Ben Forster (Jesus Christ Superstar, Elf The Musical) will complete the cast for the UK premiere of new murder mystery musical A Killer Party.
Adapted for UK audiences, the show which was a lockdown hit in the US last summer, will be available as a nine-episode series for home viewing on stream.theatre from 19 April until 16 May 2021.
Forster will join Oscar Conlon Morrey (Only Fools and Horses, Nativity The Musical), Debbie Kurup (The Prince of Egypt, Sweet Charity), Jason Manford (Curtains, The Producers), Cedric Neal (Motown The Musical, Back to the Future), Amara Okereke (Les Misérables, The Boyfriend), Lucas Rush (The Merry Wives of Windsor, Les Misérables), Emma Salvo (Come From Away, The Toxic Avenger), Ashley Samuels (Motown The Musical, The Book of Mormon), Harriet Thorpe (Wicked, Les Misérables) and Rachel Tucker (Come From Away, Songs From a New World).
The UK version of the show which boasts a book by Emmy Award-winner Rachel Axler and Kait Kerrigan, music by Grammy Award-winner Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen, will be directed by Benji Sperring.
Commenting on the production, Sperring said: “The world has never needed fun, joy and laughter quite like it does at the moment, and A Killer Party provides this in abundance – a delight of a show, with incredible performers and a world-renowned writing team – couldn’t be better timed to remind people of the joy, whimsy, and healing power of theatre that we can look forward to returning to very soon.”
Produced by Katy Lipson for Aria Entertainment, Tanisha Spring for Blue Mahoe Productions and Ilia Szpiezak, the UK version of the show which was developed in response to the Covid theatre closures in the US, will also be filmed entirely in each artist’s home.
A Killer Party debuted on American digital platform Vimeo in August 2020 with a home-based cast that included Broadway stars Miguel Cervantes (Hamilton), Andrew Shearer Gehling (Waitress), Jeremy Jordan (Newsies) and Laura Osnes (Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella).
Angela Thomas
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