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Creativentertainment along with West End director and producer, David Bownes, revealed the local cast who will be starring in the production of the Broadway musical, The Full Monty, due to grace the stages in South Africa from July 26 for a limited season. The musical adaptation of the record breaking and 1997 Academy Award nominated box office hit movie of the same name, will open at the Artscape Opera House on July 26 and will run until August 17. Bookings are already open and selling fast.

The Full Monty - The Broadway Musical, written by four-time Tony Award winner Terrence McNally and David Yazbek, tells the humoristic and heartfelt story of how a night out for the ladies became a way out for the guys.

Set in Buffalo, New York, it depicts the lives of six average guys of odd shapes, various ages and very different backgrounds out to earn some respect and a few dollars by stripping as a last way out. When a local male strip show is quite a hit with the town's ladies, these cash strapped and unemployed steelworkers, a security guard and a has-been disco dancer, figure they can cash in big time if they go "the Full Monty".

The South African cast will feature Steven Hicks (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Grease - The Musical) in the lead as Jerry Lukowski with Tiaan Rautenbach (Kompleks) playing the role of Dave Bukatinsky, Jerry's overweight best friend. The six-man strong "Hot Stuff" will also include Naledi Award-winner Mike Huff (Fame, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray) playing the guys' former manager-turned-choreographer Harold Nichols with Clinton Hawkes (Grease - The Musical) as Malcolm MacGregor, a security guard living with his mother, Shaun Brian Murphy (African Footprint, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray) as the talented Ethan Girard and Thokozani Nzima (Soweto Story, Rent) as Noah "Horse" T. Simmons, a disco-era dancer still going strong. Book at Computicket.

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