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Work Sans 10.5 Actor Name PAGE TITLE ! WELCOME With the songs of Sheffield in our hearts and stories of resilience on our minds, everyone here at the theatres wishes you a warm welcome to this brand new production of The Band Plays On. We’re so excited to be working once again with Chris Bush to create a show full of the spirit of Sheffield, and of course some amazing tunes. We’re delighted to be back in the Crucible and making work for our audiences again, and are looking forward to the day we’ll welcome you back into the building. But this production is much more than just a recording: part-concert, part-play, part-film, I hope this electric production will bring to mind all that we’ve missed and all that we have to look forward to. With our incredible cast of five powerhouse women, a moving script and a brilliant design incorporating the work of Kid Acne, I’m thrilled that this production is our first of 2021. Not only is the show a love letter to Sheffield, it’s a thank you to all our amazing team, the freelancers we work with, and most importantly to you – our audiences. Thank you for your continued support throughout this time. It’s thanks to you that we can continue to make bold and brilliant theatre. Sheffield Theatres Crucible Trust is a registered Charity No. 1120640 and is a company limited by guarantee No. 6035820 CAST! BIOGRAPHIES Anna-Jane Casey For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Annie Get Your Gun, Flowers For Mrs Harris, Company, Piaf and Sweet Charity. Other theatre credits include: Girl From the North Country (Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto/The Gielgud Theatre, London); Calendar Girls (UK Tour); Billy Elliot (UK/International Tour); Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre); Mack & Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK Tour); Mack and Mabel (The Watermill Theatre - 2005 Theatrical Management Association award for Best Performance in a Musical); Jerry"s Girls (St James Theatre); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (The Watermill Theatre); Aladdin (Hackney Empire); Comedy of Errors (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Bells are Ringing (Union Theatre - What’sOnStage Best Actress in a Musical and OFFIE Best Actress nominations); Radio Times (Watermill, Newbury); and Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre). Film and television credits include: Family Guy, Coronation Street, The Royal, Doctors, Eastenders, The Bill, Beyond the Sea, Heartbeat and Holby City. Anna-Jane has performed with all of the UK"s major orchestras and has a long history with the John Wilson orchestra including numerous Proms appearances and tours. She also performs in her own cabarets worldwide. ! Jocasta Almgill Jocasta trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Theatre credits include: Rent (Hope Mill Theatre); the Original London Cast of & Juliet (Manchester Opera House/Shaftesbury Theatre); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre - Best Supporting Performance UK Theatre Award nomination); Sunshine on Leith (West Yorkshire Playhouse/National Tour); Dreamgirls (Savoy Theatre/ Original London Cast Recording); In The Heights (King's Cross Theatre); Ghost the Musical (Asian Tour); Our House (Pimlico Opera); Little Red Riding Hood (Everyman Theatre); Sister Act (Pimlico Opera); Chicago (Curve Theatre); Hairspray (National Tour); Beauty and the Beast (Radlett Theatre); Hair (European Tour) and The Blues Brothers (National/International Tours). Workshops include: Rocky, Dr Dolittle, Dusty, Victory and Black Men Walking (NT Studio). Concerts include: West Side Story (BBC Proms/Royal Albert Hall). ! Maimuna Memon For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Standing at the Sky’s Edge. Other theatre credits include: Into the Woods, Hobson"s Choice (Manchester Royal Exchange); Buskers Opera (The Park Theatre); Lazarus (Kings Cross Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Regents Park Open Air); The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd); Ghost Quartet (Boulevard Theatre) and Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre). Television credits include: Unforgotten (Series 3) and Doctors. Composing credits (music and lyrics) include: Electrolyte (Edinburgh 2018-19/National Tour); State of The Arts (Signal Fires), Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre) and Welcome to Iran (BBC Radio 3). ! Sandra Marvin For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Show Boat. Other theatre credits include: A Christmas Carol (Dominion Theatre); Romantics Anonymous (Bristol Old Vic); Waitress (Adelphi Theatre); Committee, City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse); Stepping Out (Vaudeville Theatre); Show Boat (New London Theatre); Ragtime, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Porgy and Bess (Savoy Theatre); Cool Hand Luke (Adelphi Theatre); The Thunder Girls (The Lowry Theatre); Chicago (Leicester Curve), and Hairspray (Original West End cast & UK and Ireland tours). Concert credits include: Sandra was a backing vocalist for Kate Bush in ‘Before the Dawn’ (22 date residency and live album); Liam Gallagher; Tim Burgess; The Charlatans’ Modern Nature album and tour, and Michael Ball OBE’s ‘Heroes’ and ‘If Everyone Was Listening’ UK tours. Television credits include: Emmerdale, Call the Midwife, Citizen Khan, The Royal Variety Show, Loose Women, Good Morning Britain, This Morning and Children in Need. Film credits include: Florence Foster Jenkins. Soundtrack credits include: Gravity (title track) and Mary Poppins Returns. ! Jodie Prenger Theatre credits include: A Taste of Honey (National Theatre/Trafalgar Studios); Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); One Man, Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre); Les Misérables (Dubai Opera House); Abigail"s Party, Shirley Valentine, Annie, Fat Friends, Tell Me On A Sunday, Calamity Jane (UK tours); Cinderella (Liverpool Empire) and Dick Whittington (Birmingham Hippodrome). Television credits include: Years and Years, Jamie Johnson, Citizen Khan, Casualty, Wizards vs Aliens, Candy Cabs and Waterloo Road. Television presenting credits include: Let"s Dance for Comic Relief, Top Dog, Over the Rainbow, and Let it Shine. CREATIVE BIOGRAPHIES Chris Bush Writer Chris is a playwright, lyricist, and a Creative Associate at Sheffield Theatres. For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Standing at The Sky's Edge (Best Musical Production at the UK Theatre Awards), Steel, What We Wished For, A Dream and The She"eld Mysteries. Other theatre credits include: Nine Lessons And Carols (Almeida), Faustus: That Damned Woman (Headlong/Lyric Hammersmith), Pericles (National Theatre), The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd), The Changing Room (NT Connections), Scenes From The End of The World (Yard Theatre/CSSD), Larksong (New Vic Theatre) and A Declaration From The People (National Theatre). Robert Hastie Director Robert is Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres. For Sheffield Theatres, credits include: Coriolanus, Guys and Dolls, Standing at the Sky"s Edge, A Midsummer Night"s Dream, The York Realist, The Wizard of Oz, Of Kith and Kin and Julius Caesar. Theatre credits include: Macbeth (Shakespeare"s Globe); Breaking the Code (Royal Exchange Manchester); Henry V (Regent"s Park Open Air Theatre); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatr Clwyd); My Night with Reg, Splendour (Donmar Warehouse/West End); Carthage, Events While Guarding The Bofors Gun (Finborough Theatre); Sunburst (Holborn Grange Hotel); Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre) and A Breakfast of Eels (Print Room). Anthony! Lau Director Anthony is RTYDS Associate Artistic Director at Sheffield Theatres. He was previously Laboratory Associate Director at Nuffield Southampton Theatres and trained as a director at LAMDA and at the National Theatre Studio. As Director, credits include: The Shadow Factory revival and Juicy and Delicious (Nuffield Southampton Theatres); A Better Man and The Cherry Orchard parallel project (Young Vic); The Common Land (Rose Theatre Kingston); Dreaming in America (Shoreditch Town Hall); Still Life/Red Peppers (Old Red Lion); The Taste of Us (HighTide Festival) and I Am a Camera (Southwark Playhouse). As Associate Director: The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Southampton Theatres). As Staff Director at the National Theatre: ANNA. Ben Stones Set and Costume Designer Ben trained in stage design at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and went on to receive a Linbury Prize commission to design Paradise Lost for Rupert Goold. His designs now span theatre, ballet, comedy, fashion and Hip Hop. For Sheffield Theatres, Design credits include: Coriolanus, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Frost/Nixon, Julius Caesar and An Enemy of the People. For Sheffield Theatres, Dance credits include: World premiere reimagining of KES - Dance Theatre production by Jonathan Watkins. Other Design credits include: The Watsons (Minerva Theatre/Menier Chocolate Factory), The Producers (Royal Exchange Theatre); Sylvia (Old Vic Theatre); The Bear, The Proposal (Young Vic Theatre); The Suicide (National Theatre); HIR, The Kitchen Sink (Bush Theatre); Frankenstein, Breaking The Code, Doctor Faustus, Edward II, Taste of Honey, Salt (Royal Exchange); Good With People by David Harrower (Paines Plough/59E59 New York); Creditors directed by Alan Rickman, translation by David Greig (Donmar Warehouse/BAM New York); The Dazzle, Bug, Fool For Love (Found111); Belong, Ingredient X (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs); Thom Pain (Printroom Notting Hill); Arabian Nights (Tricycle Theatre); No Idea (Improbable Theatre at Young Vic); Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Donmar); Lower Ninth, The Silence of the Sea (Donmar Trafalgar); Sue The Second Coming (Soho Theatre); Wild Oats (Bristol Old Vic); Beautiful Thing (Sound