Come From Away’s Rachel Tucker will take the title role in a special charity performance of Boublil and Schönberg’s The Pirate Queen at the London Coliseum on 23 February 2020.
The actress who famously played Elphaba in Wicked in the West End and on Broadway will be joined on stage by Britain’s Got Talent 2011 winner Jai McDowall and Matthew Pagan from Britain’s Got Talent 2014 winning group Collabro, for the concert in aid of Leukaemia UK.
With further casting to be announced, The Pirate Queen will mark performer turned agent Tom Gribby’s debut as producer. Directed by Drew Baker with design by Ben M Rogers, the concert presentation will mark the London debut of the show which debuted on Broadway in 2007.
The most recent musical from the writers of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, The Pirate Queen features music by Schönberg and lyrics by Boublil, Richard Maltby Jr and John Dempsey.
Based on the novel Grania – She King of the Irish Seas by Morgan Llewelyn, the musical story of Grace O’Malley, the 16th century Irish woman who took on the might of Queen Elizabeth I, features a book by Boublil and Schönberg and Maltby Jr.
Following a Chicago try-out in 2006, The Pirate Queen arrived on Broadway in 2007 with Wicked’s original US touring Elphaba, Tony Award-winner Stephanie J. Block (The Cher Show) starring alongside Hadley Fraser (Les Misérables).
Angela Thomas
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