Award-winning actor Rebel Wilson will be joining the West End cast of Guys and Dolls for a strictly limited eight weeks only at the Phoenix Theatre to play the part of Miss Adelaide from Tuesday 28 June until Sunday 21 August 2016. Guys and Dolls also announces the opening of a new booking period, with tickets now available until 7 January 2017.
Rebel Wilson commented: “A lot of people who know me from my more recent film work have no idea how much theatre has influenced my life. I saw my first musical at age 14, a show called 42nd Street, after one of my family’s dogs had unsuccessfully auditioned to be in it. It blew me away and I’ve loved musical theatre ever since.
“Training at the Australian Theatre for Young People gave me the opportunity to perform onstage in eight productions ranging from new Australian musicals to classic plays. I then went on to write and perform in my own productions before being snapped up to do screen work. I am delighted to be making my West End debut in Guys and Dolls and to be playing such an iconic role as Miss Adelaide is truly an honour. Hopefully I crush it…but you’ll have to come and see me to find out!“
Rebel Wilson has become one of the film industry’s most recognisable comedic actors since gaining recognition through her role as ‘Fat Amy’ in the multi award-winning Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2. For her performance in Pitch Perfect Wilson received a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and a Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress: Comedy.
For her performance in the sequel, she won two MTV Movie Awards for Best Ensemble Cast and Best Kiss and received a nomination for Best Comedic Performance, as well as several Teen Choice Award nominations. She also received a People’s Choice Award nomination for Favourite Comedic Movie Actress. Wilson will reprise her role in Pitch Perfect 3 which will be released in the summer of 2017.
Wilson made her American comedy film debut in Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids alongside Kirsten Wiig. The film, produced by Judd Apatow, was named one of AFI’s top ten films of 2011 and received a Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Comedy. Her other film credits include How to be Single, Grimsby, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Bachelorette and Ice Age: Continental Drift. Wilson will also make a cameo appearance in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, which is released this July.
She also has notable history of writing her own material, and in 2013 she hosted and was the head writer on the MTV Movie Awards. She got her start in entertainment writing and performing on Sydney’s stages and on the Australian cult comedy series Pizza. Before moving to the United States, Wilson wrote and starred in two further television series: The Wedge and Bogan Pride.
The current cast of Guys and Dolls includes Nigel Lindsay as Nathan Detroit and Samantha Spiro as Miss Adelaide who will have their final performance on Saturday 26 June. Further casting will be announced in due course.
Guys and Dolls is directed by Gordon Greenberg with choreography by Cuban dancer and former Royal Ballet star Carlos Acosta and Andrew Wright whose credits include Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Singin’ in the Rain.
Director Greenberg is due to follow his Guys and Dolls success by taking his adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn to Broadway this October.
The Chichester Festival Theatre production of Guys and Dolls is produced by Tristan Baker and Charlie Parsons for Runaway Entertainment, Oliver Royds for BOS Productions, Richard Darbourne Ltd and Tulchin Bartner Productions.
Tickets for Guys and Dolls are available HERE.
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