Coronation Street star Brooke Vincent’s new stage career debut takes a hit after poor ticket sales
As the production of Be My Baby is due to open in Wales, less than half the tickets have been sold
BROOKE Vincent’s break from Coronation Street to pursue a stage career looks set to be clobbered by poor ticket sales.
The 24-year-old is taking time out from playing Street favourite Sophie Webster to tour Britain in a stage play called Be My Baby with Hi-di-Hi favourite Ruth Madoc.
But a with week to go before the production opens in Wales, ticket sales have been sluggish with less than half of the seats sold for the opening performances.
Seats cost between £25 and £17 and the opening night in the theatre, which holds more than 500 people, will be just over half full.
And for Saturday’s matinee at the Theatre Clwyd in Mold, north Wales, the box office has shifted around 150 seats.
Publicity for the show says: “It’s 1964. Nineteen year old Mary Adams is sent away to a mother and baby convent to give birth to her illegitimate child shame free, with only a record player for company.
“Set against the backdrop of iconic girl groups and vocalists like The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las and Dusty Springfield, Mary - along with fellow residents Queenie, Dolores and Norma - must come to terms with their pregnancies, their lives and the fact they may never see their children again.
“Starring Brooke Vincent in her debut stage role alongside Ruth Madoc, this poignant comedy examines the human need for friendship and the naivety of the 1960’s.”
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The production moves onto Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where less than 200 tickets have been sold for the opening performance on Tuesday 20 September.
The show will also be staged in Nantwich, Cheshire, The Lowry in Manchester, and Chesterfield before finishing off in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in October.
The star revealed that bosses had allowed her to take a break from the Street to pursue her stage dream.
She said: “I wanted a new challenge. Corrie is my home and that’s nice but it’s also good to go and do something else for a while.
“I was always going to be going back, so it isn’t a big deal.
“She’s quite bolshie and a bit loud. And because it’s set in the 60s the costumes are completely different to anything I’ve worn as Sophie on Corrie.”