Posted: 06 July 2010
Mum’s the Word, the hit comedy about the trials and tribulations of motherhood is heading for the Palace Theatre, starring a trio of TV favourites.
Gillian Taylforth – former star of Eastenders, Footballers’ Wives, and The Bill - has stepped in for her close friend Bernie Nolan following Bernie’s withdrawal from Mum’s the Word for health reasons.
Gillian first rose to prominence in the box office hit The Long Good Friday and appeared in the first-ever episode of Eastenders in 1985 as the enduring, and highly popular character, Kathy Beale, initially for 13-years until 1998, returning a year later.
In 2002, Gillian landed the role of Jackie Pascoe-Webb in popular ITV drama, Footballers’ Wives, and was the only character to appear throughout all five series. In 2006, Taylforth joined ITV’s long-running police drama, The Bill, for two years. Gillian has also appeared as regular panellist on ITV’s daily chat-show, Loose Women.
Gillian joins fellow popular TV stars, Tracy Shaw – probably best known for playing Maxine Peacock in Coronation St. - and Sally Ann Matthews (Jenny Bradley in Coronation Street, Waterloo Road) alongside Susie Fenwick and Mandy Holliday.
A smash-hit on two continents, Mum’s the Word comprises five women, five stories and one common thread; a hilarious and intimate look at motherhood.
Having performed over 5,000 shows around the world, played eight record-breaking UK tours and a West End run, this award-winning, sell-out stage phenomenon is on the road again; liberating, enlightening and educating, but mainly just washing the secret, funny, dirty laundry of motherhood in public.
Written by six Canadian actresses each of whom were once glamorous, exciting professionals who found themselves exhausted amateur mothers with 10 children under the age of six between them, Mum’s the Word is a cathartic account of their experiences of motherhood.
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