Thomas Hopkins Productions presents
the 20th anniversary UK touring production of hit West End comedy
Glorious!
Starring Wendi Peters and Matthew James Morrison
Coming to Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre 2 – 7 March 2026
Glorious!, the hit West End comedy about Florence Foster Jenkins, the ‘worst singer in the world’, will visit Ipswich’s New Wolsey Theatre from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March, as part of a 20th anniversary UK tour.
Starring stage and screen legend Wendi Peters (Coronation Street, Doctors, Sister Act UK Tour) and EastEnders star Matthew James Morrison, Glorious! tells the true story of American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, who was known for her flamboyant costumes, enigmatic performances, and decidedly off-key voice.
Mocked, for her flamboyant performance costumes and poor off key singing, she nonetheless became a cult-figure in New York City during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, with celebrated composer and songwriter Cole Porter and classical conductor Sir Thomas Beecham among her dearest celebrity fans. Glorious! follows Florence’s journey as she prepares for her biggest ever sold-out recital at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall, building an unlikely friendship with her accompanist, Cosme McMoon, and defying her army of critics to follow her dreams.
Wendi Peters, who stars as Florence Foster Jenkins, is best known for her long-running role as Cilla Battersby in the hit ITV soap Coronation Street and most recently was a regular on the BBC show Doctors as Nina Bulsara. Her many other TV credits include Midsomer Murders, Hetty Feather, Hacker Time and Sadie J. Wendi has also competed on various shows including Soapstar Superstar, Celebrity Mastermind, Celebrity Masterchef and Celebrity Sewing Bee for Children in Need, which she won. Wendi was most recently seen as Mother Superior in the UK Tour of Sister Act. Her other theatre credits include: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (UK Tour), You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse), BIG The Musical (West End), The Game (Northern Broadsides) and White Christmas (West End, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, The Lowry, Salford).
Matthew James Morrison, who stars as Cosme McMoon, comes direct from EastEnders, after more than three years playing Felix Baker and his alter ego “Tara Misu” – the first drag queen to appear as a regular character in a British soap opera –
The cast also features West End leading ladies Caroline Gruber (Leopoldstadt, Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution – London County Hall, 2000 Years – National Theatre) as Florence’s long-suffering maid Maria and society busybody Mrs Verrinder-Gedge; and Sioned Jones (Thirteen, Women Beware Women, All’s Well That Ends Well – all National Theatre) as Florence’s best friend and biggest fan, Dorothy. Sioned will also cover the role of Florence Foster Jenkins, as she did 20 years ago alongside Dame Maureen Lipman in the original West End production.
Completing the cast are Ella-Maria Danson as ASM/Cover Maria/Dorothy and Mrs Verrinder-Gedge, and Ryan Hall as ASM/Cover Cosme McMoon.
Glorious! first wowed audiences in its original long-running West End production starring Dame Maureen Lipman in 2005, before coming to the silver screen in 2016 as Florence Foster Jenkins, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. The show has since been
seen by millions of people around the world, translated into 25 languages, and performed in 36 countries to date. The current production, directed by Kirk Jameson (Song From Far Away, Madagascar the Musical) premiered at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre.
To book tickets for the New Wolsey Theatre dates of Glorious!, visit: www.wolseytheatre.co.uk/events/glorious
