The Daily Mail’s Baz Bamigboye has reported that Belfast-born Christina Bennington (recently seen in Show Boat at the New London Theatre) will play Raven, ‘the teen willing to risk everything to be with Strat – the boy from the wrong side of the tracks’ in the long-awaited theatrical incarnation of Jim Steinman’s rock classic Bat Out of Hell. The role of Strat will be played by Pennsylvania-born Andrew Polec.
Rob Fowler and Sharon Sexton will play Raven’s parents Falco and Sloane, and the cast will also include Aran MacRae, Danielle Steers, Dom Hartley-Harris and Giovanni Spano.
Roles will also be played by Patrick Sullivan, Jemma Alexander, Emily Benjamin, Stuart Boother, Georgia Carling, Natalie Chua, Jonathan Cordin, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Jordan Lee Davies, Olly Dobson, Hannah Ducharme, Phoebe Hart, Rosalind James, Michael Naylor, Eve Norris, Tim Oxbrow, Andrew Patrick-Walker, Benjamin Purkiss, Anthony Selwyn, Courtney Stapleton and Ruben Van Keer.
To celebrate the box office opening there will be a special live performance by the Bat Out of Hell cast at 5pm on Thursday 3 November outside the London Coliseum in St Martin’s Lane.
The world premiere of Jim Steinman’s rock classic Bat Out of Hell will open at the Manchester Opera House on 17 February 2017. The show will run until 8 April, before heading for the London Coliseum, opening on Tuesday 20 June 2017, following previews from 5 June, for a limited season until 22 July.
The genesis of the Bat Out of Hell album occurred across a number of years. One of the songs was written while Steinman was an undergraduate at Amherst College in the late 1960s. In the 1970s, Steinman wrote a theatrical musical that was presented in workshop in Washington DC in 1974 and featured many of the songs that would ultimately appear on the album, which was released in 1977.
Bat Out of Hell became one of the best-selling albums in history, selling more than 50 million copies worldwide. Sixteen years later, Steinman scored again with Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which contained the massive hit ‘I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’.
For the stage musical, the award-winning Steinman has incorporated iconic songs from the Bat Out of Hell albums, including ‘You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth’, ‘Bat Out of Hell’, ‘I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)’ and ‘Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad’, as well as two previously unreleased songs, ‘What Part of My Body Hurts the Most’ and ‘Not Allowed to Love’.
Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical is a romantic adventure about rebellious youth and passionate love, set against the backdrop of a post-cataclysmic city adrift from the mainland. Strat, the forever young leader of The Lost, has fallen for Raven, daughter of Falco, the tyrannical, ruler of Obsidian.
Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical is produced by David Sonenberg, Michael Cohl, Randy Lennox and Tony Smith.
Angela Thomas
Tickets for Bat Out of Hell at the London Coliseum are available HERE.
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