EXCLUSIVE: The star dropped a bombshell on his ITV bosses throughout his time taking part in Billy Mayhew on the cleaning soap.
Daniel Brocklebank left Coronation Avenue earlier this yr after over a decade taking part in Billy Mayhew (Picture: Getty)
Former Coronation Avenue star Daniel Brocklebank has admitted present bosses had been floored once they found he had hidden abilities. The 46-year-old spent 11 years on the cobbles taking part in vicar Billy Mayhew however had an intensive theatre and movie CV previous to becoming a member of the present and had studied musical theatre. Nevertheless when he approached the powers that be asking if he may seem on ITV’s All Star Musicals they had been surprised to study he may truly sing.
Talking solely to Categorical.co.uk throughout a break from rehearsals for his newest mission the play Double Double, during which he co-stars reverse fellow Corrie alum Faye Brooks, he recalled the interplay. “When this All Star Musicals was being recommissioned, I stated to the workforce at Corrie would you place me ahead for it. They checked out me and stated: ‘It is a singing present. Do you sing?’ I stated, ‘Yeah, I am classically educated [and] I play the piano’. And she or he went: ‘Why did not we all know this?’ I stated: ‘As a result of I have been a northern vicar for you for six years’,” he laughed.
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“And I obtained the chance to go on and there have been six of us. All of us carried out a musical theatre tune. And that was the primary time folks actually found that I used to be a educated singer. After which I received it,” he smiled.
His newest position in Double Double, which is operating from April 28 till Might 30 within the Barn Theatre, Cirencester, Cotswolds, would not contain any singing or dancing – however he’s nonetheless completely loving it.
The 2-hander see Daniel taking part in homeless and tacky Duncan, who’s the doppelganger of Faye’s character, Philippa’s late husband.
When she finds him dwelling on the streets and hatches a plan, as her husband wanted to be alive to obtain his multi-million-pound inheritance
The thriller is described as My Truthful Girl meets Dial M For Homicide, and Daniel is admittedly excited for it to take to the stage. “I have been working for 33 years, and it has been a reasonably even cut up between movie, tv and theatre inside that 30 odd years.
“Clearly every style has its personal manner of working. I imply, previous to this, I used to be doing a Mel Brooks musical, which I completed about eight weeks in the past, which was fully completely different. It was on stage, but it surely was a musical, and there was faucet dancing and songs and excessive vitality comedy.
“So to go from that kind of stage to this sort of stage is completely different. It is not simply the style that you just’re working in, but additionally the piece that you just’re engaged on.
“Having spent 11 years in Corrie, what I’m actually loving is the chance to find new characters once more. That is been actually, actually enjoyable,” he stated.
Double Double, starring Daniel Brocklebank and Faye Brooks, is operating on the Barn Theatre, Cirencester, from April 28 till Might 30, with tickets out there right here.
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