The London Theatre Workshop has announced the cast for the upcoming UK premiere of the musical comedy Vote For Me: A Musical Debate which runs at the venue in Fulham, west London this May, direct from a sell-out Off-Broadway run.
Vote For Me is a musicalised Presidential debate where you pick the winner. Candidates dance and sing their way through the three-ring circus of American politics, and audiences cast their votes to help determine the outcome of the show. The musical was commissioned by Robyn Goodman, the producer of Avenue Q, and penned by Drew Fornarola and Scott Elmegreen, who sought to create a heightened satire of American life that spoke to the state of their culture – in their case American political culture – at its best and its worst.
The musical premiered at the 2010 New York Musical Theater Festival, and played a sold-out run Off-Broadway at Roy Arias Stages in the summer of 2014.
Hans Rye will play Republican candidate Senator Buddy Rounsaville opposite Emily Lynne (She Loves Me, Landor) in the role of Democratic candidate for Governor Janet Tilghman. Arvid Larson (Closer Than Ever, Jermyn Street Theatre) will play Janet’s long-suffering husband Roger Tilghman, alongside Jennie Jacobs as Buddy’s pushy wife Amy Rounsaville. Attempting to control the proceedings will be Lucy Grainger (50 Shades of Grey – The Original Musical Parody) as Robyn Fiedler, the moderator of the debate, and spinning each of the answers will be Joe Leather (Bathhouse the Musical) in the role of The Advisor.
Vote For Me: A Musical Debate runs at the London Theatre Workshop from 5–23 May (press night is 8 May). The show is produced by Olga Marie-Pratt on behalf of the London Theatre Workshop, it will be directed by Dom O’Hanlon with musical direction by Chris Guard.
Hans Rye: (Buddy Rounseville). Credits include the European tour of A Spectacular Night of Queen, Big Deal/Fight Captain in West Side Story (Kilden Performing Arts Centre) and Pemberton Maxwell in Call Me Madam (Union Theatre).
Emily Lynne: (Janet Tilghman). London: Ilona Ritter (She Loves Me) at the Landor Theatre. US: Fiona (Shrek), Eva (Evita), Maureen (Rent), Eve/Mama (Children of Eden), Fantine (Les Misérables), Gertrude (Seussical), Ellen (Miss Saigon) and Val (A Chorus Line), Pittsburgh Musical Theatre. Created the role of MisoKitty2 (Furry Tales, world premiere).
Arvid Larson: (Rodger Tilghman). Theatre: Closer than Ever, (Jermyn Street Theatre), Mr. DeWinter in Rebekka, (Palladium Theatre Stuttgart, Stage Entertainment), Eurobeat (Edinburgh Fringe, UK tour and West End), Tony in West Side Story (Oslo Nye Teater, Norway), Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour), Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, (UK tour and West End), Marius in Fanny (Lost Musicals, Sadler’s Wells), Sunset Boulevard (Rhein Main Theatre, Frankfurt).
Jennie Jacobs: (Amy Rounseville) trained at The London School of Musical Theatre, representing the school at the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition in 2011. Since graduating, she has worked in film, theatre, musicals, and plays, as well as being as a recording artist. She is also a writer and comic.
Lucy Grainger: (Robyn Fiedler). Grainger is originally from Wales and trained at Drama Studio London. As well as performing, she writes, having recently completed her first dark comedy short film, A Body of Work, which is being entered into 2015 film festivals. She has been part of the legendary NewsRevue twice and last year appeared in another Off-Broadway show that premiered in the UK, playing Anastasia in 50 Shades of Grey – The Original Musical Parody at The Main Assembly Hall, Edinburgh.
Joe Leather: (The Advisor). Leather trained at the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded the Toni Fell Prize. Previous credits include Adam in Time of My Life (The Tabard), Ashley in The Boys Upstairs (Above the Stag), NewsRevue (Canal Cafe), Teddy in BathHouse: The Musical (ATS) and Henry in Damn Yankees (Brockley Jack). He has provided backing vocals for Radio 2 and Britain’s Got Talent and regularly performs in his solo Jewish cabaret The Goy Next Door.
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