The producers of the global sensation & JULIET are delighted to announce that The Wanted band member and 2015 Strictly Come Dancing winner Jay McGuiness will star as Shakespeare during the second leg of the tour, including its visit to the Bristol Hippodrome Wed 15 Jan – Sat 25 Jan 2025 .
Jay joins current tour cast members Gerardine Sacdalan as Juliet, Lara Denning as Anne, Sandra Marvin as Angelique, Jack Danson as Romeo, Kyle Cox as Francois and Jordan Broatch as May.
Jay McGuiness said, “I love these songs; Max Martin has written hit after hit. I’ve really missed singing and dancing as the last thing I did was a play, so I’m excited to get back into it. And I love the & Juliet costumes, especially Shakespeare’s!”
Jay McGuiness is best known as a vocalist in the chart-topping band The Wanted. Their debut single, All Time Low, hit the No 1 spot on the UK singles chart and the band went on to have two further No. 1 and 5 Top 10 singles including the global hit Glad You Came.
Jay has a song and dance background, starting with dance classes in his early teens, he later attended The Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama in Nottingham. After taking a break from The Wanted in 2013, Jay was confirmed as a celebrity contestant on Strictly Come Dancing where he wowed audiences with his routines and went on to be crowned Strictly champion for 2015.
His now infamous Jive to the music from Pulp Fiction has become the show’s most watched routine ever, amassing over 8 million hits on You Tube. The routine was also voted Strictly’s best ever dance by BBC Strictly viewers in December 2020.
Juliet’s new story bursts to life through a playlist of pop anthems as iconic as her name, including Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time, Katy Perry’s Roar and chart toppers Since U Been Gone, It’s My Life, I Want It That Way, and “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” — all from Max Martin, the genius songwriter/producer behind more #1 hits than any other artist this century, and his collaborators.
Tickets are now on sale via the Bristol Hippodrome website – https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/and-juliet/bristol-hippodrome/