Rufus Hound and Katy Brand to join Everybody's Talking About Jamie in the West End | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. 14 February 2020 . Retrieved 14 February 2020. Faye Tozer joins Everybody's Talking About Jamie West End cast". WhatsOnStage . Retrieved 22 March 2019.

In Pritti's bedroom, Jamie rants to Pritti about how he is not allowed to go to prom in drag. Pritti tells Jamie to go in a dress - not in drag. Jamie says that without Mimi Me, he is ugly. Pritti reassures Jamie that he is far from ugly ("It Means Beautiful"). Jamie reveals that when he was eight, his dad found him in a dress and was angry. He is then confused as to why he paid for the dress and bought flowers if he is not supportive of him as a drag queen. Pritti suggests Jamie should go to his house and speak to him. Before he leaves, Jamie kisses Pritti on the cheek ("It Means Beautiful (Reprise)"). The character of Wayne New is not given a name in the stage production; an artistic decision was made to credit actors as ‘Jamie’s Dad’.Everybody's Talking About Jamie isn't the first modern musical to celebrate drag (that honour, arguably, goes to 1983's La Cage Aux Folles), and it isn't the first show to centre its plot around an upcoming drag event, either – that would be Australia's Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, adapted for the stage in 2006.

Meanwhile, Margaret meets with Jamie's dad, where she reveals she has been lying to Jamie about his dad, including the fact she has to write a birthday card from him each birthday. Jamie's dad tells Margaret he wants nothing to do with Jamie, claiming he is not a "real boy". Margaret ponders what her life would be like if she never met Jamie's dad ("If I Met Myself Again"). Mark Shenton of The Stage thought highly of the show, commenting "Everybody should soon be talking about Everybody's Talking About Jamie. This new British musical is by turns courageous and outrageous." [43] Awards and nominations [ edit ] Original West End production [ edit ] Year Everybody's Talking About Jamie announces new tour cast | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. 14 May 2021 . Retrieved 20 May 2021.

On 5 July 2018, the musical was broadcast live in cinemas across the United Kingdom and Ireland. [49] It later screened in Australia. Coronation Street star Bill Ward to join Everybody's Talking About Jamie". officiallondontheatre.com . Retrieved 14 June 2019. Watching the kids dancing and everybody on that screen, I thought 'I've never seen that before in my life'... and I'm just so happy to be there celebrating with everybody else." The next day, the school is buzzing with news of Jamie's drag debut ("Everybody's Talking About Jamie"). Jamie comes into school in bright blue eyeshadow and long eyelashes. Miss Hedge once again tells Jamie to "get real", and Dean taunts Jamie, but Jamie kisses him in retaliation, leaving Dean confused. There’s a special kind of atmosphere surrounding the Theatre Royal in Newcastle this week as a smash hit musical has finally arrived in the native land of the person who inspired it.