Full casting has been announced for the eagerly-anticipated West End transfer of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s Caroline, Or Change.
Following sold-out runs at the Chichester Festival Theatre and London’s Hampstead Theatre, the production which features a critically-acclaimed central performance from Sharon D. Clarke will play the Playhouse Theatre from 20 November 2018 until 9 February 2019.
Olivier Award winner Clarke (We Will Rock You, Dominion Theatre) will be joined by Naana Agyei-Ampadu (Avenue Q, Noel Coward Theatre); Keisha Amponsa Banson (Motown: The Musical, Shaftesbury Theatre); Alastair Brookshaw (A Little Night Music, The Watermill); Me’sha Bryan (As You Like It, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Angela Caesar (The Phantom of the Opera, UK tour); Dujonna Gift-Simms (Motown: The Musical, Shaftesbury Theatre); Sue Kelvin (Wicked, Apollo Theatre); Teddy Kempner (Driving Miss Daisy, Theatre Royal Bath/UK tour); Ako Mitchell (Guys and Dolls, Manchester Royal Exchange); Abiona Omonua (Guys and Dolls, Manchester Royal Exchange); Vincent Pirillo ( She Loves Me, Menier Chocolate Factory); Tanisha Spring (Tina, Aldwych Theatre) and Lauren Ward (Matilda, Cambridge Theatre & RSC/Courtyard Theatre).
Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong, Zalika Henry, Laura Medforth, Timothy Quinlan and Teddy Wills will also appear alongside nine young performers who will share the roles of Noah, Jackie and Joe. Isaac Forward, Aaron Gelkoff and Jack Meredith will alternate the role of Noah, Mark Mwangi, Kenya Sandy and Jeremiah Waysome will alternate the role of Jackie and the role of Joe will be alternated by Josiah Choto, David Dube and Raphael Higgins-Hume.
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.
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 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Kushner and music by Tony Award-winning Tesori, Caroline, Or Change premiered off-Broadway in 2003.
Angela Thomas
Tickets for Caroline, Or Change are available HERE.
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