![]() ![]() “I attended every preview and then the meetings the next day as we discussed what was and wasn’t working,” he recalls. Nigel Pivaro, forever associated with playing lovable rogue Terry Duckworth in Coronation Street from 1983 to 2012, takes the pivotal role of Da, Jimmy Rabbitte’s father, while Andrew Linnie, sax player Dean in the original West End production and later Jimmy Rabbitte on tour, is in the director’s seat.įor the West End premiere, Roddy lived in London for 12 weeks, looking on at rehearsals every day, doing daily rewrites. ![]() Next stop: Grand Opera House, York, from November 7 to 12. “It stayed in the West End for over two years, then it went on a successful tour.”įive years on, The Commitments will be touring Britain and Ireland from late-September to July 2023. “The original stage show in 2013 was a brilliant experience from my point of view,” says the Irish writer. THE Commitments are back on the road in a hit-laden celebration of the bonding powers of soul music, and no-one could be more delighted than creator Roddy Doyle. Facebook 0 Tweet 0 LinkedIn 0 Ian McIntosh’s Deco and Eve Kitchingman’s Natalie, left, Ciara Mackey’s Imelda and Sarah Gardiner’s Bernie, the not-shy-in-coming-forward backing singers in The Commitments. ![]()
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