From Weatherfield’s most famous corner shop to the bright lights of Hull New Theatre, Sally Ann Matthews joins the cast of Here & Now, The Steps Musical, when it checks in to the city later this year.
Perhaps best known for her role of Jenny Bradley in ITV’s Coronation Street from 1986 to 1991, 1993 and most recently 2015 to 2025, Sally has also starred in various theatre productions including: Mum’s The Word (UK Tour), The Business of Murder (UK Tour), Present Laughter (UK Tour), Killing Time (UK Tour) and The Accrington Pals (Bolton Octagon).
Her other TV and film credits include Murdered by My Boyfriend (BBC), The 4 O’Clock Club (BBC), My Mad Fat Diary (Channel 4), EastEnders (BBC), Being Human (BBC), Song for Marion (Steel Mill Pictures) and Brassed Off (Miramax Films).
Sally joins Lara Denning as Caz, Jacqui Dubois as Vel, Blake Patrick Anderson as Robbie, Rosie Singha as Neeta, River Medway as Jem, Chris Grahamson as Gareth, Edward Baker-Duly as Max, Ben Darcy as Ben, John Stacey as Lesley and Lauren Woolf as Tracey.
With an original book by Shaun Kitchener and produced by Steps and ROYO together with Pete Waterman, Here & Now is a brand-new feel-good musical featuring all the bands greatest hits from Tragedy/ Heartbeat and Stomp to One For Sorrow, Better Best Forgotten and of course 5, 6, 7, 8.
Join Caz and her fabulous friends as they dream of the perfect summer of love. But when Caz discovers her ‘happy ever after’ is a lie, and the gang’s attempts at romance are a total tragedy, they wonder – will love ever get a hold on their hearts? Or should they all just take a chance on a happy ending…
Steps (Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa Scott-Lee) are the UK’s most successful mixed sex pop group of all time, with 14 top five singles, four number one albums, 22 million record sales, 500 million streams and 11 sold-out national arena tours under their belts.
Steps’ 2017 comeback tour sold out all 300,000 tickets, making it one of the biggest pop tours of the year. The band have since continued to release new music including two further iTunes #1 singles, the Sia-penned What The Future Holds in 2020 and the Michelle Visage duet Heartbreak In This City in 2022. In 2022 Steps celebrated their 25th anniversary with a headline summer tour and released the #1 album Platinum Collection which means they join ABBA, Rolling Stones and Stereophonics as the only groups in UK history to score #1 albums in four consecutive decades.
Tickets for Here & Now, which runs from Tuesday 21st to Sunday 26th April 2026, are on sale now. Book at the Hull City Hall Box Office, call 01482 300 306 or visit www.hulltheatres.co.uk to book online.