A new Friends musical is urging East Midlanders to attend an open audition in front of casting directors looking to cast their new Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, Ross and Chandler.
Auditions for Friends: The Musical Parody will take place this month before the production tours the UK and Ireland – with a Nottingham date planned in September.
The show will feature “many of the iconic moments” from the sitcom and will be directed by Michael Gyngell who led the recent stage adaptation of The Full Monty. The book and lyrics are by Bob and Tobly McSmith, who have written parody shows about The Office and The Kardashians, and the musical composition is from Grammy nominated musician Assaf Gleizner .
“This uncensored, fast-paced production features an entirely original musical score and showcases the escapades of the world’s most famous group of twenty-somethings as they tackle the challenges of work, life and love in 1990s Manhattan,” reads the press material.
The show has already played in New York and Las Vegas and will tour Cirencester, Nottingham Theatre Royal, Sunderland Empire, York Grand Opera House, Cheltenham Everyman Theatre, Wolverhampton Grand, Dublin Bord Gais Theatre, Cardiff New Theatre, Chester Storyhouse, Malvern Theatre and Southampton Mayflower Theatre, with more venues due to be announced.
Friends, a comedy series about the lives of six twenty-somethings living in New York City, ran for ten seasons from 1994-2004.
Open auditions will take place in Cirencester and London later this month. Submissions for the open auditions should be made by sending a CV and headshot to auditions@markgoucher.com
The tour will visit the Theatre Royal Nottingham from Wednesday 17 to Saturday 20 September 2025.