{"id":107119,"date":"2023-05-29T02:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/full-casting-announced-for-crazy-for-yous-west-end-transfer-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T02:46:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T02:46:17","slug":"full-casting-introduced-for-crazy-for-yous-west-end-switch-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/full-casting-introduced-for-crazy-for-yous-west-end-switch-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Full casting introduced for Crazy for You\u2019s West End switch \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joey Parnes, Sally Horchow and Michael Harrison are thrilled to verify the complete casting for the West End switch of Chichester Festival Theatre\u2019s elegant new manufacturing of\u00a0<em><strong>Crazy<\/strong><strong>\u00a0For You<\/strong><\/em>. The traditional Gershwin musical which is delivered to life on stage by the famend, multi-Tony and Olivier\u00a0award-winning director and choreographer\u00a0<strong>Susan Stroman,<\/strong>\u00a0will play a strictly restricted 6-month season on the\u00a0<strong>Gillian Lynne Theatre<\/strong>\u00a0in London, with performances starting on\u00a0<strong>Saturday 24 June 2023<\/strong>\u00a0(Press Night: Monday 3 July). Tickets at the moment are on sale at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net\/ls\/click?upn=TeZUXWpUv-2B6TCY38pVLo9hisj3YIJ3-2Bx-2Fbgk1ViozXjGeo0jqcS2qlLIvoJRtawukNRl_E8G1mquYH303iAr5frZ4vWFXcGu8P9h-2Fx5J0H4DQU13crarHkU32zjH2-2BcswcNJsxpCLMlsV-2F3YJiukaWg7voq7bHPOHplSHvhewc-2F2rjFD3fUo7pmImsqO4kMKRXobXuVxNmgwujO6aXOzqjHjQa1fSbY2m2WTETEgPMJcCqMc-2FEG1FKYlVBo6qxSOQhcRMYKiSwrtCFTanMDER3f3lt-2B4UVHl2qEtZS9LLZmu2PLthPRuVc-2Fd77PfSV63UQorEeYpktXd-2FmpFTG9tPkwDNkWlq3BrjOHg-2BI3oWY7-2F1aGJsZNBU014g8TNy6koE-2BcEj5s4xjjjDt116nS3IJ6IiR8QuLCsicjE5G7bDzqi14TI-3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><u><strong>www.CrazyForYouMusical.com<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As beforehand introduced,\u00a0<em><strong>Crazy<\/strong><strong>\u00a0For You<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0will star\u00a0<strong>Charlie Stemp<\/strong>, the Olivier-nominated star of\u00a0<em>Half a Sixpence<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Mary Poppins<\/em>\u00a0as Bobby Child,\u00a0<strong>Carly Anderson<\/strong>, star of\u00a0<em>Wicked<\/em>\u00a0as Polly Baker,\u00a0and\u00a0Drama Desk Award winner\u00a0<strong>Tom Edden\u00a0<\/strong>as Bela Zangler, following their critically acclaimed performances within the celebrated, sold-out manufacturing at Chichester Festival Theatre final summer season.<\/p>\n<p>They shall be joined within the West End by\u00a0<strong>Natalie Kassanga<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Dreamgirls<\/em>) as Irene Roth,\u00a0<strong>Mathew Craig<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>We Will Rock You<\/em>) as Lank Hawkins,\u00a0<strong>Duncan Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>White Christmas<\/em>) as Everett Baker,\u00a0<strong>Marilyn Cutts<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Funny Girl<\/em>) as Lottie Child,\u00a0<strong>Sam Harrison\u00a0<\/strong>(<em>Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/em>) as Eugene Fodor,\u00a0<strong>Rina Fatania<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>The Killing of Sister George<\/em>) as Patricia Fodor,\u00a0<strong>Jack Wilcox\u00a0<\/strong>(<em>Anything Goes<\/em>)as Standby Bobby Child, and\u00a0<strong>Kayleigh Thadani, Kate Parr, Lila Anderson, Harriet Samuel-Gray, Imogen Bowtell, Laura Hills, Ella Valentine, Tara Yasmin, Marc Akinfolarin, Lucas Koch, Philip Bertioli, Jason Battersby, Ashley-Jordon Packer, Nicholas Duncan, Nathan Elwick, Liam Wrate, Joshua Nkemdilim, Nell Martin, Bradley Trevethan, Bethan Downing, Ryan Jupp, Jinny Gould, George Bray.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019s a fish out of water and he or she\u2019s an actual catch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Theatre mad Bobby Child is torn between his showbusiness desires and operating the household financial institution. He reluctantly heads west to Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a theatre\u2019s mortgage, solely to fall for the theatre proprietor\u2019s daughter, Polly. Desperate to show his good religion, Bobby decides to placed on a present \u2013 full with dancers from the glamorous Zangler Follies in New York City \u2013 to save lots of the theatre, renew the city and hopefully win Polly\u2019s love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With a riotously entertaining e-book by Ken Ludwig and overflowing with wonderful\u00a0Gershwin\u00a0melodies (together with\u00a0<em>Someone to Watch Over Me<\/em>,<em>\u00a0I Got Rhythm<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>They Can\u2019t Take That Away from Me<\/em>), this manufacturing is a festivity \u2018<em>blessed with ingenious, sparkling choreography from Susan Stroman, which sends you out on a high from the joy of music and dance\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(Financial Times.) The unique manufacturing of\u00a0<em><strong>Crazy For You<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>received a number of Tony and Olivier Awards, together with\u00a0<em>Best Musical<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Direction and choreography by multi-Tony and Olivier\u00a0award winner\u00a0<strong>Susan Stroman<\/strong>, with e-book by Olivier Award profitable\u00a0<strong>Ken Ludwig<\/strong>, this spectacular manufacturing transfers from a\u00a0sell-out season\u00a0on the Chichester Festival Theatre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Crazy For You<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is produced by\u00a0<strong>Joey Parnes<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Sally Horchow<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Michael Harrison\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0<strong>Crossroads Live<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0Nick Thomas\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Bob Boyett.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#224960\">Photo: Johan Persson<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Joey Parnes, Sally Horchow and Michael Harrison are thrilled to verify the complete casting for the West End switch of Chichester Festival Theatre\u2019s elegant new manufacturing of\u00a0Crazy\u00a0For You. The traditional Gershwin musical which is delivered to life on stage by the famend, multi-Tony and Olivier\u00a0award-winning director and choreographer\u00a0Susan Stroman,\u00a0will play a strictly restricted 6-month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-107119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}