Natalie Dew has been cast as football crazy Jess in Bend It Like Beckham which opens at the Phoenix Theatre on 24 June
Casting has been revealed for Bend It Like Beckham which opens at the Phoenix Theatre on 24 June 2015. Natalie Dew will play football crazy Jess with Lauren Samuels as Jules, a player with the Harriers, a local women’s football team, and Jamie Campbell Bower as their coach Joe. Directed by Gurinder Chadha, with original music by Howard Goodall and lyrics by Charles Hart, Bend It Like Beckham has a new book by Paul Mayeda Berges and Gurinder Chadha.
Ronni Ancona will play Paula, Jules’ Mum, with Jamal Andréas as Jess’ good friend Tony. Preeya Kalidas plays Pinky, Jess’ sister, with Tony Jayawardena and Natasha Jayetileke as her parents, Mr and Mrs Bhamra.
Sohm Kapila, Buckso Dhillon-Woolley and Harveen Mann play Aunties, Irvine Iqbal and Karl Seth play Uncles, with Sejal Keshwala, Serina Mathew and Sharan Phull as Cousins. Rakesh Boury, Jorell Coiffic-Kamall, Tom Millen and Daniel Bolton play footballers, with Raj Bajaj in the role of Teetu. The Harriers are played by Michelle Bishop, Lisa Bridge,Chloe Chambers, Genesis Lynea, Kirstie Skivington and Danielle Young. Rekha Sawhney and Shahid Khan are the production’ Indian Heritage Singers. They are accompanied by swings including Kayleigh McKnight.
Natalie Dew’s (Jess) theatre credits include Teh Internet is a Serious Business and Rough Cut for the Royal Court, Olivia in Twelfth Night for Liverpool Everyman Theatre, Fault Lines for Hampstead Theatre, Arab Nights for Soho Theatre, Ophelia in Hamlet for Northern Broadsides, Romeo and Juliet for the National Theatre, As You Like It for the Curve Leicester, Hansel and Gretel at the Barbican and Viola in Twelfth Night for Regent’s Park Theatre.
Lauren Samuels joins the cast of Howard Goodall and Charles Hart’s new musical Bend It Like Beckham
Lauren Samuels (Jules) was a finalist in the BBC’s Over the Rainbow. She made her professional stage debut as Wendy in Peter Pan A Musical! at Leicester Curve, and has subsequently played Sandy in Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre and Scaramouche in We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre. Her other theatre credits include Love Story for Bolton Octagon, Water Babies also for Leicester Curve, Travels With My Aunt for Chichester Festival Theatre and she played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz internationally.
Jamie Campbell Bower (Joe) will make his West End stage debut in Bend It Like Beckham. On film his credits include Anthony Hope in Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the young Gellert Grindwald in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and II, Caius in the film trilogy the Twilight Saga: New Moon and Breaking Dawn – Part I and Part II, the Young Edward de Vere in Anonymous and Jace Wayland in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
Bend It Like Beckham has choreography and musical staging by Aletta Collins; set design by Miriam Buether; costume design by Katrina Lindsay; lighting design by Neil Austin; sound design by Richard Brooker; musical direction by Nigel Lilley and orchestrations by Howard Goodall and Kuljit Bhamra. The show is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Deepak Nayar Productions.
On film, the British comedy drama Bend It Like Beckham starred Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi, and was released in 2002, directed by Gurinder Chadha and written by Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra and Paul Mayeda Berges. Following the international release of Bend It Like Beckham, the film went on to win multiple awards worldwide.
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