“If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s this: everybody hates bankers.”
Bank of Dave: The Musical is a home-grown, brand-new British musical – bursting with northern grit, laugh-out-loud humour and what Dave himself calls “the best songs in any musical ever.”
This feel-good show tells the true-ish story of Dave Fishwick: Burnley born and bred, and no ordinary man. A self-made millionaire, Dave spent years helping local people and small businesses when hard-nosed banks turned them away. Frustrated by the system, he has an idea…set up his own bank and put the profits straight back into his community.
With posh but principled lawyer Hugh at his side, Dave swaps Burnley for London to take on the banking bigwigs and fight for a fairer deal. But will the fat cats of the City make way for Dave’s dreams?
From Sunday Times bestseller to Netflix’s #1 UK film, Dave’s inspiring underdog story now bursts onto the stage as a laugh-out-loud British musical packed with heart, humour and cracking new music.
Book and lyrics are by Rob Madge (My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?), Cabaret), music and lyrics by Pippa Cleary (The Great British Bake Off Musical, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾) and the stage production will be directed by Curve Artistic Director Nikolai Foster (Kinky Boots, A Chorus Line).
Sam Lupton (Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses UK tour, Boq in Wicked, West End) will star as Dave Fishwick. Samuel Holmes (Calamity Jane, UK tour) as Sir Charles Denbigh. Hayley Tamaddon (Del Dingle in Emmerdale, Andrea Beckett in Coronation Street, Miss Hedge in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre and UK & Ireland tour) will play Nicky; Lucca Chadwick-Patel (Mean Girls, Savoy Theatre, My Beautiful Laundrette, Curve/National Tour & Mamma Mia!, Novello Theatre) will play Hugh; Claire Moore (Scrooge in A Christmas Carol the Musical, Hope Mill Theatre at Lowry, Original Ellen in Miss Saigon, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, The Girls, Leeds Grand, Lowry & Phoenix Theatre West End – Olivier Award nomination, Babs in The Great British Bake Off, the Musical, Noel Coward Theatre) will play Maureen and Lauryn Redding (Coven, Kiln Theatre, Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End) will play Alex.
‘The humour of The Full Monty with the spirit of Billy Elliot, but with a few more ba*tard bankers, and an unlikely hero from Burnley!’ – Dave Fishwick
