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Back to News & Press Shakespeares Globe Productions of Richad III & Twelfth Night to Transfer to West End Monday, 27 February 2012 Joining Rylance will be Stephen Fry as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Samuel Barnett and Johnny Flynn. Tickets for the 13 week run at the Apollo Theatre go on sale today (27 February 2012). Further casting will be announced shortly. Designs are by Jenny Tiramani and music is by Claire van Kampen who along with Tim Carroll are the creative team behind the Globe’s original 2002 version of Twelfth Night. The productions, which will be designed using original Shakespearian practices, will run at the Apollo Theatre from 2 November 2012 – 3 February 2013. Press day will be on Saturday 17 November 2012 (Richard III at 1.30pm, Twelfth Night at 7pm). Sonia Friedman Productions in association with Shakespeare Road, 1001 Nights and Tulchin/ Bartner Productions present Shakespeare’s Globe productions of Richard III and Twelfth Night. Up Up

Back to News & Press Last chance to see The Nether Thursday, 2 April 2015 The Headlong and Royal Court Theatre’s co-production of Jennifer Haley’s multi-award-winning play The Nether, produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott M Delman, will complete its limited run at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 25 April 2015 as previously announced. Jeremy Herrin’s critically acclaimed production of Haley’s piece of new writing transferred to the West End in January from the Royal Court Theatre where it premiered last year. More than 19,000 theatregoers have seen The Nether for under £20.50 thanks to the extension of accessible “off-West End” pricing and the production has received four nominations at the upcoming 2015 Olivier Awards: Best New Play, Best Set Design, Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The current West End cast of The Nether comprises David Calder (Doyle), Amanda Hale (Morris), Ivanno Jeremiah (Woodnut) and Stanley Townsend (Sims) who are joined by Jaime Adler, Perdita Hibbins and Isabella Pappas who alternate the role of Iris. From 13 April, David Beames returns to the production in the role of Doyle, which he previously played at the Royal Court Theatre. Set designs are by Es Devlin, with costume designs by Christina Cunningham, video design by Luke Halls, lighting by Paul Pyant, compositions by Nick Powell and sound by Ian Dickinson. The Nether offers complete freedom – a new virtual wonderland providing total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. An intricate crime drama and a haunting thriller set in the year 2050, The Nether follows an investigation into the complicated, disturbing morality of identity in the digital world, and explores the consequences of making dreams a reality Jennifer Haley’s other writing includes Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, which premiered at the Actors Theatre of Louisville at the 2008 Humana Festival, Breadcrumbs for the Contemporary American Theatre Festival and Sustainable Living written in the 2011-2012 CTG Writers’ Workshop and featured at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her play Froggy is in development with The Banff Centre and American Conservatory Theater. Haley’s plays have been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn, Page 73 and the MacDowell Colony. She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles where she founded a writing collective called the Playwrights Union. The Nether was the first play Jeremy Herrin directed for Headlong as Artistic Director. Previously he was Deputy Artistic Director of the Royal Court Theatre from 2009 until 2012 where his credits included No Quarter, Hero, Haunted Child, The Heretic, Kin, Spur of the Moment, Off the Endz, The Priory, Tusk Tusk, The Vertical Hour and That Face. Herrin directed the world premieres of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in two parts for the Royal Shakespeare Company – the productions transferred to the West End in May 2014 and commenced on Broadway earlier this month. He was the recipient of the 2014 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director for the productions. Herrin’s other recent credits include Another Country, Uncle Vanya and South Downs for Chichester Festival Theatre all of which transferred to the West End, This House for the National Theatre, Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre and The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing for Shakespeare’s Globe. Herrin’s production of David Hare’s The Absence of War opened at Sheffield Theatres earlier this year and is now on a UK tour. In a Headlong and Royal Court Theatre co-production, The Nether is produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions and Scott M Delman in association with Tulchin Bartner Productions, Lee Dean & Charles Diamond, 1001 Nights, JFL Theatricals/GHF Productions, Scott & Brian Zeilinger/James Lefkowitz. The Nether is the latest in a number of collaborations between Sonia Friedman Productions and the Royal Court Theatre (Rock ‘n’ Roll, Clybourne Park, Jerusalem in the West End and The River on Broadway) and Headlong (1984 and Chimerica). Development of The Nether was supported by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center during a residency at the National Playwrights Conference 2011, Preston Whiteway, Executive Director; Wendy Goldberg, Artistic Director. Up Up

Back to Productions CHIMERICA This production began performances on 6th August and closed on 13th October 2013. ★★★★★ Epic, exhilarating, exceptional Daily Telegraph Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. When a cryptic message is left in a Beijing newspaper more than 20 years later, Joe is driven to discover the truth behind the unknown hero he captured on film. Who was he? What happened to him? And could he still be alive? ★★★★★ Lucy Kirkwood’s magnificent drama. A towering achievement Evening Standard The Headlong and Almeida Theatre's five-star sold-out co-production of Lucy Kirkwood 's new play Chimerica will play at the Harold Pinter Theatre from 6 August for a strictly limited 11-week run. Directed by Lyndsey Turner , Chimerica received its world premiere last month at the Almeida Theatre where it has subsequently been acclaimed by critics and audiences alike. Sonia Friedman Productions , Tulchin Bartner Productions , Jean Doumanian and the Almeida Theatre , in association with 1001 Nights , Scott M Delman , JFL Theatricals /Tanya Link Productions , Burnt Umber Productions , Michael Ostin , present The Headlong & Almeida Theatre co-production of “CHIMERICA ” by Lucy Kirkwood . ★★★★★ A dazzling, thoughtful, wonderfully ambitious drama Financial Times CAST STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE – Joe Schofield BENEDICT WONG – Zhang Lin CLAUDIE BLAKLEY – Tessa Kendrick ELIZABETH CHAN – Liuli/Jennifer VERA CHOK/WENDY KWEH – Michelle/Marcy Chang/Deng KARL COLLINS – David/Peter/Paul/Office Hyte TREVOR COOPER – Frank NANCY CRANE – Susanna Schofield SEAN GLIDER – Mel Stanwyck SARAH LAM/LIZ SUTHERLAND – Feng Meihiu/Ming Xiaoli ANDREW LEUNG – Young Zhang Lin/Benny DAVID K S TSE – Zhang Wei/Wang Pengsi ROSIE ARMSTRONG – Ensemble TINA CHIANG – Ensemble CHRIS HOLLNSHEAD – Ensemble MATH SAMS – Ensemble KEVIN SHEN – Ensemble CREATIVES LUCY KIRKWOOD – Playwright LYNDSEY TURNER – Director ES DEVLIN – Set Designer TIM LUTKIN – Lighting Designer CAROLYN DOWNING – Sound Designer FINN ROSS – Video Designer CHRISTINA CUNNINGHAM – Costume Designer

Back to News & Press Initial casting announced for the West End transfer of Oklahoma! Wednesday, 23 November 2022 Reprising their roles in the West End after appearing at the Young Vic are Raphael Bushay (Mike), Arthur Darvill (Curly McLain), James Patrick Davis (Will Parker), Stavros Demetraki (Ali Hakim), Greg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Rebekah Hinds (Gertie Cummings), Anoushka Lucas (Laurey Williams), Marie-Astrid Mence (Lead Dancer), Liza Sadovy (Aunt Eller) and Patrick Vaill (Jud Fry). Further casting for the show will be announced shortly. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! at Wyndham’s Theatre will begin with previews on 16th February, with an opening night on 28th February, until 2nd September 2023. For more information and to book, click here . Up Up

Back to News & Press Trevor Nunn's critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof extends due to public demand Friday, 29 March 2019 Chocolate Factory Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions and Michael Harrison presentThe Menier Chocolate Factory production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Book by Joseph Stein Music by Jerry Bock Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Director Trevor Nunn ; Choreographers Jerome Robbins & Matt Cole ; Set Designer Robert Jones Costume Designer Jonathan Lipman ; Hair and Make Up Designer Richard Mawbey Lighting Designer Tim Lutkin ; Sound Designer Gregory Clarke Musical Supervisor & Director Paul Bogaev ; Orchestrations Jason Carr Trevor Nunn ’s critically acclaimed production of Fiddler on the Roof , which opened this week at the reconfigured Playhouse Theatre, has extended its run due to public demand – the production, which broke box office records with the highest advance of any show at the theatre, is now booking until 28 September. Nunn directs a cast including Andy Nyman (Tevye), Judy Kuhn (Golde), Nicola Brown (Chava), Harriet Bunton (Hodel), Dermot Canavan (Lazar Wolf), Stewart Clarke (Perchik), Joshua Gannon (Motel), Matthew Hawksley (Fyedka), Louise Gold (Yente), and Molly Osborne (Tzeitel), as well as Miles Barrow , Sofia Bennett , Philip Bertioli , Lottie Casserley , Elena Cervesi, Lia Cohen , Talia Etherington , Shoshana Ezequiel , Isabella Foat, Fenton Gray , James Hameed , Adam Linstead , Adam Margilewski , Robert Maskell , Benny Maslov , Robyn McIntyre , Gaynor Miles , Ellie Mullane , Tania Newton , Craig Pinder , Valentina Theodoulou and Ed Wade . ★★★★★ ‘Musically, geopolitically, emotionally, this Fiddler raises the roof.’ The Guardian Direct from its sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Tony and Olivier award-winning director Trevor Nunn’s ‘exuberant revival’ (Daily Telegraph) of the classic Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof transfers to the West End for a strictly limited run. The Playhouse Theatre has been specially transformed into an immersive space for this ‘shiveringly intimate chamber musical about family’ (The Times). ★★★★★ ‘An evening to be celebrated as a spikily poignant reminder of what it is to be human in politically dark times. Both whirlingly energetic and achingly moving, it marks itself out straight away as one of the most uplifting nights possible to be had in the West End right now.’ The Arts Desk Old traditions and young love collide in this joyous and timely celebration of life. Tevye’s daughters’ unexpected choice of husbands opens his heart to new possibilities, as his close-knit community also feel winds of change blowing through their tiny village. Featuring the iconic score including ‘Tradition’, ‘Matchmaker, Matchmaker’, ‘Sunrise, Sunset’ and ‘If I Were a Rich Man’, and featuring original choreography from Tony Award-winning Jerome Robbins alongside new choreography by Matt Cole, Fiddler on the Roof ‘bursts from the stage’ (Financial Times), bringing new life to one of the most beloved musicals of all time. Visit the website: https://fiddlerwestend.com/ Up Up

Back to Productions IN FLAME This production began performances on 4th September and closed on 28th October 2000. Yorkshire 1908: Naive Clara and her impulsive sister Livvy escape the vigilant eye of their straight-laced grandmother and fall under the spell of a wayward heartbreaker London 2000: 36 year old Alex is successful, attractive and certain her life is mapped out...but with a neurotic flatmate, a mother who doesn't recognise her, and a married lover who deals in futures but lives in the present, is life really so sweet? Hearts catch fire as past and present family histories collide... IN FLAME , an enormous hit at the Bush Theatre last year, won Charlotte Jones the Critics' Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright. This production features an outstanding cast including Kerry Fox (An Angel at my Table , Shallow Grave ), Olivier Award-winning Marcia Warren and Jason Hughes (This Life ). Rosie Cavaliero , Emma Dewhurst and Ivan Kaye complete the superb ensemble of this outstanding production. CAST ROSIE CAVALIERO – Clara/Cootie IVAN KAYE – Frank/Mat MARCIA WARREN – Annie/Gramma JASON HUGHES – James/Arthur KERRY FOX – Alex EMMA DEWHURST – Livvy CREATIVES CHARLOTTE JONES – Playwright ANNA MACKMIN – Director TOM PYE – Designer JENNY KAGAN – Lighting SCARLETT MACKMIN – Choreographer ANDY COWTON – Composer

Back to Productions HAMLET – ANDREW SCOTT This production began its limited season on 9th June and closed on 2nd September 2017. ★★★★★ Andrew Scott is superb as Hamlet: he draws us with him through the famous soliloquies, making them feel fresh and alive Financial Times Following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre, Olivier Award-winning director Robert Icke’s new production of Hamlet which played in the West End for a limited season. ★★★★★ Moving seamlessly from the Almeida to the West End, Robert Icke's production of Hamlet remains extraordinarily, heartbreakingly beautiful Time Out Starring BAFTA and Olivier Award winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Birdland, Cock, Pride ) as the Danish Prince and Jessica Brown Findlay as Ophelia, Hamlet is brought to the stage by the critically acclaimed and multi-award-winning creative team behind 1984 and Oresteia. Robert Icke ‘one of the most important forces in today’s theatre ’ (The Observer ) previously directed Mary Stuart, Uncle Vanya, Oresteia, Mr Burns and 1984 for the Almeida Theatre. Hamlet is produced by ATG , Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre , who are renowned for introducing ground-breaking, critically acclaimed transfers to the West End. ★★★★★ The Observer CAST BARRY AIRD – Fransisco/Gravedigger MADELINE APPIAH – Guildenstern DERBHLE CROTTY – Gertrude MARTY CRUIKSHANK – Player Queen JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY – Ophelia CALUM FINLAY – Rosencrantz JOSHUA HIGGOTT – Horatio DANIEL RABIN – Reynaldo DAVID RINTOUL – Ghost/Player King ANDREW SCOTT – Hamlet MAANUV THIARA – Marcellus LUKE THOMPSON – Laertes PETER WIGHT – Polonius ANGUS WRIGHT – Claudius MATTHEW WYNN – Bernardo/Player 3/Priest MARK DESEBROCK ANDY HAWTHORNE PENELOPE MCGHIE CREATIVES ROBERT ICKE – Director HILDEGARD BECHTLER – Designer NATASHA CHIVERS – Lighting Designer TIM GIBBONS – Sound Designer TAL YARDEN – Video Designer DANIEL RAGGETT – Associate Director JULIA HORAN – Casting

Back to News & Press Dates announced as booking opens for the RE:EMERGE season Thursday, 15 April 2021 Amy Berryman ’s Walden opens the season, with previews from 22 May, and running until 12 June; Yasmin Joseph ’s J’Ouvert previews from 16 June, and runs until 3 July; and completing the season, Joseph Charlton ’s Anna X previews from 10 July, and runs until 4 August. The season will observe the UK government social distancing guidelines for audiences at the time of performance, making adjustments where safe and appropriate to seating and capacity in line with current advice. The RE:EMERGE season will create a space for vital, new voices and fresh talent in the West End and beyond, working alongside some of the industry’s greatest theatremakers and artists. The extraordinary collection of plays curated by Sonia Friedman Productions with Ian Rickson – Artistic Director for the season - tackles urgent issues integral to rebuilding our society, including structural inequality, climate change and the economics of truth in an internet age. Supported using public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England , RE:EMERGE will support the theatre-makers of the future, provide vital work for the freelance community and celebrate the live experience as we begin to build back to the full reopening of British theatre. The RE:EMERGE season will open with socially-distanced auditoria, helping to re-open and re-energise our theatres, and will be staged in a Covid safe environment following current government advice and adhering to social distancing guidelines; and in line with Society of London Theatre's See It Safely campaign. THE RE:EMERGE SEASON INCLUDES: • WALDEN A debut play by Amy Berryman Cast: Gemma Arterton, Fehinti Balogun, Lydia Wilson 22 May – 12 June Directed by Ian Rickson ; Design by Rae Smith ; Lighting Design by Azusa Ono Music by Mark Bradshaw ; Sound Design: Emma Laxton ; Casting: Amy Ball • J’OUVERT A new play by Yasmin Joseph 16 June – 3 July Cast: Annice Boparai , Gabrielle Brooks , Sapphire Joy , Zuyane Russell Directed by Rebekah Murrell Designed by Sandra Falase in collaboration with Chloe Lamford ; Movement by Shelley Maxwell ; Lighting Design by Simisola Majekodunmi ; Sound Design by Beth Duke ; Casting by Isabella Odoffin • ANNA X A new play by Joseph Charlton 10 July – 4 August Cast: Emma Corrin , Nabhaan Rizwan Directed by Daniel Raggett ; Set and Video Design by Mikaela Liakata and Tal Yarden Lighting Design by Jessica Hung Han Yun ; Sound Design by Mike Winship Costume Design by Natalie Pryce Tickets for the previews will be priced from £5, and from £10 for the runs post press nights. There will be 600 tickets each week priced at £15 or under. There is the intention for all three productions to be filmed for a broadcast life, with J’OUVERT being shown on BBC Four on Monday 26 April at 10pm and BBC iPlayer as part of BBC Lights Up - a season of plays for BBC radio and TV, produced in partnership with theatres across the UK and continuing BBC Arts’ Culture in Quarantine initiative. Filming details to be announced in due course for WALDEN and ANNA X. Twitter: @SFP_London #ReEmergeSFP Instagram: @SFPOfficial #ReEmergeSFP Facebook: /SoniaFriedmanProductions #ReEmergeSFP Supported using public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England. For further information contact: Kate Morley Tel: 07970 465 648 / kate@katemorleypr.com Up Up

Back to News & Press My favourite performance: Sonia Friedman Wednesday, 13 August 2025 Originally published in The Stage . Which productions most inspired, moved and delighted our leading theatremakers? West End producer Sonia Friedman chooses an unforgettable rehearsal performance by Harold Pinter of Krapp’s Last Tape. Krapp’s Last Tape, Royal Court Upstairs, London, 2006 In 1988, I’d recently started at the National Theatre where I was deputy stage manager on Mountain Language. It was my first experience of watching a writer direct his own work, and not just any old writer – this was Harold Pinter , the greatest living writer of the time. And he took me under his wing. I was a kid and he gave me one of the greatest compliments of my life. A DSM operates the show: it’s about timing and cues and Pinter is all about timing. He was with me in the box on the cans and he said to me: “You’re the most musical person I’ve ever worked with: you instinctively understand all the rhythms of my work. Thank you. I have no notes.” Two years before he died, when everyone knew he was very sick and very frail, I saw a dress rehearsal of him performing Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape . I was invited by Harold and Ian Rickson , the director, and I was one of very few people in the auditorium. It was a very difficult rehearsal because he hadn’t yet worked out how to operate his wheelchair properly. Because the character has to keep leaving the stage to get things, he kept banging into the walls and the fury, the frustration, the desperation was extraordinarily moving and overwhelmingly powerful. He was so fucking angry, as the character but also as himself: angry at his health, angry that he couldn’t do it, angry that the wheelchair wasn’t helping him... It was the man and the work and the play – a play about memory, time, loneliness, death, futility and art all meshed into one. It was, no question, the greatest thing I have ever seen. Afterwards, Ian asked me to talk to him. I went into the bar and he was on his own, still furious. And Harold Pinter furious was like no one else on the planet. But I wanted him to know what the experience had been for me, watching this genuinely great artist allow himself to be so frail and so unsentimental about coming to the end of his time. He was clearly grateful that I wasn’t remotely concerned about the wheelchair problems and that I had been so moved. The run was sold out so I never saw it again. But I didn’t need to. Nothing could have matched what I witnessed. Analysis – David Benedict Not even the 1958 first performance of Beckett’s solo memory play about mortality could have been better cast than Ian Rickson’s spellbinding, nine-performance-only revival in the 69-seat Royal Court Upstairs. At 76, Pinter was not only great casting because he began as an actor, but he and Beckett had been long-standing friends. They not only admired each other’s work but were also given to rattling around Paris and London together. And since both were famous for choosing words with immense consideration, it was unsurprising that Pinter’s performance revealed the weight and feeling underscoring every beat and word of the play. Glowing like a late-Rembrandt portrait under Paule Constable’s lighting on Hildegard Bechtler’s set, Pinter’s Krapp was driven not just by barely suppressed rage, but there was also humour timed to perfection to ratchet up the tension. Unforgettable. Mercifully, the show was filmed and is available on YouTube. Up Up

Back to News & Press National Theatre Live to Broadcast Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt Wednesday, 11 March 2020 Regarded as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ (The Times), Tom Stoppard’s new play, directed by Patrick Marber (Closer, Notes on a Scandal), is an intimate drama with an epic sweep; the story of a family who made good. A passionate drama of love, family and endurance, it’s Tom Stoppard’s most humane and heart-breaking play. At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann’s extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard’s epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and – for Austrian Jews – the Holocaust in which 65,000 of them were murdered. It is for the survivors to pass on a story which hasn’t ended yet. Leopoldstadt is the sixth collaboration between Sonia Friedman Productions and Tom Stoppard and reunites Stoppard, director Patrick Marber (Closer, Notes on a Scandal) and Friedman who last collaborated on Travesties in 2017. The show is currently playing to critical acclaim in Wyndham Theatre in London’s West End where it runs until June 13th. To find your nearest cinema go to http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk Up Up

Back to Productions FUNNY GIRL This production began performances on 7th April and closed on 8th October 2016. If Sheridan Smith was a star before the lights went up on Funny Girl last night, she was twice the star by the time she took the thunderous curtain-call. Daily Telegraph This musical classic tells the fascinating bitter-sweet story of Fanny Brice ( Smith ), whose vocal talents and comedic ability see her rise from Brooklyn music hall singer to Broadway star and her tempestuous relationship with gambler Nicky Arnstein. Featuring some of the most iconic songs in film and theatre history, including “People” and “Don’t Rain On My Parade”. ★★★★ Smith is a constant joy to watch The Guardian Funny Girl , starring multi-award-winning stage and screen star Sheridan Smith , transferred to the Savoy Theatre following its sold-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory. This bold new production, with music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill , a book by Isobel Lennart from an original story by Miss Lennart , with revisions by Harvey Fierstein , is directed by Michael Mayer (Hedwig and the Angry Itch & Spring Awakening on Broadway) and promises to be the must-see musical of 2016. ★★★★ Only a fool would rain on Sheridan Smith’s parade Time Out CAST SHERIDAN SMITH – Fanny Brice VALDA AVIKS – Mrs Meeker NATASHA J BARNES – Emma/Mrs Nadler/Cover Fanny Brice DARIUS CAMPBELL – Nick Arnstein MARILYN CUTTS – Mrs Brice MAURICE LANE – Mr Keeney BRUCE MONTAGUE – Florenz Ziegfeld JOEL MONTAGUE – Eddie Ryan GAY SOPER – Mrs Strakosh PHILIP BERTIOLO – Cornet Man/Tenor Soloist/Ensemble EMMA CAFFREY – Bubbles/Ensemble SANCHIA AMBER CLARKE – Swing LUCINDA COLLINS – Swing JOELLE DYSON – Ensemble REBECCA FENNELLY – Polly/Ensemble LUKE FETHERSTON – John/Cornet Man/Ensemble MATTHEW GOODGAME – Director/Renaldi/Paul/Ensemble LEAH HARRIS – Ensemble KELLY HOMEWOOD – Vera/Ensemble SAMMY KELLY – Mimsey/Ensemble SAM MURPHY – Swing TOM MURPHY – Swing CLARE RICHARD – Swing OLIVER TESTER – Swing CREATIVES JULE STYNE – Music BOB MERRILL – Lyrics ISOBEL LENNART – Book HARVEY FIERSTEIN – Revised Book MICHAEL MAYER – Director LYNNE PAGE – Choreography MICHAEL PAVELKA – Set Designer MATTHEW WRIGHT – Costume Designer MARK HENDERSON – Lighting Designer RICHARD BROOKER – Sound Designer ALAN WILLIAMS – Musical Supervisor/Musical Arrangements CHRIS WALKER – Orchestrations THEO JAMIESON – Musical Director CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES – Wigs, Hair and Make-Up PIPPA AILION CDG/JIM ARNOLD CGD – Additional Casting NICK TRUMBLE – Dialect Coach RICHARD FITCH – Associate Director REBECCA HOWELL – Associate Choreographer ANDY BARNWELL – Orchestral Manager

Back to News & Press The Mormons are back! Casting announced as hit musical The Book of Mormon tours the UK and Europe from September 2024 Monday, 5 August 2024 Casting is announced for the UK and European tour of The Book of Mormon. Broadway’s smash-hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, opens in Manchester in September 2024 before dates in Edinburgh, Bradford, Birmingham, Plymouth, Zurich, Hull and Dublin, with more cities to be announced soon. The cast will be led by Adam Bailey as Elder Price and Sam Glen as Elder Cunningham, Nyah Nish as Nabulungi, Tom Bales as Elder McKinley, Kirk Patterson as Mafala Hatimbi, Will Barratt as Joseph Smith and Rodney Earl Clarke as the General. The company will include Tolu Ayanbadejo, Dan Burstow, Hayden Cable, Will Carey, Olympia Curry, Kanoumah Diguet, Daniel David Griffith, Benjamin Cameron, Daniel George-Wright, Savannah Hall, Alex Hayden, Aaron Levi, Eden Lindsay, Zachary Loonie, Ross McKenna, Daniel N’Guessan-Lopez, Jessica Oppong, Jake Reynolds, Kayode Salina, Rory Shafford, Harry Simpson, Elliot Swann, and Harry Winchester. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the creators of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning television show, South Park , and the feature films South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police. Robert Lopez co-created the Broadway musical Avenue Q and co-wrote the songs for Disney’s Frozen and Coco . He is the first and only double ‘EGOT’ winner having won all four major entertainment awards at least twice - Emmy®, Grammy®, Oscar® and Tony® Awards. Since making its world premiere in March 2011 at New York’s Eugene O’Neill Theatre, where it won nine Tony® Awards, including Best Musical, The Book of Mormon has been performed on three continents and won over thirty international awards. The musical has smashed long-standing box office records in New York, London, Melbourne, Sydney and cities across the U.S. The London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in February 2013 when it set the record for the highest single day of sales in West End history and went on to win four Olivier Awards® including Best New Musical. Book, Music and Lyrics are by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Directed by Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon has choreography by Casey Nicholaw, set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt, sound design by Brian Ronan, orchestrations by Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus and music supervision and vocal arrangements by Stephen Oremus. The Book of Mormon is produced by Anne Garefino, Important Musicals and Sonia Friedman Productions. Up Up