{"id":299317,"date":"2017-03-06T11:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=299317"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T11:37:54","slug":"the-casualty-actor-behind-the-bob-marley-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/the-casualty-actor-behind-the-bob-marley-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"The Casualty actor behind the Bob Marley musical"},"content":{"rendered":"
You may know Kwame Kwei-Armah best as the paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC’s Casualty.<\/p>\n
But it’s 13 years since he left the television series and since then he’s carved a hugely successful career in the theatre.<\/p>\n
His new stage show is about the reggae legend Bob Marley. But he insists, it is “absolutely not” a jukebox musical, where the songs take precedence over the plot.<\/p>\n
Kwei-Armah, the writer and director of One Love, The Bob Marley Musical, says it is not “sing-a-long-a-Bob”, but “a play with music”.<\/p>\n
He admitted though that it was a “delicate” balancing act trying to keep in enough songs the audience will recognise.<\/p>\n
So hits including No Woman No Cry, Jamming, Three Little Birds and Redemption Song are among 30 tracks that feature in the show.<\/p>\n