Melissa James, Matt Rixon and Jamie Muscato join the cast of MoulinRouge at London’s Piccadilly Theatre. Picture: Matt Crockett
The West End production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical will welcome a number of new cast members next month as the hit show enters its second year at the Piccadilly Theatre.
From 17 October 2022, Melissa James (The Bodyguard UK tour, Cats, UK tour) will play showgirl Satine, opposite Jamie Muscato (Heathers: The Musical, The Other Palace/Theatre Royal Haymarket, Big Fish, The Other Palace) as aspiring writer Christian, and Matt Rixon (Hairspray! UK tour, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, London Palladium) as Moulin Rouge impresario Harold Zidler.
Ian Carlyle (Five Guys Named Moe, Underbelly, Little Miss Sunshine The Musical, Arcola Theatre) will take over the role of Toulouse-Lautrec, with Ben Richards (The Bodyguard, Adelphi Theatre, 9 To 5 The Musical, UK tour) as The Duke.
Elia Lo Tauro (On Your Feet, Carousel) will continue to play Santiago, while Amy Thornton (Matilda, Cambridge Theatre, Evita, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) will step into the role of Nini alongside recent graduate Tiago Dhondt Bamberger as Baby Doll, Hannah Jay-Allan (TINA: The Tina Turner Musical, Aldwych Theatre, The Dreaming, Union Theatre) as Arabia, and Elliotte Williams-N’Dure (Jesus Christ Superstar, The Barbican, Sylvia, The Old Vic) as La Chocolat. Tanisha Spring (The Prince of Egypt, Dominion Theatre, Big Fish, The Other Palace) will continue to play alternate Satine.
The cast will also include Michael Afemare, Yandrick Agius, Femi Akinfolarin, Ollie Augustin, Will Bozier, Robson Broad, Jonathan Cordin, Anthony Cragg, Katie Deacon, Fletcher Dobinson, Taofique Folarin, Honey Joseph, Alicia Mencía Lopez, Georgia Morgan, Nathaniel Morrison, Melissa Nettleford, Alice Readie, Ben Rutter, Craig Ryder, Elly Shaw, Tinovimbanashe Sibanda, Misty May Tindall, Jon Tsouras, Lily Wang and Jason Leigh Winter.
Currently booking into February 2022, the stage musical version of Baz Luhrmann’s vibrant double Oscar-winning tale of love among the artists in the Montmartre area of Paris is directed by award-winning director Alex Timbers (Here Lies Love, Rocky).
With a book Tony and Golden Globe-winning writer John Logan, Luhrmann’s highly-stylised vision of turn of the century Paris is played out to the sound of an eclectic ‘jukebox-style’ trip through the music of the last 50 years.
Winner of 10 Tony Awards, Moulin Rouge! The Musical features choreography by Emmy Award-winner Sonya Tayeh with music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Justin Levine.
The design team also includes: Tony Award-winning set designer Derek McLane and Olivier Award-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber, with double Tony Award-nominee Justin Townsend on lighting, Peter Hylenski on sound, Drama Desk Award winner David Brian Brown on wig and hair design, and Sarah Cimino on make-up design. Casting is by Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher.
A decade in the making, the ambitious production premiered in Boston in 2018 and debuted in New York in 2019 – 18 years after the big screen debut of Luhrmann’s evocative story of a doomed love affair between a writer and a dancer starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.
Angela Thomas
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