{"id":371343,"date":"2026-01-15T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371343\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:49:11","slug":"coronation-street-star-sally-ann-matthews-coming-to-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371343\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Street star Sally Ann Matthews coming to Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Sally Ann Matthews is the latest actor to be cast in the UK tour of Here and Now, a duke-box musical celebrating the music of Steps.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The soap actress will replace Finty Williams in the role of Patricia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Sally Ann Matthews (Image: Supplied)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Matthews is best known for her time on Coronation Street playing the character Jenny Bradley between 1986 and 1991, and from 2015 to October 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She will join the show on January 23, with the tour stopping at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningnews24.co.uk\/news\/25369542.full-cast-revealed-new-steps-musical-coming-norwich\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Norwich Theatre Royal from April 14 to 19.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Here and Now features Steps\u2019 most beloved hit songs, including Tragedy, 5, 6, 7, 8 and One for Sorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The show tells the story of Caz and her fabulous friends, who dream of the perfect summer of love &#8211; but nothing works out how they might expect.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Matthews will be joined by previously announced cast members Lara Denning as Caz, Jacqui Dubois as Vel and Blake Patrick Anderson as Robbie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sally Ann Matthews is the latest actor to be cast in the UK tour of Here and Now,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-371343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}