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The West End premiere run of Beetlejuice: The Musical will end three months earlier than planned with the final performance at the Prince Edward Theatre now set for 2 January 2027.
Presented by Crossroads Live and Warner Bros Theatre Ventures, the production stars David Fynn (School of Rock The Musical, Gillian Lynne Theatre) as the self-styled ‘Ghost With The Most’, Tom Xander (Mean Girls, Savoy Theatre) as the alternate Beetlejuice with Hannah Nordberg (Euphoria, HBO, Little Miss Sunshine, Second Stage Theatre) as goth girl, Lydia Deetz.
The newly-dead homemakers who unwittingly unleash the comic chaos of Beetlejuice, Adam and Barbara Maitland are played by David Hunter (Time Traveller’s Wife, Apollo Theatre, Waitress, Adelphi Theatre/UK tour) and Chelsea Halfpenny (9 to 5: The Musical, Savoy Theatre, Waitress, UK tour).
Alasdair Harvey (The Little Big Things, Soho Place; Come From Away, Phoenix Theatre) plays Lydia’s bereaved father Charles Deetz and Aimie Atkinson (SIX The Musical, West End/UK tour, Pretty Woman, Savoy Theatre) is his fiancée, life coach Delia. The cast also includes Chasity Crisp (Hamilton, UK and Ireland tour) as Maxine Dean/Juno and Richard Frame (Frozen the Musical, Theatre Royal Drury Lane; The Lion King, Lyceum Theatre) as Otho; with Irvine Iqbal (Bend It Like Beckham, Phoenix Theatre, East Is East, National Theatre) as Maxine’s investor husband, Maxie Dean, and Rachel Macdougall (The King and I, Dominion Theatre/UK tour) as Girl Scout. Vanessa Aurora Sierra reprises her Broadway performance as Miss Argentina.
The company is completed by Jemma Alexander, Samuel Bangs, Natasha Cayabyab, Chris Draper, Harley Emmitt, Catherine McCormick, Robbie McMillan, Kieran Mellish, Elliott Parry, Jacob Smith, Adam Taylor, Tyler Timmins and Issie Wilman.
Reuniting the creative team behind the musical which first appeared on Broadway in 2019, the West End production which features a book by Scott Brown (Castle Rock) and Anthony King (Broad City), and an original score by Eddie Perfect (King Kong), is directed by Alex Timbers (Here Lies Love, Moulin Rouge! The Musical).
Beetlejuice: The Musical features choreography by Connor Gallagher, music supervision, orchestrations and incidental music by Kris Kukul with additional arrangements by Kris Kukul and Eddie Perfect. Scenic design is by quadruple David Korins and costume design is by William Ivey Long, with lighting design by Kenneth Posner, sound design by Peter Hylenski, projection design by Peter Nigrini, puppet design by Michael Curry, special effects design by Jeremy Chernick, illusions by Michael Weber, hair and wig design by Charles G LaPointe, make-up design by Joe Dulude II, dance arrangements by David Dabbon and music producer Matt Stine, with casting by Harry Blumenau, UK general management by Crossroads Live UK and US general management by Bespoke Theatricals.
After a try-out run in Washington in 2018, Beetlejuice: The Musical burst onto Broadway in March 2019 with the stars of the original workshops, School of Rock’s Alex Brightman and Sophia Anne Caruso in the central roles of the self-styled bio-exorcist Beetlejuice and Lydia.
Angela Thomas
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