Olivier Award-winning musicals actor Matt Henry is joining the cast of major new London show The Devil Wears Prada, coming to the West End’s Dominion Theatre in 2024.
Matt will play Runway magazine’s leading fashion authority Nigel, a close confident of tough-talking fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played in the show by stage and screen star Vanessa Williams.
Matt is best known for his Olivier Award-winning performance playing Lola in Kinky Boots and for being a finalist on the second series of The Voice.
His other critically acclaimed stage performances include starring in Saturday Night Fever, Avenue Q and most recently The Drifters Girls, which he also co-created alongside the original West End cast Beverley Knight, Adam J Bernard, Tarinn Callender and Tosh Wanogho-Maud.
In 2017 Matt Henry was awarded an MBE for services to musical theatre.
Matt Henry said in a statement: “Having been a huge fan of the film, a passion for fashion and the fact that the role of Nigel is iconic, what’s not to love about joining the cast of The Devil Wears Prada The Musical?! Being able to draw inspiration and pay homage to the leading black men in the fashion industry, such as the amazing Edward Enninful and the late André Leon Talley is what truly excites me about taking on this incredible role.”
The Devil Wears Prada The Musical is based on the blockbuster film and bestselling novel, and features an original score by music legend and EGOT winner Elton John (Disney’s The Lion King), lyrics by singer-songwriter Shaina Taub, and a book by Kate Wetherhead (Submissions Only).
Multi-Tony Award winning Broadway and West End director Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Pretty Woman The Musical, Kinky Boots) will direct and choreograph this huge new West End show; and joining Jerry Mitchell in the creative team are set design by Tim Hatley, costume design by Gregg Barnes, lighting design by Bruno Poet, sound design by Gareth Owen, and casting by Jill Green CDG.
The show is based on Lauren Weisberger’s best-selling novel and the much-loved 2006 movie starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a titan of the fashion industry and editor in chief of fashion magazine Runway, with Anne Hathaway as Andrea “Andy” Sachs, a graduate who goes to New York City and lands a job as Priestly’s co-assistant, plus Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci in star turns as co-assistant Emily Charlton and art director Nigel Kipling.
Currently playing at the Dominion Theatre is Sister Act The Musical starring Beverley Knight and Ruth Jones 15 March to 31 August 2024.
The Devil Wears Prada will run from 24 October 2024 at the Dominion Theatre in London.
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