The full cast has been confirmed for the eagerly-awaited UK premiere of Broadway hit Shucked at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Described as a ‘hilarious and audacious farm-to-fable musical’, Shucked has a book by Robert Horn and music and lyrics by Tony Award nominees and Drama Desk Award winners Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
Directed by triple Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, the Broadway production which opened at the Nederlander Theatre in April 2023 will make its UK debut for five weeks only from 10 May until 14 June.
Presented in association with Mike Bosner, Jason Owen, AEG Presents/Jay Marciano and Michael Harrison, the previously announced cast includes Monique Ashe-Palmer (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Gillian Lynne Theatre, Waitress, Adelphi Theatre/UK tour) as Storyteller 1, Ben Joyce (Back to the Future, Adelphi Theatre, Jersey Boys, Trafalgar Theatre) as Beau, Sophie McShera (The Entertainer, Garrick Theatre, Jerusalem, Apollo Theatre) as Maizy, Georgina Onuorah (Little Shop of Horrors, Sheffield Crucible, Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre) as Lulu, Keith Ramsay (The Play That Goes Wrong, Duchess Theatre, Preludes, Southwark Playhouse) as Peanut, Matthew Seadon-Young (The Baker’s Wife, Menier Chocolate Factory, Company, Gielgud Theatre) as Gordy and Steven Webb (Here You Come Again, UK tour/Riverside Studios, Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre) as Storyteller 2.
They will be joined by Jed Berry (Wicked, UK tour, Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre/UK/international tour) as Swing, Taila Halford (School of Rock, international tour, Kin A New Musical, The Other Palace) as Ensemble, Ross Harmon (Little Piece of You: An Atypical Musical in Concert, Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Wicked, Apollo Victoria) as Ensemble, Jonathan Andrew Hume (Guys & Dolls, Bridge Theatre, Come from Away, Phoenix Theatre) as Grandpa, Claudia Kariuki (Ragtime/Porgy & Bess, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) as Ensemble, Ying Ue Li (My Fair Lady, Leicester Curve, The Addams Family, UK and Ireland tour) as Ensemble, Tom Oliver (The Little Big Things, @sohoplace, Jersey Boys, Trafalgar Studios) as Ensemble, Gleanne Purcell-Brown (She Loves Me, Sheffield Crucible, Curtains, West End/UK tour) as Ensemble, Nathaniel Purnell (The Time Traveller’s Wife, Apollo Theatre, Snow White, De Montfort Hall) as Swing, Rachel Rawlinson (Heathers, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Becoming Nancy, Birmingham Rep Theatre) as Swing/Dance Captain, Mia Shelbourne (professional debut) as Swing and Toyan Thomas-Browne (MJ The Musical, Prince Edward Theatre, Ain’t Too Proud, Prince Edward Theatre) as Ensemble.
The creative team includes Lucy Adams (associate lighting designer), Myles Brown (associate choreographer), Nathanael Campbell (associate director), Ben Davies (associate set designer), Aundrea Fudge (voice and dialect coach), Jill Green (casting director), Tilly Grimes (costume designer), Carol Hancock (UK wigs, hair and make-up designer, supervisor), Jason Howland (music supervisor, orchestrations and arrangements), Olivia Laydon (casting associate), Ingrid Mackinnon (intimacy support), Caity Mulkearn (associate costume designer), Mia M Neal (original US hair and wig designer), Sarah O’Gleby (choreographer), Scott Pask (set designer), Michael J Passaro (US production supervisor), Greg Pink (associate sound designer), Katy Richardson (musical director), Tom Shiels (casting associate), John Shivers (sound designer) and Japhy Weideman (lighting designer).
Angela Thomas
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