THE national tour of Crazy For You, which will see TV presenter and Strictly Come Dancing champion Caroline Flack make her stage debut, kicks off at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on August 17.

Caroline will star as Irene alongside Tom Chambers as Bobby. She won the 12th season of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and currently presents ITV’s Love Island. She’s also famous for presenting The X Factor, I’m a Celebrity, Get me out of here NOW! and The Xtra Factor. Prior to presenting, Caroline trained in musical theatre.

Tom Chambers created the role of Jerry Travers in the West End musical Top Hat, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for ‘best actor in a musical’. In 2008 he won the sixth season of Strictly Come Dancing. He can currently be seen in the hit BBC drama Casualty and his other TV credits include Holby City and Waterloo Road. His recent stage credits include Private Lives and White Christmas in the West End.

Crazy For You is billed as the ultimate feel-good musical, with high energy dance numbers and a fabulous score from the Gershwin brothers’ songbook.

The show is being directed by The Watermill’s artistic director Paul Hart, with musical arrangements by Catherine Jayes (The Color Purple, Broadway). It is choregraphed by Nathan M Wright and designed by Diego Pitarch, with lighting by Howard Hudson and sound design by Tom Marshall.

The show was originally produced on Broadway by Roger Horchow and Elizabeth Williams, with original choreography by Susan Stroman.