EastEnders star Jessie Wallace in stage show Chicago

EastEnders star Jessie '¨Wallace has been signed up to play prison matron Mama Morton in the award-winning Broadway and West End musical Chicago.

Jessie, who played Kat Moon in the TV soap, joins John Partridge and Hayley Tamaddon in the show at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall.

John plays hotshot lawyer Billy Flynn who defends killer Roxie Hart (played by Hayley) in a story based on events in the roaring 1920s.

Chicago runs in Nottingham from August 16 to 20.