Adam Spiegel Productions, Robert G. Bartner and the Ambassador Theatre Group are delighted to announce the UK tour of “LOVE ME TENDER” – the new musical inspired by and featuring the music of Elvis Presley. The tour will open on Friday 5 June 2015 at the Manchester Opera House. Full tour schedule below. Casting will be announced shortly. www.LoveMeTenderMusical.com
From the producers of Hairspray, Jersey Boys and West Side Story “LOVE ME TENDER” is a hilarious feel-good musical featuring Elvis Presley’s greatest hits. In a small town in 1950s America, a guitar-playing, hip-swivelling stranger rides his motorbike into town. Is he The Devil in Disguise or a Hound Dog in his Blue Suede Shoes? The townsfolk are about to be All Shook Up and could be headed for Heartbreak Hotel, but for Natalie, the love-struck, tomboy mechanic, it really is Now or Never.
Packed with 25 of the best loved songs by The King himself, “LOVE ME TENDER”, by the writer of the award-wining West End and Broadway smash hit Memphis, is a funny and moving tale of hope, second chances and the healing qualities of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Producer Adam Spiegel said: “I’m delighted to be working with such a talented, award winning, Creative team to bring the UK this fantastic feel-good musical featuring some of the best music ever written – the greatest hits of the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis Presley.”
“LOVE ME TENDER” is Written by Tony Award Winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis) and Directed and Choreographed by Olivier Award Winner Karen Bruce (Saturday Night Fever, Dance ’Til Dawn, Pacific Overtures) with Set Design by award nominated Morgan Large (Flashdance, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), Lighting Design by James Whiteside (Never Forget, Footloose) Costume Design by Vicky Gill (Dance ‘Til Dawn, Strictly Come Dancing) and Casting by James Orange (The Producers, Sweeney Todd.)
Premiering on Broadway in 2005 under the title “All Shook Up”, this romantic musical comedy has been retitled ‘LOVE ME TENDER’ for its UK premiere.
LOVE ME TENDER UK TOUR 2015
www.LoveMeTenderMusical.com
Manchester Opera House
5th – 13th June 2015
Bristol Hippodrome
15th – 20th June 2015
New Wimbledon Theatre
22nd – 27th June 2015
Regent Theatre Stoke-on-Trent
29th June – 4th July 2015
New Theatre Oxford
6th July – 11th July 2015
Sunderland Empire
13th – 18th July 2015
Playhouse Edinburgh
20th – 25th July 2015
Milton Keynes Theatre
27th July -1st August 2015
King’s Theatre Glasgow
3rd – 8th August 2015
Empire Theatre Liverpool
1st – 15th August 2015
Grand Opera House York
17th – 22nd August 2015
New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham
24th – 29th August 2015
The Churchill Theatre Bromley
31st August – 5th September 2015
New Victoria Theatre Woking
7th – 12th September 2015
Monday 16th March 2015
