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FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE A musical by CLARKE PETERS Featuring 'S greatest hits 24.01.18 EIGHT WEEKS LEFT TO SEE FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE AT THE MARBLE ARCH THEATRE

Underbelly Productions revival of Clarke Peters’ Olivier Award-winning and Tony- Award nominated musical, Five Guys Named Moe is entering the final weeks of its engagement at The Marble Arch Theatre. The show, which has been raising the roof since September last year, must end its limited season on 24th March 2018, having already been extended twice, due to overwhelming popular demand. Marble Arch Theatre was custom built for the production, and over 75,000 audience members have been through it’s doors since September, stepping into 1940s all-swinging New Orleans club, complete with festooned courtyard, bespoke cocktail bar, smoky corners and band-stand as a centrepiece. Performed in the round for the first time, theatregoers take their seats at the cabaret tables in the Funky Butt Club and have drinks served directly to their tables for an up-close and personal musical experience all around them. The production has been nominated for Best Musical Revival, Best Choreography and Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Dex Lee) at the 2018 What’s on Stage Awards, public voting for which is due to close on 31 January 2018. First seen at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1990, Cameron Mackintosh brought it to the West End where it played for four years, subsequently playing on Broadway and around the world. Clarke Peters' (, Treme, Person of Interest, , The Ice Man Cometh) career defining musical features the irresistible hits of trailblazing ‘King of the Jukebox’ Louis Jordan, including Early In The Morning, Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby, Choo Choo Ch’Boogie and . The soundtrack of soul, blues, gospel and early r 'n' b is performed live on stage by The Funky Butt Club Band. Clarke Peters has a long-established and wide-ranging career in theatre, television, radio and film. His many stage credits include: King Lear (Shakespeare in the Park), Race, , The Iceman Cometh (New York), , Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Mourning Becomes Electra (National Theatre), Porgy in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Savoy Theatre), , Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Little Shop of Horrors, Blues in the Night and Five Guys Named Moe also written by Clarke. Films include: ’s Red

Hook Summer, Notting Hill, Mona Lisa, Bad Education, Marley and Me, Freedomland, The Benefactor, Endgame, Mandela: The Prison Years and Nativity! Peters is also known for his varied television career including regular appearances in The Wire, Tremé, Jericho, The Divide, Chance and .

Andrew Wright is a double Olivier Award nominee. He choreographed Half A Sixpence for Cameron Mackintosh (Chichester Festival Theatre, Noel Coward Theatre), Singin' In The Rain (Chichester Festival Theatre, Palace Theatre, UK national tour, Japan, Asia, Russia and Australia; winner of Best Choreographer WhatsOnStage Awards 2013 and nominated for Best Choreographer Olivier Awards 2012), Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Savoy Theatre, UK national Tour; nominated for Best Choreographer Olivier Awards 2016 and Broadway World Awards 2014/16), Barnum (Theatre in the Park, Chichester, UK national Tour), 42nd Street (Chichester Festival Theatre, Curve Theatre, Leicester), The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound (Minerva Theatre), High Society (UK national tour), Wonderful Town (UK national tour), Betty Blue Eyes (UK national tour), Saturday Night Fever (UK national tour), A Little Night Music (Palace Theatre), Follies (Royal Albert Hall), the world premiere of Mrs Henderson Presents (Theatre Royal, Bath ,Noel Coward Theatre, Toronto), The Showgirl Within (Garrick Theatre) and Almost Like Being In Love (National Theatre). Let the Good Times Roll! -ENDS- For further information please contact Maisie Lawrence at The Corner Shop PR on 020 7831 7657 or email [email protected] LISTINGS

Underbelly Productions in association with Cameron Mackintosh, Steven Harris and Westminster City Council presents A new production of FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE A musical by Clarke Peters Featuring Louis Jordan's greatest hits Directed by Clarke Peters Musical Staging and Choreography by Andrew Wright

Choreography inspired by Charles Augins’ original staging Produced at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and subsequently in the West End by Cameron Mackintosh

Musical Supervision from Steve Hill Set and Costume Design by takis Lighting Design by Philip Gladwell Sound Design by Ben Harrison Associate Director and Choreographer David Cameron Casting by Will Burton CDG for DGA

Performed by arrangement with MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (EUROPE) LIMITED

Marble Arch Theatre Marble Arch

London W1C 1CX

Booking period until 24 March 2018 Monday – Saturday 7.45pm Thursday and Saturday matinees 2.30pm Pricing: from £10 Box office: 0333 344 4167 Online: fiveguysmusical.com