The Salon – The Sequel! is the follow up to the much-loved The Salon which has been enjoyed by thousands of theatregoers since it was first staged in 2009. Stage and radio star Leanne Campbell reprises her original role and she will be joined by actors from Hollyoaks and Brookside.
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00:00Get your rollers at the ready as the premiere of a new comedy sequel is coming to St Helen's Theatre Royal this autumn.
00:07I have come to Voodoo Salon on Bald Street to meet some of the cast.
00:12My relationship with my hairdresser is longer than my relationship with my husband and I've been married for 26 years.
00:19There's a lot of loyalty there and also we know each other's secrets.
00:23In The Salon, the sequel, stage and radio star Leanne Campbell reprises her original role as Carol in the new show.
00:30Because this is the sequel, it's a little bit more, I would say, up to date with the goings on of the world.
00:37So even if you've never seen the first play, you come in, you watch this, it's a brand new production, brand new storyline
00:43and a lot of the things you're seeing on the news, on Instagram, on social media, it'll all appear in this. You are going to laugh your socks off.
00:50Leanne will be joined on stage by a line-up of acting talent including Brookside's Sarah White.
00:55It's very real but it's very funny and yeah, it's just hopefully, you know, you get up in the end and you have a little dance
01:04and lots of fun and singing and enjoying yourself and just a big old giggle.
01:10It's Hollyoaks star Darren John Langford's first time performing at the St Helen's venue.
01:15It's my first time at the salon, it's my debut. Also at the Theatre Royal, St Helen's, I haven't worked there before.
01:22I'd auditioned there before but never got the job. So my star has been rising for a very, very long time.
01:30Well, it's the same sort of crazy, nutty, funny, outrageous thing as the original one was.
01:39The new show is designed to work as a stand-alone story so audiences don't have to have seen the original to follow the action.
01:46For anybody that was a bit worried because it's the Salon The Sequel, I think a lot of people would say,
01:51no, well, we didn't see the first one. It doesn't matter.
01:54The Salon The Sequel will run until Sunday 13th October.