A READING woman is swapping the supermarket aisles for the West End stage after her videos were viewed by millions.
Hannah Lowther, 24, was forced to take a job at Tesco when theatres shut during the coronavirus pandemic.
But the star struck singer decided the show was not over and posted videos to TikTok in between stacking shelves.
Now Hannah is checking out of her supermarket job to appear in the hit West End show, Heathers The Musical.
Theatre bosses spotted the talented performer whose videos have had millions of hits and offered her a leading role.
“It’s been amazing, it’s been such an amazing experience so far,” smiled Hannah.
“I submitted some self-tape auditions and I didn’t expect anything, because when it isn’t an in-person audition you just kind of send your stuff off and forget about it.
“Then I heard back on Saturday that I had got the job and obviously I was just beside myself because it’s my first West End contract.”
Hannah will play New Wave Girl in the ensemble and is also the understudy for two of the lead characters.
She said: “After such a long time of not doing it and just thinking that I was going to have to get a normal job and I was going to have to go down different routes and try different things.
“It’s just given me so much hope and I started rehearsals on Monday. We have just over two weeks of rehearsals and then we open on November 25th.”
Local shoppers at Tesco will miss the talented singer but Hannah is determined she’ll now be singing for her supper:
“I started doing TikTok, not thinking really that anyone would see them, I was just doing it to get that ‘stageyness’ out of me,” she said.
“It started with me doing a mock Tesco version of Nine To Five by Dolly Parton and now I’m in a West End show.”
