Full cast for Shake It Up Baby! Liverpool premiere
- Alan Hulme
- Aug 2
- 2 min read
The full cast has been announced for Shake It Up Baby!, the new musical about the Beatles’ Hamburg years, launching at Liverpool's Epstein Theatre September 26-October 11.
Liverpool favourite Andrew Schofield plays the band’s first manager Allan Williams, joined now by a cast of young actor-musicians including Michael Hawkins as John Lennon, Guy Freeman as Paul McCartney, James Jackson as George Harrison and Nick Sheedy who will appear as both Pete Best and Ringo Starr.
Andrew Schofield originated the role of the Narrator in Blood Brothers. His stage work includes Lennon, Lost Soul, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels and Our Day Out – the Musical. Screen credits include This City is Ours, Cilla, Help, Boys from the Blackstuff, Scully and Sid and Nancy.
Michael Hawkins is a Liverpool actor and musician seen on stage in The Peaceful Hour and Lennon: Through a Glass Onion. His screen credits include Cilla, The Bank of Dave, Weeping Willow and The Long Forgotten.
Guy Freeman's stage credits include Girls Don’t Play Guitars and Scouse Pacific at Liverpool’s Royal Court, The Commitments (UK and Ireland tour) and Return to the Forbidden Planet.
Liverpool singer-songwriter and actor James Jackson trained at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) and has been active in the music industry since his teenage years. He is a self-taught producer and performer. Nick Sheedy is a Liverpudlian drummer and actor whose theatre credits include Venus Rising, Bestbeat and more. The line-up is completed by Kieran Andrew, Andrew Copperthwaite, Grace Galloway, Connor Simkins and Jess Smith.
In August 1960, five teenage lads – who thought they knew all the world but had no idea – jumped in the back of a van and left their homes in Liverpool to head to the most dangerous city in Europe. This is a story about how the worst group in Liverpool became the greatest group the globe has ever seen.
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