'Welcome home, bab,' Call the Midwife star back in Brum
Actress Helen George is returning to her hometown of Birmingham to star in a stage production of the musical High Society. She is performing alongside Freddie Fox at the Alexandra Theatre as part of a UK tour.
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Share Save Add as preferred on Google James Bovill Trafalgar Entertainment Helen George said the Alexandra Theatre was one of the first she came to as a child Birmingham-born actress Helen George has said it is "so lovely" to be performing again in her home city, in a stage revival of the classic 1956 film musical High Society.
George, who plays Trixie Aylward in the hit BBC drama Call the Midwife, is at the Alexandra Theatre this week at the start of a UK tour, alongside film and TV star Freddie Fox.
She said audiences in Birmingham are "so kind, responsive and lovely", and added that theatre bosses had left "a big bar of Cadbury chocolate saying 'welcome home, bab'" in her dressing room.
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