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LETITIA DEAN JOINS CAST OF DISNEY’S ‘HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL’
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Letitia Dean will play the role of Ms Darbus in the new stage musical based on the smash-hit Disney Channel Original Movie HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.

Letitia is probably best known for her long-running portrayal of Sharon Watts in BBC One’s EastEnders and for her recent hugely popular run in TV’s Strictly Come Dancing (she came fourth in December 07) and the subsequent live arena tour of the show.  She will be playing the eccentric and passionate drama teacher, Ms Darbus in the London stage version of the phenomenon.

Already a global phenomenon as a smash-hit TV movie, a quadruple-platinum soundtrack, a best-selling book and a chart-topping DVD, Disney’s HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is now set to be a summer stage blockbuster.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is a contemporary musical comedy about Troy, a popular high school basketball star, and Gabriella, a shy, academically gifted newcomer, who discover they share a secret passion for singing.  When they sign up to audition together for the lead roles in the school musical it threatens East High's rigid social order and sends their peers into uproar.  In an attempt to maintain the status quo, the ‘jocks’ and ‘brainiacs’, and even the drama club regulars, are soon hatching convoluted plans to separate the pair and keep them offstage.  Defying expectations and taking a chance on their dreams, and each other, the couple inspires the other students to go public with some surprising hidden talents of their own.