Olivier Award nominees and West End regulars will take to the stage alongside newcomers making their professional debuts in the cast for the eagerly-anticipated intimate revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love at Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre.
Hope Mill favourite Jonathan O’Boyle (Hair, Pippin) will return to direct the ten-strong company in the intimate production which will run from Thursday 5 July until Thursday 9 August 2018.
O’Boyle will direct: Kimberly Blake (Half a Sixpence, Barnum) as Giulietta; Jason Kajdi (Our House, Assassins) as Hugo; Felix Mosse (The Rocky Horror Show) as Alex; Julia J Nagle (An American in Paris) as Elizabeth/ensemble; Minal Patel (The Secret Garden, Bend It Like Beckham) as Marcel; Jerome Pradon (Jesus Christ Superstar, Pacific Overtures – Olivier Award nominee 2003) as George; and Kelly Price (That Day We Sang, A Little Night Music – Olivier Award Nominee 2010) in the role of Rose.
Making their professional debuts in the production are Rosie Cava-Beale, (ensemble), Jack Churms (Jerome/ensemble) and Eleanor Walsh (Jenny/ensemble).
Musical direction will be by Gareth Bretherton, with set and costume design by Jason Denvir, choreography by Sam Spencer-Lane, lighting design by Aaron J Dootson, sound design by Calum Robinson and casting by Jane Deitch.
The third of five in-house musical productions for 2018 from the successful partnership between Joseph Houston and William Whelton, the co-founders of Hope Mill Theatre, and producer Katy Lipson from London arts producer Aria Entertainment, follows on from the team’s hit revival of Spring Awakening.
Based on the novel by David Garnett, with music by Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black and Charles Hart, Aspects of Love was first produced at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London on 17 April 1989, where it ran for 1,325 performances before finally closing in June 1992. Since then it has toured the UK and recent productions include the Menier Chocolate Factory (2010) and more recently in Holland (2013).
Famous for featuring Michael Ball in both the original West End and Broadway productions, the Hope Mill production will mark the first time the show has been professionally produced in the North West.
Angela Thomas
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