{"id":60354,"date":"2023-02-03T17:03:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/cast-revealed-for-uk-tour-of-cake-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T17:03:35","slug":"solid-revealed-for-uk-tour-of-cake-there-ought-to-be-clowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/solid-revealed-for-uk-tour-of-cake-there-ought-to-be-clowns\/","title":{"rendered":"solid revealed for UK tour of Cake \u2013 There Ought To Be Clowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><strong>Cake<\/strong> <\/em>is a brand-new musical, come gig, come ballet is from among the most enjoyable figures in trendy British Theatre, with an Olivier Award profitable artistic group together with Olivier Winner\u2019s <strong>Drew McOnie<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>In the Heights<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Jesus Chris Superstar<\/em>) and\u00a0<strong>Morgan Lloyd Malcolm<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Emilia<\/em>\u00a0<em>\u2013 The Globe<\/em>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cake\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>can be beginning its UK tour from 18 March 2023, at MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton and excursions to the Lowry in Salford, the Drum in Plymouth, Curve in Leicester and Norwich Theatre Royal.<\/p>\n<p>Casting will embrace, recent from her magical run as Mary Poppins on the West End,\u00a0<strong>Zizi Strallen (she\/her)\u00a0<\/strong>stars as Marie Antoinette, with\u00a0<strong>Ren\u00e9e Lamb (she\/her)<\/strong>, Catherine of Aragon from the unique solid of\u00a0<em>SIX,<\/em>\u00a0starring as Jeanne.<\/p>\n<p>The solid is accomplished by\u00a0<strong>B Terry (they\/them)\u00a0<\/strong>as Nicole,\u00a0<strong>Travis Ross (he\/him)<\/strong>\u00a0as Cardinal with\u00a0<strong>Ope Sowande (he\/him)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Megan Bryony Gibbs (she\/her)<\/strong>\u00a0because the ensemble and\u00a0<strong>Lukas Hunt (he\/him)<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Amie Hibbert (she\/her)\u00a0<\/strong>as swings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cake<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0combines music with 18th century France to retell a narrative that sparked a revolution. When Marie Antoinette married King Louis, her status was already tarnished by gossip. But when she is implicated in a criminal offense to defraud the crown jewellers of a diamond necklace, it isn&#8217;t simply her status at stake, however the monarchy and France itself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Originally commissioned by\u00a0Paul Taylor-Mills\u00a0(<em>Heathers<\/em>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<em>In the Heights<\/em>),\u00a0<strong><em>Cake\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>guarantees to re-define our expectations of what a musical could be.<\/p>\n<p>Paul stated,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to be partnering with 5 of the leading regional theatres to present a development production of this brilliant new show. I first commissioned this at The Other Palace five years ago and am delighted to be working with some of the best theatre makers in Drew McOnie, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Tasha Taylor Johnson and Jack McManus. The show started life at our first MTFestUK and it\u2019s great to see it come to production.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Cake is a brand-new musical, come gig, come ballet is from among the most enjoyable figures in trendy British Theatre, with an Olivier Award profitable artistic group together with Olivier Winner\u2019s Drew McOnie\u00a0(In the Heights;\u00a0Jesus Chris Superstar) and\u00a0Morgan Lloyd Malcolm\u00a0(Emilia\u00a0\u2013 The Globe)\u00a0 Cake\u00a0can be beginning its UK tour from 18 March 2023, at MAST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-60354","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\/60354","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=60354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}