Watch Interviews With The West End HAIRSPRAY Cast

I just feel really lucky to be honest

I mean, like I said, I never thought that this show and this specific production of it was going to come back at a point when I'd be able to play this part

So I just, yeah, I feel so lucky to be going to do it

Rehearsals are always the way of part. Oh yeah. Rehearsals are like 12 hours a day

hours a day. And you're doing it like 14 times over and over and when you would only do it once

on the night. Exactly. And you're ramming information in your head and you're going home thinking

about it and then when you open you've probably got about five or six shows where you're still

thinking. Then after that it becomes fun. I think the tech for this is going to be a lot

Tech is going to be. The tech because it's a lot of sets, a lot of costumes and wigs and craziness

It's going to be a magnificent production in a magnificent theatre. And, you know, I'm one of the cogs within it

I'm not carrying the whole thing, thank God. But when you're on stage, you are the musical at that point

You know, whichever performance on stage at that particular point, you are the show. So, no, I'm thrilled

It's not something I would ever have thought I'd be doing or ever considered doing

but when they offered it to me, I looked at it and thought, yeah, okay. it um i mean a lot of the time when i improvising on stage i playing different parts anyway as they come up So it not too much of a stretch for me to be playing a character although people haven on television seen me do that

But it's something I'm very comfortable with. I mean, people are still talking about we don't try and get women in theatre

They say there's no point you're never doing that again. It was never again is what they kept saying to me

So now I'm looking forward to it immensely. There are moments, you know, and I have got a song with Michael, but I couldn't be more experienced

with his hands and doing a direct with Michael Ford. So, I'm sure people get me through it

I did it at a dinner theater, and then that was like in Florida somewhere

It's like where all the snowbirds come down from their respective places

They come to Florida, and they put on shows, and they have dinner before. It's so rinky-dick, but it's so cool because I got so much of my training from there

and I played a dynamite, and I was like, oh, I'll play Motor Mouth in 20 years

And then here you are. And here she is. There is. I actually love I can hear the bells

I love, I mean, now I'm sitting next to like a comedy legend

but I actually do love doing a bit of comedy and I think that is the one that has the most room to kind of like act

and it's all that kind of like dream sequence and the staging is amazing for it

So yeah, I can't wait to do that. So it's going to be really cool