Jenny Gayner – Annie

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Jenny will be co-starring as Lilly in Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin’s Broadway classic Annie, touring across the UK and Ireland from the 2nd of February until the 23rd of November. 

Following a smash-hit production at the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End, this heart-felt story of a brave young orphan in Depression-era America trying to find her true family with the help of the kind Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks stars either award-winning actress Anita Dobson or Strictly Come Dancing judge and resident bogeyman Craig Revel Horwood as the despicable orphanage owner Miss Agatha Hannigan. 

Jenny plays Lilly St. Regis, the partner and love-interest to criminal and con-artist Daniel Francis “Rooster” Hannigan, who is Miss Hannigan’s brother and attempts to trick Annie into believing that he is her real father. His girlfriend Lily is a rough, tough sexy New Jersey broad with a big rack and a bigger mouth. 

Annie will open at the Manchester Opera House on the 2nd of February 2019 and finish at Stoke’s Regent Theatre on the 23rd of November.  

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Simon Burbage – John Lewis & Partners Christmas Advert 2018

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Simon stars as Elton John in his mid to late 30s in this year’s Christmas advert for John Lewis & Partners entitled A Boy and his Piano.

Produced with Sir Elton’s involvement in nearly every stage of production, the Christmas advert from the nationwide department store chain has become something of a Yuletide tradition.

Charting the life of Sir Elton John throughout his life, it starts in the modern day before going all the way back to a family Christmas in Pinner where his parents/Father Christmas have him his very first piano. Before then we see several major events in Elton’s life from a dreary childhood recital, to dazzling friends and family as a teenager by playing like Jerry Lee Lewis, to recording Your Song (the soundtrack to the episode), to performing in front of packed stadiums around the world.

While some have criticised the ad for having nothing to do with Christmas, the true message of the advert is that a lifetime of wonder and success and beauty can all be traced back to a single act of kindness and generosity towards those we love and adore.

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Cassidy Little – Shakespeare & Remembrance

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Cassidy is taking part in Shakespeare & Rememberance at Shakespeare’s Globe in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.

An evening of performances that will pit Shakespeare’s imagined experience of war against the realities of twenty-first century military life.

Focusing on current serving and veteran military personnel and their families, this will be an evening of remembrance for all those who served in both the First World War and other more recent conflicts. The call and response between Shakespeare and our contemporaries will explore what war means to our society, how we view the military and combat, and how it touches our lives.

The performance will also be a testament to the power of art, theatre, and specifically Shakespeare, to rehabilitate and enrich the lives of those who have experienced the effects of war. 

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Stephen Marzella – Walking with the Enemy

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Stephen features as David Koenig in Mark Schmidt’s Walking with the Enemy, available on DVD, Netflix and iTunes now.

Starring Jonas Armstrong, Hannah Tointon, Burn Gorman and Ben Kingsley, it’s set in Hungary during the Second World War. In 1941, trapped between the German Reich and the Soviet Union, Admiral Miklos Horthy (Ben Kingsley), Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, is forced to join the Axis and must follow Hitler’s lead as to the treatment of Hungary’s Jewish population including forcing 10,000 into slave labour and the rest into ghettos & concentration camps. 

Two young men, Elek Cohen (Jonas Armstrong) and Ferenc Jacobson, obtain forged Catholic baptism certificates and urge their families to leave Hungary as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz is saving thousands of Jewish lives by issuing Swiss passports from his Budapest office, known as The Glass House.

Based on the true story of Pinchas Rosenbaum and Carl Lutz, they are accredited with saving 62,000 Hungarian Jews, the single largest rescue operation of Jewish people of the Second World War. Thanks to their actions, around half the Jewish population of Budapest avoided a grizzly fate at the Nazi extermination camps. 

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