Initial cast announced for World Premiere of Bank of Dave The Musical

L-R Lucca Chadwick-Patel, Hayley Tamaddon, Lauryn Redding, Claire Moore. Photo by Rich Lakos

The World Premiere of Bank of Dave The Musical will open in May at The Lowry in Salford from 2 May, before another run at the Curve Theatre, Leicester.

The home-grown, brand-new British musical is based on the Sunday Times best-selling book, BAFTA Award-winning documentary, and global-hit Netflix film of the same name, with a screenplay by Piers Ashworth. The musical has a book and lyrics by Rob Madge (My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?)) and music and lyrics by Pippa Cleary (The Great British Bake Off Musical). It will be directed by Curve’s Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (Kinky Boots).

Bursting with northern grit, laugh-out-loud humour, Bank of Dave The Musical tells the true-ish story of Dave Fishwick: Burnley born and bred, and no ordinary man. A self-made millionaire, Dave spent years helping local people and small businesses when hard-nosed banks turned them away. Frustrated by the system, he has an idea… to set up his own bank and put the profits straight back into his community.

With posh but principled lawyer Hugh at his side, Dave swaps Burnley for London to take on the banking bigwigs and fight for a fairer deal. But will the fat cats of the City make way for Dave’s dreams?

Initial casting for the production includes Hayley Tamaddon (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre and UK & Ireland tour) as Nicky, Lucca Chadwick-Patel (Mean Girls, Savoy Theatre) as Hugh, Claire Moore (The Great British Bake Off, the Musical, Noel Coward Theatre) as Maureen, and Lauryn Redding (Coven, Kiln Theatre) as Alex.

Further casting and the role of Dave will be announced in due course.