Dolly Parton musical Here You Come Again announces full casting and creative team

Complete casting has been revealed for new Dolly Parton musical Here You Come Again, which will have its UK premiere this summer, as part of Leeds Playhouse’s season.

Originally written by two-time Emmy award-winning comedy and songwriter Bruce Vilanch with Gabriel Barre (who also directs) and Tricia Paoluccio, it has now been adapted for the UK by acclaimed British playwright Jonathan Harvey (Gimme, Gimme, Gimme and Coronation Street).

The musical, which tells the story of a diehard fan whose fantasy version of international icon Dolly Parton gets him through trying times, features numbers such as “Jolene”, “9 to 5”, “Islands in the Stream”, “I Will Always Love You”, “Here You Come Again” and more.

As already revealed, Paoluccio will play Dolly while Steven Webb will play die-hard fan Kevin, while joining them and confirmed today are Aidan Cutler (Back to the Future the Musical) as backing vocalist and Cover Kevin and Charlotte Elisabeth Yorke (Pretty Woman) as backing vocalist and Cover Dolly.

The full creative team includes set and costume designer Paul Wills, choreographer Lizzie Gee, lighting designer Tim Deiling, sound designer Tom Marshall, associate director/assistant choreographer Teenie MacLeod, illusion designer Richard Pinner, orchestrator Eugene Gwozdz, orchestra manager Maurice Cambridge, production manager Ben Arkell and casting director Stuart Burt. Richard John is musical supervisor and Jordan Li-Smith is musical director, while Kevin Oliver Jones joins the band on bass, Alex Crawford on guitar and Ben Scott on drums.

A co-production with Simon Friend Entertainment, the piece runs from Saturday 11 May to Saturday 8 June 2024 in Leeds, with tour dates at Curve Leicester from 11 June, Theatre Royal Newcastle from 18 June, Marlowe Theatre Canterbury from 2 July, Theatre Royal Nottingham from 9 July, Liverpool Playhouse from 16 July, Cliffs Pavilion Southend from 19 August, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff from 26 Auust, Theatre Royal Brighton from 3 September, Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre from 10 September, Sheffield Lyceum from 17 September, Richmond Theatre from 24 September, Glasgow King’s Theatre from 1 October, Theatre Royal Norwich from 8 October, New Victoria Theatre Woking from 22 October, the Lowry in Salford from 29 October and Milton Keynes Theatre from 19 November.

Further tour dates have been revealed – the show will now play in Cambridge (25 to 29 June), Malvern (16 to 20 July), Edinburgh (23 to 27 July), Cheltenham (14 to 18 October), Bath (5 to 9 November), Blackpool (26 to 30 November) and Liverpool (3 to 7 December).