Best known as Coronation Street’s Cilla Battersby-Brown, actress Wendi Peters has been treading the boards for 30 years.
Wendi is currently playing Sylvie in Call Me Vicky at the Pleasance Theatre in north London.
We chatted in her dressing room about how she started out improvising on stage at the Piccadilly Theatre when it was a club on a Saturday night in the 80s, how she went from being a dresser on the West End production of Into the Woods to playing in it as part of Sondheim’s 75th birthday celebrations, and how Coronation Street stopped her being seen for certain roles.
Call Me Vicky is on at the Pleasance Theatre until 9th March.
Tickets are available here.
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Sharon Sexton (Bat Out of Hell: The Musical)
Peter Hannah (Into the Woods, Waitress)
Carly Mercedes Dyer (A Chorus Line, Anything Goes, Six, West Side Story)
Savannah Stevenson (Little Women, Wicked, Mary Poppins)
Oli Higginson (The Last Five Years, Bridgerton, The Pursuit of Love)
Quincy Brown & Kevin Bianchi (Sentimental Men Podcast)
Samuel Edwards (Anything Goes, Ghost, Wicked)
Francesca Moody (Producer of Leopards, Mum, Fleabag)
Lara Martins (The Phantom of the Opera)
Christina Bianco (Diva impressionist, Funny Girl, The Ballad of Anne and Mary)
Stephen Oremus (Frozen, Kinky Boots, Wicked, The Book of Mormon)
Giles Terera (Hamilton)
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Kayi Ushe (The Lion King, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon)
Gavin Spokes (Hamilton, Company, Quiz)
Susie McKenna (Associate Director, Kiln Theatre)
Kiruna Stamell (Cyrano de Bergerac, Great Britain, Moulin Rouge!)
Gavin Lee (Mary Poppins, SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical, Top Hat, Beauty and the Beast)
Melanie La Barrie (& Juliet, Matilda, Wicked, Mary Poppins)
Daisy Maywood (Company, A Chorus Line, Phantom, Les Mis)
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