual’. So, that is credit to the owners, Kenny Dalglish, Ian Ayre and now Brendan Rodgers and his team for dragging us right back on track,
and back in The Liverpool groove. I make no excuse for the fact that I am in love with our football club again, and hope that we never have to go through the uncertainty of the last few years ever again. I’ll end here by saying: Here’s to the new owners, no division amongst our Supporters, and new parties and stories of title and European Cup wins galore. When we all move together we are an unstoppable Red Machine. The rest of football knows this. It is why the Southern-biased media often invent negativity and division because, lets face it, the last thing
they want is another Liverpool team who dominate football. If the next 30 years are about to be like the last 30 then a new story will have to be written, and that is the story what we will always call ‘The Liverpool Way’. I hope this show shows our younger Supporters what it really means to be a “Liverpudlian”. The Reds are Coming Up The Hill Boys! YNWA Nicky Allt March 2014
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CAST Gerry Pauline Train Guard / Band Pregnant Woman / Band Tommy James Parson Jackson / Band Tia Busker Elisha Scott / Band Kenny
Jake Abraham Lindzi Germain Howard Gray Emily Linden Mark Moraghan Stephen Pallister Rachel Rae Daniel Ross Francis Tucker Lenny Wood
MUSIC CREDITS You’ll Never Walk Alone Music by Richard Rogers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II The selection is used by special arrangement with R&H Theatricals Europe (www.rnh.com), an Imagem company. All Rights Reserved.
Part of the Union by John Ford and Richard Hudson Used with the kind permission of Peermusic UK Limited and Essex Music Group.
Horse with No Name Original Lyrics and Music by Dewey Bunnell © 1972 WB Music Corp, USA Warner/Chappell Music Ltd, London W6 8BS Lyrics modified and reproduced by permission of Faber Music Ltd All Rights Reserved.
COMPANY Writer Director Musical Director Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer AV Designer Wardrobe Supervisor Movement Director Production Manager Chief Technician CSM DSM Workshop Manager Sound Operator
Nicky Allt Bob Eaton Howard Gray Mark Walters Ian Scott Kate Harvey Jamie Jenkin Marie Jones Beverley Edmunds David Gordon Jamie Haining Sean Gannon Katy Long Mick Bawden Matthew Weeks
THANK YOU! Liverpool FC Mark Platt and all at LFCTV Liverpool Echo Nomad Associates Radio City Gaiety Theatre Dublin Steve Lumley Wes Simmons Sightlines Ltd Sue Allt (for her patience) George Sephton
CAST BIOGRAPHIES JAKE ABRAHAM Gerry Theatre includes: Council Depot Blues, On The Ledge, Brown Bitter, Wet Nellies and Scouse, Guiding Star, The Pinocchio Boy Film includes: Spike Island, Tamla Rose, London Boulevard, American Cousins, Virgin of Liverpool, 51st State, Mean Machine, Parole Officer, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Blonde Fist Television includes: Prisoners Wives, It’s OK To Be Ray, Justice, Holby City, The Bill, Liverpool 1, Sharpe’s Gold, GBH, The Governor, Blood On The Dole, Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire Jake returns to the Liverpool stage after taking time out to complete several TV/film projects and reunites with director Bob Eaton. “I’ve worked with Bob many times, the first when I was12. It’s exciting to be back on stage in my home town and I’m really looking forward to taking the play to Dublin – after Liverpool, it’s my favorite city.”
LINDZI GERMAIN Pauline A native of Liverpool, Lindzi’s career began at an early age at the Everyman Youth Theatre. She then went on to study here in Liverpool. Lindzi is a very well established cabaret entertainer singing everywhere from your local to the Philharmonic Hall for the Duchess of Kent. In 2004 Lindzi won Merseyside’s funniest woman for stand-up comedy and has appeared on Radio 1, BBC Les’s Liverpool and has opened the Liverpool Comedy Festival here at the Court! Lindzi is one of the Royal Court’s regulars, the theatre is becoming like a home from home! Theatre includes: Night Collar, Council Depot Blues, Lost Soul, A Midsummer’s Nights Dream, Two Pence To Cross The Mersey, Ale House, The Entertainer, Bon Voyage, Berserker Boys, Virgin Express, Beauty and The Beast, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistful Of Collars, Her Benny, The King and I, King Lear, Scouse Pacific, Our Bessie playing Bessie Braddock, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds And Blues - The Musical and A Nightmare On Lime St.
TV Credits include: Above Suspicion by Lynda le Plante (ITV), Les’s Liverpool (BBC), Bodies II (ITV), Common as Muck (ITV), Emmerdale (Yorkshire), Prime Suspect (ITV), and The Barrymore Show (ITV). Lindzi also plays “Gwladys” in Dave Kirby’s 15 Minutes That Shook The World, Gwladys in Reds Ands Blues: The Ballad Of Dixie And Kenny and Tamla Rose in a Liverpool based Motown film, Adam, a short film with Dave Hart and Ged Hunter. Lindzi has also worked in panto for Pele Productions in Cinderella (Lowry Theatre, Theatre Royal), Peter Pan (Lowry Theatre), Snow White (Neptune Theatre), Robin Hood (Guild Theatre). Lindzi has also just played a WAG in the new England song England 7th Best Team In The World. Lindzi also co-owns Totally U Dance & Drama School in Netherley.
MARK MORAGHAN Tommy Mark is best known for his regular roles in Holby City, Dream Team, Brookside and Harry Enfield. Theatre credits include: Our Day Out - The Musical (Royal
Court Liverpool), My Fair Lady (Liverpool Philharmonic), Funny Money (Royal Court Liverpool), Come Fly With Me (Millennium Centre, Cardiff), Twopence To Cross The Mersey (Liverpool Empire), Strictly Murder (UK tour), Eric’s (Liverpool Everyman), Bad Blood (Key Theatre), Bouncers, Little Match Girl, Barbarians, and Arabian Nights (Unity Theatre), Macbeth (Art Theatre Company), Fears and Miseries of the Third Reich (Liverpool Playhouse and Young Vic), The Beaux Stratagem (Liverpool Playhouse), The Jungle Book (Cleveland Theatre Company), and High Rise Dreamer (Liverpool Lunchtime Theatre Company), You’ll Never Walk Alone (Royal Court Liverpool). Touring in 2013 with 9 To 5 The Musical playing Franklyn D Hart. Mark’s television appearances include Owen Davis in Holby City, Ray Wyatt in Dream Team, Greg Shadwick in Brookside, and also Doctors, Heartbeat, The Bill, Where The Heart Is, Always And Everyone, Close And True, Casualty, Peak Practice, Real Women, Harry Enfield and Chums, Sharman, London’s Burning, Ocean of America, The Vet, Against All Odds, The Lodge, Wilderness Edge, Boon, The Chief, Needle, Waterfront Beat, Murder In The Wind, Shoot To Kill, Shooting Stars, Liars and Rocket TV. Film credits include: Stepdad, The Last
Bloodline and Judge Dredd. Mark’s debut album Moonlight’s Back In Style is now released on Linn Records. He was a finalist on both Celebrity Masterchef and was runner up on BBC’s Just The Two Of Us with singing partner Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton.
EMILY LINDEN Pregnant Woman / Band Emily was born in Leicestershire but is proud to call Liverpool her home after recently graduating from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Emily’s theatre credits include: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fazakerley (Royal Court), Mam! I’m ‘Ere (The Dome Theatre, Liverpool), Departure Lounge (Edinburgh Fringe, 2012), Spring Awakening (Paul McCartney Auditorium, LIPA), Baby the Musical (Unity Theatre). When Emily isn’t performing in theatres, she is playing for Kid Rita and Frankie Davies & The Lovely Ladies in which she has supported the likes of JLS, James Arthur, Union J, Matt Corby, Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Nina Nesbitt.
RACHEL RAE Tia Rachel graduated from the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts back in 2007. Not only is she a local actress but also a musician and a budding filmmaker currently producing a short film ‘Gravediggers’ as part of SickOfIt Productions. Theatre Credits – Juliet in Romeo And Juliet and Hermia in A Midsummer Nights Dream (Lodestar Theatre Company), Sue in Bash, (Unity Theatre), Sally in Mam! Im Ere! (Life In The Theatre, The Dome), Linda in Stags & Hens, Emma in Merry Ding Dong, Lisa in Lucky Numbers, DonnaMarie in Scouse Pacific and DonnaMarie, Little Scouse On The Prarie at The Royal Court Theatre, Yitzak in Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Pompey in Measure For Measure and Mary in The Memory Of Water (LIPA) TV Credits – Angel in The Liverpool Nativity, BBC, Shelley in Lunch Monkeys Series 1 & 2 (BBC3), Various roles in Scallywagga (BBC3), Blue in Inn-Mates (BBC3), Mary in Misfits (E4) and Little Red Riding Hood in The Johnny And Inel Show. Film Credits – Office PA in Dementamania (Ronin Productions) Rachel is happy to be back at The Court but not as much as her Dad
and brother Mark who are both huge Kopites ‘till they die’. Even me Ma spent many a match in the Boys pen. YNWA.
DANIEL ROSS Busker / Band Daniel Ross/ ‘Rosenblume’ is a Liverpool Singer/ Songwriter, he has been performing as professional singer and musician for over 8 years. He honed his craft as a Singer & Songwriter playing in local pubs and clubs throughout the North West. His songwriting and performing skills have gained him national radio play on Janice Long’s BBC Radio 2 Show & BBC Radio Merseyside among others. He recently graduated from Sir Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts [LIPA] where he received a BA Honours Degree in Popular Music Studies. He also played the role of The Beatles first band manager when they were known as The Quarrymen in the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy alongside actors such as Aaron Johnson & David Morrisey. The movie was released in cinemas in 2010. YNWA is the first theatre production Daniel has been a part of and he continues to perform as Singer/ Songwriter ‘Rosenblume’ throughout
the UK and Europe. Facebook.com/RosenblumeMusic Twitter: @RosenblumeMusic
STEPHEN PALLISTER James Parson Jackson / Band I’m thrilled to be back here in Liverpool after visiting last April with the touring production of Birds of a Feather at the Empire. The city has been quite a feature in my career as an actor as I appeared as Mr Lyons/The Narrator in Blood Brothers at the Phoenix Theatre in London for several years. I have also enjoyed working with two greats of the theatre - Trevor Nunn on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Chichester FT and Theatre Royal Haymarket, London) and Alan Ayckbourn on My Wonderful Day (Stephen Joseph Theatre Tour). A love of music has also seen me appearing in Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story playing Joe B Mauldin of the Crickets (Victoria Palace/Strand Theatres) and as the bass player in Elvis – The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre in London. My other theatre work includes The Last Witch at the Hertford Theatre; Walking on Sunshine (National Tour); Norman Petty in Buddy (Denmark
Tour); Jane Eyre (Image Theatre Co); Brighton Rock and In The Midnight Hour for Bob Carlton at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch; How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Landor Theatre); Treasure Island for Vienna’s English Theatre; Spring Awakening (Greenwich); Giovanni in ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Portsmouth); Caligula (Boulevard Theatre, London); The Madman and The Nun & Out at Sea (Cracked Mirror TC); and as a founder member of Theatre Per Se, Hard Feelings by Doug Lucie at the DOC Theatre. Television and film credits include the feature film Robin Hood for Working Title; Eastenders (BBC); Head Over Heels (Carlton TV); Various commercials including a recent shoot in Amsterdam for LG; The Obsessed (Royal College of Art); The 18th Hole (Short Film) and appearances on Blue Peter, Children in Need and The National Lottery Live.
FRANCIS TUCKER Elisha Scott / Band Theatre Credits Include : Reds And Blues - The Musical, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Good Golly Miss Molly (Royal Court Liverpool); Summertime , Di Is Dead , and the last 12 Rock’N’Roll Pantos (Liverpool
Everyman Playhouse); Twelfth Night (Birmingham Rep); Romeo And Juliet (Lodestar); Pistols (Brighton Royal); Once In Your Life (Leicester Haymarket); Eight Miles High, Song Of Singapore (Bolton Octagon). Television Credits Include: Coronation Street, Cutting It, Dangerfield, Jilted And Noah’s Ark. Film Credits Include: 15 Minutes That Shook The World. Follow Francis on Twitter @francoisgypsy
LENNY WOOD Kenny Lenny first performed at the Royal Court as a stand- up comedian. Performing as part of the duo “Lenny and his fat friend Mick” They have since worked up and down the country and various places worldwide including Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is now into double figures when it comes to productions at the Royal Court. It has become a favourite venue of his since making his acting debut here; playing the barman in Dave Kirby’s Lost Soul in 2007. He is delighted to be back for this show in particular, reprising his role as Kenny from its first run here back in 2011. He is also thrilled to be working with good friends in the cast as well as the wonderful crew.
Other credits here include Stags And Hens, Nightcollar, Down Our Street, On The Ledge, A Fistfull Of Collars and recently he played Egor in Nightmare On Lime Street. Othe theatre credits include: Little Shop Of Horrors, The Salon, The Chitz, A Day In The Life Of Mr Lanson, Waiting For Godot, Happy As Pie, The Ragged Trousered Philanthripist, Follow The Star, Audition, The Suicide, Cheer Up, Bright Pheonix, Terriors, and I’m Dreaming Of A Barry White Christmas among others.
TV And Film Credits include: Saffron, Northern Cowboys, Under The Mud, Dead Mans Cards, The Be All And End All, Don’t Worry About Me, Good Cop, The Sinking Of The Laconia, Being Eileen, Eddie Took All The Pesci’s, Stolen, Birthday Boy, Tree Of Death, Violet City and more. Lenny picked up an RTS award when his ITV documentary Making Mud was voted best of the year. He has also starred in various commercials, including Cadbury’s and McDonald’s.
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COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES BOB EATON DIRECTOR Bob’s first job was in 1971 as Assistant Director at the Victoria Theatre Stoke. During the mid 1970s he was a member of Alan Ayckbourn’s Scarborough company as actor, director and writer. In the late 70s he was Associate Director of Contact Theatre Manchester and in 1981 became Artistic Director of the Liverpool Everyman. His productions here included Alan Bleasdale’s It’s A Madhouse, his own show, Lennon which subsequently transferred to The Astoria Theatre, London and the Entermedia Theater New York, winning the Sunday Times award for Best Musical of 1986, and the stage musical version of Our Day Out on which he collaborated with Willy Russell. In 1984 he became Artistic Director of the London Bubble Theatre and from 1996 to 2003 he was Director of The Belgrade Theatre Coventry. Bob has written many plays and musicals including Good Golly Miss Molly, Three Minute Heroes and the lyrics for Face. His many collaborations with Sayan Kent include The Good Companions, Limestone Cowboy and Silas Marner. Last year he directed a new musical Soul Sister based on the life and times of Ike and Tina Turner, at the Hackney Empire, which transfered to the West End and is now on a national tour. Bob is delighted to be back in Liverpool and working in the wonderful Royal Court where he has directed Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Two, Stags and Hens – The Remix, On The Ledge, Council Depot Blues,
Slappers And Slapheads, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistful Of Collars, Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, the hugely successful revival of his own show Lennon, Scouse Pacific, Little Scouse on the Prairie and Reds & Blues: The Musical.
HOWARD GRAY MUSICAL DIRECTOR For the Royal Court, Howard has been the Musical Director of Our Day Out The Musical, Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels for all five outings, as well as Council Depot Blues in which he also played the part of Norman, Eight Miles High, Cinderella, Merry Ding Dong, both runs of Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never Walk Alone Little Scouse On The Prairie and Reds And Blues The Musical. He has been an associate artist at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton and was MD on Blonde Bombshells of 1943 which was a co-production with Hampstead Theatre and awarded the Manchester Evening News Best Production for 2006. It has toured nationally and internationally. Other work for the Octagon includes Looking For Buddy, Once Upon A Time In Wigan, Danny, The Champion of the World, Oh, What a Lovely War (nominated for MEN Best Production 2008), Song of Singapore, Eight Miles High, and I Just Stopped By to See the Man. At the Coliseum Theatre in Oldham his work includes Up On The Roof, Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, Quartet, Dick Barton Special Agent (nominated for MEN Best Production 2008), Union Street, Women On the Verge Of HRT, Feed, Good Golly
Miss Molly, Feels Like the First Time, Return to the Forbidden Planet, From A Jack To A King, Sweet Charity, Wake Up Little Susie, Brassed Off, Up On The Roof, The Road To Nab End, and a hatful of pantomimes. At Harrogate Theatre shows include Tears of a Clown, Up on the Roof, Of Mice And Men, Uncle Vanya and yet more pantomimes. Other work includes Alice in Boogie Wonderland and Puss in Blue Suede Boots at the Liverpool Everyman, which he also co-wrote and A Taste of Honey at the New Vic, Stoke. He is particularly proud of playing piano on the end of Dave Kirby’s film 15 Minutes That Shook The World!
IAN SCOTT LIGHTING DESIGN Ian has designed the lighting for many shows at the Royal Court including A Nightmare on Lime Street, Our Day Out, Scouse Pacific, On The Ledge, Eight Miles High and Council Depot Blues. In 2012 he designed the set and lighting for the Lodestar/Royal Court co-productions of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other recent projects: Marco Polo (Bergen National Opera), Where The Wild Things Are/Higgelty Piggelty Pop (Aldeburgh Festival, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Barbican), The Victorian in the Wall (Will Adamsdale/Fuel), The Ugly Spirit (Fittings/South Bank), Touch Me (Coisceim Dance Theatre), Blok/Eko (The Wrestling School), The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre) and Reasons To Be Cheerful (Graeae). As an Associate Artist with the
experimental theatre company Suspect Culture Ian designed the set and lighting for much of the company’s work including Timeless, Mainstream and Lament.
KATE HARVEY SOUND DESIGN Kate was born in Blackpool and at the age of 15 went on work experience at Blackpool Opera House. At 16 she was offered the job of lighting operator on Danny La Rue’s summer season show and has enjoyed a career in technical theatre ever since. Shows worked there include Blood Brothers, Dr. Dolittle, Grease, Sunset Boulevard and Boogie Nights. She then spent two years at Stageworks Worldwide Productions designing and operating two pantomimes and working many corporate and conference events. Six months at Butlins in sunny Skegness saw her sound engineer for famous acts such as Slade, Bad Manners, Chesney Hawkes, Sinitta, Right Said Fred and many more. A move to the ocean waves to work as a production technician for Island Cruises let her enjoy four months in Brazil and six months in the Mediterranean before securing a job as production manager for P&O cruises. Mixing sound to the stars all over the world including Jane McDonald, Brian Conley and Petula Clark she then felt it was time to come home. In June 2008 dry land was calling and Kate is now delighted to be working at Royal Court Liverpool where she recently designed Night Collar, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out - The Musical, both the 2010 abd 2013 runs of Lennon, Scouse Pacific,
You’ll Never Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Reds And Blues - The Musical, Ladies Day.
JAMIE JENKIN AV DESIGNER Jamie was born in Hertfordshire, moved to Liverpool to study in 2001, and has been here ever since. He has designed AV for both the Royal Court’s original production and the 2013 reboot of Lennon, A Fistful Of Collars, the second run of Willy Russell’s Our Day Out - The Musical, Ladies Night, the Lodestar Theatre Company productions of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Nightmare On Lime Street, Down Our Street, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Fazakerley, all at Royal Court Liverpool. Other work includes promotional films for shows at the Royal Court Liverpool including Bouncers, Ladies Day, Macbeth, Lennon and A Nightmare On Lime Street, and working with the Royal Court Liverpool Trust on various promotional materials. He is also a freelance graphic and motion designer working with clients in the UK and all over the world. His greatest claim to fame is having appeared as one of the balaclava’d Scouse troublemakers on the original artwork for Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels.
MARIE JONES COSTUME SUPERVISOR Marie studied fashion and then moved on to theatre costume interpretation at Mabel Fletcher College. Marie’s work
as a freelance costumier has included costumes for Oldham Coliseum, The Royal Exchange, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Jimmy McGovern’s film Liam, Beyond Friendship for Mersey Television and the many pantomime dames who have appeared on the Everyman stage. She has worked extensively at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and has recently been employed as full time Wardrobe Supervisor. Most recently Marie’s work at the Everyman and Playhouse has included: Much Ado About Nothing, The Electric Hills, The Flint Street Nativity, The Tempest, Unprotected, Billy Liar, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, Urban Legend, Fly, Breezeblock Park, The Entertainer, Still Life And The Astonished Heart, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Anniversary, Dr Faustus, The May Queen, Cruel Sea and All My Sons. Marie’s other credits include: Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Good Golly Miss Molly, Stags and Hens - The Remix, On The Ledge, Misery, Eight Miles High, Council Depot Blues, Night Collar, Dirty Dusting, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out - The Musical, The Salon, Funny Money, Merry Ding Dong, A Fistul Of Collars, Lucky Numbers, Lennon, Scouse Pacific, You’ll Never Walk Alone, Little Scouse on the Prairie, Reds And Blues - The Musical and Ladies Day for Royal Court Liverpool, Brouhaha International Street Festival, Working Class Hero on the recent Imagine DVD, Costume Supervisor for many shows at LIPA, The Splash Project at MYPT and Twopence To Cross The Mersey at the Liverpool Empire.
Royal Court Liverpool Staff Chief Executive Artistic Director Finance Director Assistant Producer Marketing Manager Technical Director Head Chef Finance Officer Front Of House Manager Sales Manager Box Office Manager Costume Supervisor Resident Stage Manager
Kevin Fearon Ken Alexander Kevin Dunn Jess Bolger Iain Christie David Gordon Simon Collard Alison Ward Steve Smith Jamie Jenkin Louise Hurd Marie Jones Mick Bawden
Box Office Assistants Rachel Delaney, Stephen Gent, Laura Lees, John Mather, Sarah Randle and Rebecca Smith Front of House Stephen Briggs, Collette Burgess, Mary Cassidy, Hayley Clarke, Lewis Edwards, Peter Gornell, Kathryn Heffron, Jake Jones, Sven Key, Christopher Kidd, Ricci Kinsella, Leah Little, Charlene Lim, Melanie Lovett, Michael Maher. Hazel Patterson, Siobahn Spear, Adam Thompson, Jessica Vale, Sophy Vicary, Christina Wiggins, and Thomas Wright Kitchen David Assall, Billie Chisam, Carl Chisam, Alicia Harris, Robert Hughes, Eileen Lawless, George Schott, and Doreen Uber Stage Door Allen Dodd, John Evans Cleaners Billie Chisam, Debbie Chisam and Doreen Uber And a big thank you to all of our security staff for their hard work throughout the year
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