The full cast and creative team have been unveiled for director Jamie Lloyd’s highly anticipated new London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard.
As previously announced, award-winning recording artist and TV personality Nicole Scherzinger will play faded movie queen Norma Desmond for the bulk of the production’s limited 16-week run with Rachel Tucker (Come From Away, West End/Broadway, Wicked, West End/Broadway) stepping into the role for the matinee performance at the Savoy Theatre on 12 October before playing Monday night performances from 16 October 2023 until 6 January 2024.
They will be joined by Tom Francis (& Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre, What’s New Pussycat, Birmingham Rep) as Joe Gillis, with Grace Hodgett Young making her professional stage debut as Betty Schaefer and David Thaxton (Come From Away, Phoenix Theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) as Max Von Mayerling.
The cast will also include Carl Au (Anything Goes, Barbican/UK tour, South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre) as Myron/Jones, Georgia Bradshaw (9 to 5 The Musical, UK and Ireland, Dream Girls, Savoy Theatre) as Lisa/Masseur, Hannah Yun Chamberlain (Legally Blonde, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Out of the Box, Turbine Theatre) as Patsy/Beautician, Tyler Davis (Back to the Future, Adelphi Theatre, Love Beyond, City Gates) as Sheldrake, Kamilla Fernandes (Groundhog Day, The Old Vic, Newsies, Troubadour Wembley Park) as Dorothy/Astrologer, Ahmed Hamad (Standing At the Sky’s Edge, National Theatre/Sheffield Crucible, The Boy in the Dress, RSC) as Artie, Laura Harrison (Wicked, Apollo Victoria, The Rocky Horror Show, UK and Ireland tour) as Catherine/Doctor, Charlotte Jaconelli (Assassins, Chichester Festival Theatre, Into the Woods, Theatre Royal Bath) as Joanna/Masseur, Olivia-Faith Kamau (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hope Mill Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, Cirencester Barn) as Nancy/Beautician, Luke Latchman (Millennials, The Other Palace, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre) as John/Guard, Emma Lloyd (Back to the Future, Manchester Opera House/Adelphi Theatre, Dr Dolittle, UK tour) as Mary/Heather/Analyst, Mireia Mambo (Newsies, Troubadour Wembley Park, Hairspray, London Coliseum) as Jean/Beautician/Dance Captain, Gregor Milne (The Girl From the North Country, UK tour) as Sammy, Kody Mortimer (Assassins, Chichester Festival Theatre, Hex, National Theatre) as Finance Man/Frank, Jon Tsouras (Moulin Rouge!, Piccadilly Theatre, Be More Chill, The Other Palace) as Finance Man/Cecil B De Mille and Charlie Waddell (Gypsy, The Mill at Sonning, South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre/UK and Ireland tour) as Morino/Hog-Eye.
The cast will be completed by Lara Denning (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Apollo Theatre/UK tour, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Theatre Royal Drury Lane) as Standby Norma), Jordan Cork (Alcina, Royal Opera House, Das Rhinegold, English National Opera) and Shayna McPherson (Johannes Radebe: Freedom Unleashed, UK tour, The Wiz, Hope Mill Theatre) as Camera Operators, with Catherine Cornwall (The Cher Show, UK tour, The Prince of Egypt, Dominion Theatre) as Camera Operator Swing, Michael Lin (The Wizard of Oz, London Palladium) as Assistant Dance Captain and Jon Reynolds (Back to the Future, Adelphi Theatre), Kirsty Anne Shaw (9 to 5 The Musical, South Korea/UK tour), Harrison Wilde (The Wizard of Oz, London Palladium) and Lillie-Pearl Wildman (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse) as swings.
Lloyd heads a creative team that also includes: Soutra Gilmour (set and costume designer); Fabian Aloise (choreographer); Alan Williams (music supervisor and musical director); Jack Knowles (lighting designer); Adam Fisher (sound designer); Nathan Amzi and Joe Ransom (video design and cinematography); Stuart Burt (casting director); Hazel Holder (voice and dialect); Kate Waters (fight director); Ingrid Mackinnon (intimacy coordinator); Rachel Woodhouse (costume supervisor); Lily Mollgaard (props supervisor); Rupert Hands (associate director); Paris Green (resident associate choreographer); Huw Evans (associate musical director); Kelsh B-D (associate sound designer); and Martyn Sands (production manager).
Presented by The Jamie Lloyd Company, the successful partnership between the Ambassador Theatre Group and artistic director Jamie Lloyd, alongside the newly formed Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals, a joint venture by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Michael Harrison, the bold new version of the award-winning musical is due to play the Savoy Theatre from 21 September 2023 until 6 January 2024.
Announcing the production which will open 30 years after the show’s West End debut, Lloyd, who will also direct, said: “After our reappraisal of Evita at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, I’m very excited to rediscover another iconic Lloyd Webber musical — and Sunset Boulevard is one of his most thrilling, complex and atmospheric scores. We are so fortunate to have the opportunity to create a new production of this fascinating piece with the extraordinary Nicole Scherzinger.”
Based on the classic Paramount film by Billy Wilder, and featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber with a book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, Sunset Boulevard opened in the West End in 1993 with Patti LuPone as Norma Desmond. The award-winning star of the first Broadway production, Glenn Close, also played Norma Desmond in the second West End revival and in the first Broadway revival.
Angela Thomas
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