Full casting has been announced for the Donmar Warehouse production of City of Angels, playing between 5 December 2014 and 7 February 2015 (press night is 16 December). Over a quarter of the tickets for this production have been held back, allowing for more than 550 tickets to go on sale each week, including Barclays Front Row (released 10am every Monday throughout the run) and Day Tickets (available in person at the box office every day).
Joining the previously announced Samantha Barks, Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser are Katherine Kelly, Tam Mutu, Peter Polycarpou and Rebecca Trehearn. Also in the cast are Nick Cavaliere, Cameron Cuffe, Marc Elliott, Adam Fogerty, Kadiff Kirwan, Sandra Marvin, Mark Penfold, Jennifer Saayeng, Jo Servi and Tim Walton.
Two decades after its London premiere, artistic director Josie Rourke revives one of the acknowledged greats of 20th century musical theatre.
Hollywood comes calling for a New York novelist. The offer is too good to refuse: adapt the private detective protagonist of his books into a big-screen hero. The siren song of Los Angeles is a dangerous temptation and while his movie plays out in black and white, his new life is all-too colourful.
With a score by Cy Coleman, lyrics from David Zippel and book by acclaimed comic screenwriter Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H, Tootsie), City of Angels is a witty celebration of film noir.
Josie Rourke (director) is artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse where she has directed The Recruiting Officer, The Physicists, Berenice, The Weir, Coriolanus and James Graham’s new play Privacy. Rourke trained at the Donmar, under Sam Mendes, through the theatre’s annual Resident Assistant Director Scheme. Prior to the Donmar, she was artistic director at the Bush Theatre, London, from 2007 to 2011. In 2011 her production of Much Ado About Nothing, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, ran in the West End at Wyndham’s Theatre.
Also in the creative team are designer Robert Jones, lighting designer Howard Harrison, musical director Gareth Valentine, choreographer Stephen Mear, sound designers Terry Jardine and Nick Lidster for Autograph, orchestrator Billy Byers and Larry Blank, and video and projection designer Duncan McLean.
Hadley Fraser (Stine) returns to the Donmar stage having played Aufidius in Rourke’s production of Coriolanus. That followed his appearance in The Machine, also directed by Rourke, for the Donmar co-production with the Manchester International Festival and Park Avenue Armory, New York. He has played Marius and, later, Javert in the West End production of Les Misérables and appeared in Tom Hooper’s film adaptation. In 2012, Fraser played Raoul in the 25th Anniversary Concert of The Phantom of the Opera. Other theatre credits include The Pajama Game (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Fantasticks (Duchess Theatre) and Assassins (Sheffield Crucible).
Tam Mutu (Stone) has an extensive list of theatre credits including Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre), Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre), Orange Peel (Royal Court), Royal Hunt of the Sun and Love’s Labour’s Lost (National Theatre), East (Leicester Haymarket), King Lear and Romeo and Juliet (RSC), and As You Like It (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
Rosalie Craig (Gabby/Bobbi) recently portrayed Princess Althea in The Light Princess at the National Theatre which earned her the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical Performance. She played the title role in Miss Julie and also appeared in Black Comedy at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer. Previous theatre credits include Macbeth (Manchester International Festival 2013), Table (National Theatre), Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve), Ragtime (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and Company (Sheffield Crucible).
Katherine Kelly (Carla/Alaura) is best known as Becky on Coronation Street, having won and been nominated for multiple accolades for the role. Theatre includes She Stoops to Conquer (National Theatre), Visable (Soho Theatre), Tamar’s Revenge and House of Desires (RSC), Othello (Manchester Royal Exchange) and The Accrington Pals (Chichester Festival Theatre).
Rebecca Trehearn (Donna/Oolie) has recently been appearing in Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse), while other credits include Ghost (UK tour and Piccadilly Theatre), Love Story (Duchess Theatre), Aspects of Love (Menier Chocolate Factory) and Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre).
Samantha Barks (Avril/Mallory) has credits including Chicago (Hollywood Bowl), Oliver! (UK Tour), Cabaret (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) and Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre) as Eponine, a role which Barks reprised in Tom Hooper’s film adaptation.
Peter Polycarpou (Buddy Fidler) has had a hugely varied career spanning over 30 years in theatre, film, television and radio. Polycarpou is currently playing Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Other theatre credits include The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre), The Magistrate (National Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Adelphi Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre) and Love Story (Duchess Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre). He has also performed in many renowned musicals in the West End including playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Oklahoma!, Cats and Les Misérables, as well as creating the role of John in Miss Saigon. In television he is best known for playing Chris in the popular sit-com Birds of a Feather.
Mark Penfold (Luther Kingsley) has credits such as Salome (Southampton Nuffield Theatre), The Crucible (Sheffield Crucible) and Justifying War (Tricycle Theatre) and has performed frequently at the Oxford Playhouse in Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Privates on Parade and Macbeth among others.
Cameron Cuffe (Peter Kingsley) will be appearing in The Vertical Hour (Park Theatre), while other credits include Pains of Youth, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Rover (all while training at The Lir Academy, Dublin).
Tim Walton (Jimmy Powers) has credits including Stephen Ward (Aldwych Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (The Old Vic), Matilda (Cambridge Theatre), Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre), Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Piccadilly Theatre), South Pacific (National Theatre) and Mamma Mia! (Prince Edward Theatre).
Nick Cavaliere (Sonny) previously starred as Big Jule in the Donmar’s production of Guys and Dolls at the Piccadilly Theatre. Other theatre credits include One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre), Zorro (West End), Sleeping Beauty (The Young Vic, Barbican and on Broadway), The Taming of the Shrew (Manchester Royal Exchange), Antony & Cleopatra and The Relapse (RSC).
Marc Elliott’s (Pancho Vargas/Lieutenant Munoz) has enjoyed recent roles in Urinetown (Apollo Theatre and St James Theatre), Tape (Trafalgar Studios), The History Boys (National Theatre), Bells and Chaos (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), The Maids (Lyric Hammersmith) and Lord of the Flies, The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth and Julius Caesar (RSC).
Adam Fogerty (Big Six) has appeared in Manchester Sound: The Massacre (Liberty Theatre Company, Manchester), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Northern Broadsides) and Bouncers (Hull Truck).
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