Wednesday, May 22, 2019

The Benny Lynch Story

Taking a break from the restoration work at Cathkin to launch our first theatre production, THE BENNY LYNCH STORY on a nationwide tour over the next 6 weeks. The brilliant cast of Stephen Purdon, Holly Jack, Billy MacBain, Paul Kelvin, Clare Gray & Cammy Fulton have been hard at work in the rehearsal room getting the show ready, under the brilliant direction of Steven Duffy.


Having started working on this idea in 2012, it is a real thrill to finally see our own version of Benny's life brought to the stage with this wonderful & talented ensemble cast and all of the hard work has paid off as we launched into our tour with the premiere in the beautiful Ayr Gaeity Theatre on Saturday. With the script by Davie Carswell, Stage Manager Kat Siebert and our ASM Andy, we had


the most amazing opening night, culminating in a full house and a much-deserved standing ovation!! A dream start to this tour and please check out our website for venue & ticket details for the remaining 8 venues here thebennylynchstory.co.uk


We are hoping to raise more funds through future tours to help restore Cathkin Park and support the Statue For Benny Appeal and were honoured to have members of the group with us at Ayr, including Steph Bradley who brought along Benny's own watch! Huge thanks to the Statue Group for these


photos and for their help & support in the writing and research process last year. We are back in Ayrshire this week again with another show at Kilmarnock Palace Theatre and hope to see you there! We have been inundated with stories, memories, tales & some amazing photographs of The Little King Of The Gorbals throughout the last 3 weeks and it is fitting that our company is named after the football ground in which he fought successfully on 5 occasions.

Also this month we were delighted to welcome former Celtic stars Bobby Petta and Rudi Vata along with James English and Tommy Sheridan & Paul John Dykes to star in a photo shoot to promote the ACSOM podcast's sponsorship of the Celtic Greats shirts this season. Thanks to Stephen Cameron


and Into Creative for a memorable day and for Jim & Kenny at the Jimmy Johnstone Academy for their hospitality once again in the Pavilion. We will be returning to the ground later next month to continue the terracing work and will post more updates on this tour and upcoming productions in the weeks and months ahead.

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