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2 September 2018
 

MORE DISASTROUS NEWS!
 

UK PRODUCERS HAVE MANAGED TO PERSUADE JAY LAGA’AIA AND 9 OTHER TALENTED ACTORS TO PERFORM IN OLIVIER-NOMINATED AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMEDPETER PAN GOES WRONG
FROM 19 DECEMBER 2018 to 17 MARCH 2019
 

The producers of the West End hit comedy Peter Pan Goes Wrong, which stumbles across Australia from 19 December to 17 March 2019, have today announced that they have managed to convince 10 incredibly talented actors – including movie and musical theatre star JAY LAGA’AIA – to perform in the Olivier-nominated and critically acclaimed play. The tour follows hot on the wobbly heels of last year’s Olivier Award-winning comedy hit The Play That Goes Wrong.
 

Seven of the actors who had audiences in stitches in The Play That Goes Wrong – DARCY BROWN, FRANCINE CAIN, ADAM DUNN, LUKE JOSLIN, GEORGE KEMP, JORDAN PROSSER and TAMMY WELLER – have all been silly enough to sign on again with The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society where they will once again battle against technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes on their way to Neverland with hilarious and disastrous results.
 

They will unfortunately be joined by JAY LAGA’AIA, well known internationally for his role as Captain Typho in Star_Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Jay is also one of Australia and New Zealand’s favourite musical theatre stars, having played the principal roles of Mufasa in the hit musical The Lion King,the Wizard in Wicked and Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. He is also known for his television roles in Home and Away, Xena: Warrior Princess, Water Rats and Play Schooland as a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother.
 

Also experiencing this theatrical mayhem for the first time will be CONNOR CRAWFORD who recently appeared in Assassins at the Hayes Theatre and Sydney Opera House and TEAGAN WOUTERS who starred as Nicola in the national tour of the musical Kinky Boots.

In this new take on the J M Barrie classic, Peter Pan Goes Wrong is co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and includes highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton-inspired slapstick, all delivered with split-second timing.
 

Mischief Theatre’s Henry Lewis says, “We are amazed that actors of such high calibre are prepared to risk their careers by signing up to perform in this maniacal play.”
 

Peter Pan Goes Wrong premiered at the Pleasance Theatre in London in December 2013 before going on to tour the UK during 2014. The production made its West End debut in 2015 for a Christmas season, returning the following year from October for another Christmas season, making it the third show running in the West End from the Mischief Theatre Company after The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery.
 

Peter Pan Goes Wrong is directed by Adam Meggido, with set design by Simon Scullion, lighting by Matt Haskins, costumes by Roberto Surace, sound design by Ella Wahlstromand songs composed by Richard Baker and Rob Falconer.
 

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