Courtney Bowman will play Elle Woods in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s new production of Legally Blonde.
The actress who originated the role of Fatimah in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie and played Anne Boleyn in Six will reunite with SIX’s co-director and co-writer Lucy Moss who will direct the new production which play Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre from 13 May until 2 July 2022.
Bowman will be joined by Michael Ahomka-Lindsay (Emmett), Lauren Drew (Brooke), Vanessa Fisher (Vivienne), Isaac Hesketh (Margot), Nadine Higgin (Paulette), Alžbeta Matyšáková (Enid), Eugene McCoy (Callahan), Grace Mouat (Pilar), Alistair Toovey (Warner) and Hannah Yun Chamberlain (Serena). Full casting will be announced at a later date.
The creative team for the first production in the prestigious venue’s 90th Anniversary Season includes Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong (dramaturg), Cat Beveridge (musical supervisor), Jean Chan (costume designer), Shanaé Chisholm (casting assistant), Natalie Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion Casting (casting director), Tony Gayle (sound designer), Phillip Gladwell (lighting designer), Ainsley Hall Ricketts (assistant choreographer), Laura Hopkins (set designer), Barbara Houseman (voice & text and season associate director), Majella Hurley (dialect coach), Ellen Kane (choreographer), Ingrid Mackinnon (season associate: intimacy support), Lucy Moss (director), Priya Patel Appleby (associate director), Chris Poon (assistant musical director), Alexzandra Sarmiento (assistant choreographer), Amber Sinclair-Case (associate director) and Katharine Woolley (musical director).
Based on the much-loved Reese Witherspoon film which in turn was based on the novel by Amanda Brown, the musical version of Legally Blonde features music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin and a book by Heather Hach. The show debuted on Broadway in 2007 and earned seven Tony nominations and 10 Drama Desk Award nominations during its Broadway run. Arriving in the West End two years later, it was nominated for five Olivier Awards winning three including Best New Musical.
As previously announced the centrepiece of the 2022 season will be the highly-anticipated newly commissioned musical version of Dodie Smith’s much-loved 101 Dalmatians. Adapted for the stage by Zinnie Harris, 101 Dalmatians has music and lyrics by Douglas Hodge and a book by Johnny McKnight.
Originally scheduled to be the launch production of the 2020 season and postponed for a second time in early 2021 due to the pandemic, 101 Dalmatians will now play its premiere season from 12 July until 28 August.
Directed by the venue’s artistic director Timothy Sheader and featuring puppetry designed and directed by Toby Olié, the musical theatre version of the story of Cruella de Vil and her nefarious plans for a family of cute Dalmatian puppies had been in development for two years ahead of its planned 2020 debut.
Angela Thomas
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