London Musical Theatre Orchestra has announced further casting for its 2017 concert production of A Christmas Carol which returns to the Lyceum Theatre in London with two performances on 11 and 18 December.
Multi award-winning stage and screen actor Robert Lindsay (Citizen Smith, My Family, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) returns to the role of Ebenezer Scrooge.
He is joined by Lucie Jones (Les Misérables, We Will Rock You) as Emily/the Ghost of Christmas Future, Hugh Maynard (The Lion King, Miss Saigon) as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Gemma Sutton (Gypsy, The Go-Between, Strictly Ballroom) as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Olivier nominee Michael Xavier (Prince of Broadway, Into The Woods, Sunset Boulevard) as Bob Cratchit.
The Charles Dickens classic gets the full Broadway treatment from Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike Ockrent (Crazy For You, Me and My Girl).
The musical ran for ten years at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where The New York Times called it “a tonic for adults, and for children a transfixing journey”.
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra is conducted by founder Freddie Tapner, who said: “I’m delighted to have Robert and Hugh back with LMTO for this year’s performances of A Christmas Carol. Our audience loved them last year, and I know they will love them again this year. It’s a real treat to welcome Lucie, Gemma and Michael to the LMTO family – I can’t wait to see what they will do with these amazing Alan Menken songs.”
Conductor Tapner is joined in the creative team by director Shaun Kerrison, sound designer Nick Lidster for Autograph and lighting designer Mike Robertson.
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