Newcomer Sam Tutty has won the coveted title role in the eagerly-waited West End debut of Dear Evan Hansen at the Noël Coward Theatre late next month.
The actor who recently made his professional stage debut in Once On This Island at the Southwark Playhouse is one of a number of fresh faces making their West End debuts in the show.
Recent Mountview Academy graduate Lucy Anderson will make her professional West End debut as Zoe Murphy with RADA graduate Doug Colling also due to make his professional stage debut as Connor Murphy and National Youth Music Theatre performer Marcus Harman making his professional stage debut as the alternate Evan Hansen.
They will feature alongside: Rebecca McKinnis (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Playhouse Theatre) as Heidi Hansen; Lauren Ward (Caroline, Or Change, Chichester Festival Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Playhouse Theatre) as Cynthia Murphy; Rupert Young ( Plenty, Chichester Festival Theatre, Twelfth Night, Young Vic) as Larry Murphy; Jack Loxton (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time & War Horse, National Theatre and West End) as Jared Kleinman and Nicole Raquel Dennis (Waitress, Adelphi Theatre, Dreamgirls, Savoy Theatre) as Alana Beck.
The cast will be completed by Tricia Adele-Turner, David Breeds, Haydn Cox, Natalie Kassanga, Hannah Lindsey, Mark Peachey, Courtney Stapleton, Alex Thomas-Smith and James Winter.
Produced by Stacey Mindich, the West End run which will reunite the creative team behind the show’s record-breaking Broadway run is due to begin previews at the Noël Coward Theatre on 29 October 2019 ahead of an opening night on 19 November. Following a sold-out priority booking period, extra tickets were released taking the show’s initial run up to April 2020.
Commenting on the London production, Mindich said: “It’s been a dream of ours to bring Dear Evan Hansen across the pond, and I’m just thrilled that we’ve found the perfect cast to fulfill this dream and introduce this original musical – and it’s very real and very universal themes – to London. In fact, the entire casting process was a joy for the creative team and me, as we met so many amazingly talented actors who were already familiar with the show and its score.”
Directed by Michael Greif, the show which boasts a book by Steven Levenson, and a score by Tony, Grammy and Academy Award-winning composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, debuted on Broadway in 2016. A critic and crow-pleasing success, the production collected six Tony Awards as well as the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album.
Dear Evan Hansen features choreography by Danny Mefford, scenic design by David Korins, projection design by Peter Nigrini, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, sound design by Nevin Steinberg and hair design by David Brian Brown.
Music supervision, orchestrations and additional arrangements are by Alex Lacamoire, Ben Cohn is the associate music supervisor, vocal arrangements and additional arrangements are by Justin Paul and casting is by Jill Green Casting.
Angela Thomas
Tickets for Dear Evan Hansen are available HERE.
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