Picture: Marc Brenner
Sharon D. Clarke’s acclaimed performance in Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, or Change will be seen in London’s West End this autumn following sold-out runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre and London’s Hampstead Theatre.
Currently playing Hampstead Theatre until 21 April, the Chichester Festival Theatre production will transfer to the Playhouse Theatre from 20 November until 9 February 2019.
Directed by Michael Longhurst, the production is designed by Fly Davis, with choreography by Ann Yee, musical direction by Nigel Lilley, lighting by Jack Knowles, sound by Paul Arditti, casting by Charlotte Sutton CDG and children’s casting by Debbie O’Brien.
Details of who will join Olivier Award winner Clarke (We Will Rock You, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) in the cast for the West End transfer run will be announced at a later date.
The musical which mixes blues, souls, Motown, classical music and Jewish folk song in a tale set in momentous times in 1960s Louisiana, was one of the highlights of artistic director Daniel Evans and executive director Rachel Tackley’s first season at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2017.
Although the original 2004 Broadway production of Caroline, Or Change was re-staged at the National Theatre in 2006 and went on to win the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Chichester’s version was the first new UK production.
Featuring a book and lyrics by Pulitizer Prize-winning writer Kushner and music by Tony Award-winning Tesori, Caroline, or Change premiered Off-Broadway in 2003.
Angela Thomas
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