News: Lee from Steps to take to Newcastle Theatre Royal stage in & JULIET in June 2025

Lee from Steps to take to Newcastle Theatre Royal stage in & JULIET in June

The producers of the global sensation & JULIET have today announced that Steps star Lee Latchford-Evans will play Lance at Newcastle Theatre Royal between Tuesday 2 – Saturday 7 June 2025.

Lee Latchford-Evans

Lee, who is one fifth of the UK’s most successful mixed-gender pop group of all time, will join the cast of the hilarious new musical that flips the script on the greatest love story ever told and asks, what would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo? 

He is set to alternate the role with Ranj Singh, who is performing at Wimbledon, Dublin, Bradford, Birmingham, Sheffield and Cardiff, with Lee performing at Bristol, Aberdeen, Leicester, Woking, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Southend, Stoke, Newcastle and Truro. 

Lee will co-star alongside current tour cast members Gerardine Sacdalan as Juliet, Lara Denning as Anne, Sandra Marvin as Angelique, Jack Danson as Romeo, Kyle Cox as Francois and Jordan Broatch as May. 

Also in the cast are Harriet Caplan-Dean as Eleanor, Alexander Kranz as Lennox, Andilé Mabhena as Augustine / Dance Team, Liam Morris as Richard, Psalms-Nissi Myers-Reid as Lucy/Alternate Juliet, Michael Nelson as Henry, Toni Paise as Violet, Katie Ramshaw as Nell / Lady C Rosie Singha as Judith, Aaron Shales as Gregory / Dance Team, Nia Stephen as Imogen and Samuel Wilson-Freeman as Fletcher / Resident Director and Dance Captain. 

Lee and his fellow Steps band-mates achieved 14 top five singles, over 22 million record sales, 500 million streams, 11 sold out national tours, achieving numerous awards including the prestigious Brit Award, Attitude’s ‘Icon’ award and are now making history by becoming the first British mixed gender group to achieve a No1 in four consecutive decades. In 2024 Lee and his fellow band mates co-produced their own Musical Here & Now breaking all box office records at The Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham where it played a limited run in November 2024. After its huge success, the musical will come to Newcastle Theatre Royal (28 October – 2 November) as part of its UK and Ireland tour in September 2025. 

Lee has had a successful career on stage with some of his theatre credits including Teen Angel in Grease (West End), Christian in Wolfboy (Edinbrugh Fringe Festival), Ade in A Charmed Life (West End), Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small (UK Tour), Bob in Rita Sue & Bob Too (St Helens Theatre) and Niko Nikovsky in Eurobeat Moldova (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). 

Tickets: & Juliet plays Newcastle Theatre Royal Tuesday 2 – Saturday 7 June 2025. Tickets can be purchased at www.theatreroyal.co.uk or from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 0191 232 7010.