Strictly Come Dancing star Craig Revel Horwood is to stop off in Barrow as part of his first solo tour.
Craig will talk about his life from Australia to the West End to Strictly, will reveal a wealth of backstage gossip with his trademark wit and candour, and he will give a special performance of some of the music which has been the soundtrack to his career.
Best-known today for being a judge on BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing, Craig’s professional training began in his home country of Australia where he appeared in productions including West Side Story and La Cage Aux Folles.
On arriving in Europe Craig joined the famous company at the Lido Du Paris as a dancer and then as principal singer at the Moulin Rouge, finding himself a year later in the UK tour of Cats.
Since then, Craig appeared in the West End in Miss Saigon and was an original cast member of Crazy For You. He crossed over into choreography to huge success, being nominated for an Olivier Award for the West End productions of Spend Spend Spend and My One and Only.
Since then he has had numerous credits as director/choreographer across the world, ranging from the hugely successful UK tour of Sister Act to the movie Paddington 2. Craig continues to perform onstage, with 10 years in pantomime and as Miss Hannigan in Annie in the west end and on tour.
But he is of course best known as the judge on all 18 (soon to be 19!) series of Strictly Come Dancing and was also as head judge on Dancing with The Stars Australia.
His many other TV credits range from discovering his ancestry in Who Do You Think You Are, winning BBC2’s Maestro at the Opera, runner-up on Celebrity MasterChef, and most recently as Knickerbockerglory on ITV’s The Masked Dancer and touring the UK with Bruno Tonioli in Craig and Bruno’s Great British Road Trips.
He will appear at The Forum Theatre in Barrow on May 13.
