Casting has been announced for satirical musical Jest End ahead of its return to Waterloo East Theatre on 29 November for a limited run.
The 2016 cast includes Jemma Alexander (Bat Out of Hell, Manchester Opera House and London Coliseum, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Waterloo East Theatre); Bronte Barbe (Shrek the Musical, UK and Ireland tour, Momentous Musicals, UK tour); Adam Bailey (Priscilla Queen of the Desert, national tour, Chicago, Leicester Curve); and Daniel Buckley (Sweeney Todd, Derby Theatre and Mercury Colchester, Eugenius, London Palladium).
Following on from a sell-out season at the London venue in 2015, the show that pokes fun at some of the West End’s biggest musical theatre productions will run until 18 December.
Written and directed by Garry Lake, the production will once again be choreographed by Rebecca Howell with musical direction by James Doughty.
Labelled as London’s answer to Forbidden Broadway, the popular Off-Broadway revue conceived, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, Lake’s Jest End debuted at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2007.
Featuuring 20 new songs and 15 updated numbers, the comedy show provides audiences with a take on popular musicals including Hamilton, Groundhog Day, School of Rock, Funny Girl, Matilda, Guys and Dolls, Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables.
Angela Thomas
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