Jacinta Whyte
Angela
Dublin born Jacinta most recently played the role of Alice Beane in Titanic (UK/Germany) and enjoyed great personal success playing Angela in Angela’s Ashes in 2017, both directed by Thom Southerland.
Her career began as a child when she was selected to play played the title role of Annie in the original West End cast production at the Victoria Palace, London alongside Stratford Johns & Sheila Hancock.
She recreated the role at Dublin’s Gaiety Theatre alongside the great Maureen Potter, with whom she also appeared in yearly panto many pantos and Gaels of Laughter summer seasons throughout her childhood and teens.
West End: Linda in Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre) Ellen in Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) Eponine in Les Misérables (Palace Theatre, also Point Theatre, Dublin, Edinburgh Playhouse) The Seven Deadly Sins (Royal Opera House)
UK theatre: Giulietta in Aspects of Love and Rizzo in Grease (UK Tour); Anne in Anne of Green Gables, Sandy in Grease (Wolsey, Ipswich); Polly Perkins in Cinderella, Maid in Private Lives, Rosalia in West Side Story (Everyman, Cheltenham); Nellie in Cameron Mackintosh’s revival of The Card, (Watermill, Newbury) Penny in A Slice of Saturday Night (Theatre Royal, Northampton) Alice in Dick Whittington (Churchill, Bromley)
Irish theatre: Louise in Gypsy, Nora in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Delia in One of Our Own, Maeve in The Scatterin’ (Gaiety Theatre) Mary in Mary Makebelieve (Gate Theatre, Dublin, Cork Opera House) The Angel in Girl’s Night (Tour)
Extensive work as guest artist for the Irish TV & Radio channel RTE includes her own light entertainment series Jacinta and as reality judge for their talent shows Fame the Musical and Starsearch.
As soloist on the concert platform she has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Melbourne, Bournemouth, Icelandic, Lithuanian & Scottish Symphonies, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the CBSO, Bergen Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic of Flanders, Ulster Orchestra in West End to Broadway, Musical World of Bond, Beatlemania, Symphonic Rock, Queen Symphonic, ABBA Symphonic through to Rogers & Hart, Sondheim, Cole Porter, Gershwin and Bernstein.
She has headlined Jingle Bell Christmas, White Christmas & Christmas Carol Singalong concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall and the major symphony halls across the UK for Raymond Gubbay Ltd.
For BBC Radio 2, Jacinta has been a frequent soloist on Friday Night Is Music Night with the BBC Concert Orchestra, personal highlights being appearances in the 50th Anniversary broadcast of West Side Story, Once Upon a Time and Tomorrow (80th birthday of composer Charles Strouse), Les Misérables 25th Anniversary concert and Call Me When You’re In Something, which won Montreux’s Golden Rose.
An association of 35 years with the RTE Concert Orchestra includes solo appearances at Dublin’s National Concert Hall and many televised Proms.
Her recent RTE CO homecoming concerts The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tell Me on a Sunday, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Magical West End, The Magical West End Returns conducted by her husband Stephen Hill, were a sell-out.
She regularly performs her own one woman show for the Royal Cunard fleet & recently recorded her solo album For You
Film credits: My Left Foot, The Commitments, The Lilac Bus and A Green Journey.
Eoin Cannon
Frank McCourt
Eoin began his acting training in Ireland by attending the Gaiety School of Acting, following which, he crossed the water and went to train in Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting. Upon graduating he played the Tin Man in “The Wizard of Oz“(Hall for Cornwall, Truro) alongside Ken Dodd. Eoin’s West End début soon followed when he was chosen by director Trevor Nunn to appear in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Woman in White“(Palace Theatre, West End). In his time with the original cast he understudied and played the lead role, Walter Hartwright, alongside such musical theatre greats as Maria Friedman, Michael Crawford and Michael Ball. After this he took to the road with Riverdance where he performed as the lead male singer in their European Tour. In Dublin he was part of the Irish premiere casts of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change!“(Andrew’s Lane Theatre), and “Song’s For A New World“(Pavillion Theatre). Eoin’s favourite role was yet to come, that of the Beast in “Beauty and the Beast“(World Tour).
Over the past decade, Eoin has been very busy appearing on stages throughout Ireland. Some notable roles include: Frederick alongside June Rodgers in “The Pirates of Penzance”(Helix), the duel role of Jekyll and Hyde in the musical “Jekyll and Hyde”(National Concert Hall), Satan in “Jerry Springer – The Opera”(Grand Canal Theatre), Seán Collins in “The Promise”(Helix), Vince Fontaine in “Grease”(Cork Opera House) and on a less serious note he has starred in pantomimes such as “Sleeping Beauty”(Cork Opera House), “Cinderella”, “Jack and the Beanstalk”, “Aladdin”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Sleeping Beauty”(Helix). Although Eoin is a performer at heart, he is also an accomplished and award-winning director having been the resident director for “Opera In The Open”, run by Dublin City Council, for the past six years. Some productions include: “Madama Butterfly”, “Candide”, “Werther”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Street Scene”, “Turn of the Screw” and “Rigoletto”.
Eoin has appeared on TV in many guises, in adverts, The Late Late Show, Fair City, Ireland AM, and more, but the show that has gained him attention in the US was that of the PBS special “The Bloody Irish”. His most notable stage roles to date are that of Michael Collins in “Michael Collins a Musical Drama”, which ran both in the Cork Opera House and the Olympia, the role of Jeremiah in the hugely successful “Copper Face Jacks the Musical” (Olympia Theatre) and the role of Jervis Pendleton in the Irish premiere of “Daddy Long Legs” (Smock Alley Theatre).
Currently living in NYC, Eoin is delighted to return to “Angela’s Ashes the Musical” to reprise his role of Frank McCourt. This show holds a very special place in his heart and is so happy to be able to share it with everyone once again.