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Jewish Telegraph, February 2022
WHEN Harriet Caplan-Dean performs in SIX the Musical at The Lowry Theatre, Salford, in August, there will be a special woman on her mind โ her former drama teacher Sherrie Mayer.
Sherrie โ who died suddenly in December, 2018, aged just 62 โ taught Harriet at Manchesterโs King David Primary School โ and had been supportive of her early forays into the theatrical world.
The 22-year-old will join the touring cast of hit musical Six in March. The current cast will perform its final show at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford on March 6 โ and the new cast make its debut two nights later at the same venue.
Six โ created by Toby Marlow, who is Jewish, and Lucy Moss โ imagines the six wives of King Henry VIII as a girl group arguing their cases to be crowned the best wife.
Harriet, 22, is listed as Super Swing, which means she has to learn all six main cast membersโ roles.
โIโm absolutely ecstatic to join the Six UK tour,โ Harriet told me. โItโs been a dream of mine to work in the theatre industry since I was little and it means the world to me to be able to say Iโm the first Orthodox practising Jewish Queen involved in Six.
โIโm so excited to be performing at The Lowry in my hometown this summer and would like to dedicate those performances to Sherrie.โ
The former Pendleton College student graduated from Urdang Academy, London, with a BA Hons in professional dance and musical theatre degree, last year.
Her dissertation was entitled โHow has the portrayal of Judaism and Jewish characters in musical theatre evolved over the 20th centuryโ.
In August, she took part in a workshop for new musical Tinker Bell, alongside a number of established West End performers.
And in December she hit the headlines while playing a villager in Theatre Royal Bathโs pantomime Cinderella.
Dani Harmer, who was playing the Fairy Godmother, was taken to hospital in the middle one of the performances โ and Harriet had to step into the role after the interval.
Tracy Beaker star Harmer, who was eight months pregnant at the time, tweeted: โMe and baby are absolutely fine. But on Wednesday I had to go to hospital mid-show.
โTurns out it was Braxton Hicks (horrible bloody things by the way) and was told by the doctors to rest up . . .โ
She sent the โbiggest thank youโ to Harriet โwho stepped in mid-show with no rehearsal and has been looking after my magic wand for me!โ
Six also has productions in the West End, on Broadway and on tour in Australia and New Zealand.
The Six tour includes Edinburgh Festival Theatre (March 15โ26), Leeds Grand Theatre (March 29- April 2), New Theatre, Hull (April 5โ10), Liverpool Empire Theatre (April 12โ16), Sheffield Lyceum Theatre (April 19โ30), Glasgow Theatre Royal (June 14โ19) and The Lowry, Salford (August 2โ14).
