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Angeline Ball secured the role of Imelda Quirke after a private audition with the Hubbards. [22] Maria Doyle Kennedy was a member of the Irish quartet band The Black Velvet Band before she was cast as Commitmentette singer Natalie Murphy. [23]
Angeline Ball (born 28 June 1969) is an Irish actress who resides in London, England. She is known for her roles as Imelda Quirke in Alan Parker's The Commitments (1991) and as Tina in John Boorman's The General (1998).
The original members of the group Dick Massey and Kenneth McCluskey have formed their own band called "The Commitments". [4] After the film's success Andrew Strong, the lead singer, performed with Elton John, Bryan Adams, Ray Charles and The Rolling Stones, and signed a solo record deal with MCA Records. He continued touring and lives in ...
The Commitments (1987) (originally to be called The Partitions [1]) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle. [2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy , it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin , Ireland, who start a soul band.
The Commitments may refer to: The Commitments, a 1987 novel by Roddy Doyle; ... The Stars from the Commitments, tribute band from the film
Barrytown is an Irish comedy-drama media franchise centred on the Rabbittes, a working-class family from the fictional suburb of Barrytown, in Dublin.It began in 1988 when Beacon Pictures and 20th Century Fox bought the rights to the 1987 novel The Commitments by Roddy Doyle shortly after it was published.
The Commitments is a jukebox musical written by Roddy Doyle, based on the 1987 novel of the same name, also written by Doyle. Like the novel (and its 1991 film adaptation), the musical is about a group of unemployed Irish youths who start a soul music band. It premiered in 2013 at the Palace Theatre in London's West End.
Andrew Strong as Declan "Deco" Cuffe in The Commitments [5] Angeline Ball as Imelda Quirke in The Commitments; Maria Doyle Kennedy as Natalie Murphy in The Commitments; Bronagh Gallagher as Bernie McGloughlin in The Commitments; Richard Harris as 'Bull' McCabe in The Field; Seán Bean as Tadhg McCabe in The Field; John Hurt as The 'Bird' O ...