Exclusive: Broadway’s Felicia Boswell (Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert) will be making her West End debut this July when she takes over from Beverley Knight (Bodyguard Musical), the chart-topping Queen of British Soul, in the enormously enjoyable hit show The Drifters Girl, which has been running at The Garrick Theatre since last November.
Knight departs The Drifters Girl on July 2 and Boswell joins the production three days later on July 5 to portray Faye Treadwell, the pioneering manager who took over control of the legendary soul quartet after the death of the group’s manager, her husband George Treadwell, in 1967.
Boswell will perform with a quartet of local stars: Tosh Wanogho-Maud (Dreamgirls); Adam J. Bernard, who won an Olivier Award for his James ‘Thunder’ Early in Dreamgirls; Tarinn Callender (Hamilton); and Matt Henry, winner of a best musical actor Olivier Award for his performance in Kinky Boots. They portray...
Knight departs The Drifters Girl on July 2 and Boswell joins the production three days later on July 5 to portray Faye Treadwell, the pioneering manager who took over control of the legendary soul quartet after the death of the group’s manager, her husband George Treadwell, in 1967.
Boswell will perform with a quartet of local stars: Tosh Wanogho-Maud (Dreamgirls); Adam J. Bernard, who won an Olivier Award for his James ‘Thunder’ Early in Dreamgirls; Tarinn Callender (Hamilton); and Matt Henry, winner of a best musical actor Olivier Award for his performance in Kinky Boots. They portray...
- 5/27/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
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