After auditioning over a thousand young people, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, the creators of the new musical The Girls based on the true story, the film and award-winning play by Tim Firth Calendar Girls, have finally found their three stars-to-be.
To play the parts of Danny and Tommo, two Yorkshire lads, will be Ben Hunter and Josh Benson. Ben is 17 and from Hull. Josh is 18 and from York.
To play the part of Jenny, the Lancashire girl who moves to Yorkshire and falls in love, is 17-year-old Chloe May Jackson from Blackburn who studied musical theatre at Pendleton College in Salford.
The world première will be at the Grand Theatre Leeds from November 14 to December 12 and at The Lowry from January 13-30.