Tobie Cronje is back in "My Fat Friend"
Charles Laurence’s Broadway hit comedy My Fat Friend is back at the Pieter Toerien Theatre at Monte Casino in September.
It tells the story of an overly large Vicky (Michelle Botha) who owns a successful bookshop in London’s Hampstead.
She guzzles comfort food and chocolate to make up for her somewhat boring existence.
She good-humouredly suffers the slings and arrows of her friend and lodger, the not-so-young Henry (Tobie Cronjé), while failing to notice that her other tenant, James (Jeremy Richard), worships her from afar.
A stranger, a handsome man of thirty, one day stumbles into her bookshop looking for a travel book as he is on the verge of departing for Iran on a four month working engagement.
Aided by Henry and James, hard exercise, diet and a graph she manages to reduce to a streamlined version of her former self – only to realise it was her rotundity that attracted Tom in the first place.
Cast:
Henry – Tobie Cronjé
Vicky – Michelle Botha
James – Jeremy Richard
Tom – Charlie Bouguenon
- Press Release