New cast members will climb on board the Olivier Award-winning UK premiere of hit New York musical comedy Titanique next month.
From 15 July, one of the stars of the French production of the show, Astrid O’Leary, will reprise her performance as Céline Dion in London. From 22 July the Paris production’s Molly Brown, Jenny O’Leary (We Will Rock You), will take over as maternity cover for Charlotte Wakefield.
The duo will join the current London Criterion Theatre cast led by Luke Bayer (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Rent) as Jack, Darren Bennett (Singin’ in the Rain, UK tour, Grease) as Victor Garber/Luigi, Richard Carson (Les Misérables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) as Cal, Hiba Elchikhe (The Time Traveller’s Wife, Aladdin) as Rose, Carl Mullaney (La Cage aux Folles, Les Misérables) as Ruth and Tosh Wanogho-Maud (Dream Girls, The Drifters Girl) as The Iceberg, with Adrianne Langley (Sixties Girls, Dusseldorf), Madison Swan (The Book of Mormon, West End) and Rodney Vubya (The Book of Mormon, original West End production) as onstage background vocalists and offstage understudies Freddie King (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Union Theatre) and Caitlin Tipping (SIX, Frozen the Musical).
The musical inspired by James Cameron’s Oscar-winning 1997 film sailed into the Criterion Theatre last December. Co-written by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelo and Constantine Rousouli and directed by Blue, the musical re-imagines the doomed cinematic romance of Rose and Jack being hi-jacked by the voice of Titanic, Céline Dion.
Titanique premiered Off-Broadway at the Asylum Theatre in June 2022 with co-authors Mindelle and Rousouli playing Céline Dion and Jack Dawson. An instant hit with audiences, and following a number of sold-out extensions, the musical transferred to its current home, the Daryl Roth Theatre, in November 2022.
The musical won seven major awards during the 2022/23 theatre season, including three Lucille Lortel Awards, the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical, Las Culturistas’ Culture Award for Best Indoor Performance and two Dorian Awards.
Titanique is choreographed by Ellenore Scott with music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Nicholas James Connell, scenic design by Gabriel Hainer Evansohn and Grace Lauchbacher for Iron Bloom Creative Production, costume design by Alejo Vietti, lighting design by Paige Seber, sound design by Lawrence Schober and casting by Pearson Casting
The musical also made its debut in Canada last autumn, docking in Montreal in October before sailing into Toronto in December.
Angela Thomas
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