Cassidy Janson takes over the title role in Beautiful – The Carole King Musical
Cassidy Janson will join the West End production of Beautiful – The Carole King Musical to play the title role from 30 November 2015. Also joining the cast will be Diane Keen as Genie Klein, King’s mother. Alan Morrissey will continue as King’s husband and songwriting partner Gerry Goffin as well as Lorna Want as songwriter Cynthia Weil, Ian McIntosh as songwriter Barry Mann and Gary Trainor as music publisher and producer Don Kirshner.
The Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Beautiful – The Carole King Musical also announces an extension to the current booking period, having just released over 350,000 new tickets, taking bookings at the Aldwych Theatre to 26 November 2016.
Cassidy Janson was last in the West End playing Ruth in Dessa Rose at the Trafalgar Studios. She has also been seen in Candide andTick Tick Boom for the Menier Chocolate Factory, Blood Wedding at the Courtyard Theatre, Rooms: A Rock Romance at the Finborough, Lend Me a Tenor at the Gielgud Theatre playing the principle role of Maggie, Company at the Southwark Playhouse and she played Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q at the Wyndhams Theatre. Janson was a member of the original London cast of Wicked and played standby Elphaba.
Actress Diane Keen will play Carole King’s mother in Beautiful
Diane Keen starred in the late 1970s sitcoms Rings On Their Fingers with Martin Jarvis and You Must Be the Husband with Tim Brooke Taylor, both for the BBC. She played the leading role in Foxy Lady and starred opposite David Roper and Lewis Collins in The Cuckoo Waltz, both for Granada. She played practice manager Julia Parsons in the BBC daytime soap Doctors from 2003 to 2012. Her additional television credits include Sandbaggers, September Song, Ruth Rendell Mysteries and Brookside. As well as a season for the Bristol Old Vic, her theatre credits include tours of Same Time Next Year, Ladybird, The Vagina Monologues, Small Hand and You’re Never Too Old.
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical is based on the early life and career of legendary singer/ songwriter Carole King with a book by Douglas McGrath, words and music by Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, and is directed by Marc Bruni. Choreography is by Josh Prince with set designs by Derek McLane, costume designs by Alejo Viettii, lighting by Peter Kaczorowski and sound by Brian Ronan. Orchestrations and music arrangements are by Steve Sidwell.
The cast also includes: Gavin Alex, Hannah Jay Allan, Vivien Carter, Dom Hartley Harris, Leo Ihenacho, Matt Nalton, Earl E. Perkins, Jay Perry, Sharon Rose, Tanisha L Spring, Danielle Steers and Joanna Woodward. Ensemble members are Koko Basigara, Ashford Campbell, Matthew Colthart, Rosie Heath and Leigh Lothian. Final casting will be announced shortly.
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