Mel Giedroyc will join the cast of Elliott & Harper’s highly-anticipated new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Tony Award-winning musical Company, directed by Marianne Elliott. It will run at the Gielgud Theatre from 26 September 2018 for a limited run.
Giedroyc will play Sarah and joins Rosalie Craig as Bobbi, a role re-imagined for the first time as a woman, and Broadway star Patti LuPone as Joanne.
Giedroyc said: “I am absolutely thrilled to be playing Sarah in Marianne Elliott’s upcoming production of Sondheim’s Company in the West End. It’s been an ambition of mine to be in a Sondheim show, and to be working alongside Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone and to be directed by the genius director that is Marianne Elliott is just the icing on the cake.’
Elliott added: “I am so pleased that Mel is going to join our Company to play Sarah. She has all the qualities I was looking for in the role of Sarah. She is a unique and gifted comic actress and another amazing and talented woman to add to the cast. I can’t believe my luck – we are going
to have so much fun.”
Giedroyc recently co-presented The Great British Bake Off for the BBC alongside her long-time comic partner Sue Perkins, co-presented Let It Shine with Graham Norton and Gary Barlow and commentates for the BBC at Eurovision.
She will soon be playing Beatrice in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. Other theatre credits include: Luce at Southwark Playhouse, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Playhouse) and Eurobeat (Novello).
Rosalie Craig is currently performing in Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman at the Gielgud Theatre. Other theatre credits include: Marianne Elliott’s production of The Light Princess, As You Like It, The Threepenny Opera and London Road – all for the National Theatre, City of Angels for the Donmar, Macbeth for Manchester International Festival, Finding Neverland and the title role in Miss Julie at Chichester Festival Theatre.
Patti LuPone returns to London to make her first appearance in a West End musical for more than 25 years. LuPone is currently starring on Broadway in War Paint. Her previous London theatre credits include originating the role of Fantine in Les Misérables for the RSC and Cameron Mackintosh, an Olivier-award winning role in The Cradle Will Rock and creating the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.
Her numerous Broadway credits include: originating the role of Eva Peron in Evita, Gypsy, Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sweeney Todd, Anything Goes, Noises Off, The Old Neighborhood and Master Class.
Marianne Elliott is artistic director of Elliott & Harper Productions, a company she recently founded with producer Chris Harper. Elliott is the first woman in Broadway history to win two Tony Awards for Best Director. Elliott’s ground-breaking production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time received seven Olivier Awards in London and five Tony Awards. Her production of Saint Joan earned her the Olivier Award for Best Revival and Pillars of the Community earned her the Evening Standard Award for Best Director. War Horse, which she co-directed, and has been seen by more than 7 million people worldwide, has just begun its second UK tour. Elliott’s recent highly acclaimed production of Angels in America at the National Theatre will transfer to Broadway in March 2018.
Joining Elliott on the creative team for Company are: designer Bunny Christie and musical director Joel Fram. Further casting will be announced.
Company was originally staged in 1970 and was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards. It won six.
Tickets for Company in the West End are available HERE
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