A new expanded version of Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! will return to Edinburgh this summer before playing dates in Bristol and Manchester.
The winner of Musical Theatre Review’s Best Musical Award at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe will follow its sold-out 2022 run by playing a four-week encore season at Edinburgh’s Underbelly from 2-27 August.
Presented by original producer Francesca Moody Productions along with Kater Gordon, Wessex Grove and Fiery Angel, the murder mystery musical comedy will follow its Edinburgh run by visiting the Bristol Old Vic (13-30 September) and HOME Manchester (5-21 October).
Written by Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones, also the winners of MTR’s first Best Musical Award in 2017 for A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), the production will feature the acclaimed original cast of Bronté Barbé (Newsies, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre) as Kathy, Rebekah Hinds (Oklahoma! Young Vic/West End) as Stella, Jodie Jacobs (Rock of Ages, West End) as Felicia, TJ Lloyd (Guys and Dolls, Sheffield Crucible) as Justin and Imelda Warren-Green (Doctor Who: Time Fracture, BBC) as Erica.
Announcing the new dates and venues, Moody said: “We are thrilled to be partnering with Kater Gordon, Wessex Grove and Fiery Angel to bring back this joyful, irreverent, and side-splittingly funny musical in an expanded new version. Returning to the Edinburgh Festival always feels like coming home for FMP and we’re delighted to be able to share Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! with audiences in The Underbelly as well as at Bristol Old Vic and HOME Manchester in the autumn. Jon Brittain and Matthew Floyd Jones have created a musical filled with ear worms and so many gags you won’t have time to take breath – we can’t wait to see you there – it would be a true crime to miss it!”
Brittain and Jones added: “Considering that this has all come from a totally casual lockdown text about true crime fans, we are overwhelmed (and delighted) by how well the show went down last year. Even though a story about two podcasters sounds like it should be small, the show has always been bursting with ideas. So it’s incredibly exciting that we’re now able to scale it up to the next level! And a joy to be reunited with all the friends we made last year – not least our wonderful returning cast. So, people of Edinburgh, Bristol and Manchester, we’ll see you next murder!”
Angela Thomas
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