JODIE Prenger will lead the cast in the title role of Calamity Jane on tour at the Grand Opera House, York, from February 10 to 14.

She will be joined in North Yorkshireman Nikolai Foster’s cast of actor-musicians by Tom Lister as Wild Bill Hickok, Christina Tedders as Adelaide Adams and Phoebe Street as Katie Brown in a show with orchestrations and musical supervision by Catherine Jayes, choreography by Nick Winston, set and costume design by Matthew Wright and lighting design by Richard G Jones.

Jodie Prenger is best known for winning the role of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh’s West End production of Oliver! through the BBC1 talent show I’d Do Anything.

She has since starred in the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors, both in the West End and on tour, and as Lady Of The Lake in Spamalot.

Presented on tour by the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Calamity Jane was adapted for the stage by Charles K. Freeman with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

It tells the story of Calamity Jane, who can outrun and out-shoot any man in Deadwood.

Hard, boastful and desperate to impress, she travels to Chicago to recruit a star, Adelaide Adams, for the Deadwood Stage, but things don’t go too smoothly for Calamity, as everyone in town favours the new girl and she struggles to keep her jealousy and pride in check.

It takes her long-standing enemy, Wild Bill Hickok, to make her see sense and realise her Secret Love.

Calamity Jane has an Oscar-nominated score that includes The Black Hills Of Dakota, The Deadwood Stage (Whip-Crack-Away), Just Blew In From The Windy City and the award-winning Secret Love.

Tickets for the 7.30pm evening shows and 2.30pm Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday matinees are on sale on 0844 871 3024 or via the website at atgtickets.om/york

Win tickets

Courtesy of the Grand Opera House, York, What’s On has two pairs of tickets to be won for the first night of Calamity Jane on Tuesday, February 10 at 7.30pm.

Question: Jodie Prenger landed which role in Oliver! from winning I’d Do Anything?

Send your answer with your name, address and daytime number by email to charles.hutchinson@nqyne.co.uk, by next Friday morning (6 February).