COBBLED streets to a saucy musical romp is the change in surroundings now being experienced by a former cast member of the long-running ITV soap, Coronation Street.

Wendi Peters, who has starred both on television and in the West End, will be part of the team bringing one of Britain’s best-loved and sunniest musicals to the stage of Malvern’s Festival Theatre from Tuesday, October 2 through to Saturday, October 6.

Having charmed audiences around the world with their award-winning Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore and The Mikado, Regan De Wynter Williams returns with this popular stage show.

Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds’ musical is an absolute romp of polite naughtiness and saucy encounters, with an energetic score featuring songs such as We Said We Wouldn’t Look Back, Look At Me, I’m Dancing, and We’re Looking For A Piano.

All clearly designed to put a smile on your face and a tap in your toes.

Director Bryan Hodgson comments: “I am thrilled to be able to stage Salad Days again this autumn - it serves as one of the greatest romps in musical theatre history, and really brings us a timeless sense of enjoyment and nonsense, which is always welcome in counteracting the sometimes overwhelming seriousness of today.

“With the fabulous Wendi Peters joining the cast too, it will simply be a fun and delightful evening out, and I cannot wait to get the magic piano and spaceship ready for its latest trip around the charming British countryside!”

Written in 1952 as a summer musical for the Bristol Old Vic, Salad Days then transferred to the Vaudeville where it ran for 2,283 performances.

Salad Days is a phrase first coined in Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra, referring to Anthony’s youth; the show tells the light-hearted tale of recent graduates Timothy and Jane.

Unhappy with their pushy parents, they decide to get jobs and take on the responsibility of looking after a piano in a park! Little are they prepared to deal with the magic and madness that follows.

Television ‘soap opera’ followers will recall that Wendi Peters, who has recently starred as Hetty Feather on BBC and in White Christmas at London’s Dominion Theatre, played Cilla Battersby-Brown in Coronation Street.