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Strictly star's first-ever musical is Chicago - Eastbourne and Crawley dates
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01/07/2025
Janette Manrara is best known for her time on Strictly Come Dancing as well as co-hosting BBC2’s It Takes Two and hosting the Strictly Live tour across the UK.
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good morning my name is we are on group arts editor at sussex newspapers lovely this morning
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to speak to jeanette manrara who is fulfilling a life held ambition aren't you you are on stage on
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tour your first ever big musical and it's the one you want at chicago now in our area you're doing
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eastbourne july the 7th to july the 12th and you're doing the crawley's horse 11th of august to 11th
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of 16th of august so why now and why chicago why was that so special and so much part of the dream
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oh gosh well i think it's because since i was a little girl i i love performing and i started in
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musical theater first so i did chorus line and cats and west side story and then as i got older because
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obviously the storyline of chicago is a little bit more intense when i got a little bit older i did
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chicago and i remember thinking oh i love the dancing i love the story it's two women that are
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the leads in it and you know they're anything but perfect kind of women and i thought if i could
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one day do that musical it would be a real big dream come true so yeah i still pinch myself when
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i'm on stage doing the show every night right before i go on i've got this like buzz and excitement
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in my belly because it is it's a lifelong dream come true it's living up to those expectations then
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yeah oh more than more than in so many ways because not only is the woman that plays velma
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also a mother we are the same age so we have we just feel like two super moms making our families
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proud on stage every night but besides that i've become such incredible friends with the whole cast
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and the gentleman that plays a miss joshua lloyd and um miss sunshine who's played by jordan lee davis
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these are also my closest friends now for life because they've been so supportive and so welcoming
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to me i mean this is my first ever musical and they're constantly you know checking in on me being
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there for me just guiding me through the whole cast honestly i feel very fortunate they say that the
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people you work with is what makes the job and yes chicago is incredible and the music is amazing
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and it's like i said one of my favorite musicals of all time but on i think i'm very lucky that i get
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to do with this specific group of people because they are they are fabulous all of them absolutely
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and to start with your favorite news cook as you're saying what you do yes i don't know yeah i think i
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peaked too soon i don't know i mean i've i also love cabaret and i really love the way that it's been
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reimagined and a million miles away is it yeah so we'll see but i don't know i mean my my other
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favorite musical is west side story but uh we'll see we'll see i i'm just at the moment really
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embracing roxy enjoy the moment fantastic we're really lovely that you're coming to two sussex venues
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janet really lovely to speak to you thank you for your time thank you for having me
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