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Ashley to star in We Will Rock You tour
From the WWRY Facebook page: Quote:
‘WE WILL ROCK YOU’ UK TOUR CAST ANNOUNCED
http://www.wewillrockyou.co.uk Jonathan Wilkes, Kevin Kennedy, Brenda Edwards, Georgina Hagen and Ashley Russell to star in the record -breaking musical! Actor and musician Jonathan Wilkes and former Coronation Street star Kevin Kennedy, will star in this year’s upcoming ‘We Will Rock You’ UK Tour. They will appear in the smash-hit Queen and Ben Elton musical alongside X Factor finalist Brenda Edwards, star of ITV1’s Britannia High Georgina Hagen and I’d Do Anything’s Nancy contestant Ashley Russell, who are also announced today. The eagerly anticipated 43-week regional tour opens at Manchester’s Palace Theatre on 21st March. Jonathan Wilkes will perform the role of ‘Khashoggi’, whilst Manchester soap star Kevin Kennedy will assume the role of ‘Pop’. Brenda Edwards will play the domineering role of ‘Killer Queen’, Head of Globalsoft. TV star Georgina Hagen will star in the production as ‘Meat’, the main female of the Bohemians and Ashley Russell, will play the role of the ‘Teacher’!!! |
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Congraulations to Ashley!
I might get to see this when it gets up here! |
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That's great news. I'm glad to see Ash get an opportunity like this. I could never really see her as Nancy, but she's a talented girl who had an unnecessarily harsh time on the show.
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Ashley has left Sster Act and is next seen on the We Will Rock You tour repeating her role as Teacher. http://www.wewillrockyou.co.uk/tour/...shley_russell/
She's on this rehearsals youtube which I posted in the Jenny Douglas thread. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcwjKqzUA4 She's also got a website with some videos and songs on it. http://www.ashleyjrussell.com/ And she's on twitter. http://twitter.com/ashleyjrussell |
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More Ashley Killer Queen
A Kind of Magic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teMasnpcv1A Killer Queen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBYkX...eature=related Play the Game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nFXq...eature=related |
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Ashley is taking over as lead Killer Queen on the We Will Rock You Tour from Liverpool in September
Its now in Birmingham - Liverpool, Sunderland, Bristol, Leeds and Edinburgh left to do. http://www.wewillrockyou.co.uk/tour/venues/ |
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How is she doing? She was my IDA favourite.
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How is she doing? She was my IDA favourite.
Starts at 1-00in. Ashley talks a bit about playing Killer Queen and there's some film of her rehearsing the role. |
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http://www.shrekthemusical.co.uk/news-reviews/
Ashley is next in Shrek as Mama Bear/Mama ogre. From Feb 29. |
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Ashley continues in Shrek - it closes 24/2/2013.
She also seems to be leading in Jestend 2012 Sept 26/27 http://westend.broadwayworld.com/art...-Rachael-Woodi http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticket...3484770/events |
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Ashley's done Jestend 2012 but there's no youtubes yet for some reason.
She has been on as the dragon in Shrek. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzhDGNpTVFU |
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Ashley J Russell's next role is now public - and she's started playing it........
Ashley is in the Mamma Mia International Tour. She's according to her agent's site, understudying Tanya, Rosie and Donna , 3 of the 4 female leads http://www.mamma-mia.com/internation...lTour_cast.asp The tour looks quite amazing - if Ashley likes Korean food, and Korean winter, and can get used to the air raid drills. It starts snd runs from November 26 to March 23 in Seoul, South Korea, then moves to Basel Switzerland to run from 13 May to 8 June and then moves for the summer to Blackpool from 20 June - 31 Aug . Kimchi, Korean dancers, alps, and beaches...... . http://www.mamma-mia.com/internation...ur_tickets.asp |
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Ashley appears on the Mamma Mia xmas video from Seoul. No Mamma Mia shown but the theatre looks amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpeard_NqoM |
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Ashley Russell and the Mamma Mia crew have now left Korea and are now singing amid the Swiss alps. The run in Blackpool seems to have been extended and runs from 20 June to 14 Sept and they now have a run in Hong Kong to follow Blackpool -going from 24 th Sept to 19 Oct
http://www.mamma-mia.com/internationaltour/default.asp The cast did a leaving Korea video - with some Ashley visible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtrvmCBaeDA |
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Ashley is in Hong Kong, with Niamh on the Mamma Mia international tour.
She seems to be having a good time. https://twitter.com/ashleyjrussell/media There's a review that tells us she's been playing the yaya the grumpy old lady character http://hkeld.com/articles/view/revie...ox-productions |
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Ashey is indeed with Niamh. They posted a photo Nov 2 https://twitter.com/ashleyjrussell
They have now moved on to Singapore. Ashley had a break in Vietnam and posted some pictures from there, and she's now got a new swimming pool in Singapore. https://twitter.com/ashleyjrussell too. |
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Ashley seems to have left the Mamma Mia intnl tour at the cast change , and may now be working up for something else.
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Ashley is judging searchforanorthernstar In August, https://www.facebook.com/searchforanorthernstar?_rdr
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Ashley is next in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe at the Birmingham REP http://www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/even...-the-wardrobe/
19 November 2015 - 16 January 2016 |
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http://www.wintergardensblackpool.co...?events_id=345
Ashley is in Tommy the rock opera - at theWinter Gardens Blackpool, till sept 26. with Joe McElderry - who just finished singing with Sophie in London...... http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/news/rev...ouse-1-7462232 |
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Ashley has been singing with Joe McElderry who was with her in Tommy.
Fairytale of New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csc8ZZBDhhY Previously Tommy and Ashley both got good reviews http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/wh...pool-1-7462640 http://www.garstangcourier.co.uk/new...ouse-1-7462232 |
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