By Mark Shenton
06 Oct 2009
Goodyear will star as Cora – Miss July. She is making her London stage debut, but is a household name thanks to starring as Bet Lynch, the barmaid-turned-proprietor of the Rovers' Pub in TV's "Coronation Street" for over 25 years.
Brook will play Celia – Miss September. The sometime model – who topped the FHM magazine "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list in 2005, which was said to have polled 15 million people – was last seen on the London stage when she took over in Neil LaBute's Fat Pig at the West End's Comedy Theatre last year. She was previously seen in Eye Contact at Riverside Studios in 2000.
Dee, who will play Annie – Miss February — was last seen in the West End in Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind at the Vaudeville Theatre, which she first played at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round. It was for a previous Ayckbourn play, Comic Potential, that she won the triple "Best Actress" crown in the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Theatre Awards, in 2000, subsequently repeating her role in a different production at Manhattan Theatre Club in Ne York. She has also appeared extensively at the National Theatre and for the Peter Hall Company, most recently in summer 2009 at Bath Theatre Royal in Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart.
Lederer, who will play Marie, leader of the Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute, is one of Britain's best-known comediennes. She has previously appeared in the West End in The Vagina Monologues.
Chasen, who will play Ruth, is best known as the star of BBC3's "TittyBangBangBang"; she has also appeared in the BBC comedy "The Smoking Room," "Mine All Mine" and on the 2007 Christmas special of "Doctor Who." Onstage, she has appeared in Mother Clap's Molly House at the National Theatre and as the Good Fairy in Ravenhill's version of Dick Whittington and His Cat at the Barbican Theatre.
Weir, who will play Chris – Miss October — is the star of TV's "The Fast Show" and author of the international best-seller "Does My Bum Look Big In This?" She hgas also appeared in the comedy series "Posh Nosh" that she co-wrote, and contributes to BBC2's "Grumpy Old Women."
Leeming, who will play Lady Cravenshire, is a former long-serving BBCTV news reader, and has also hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982. She played herself in the film "Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?" and also made appearances on other TV shows including "The Big Breakfast," "So Graham Norton," "The Harry Hill Show" and "Through the Keyhole."
James-Collier, who will make his London stage debut as the photographer Lawrence, is best known for his role as Liam Connor in TV's "Coronation Street," for which he has won the Sexiest Male Award at the 2007 and 2008 British Soap Awards and Inside Soap Awards.
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