Caroline: A New Musical

Caroline dreams of something more than stacking shelves at the local greengrocers. Her days are routine, but her nights come alive, walking the pier, sharing laughs with her best friend Mary, and spinning records with Robbie, her music-mad boyfriend who’s big on charm but short on direction.

But a music revolution is coming, and Robbie lands a shock gig with Radio Caroline—the pirate radio station blasting pop, soul and rock ’n’ roll from a ship off the Essex coast and suddenly everything changes. Caroline is swept into a tidal wave of music, mayhem and a movement that would shake up British culture forever.

Set to a soundtrack of iconic hits from the 60’s, Caroline is a vibrant, heart-warming and rebellious new musical about love, ambition and discovering your own voice.

She’s not a DJ. She’s not a rock star. But in the middle of Britain’s radio revolution, Caroline might just steal the show.

Written by Vikki Stone. Caroline is brought to you by the East Anglian Touring Consortium which includes Eastern Angles, HighTide, Landmark Theatres (New Theatre Peterborough), Mercury Theatre, Colchester, New Wolsey Theatre, Norwich Theatre Royal, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.

Cast

The talented cast of actor-musicians includes: Nicola Bryan (Mamma Mia – International Tour / Sister Act – UK Tour) as Betty; Gareth Cooper (One Man, Two Guvnors – New Vic / Julius Caesar – Southwark Playhouse) as Postmaster General; Jake Halsey-Jones (Dear Evan Hansen – Asian Tour / Hamilton – Victoria Palace) as Robbie; Joey Hickman (Noël and Gertie – UK Tour / Brief Encounter – Stephen Joseph Theatre & UK Tour) as Declan; Rhiannon Hopkins (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – UK and Ireland Tour / Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story – UK Tour) as Kitty; James Lawrence (Peaky Blinders: The Rise / Doctor Who: Time Fracture – Immersive Everywhere) as Steven; Claire Lee Shenfield (The Rivals – Orange Tree Theatre & Theatre Royal Bath / Little Women – UK Tour) as Caroline; Jerome Lincoln (Standing At The Sky’s Edge – National Theatre at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End / Once On This Island – Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) as the Private Secretary; Perry Meadowcroft (A Midsummer Night’s Dream – OVO Theatre & Minack Theatre / JUDY! – The Arts Theatre) as Dave the Fish; and Eloise Richardson (Dick Whittington and His Cat – New Wolsey Theatre / Once Upon a Flowerbed – Moonbeam Theatre) as Mary.