Jerry Herman revue Jerry’s Girls has announced casting for its forthcoming summer run at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.
The show will star Olivier Award winner Cassidy Janson (& Juliet, Beautiful), Lyn Paul (Calendar Girls, Blood Brothers) and Julie Yammanee (Bonnie and Clyde, Priscilla Queen of the Desert).
Jerry’s Girls will play the Menier Chocolate Factory next month, from 18 May to 29 June 2024.
As already announced, the show will be directed by Hannah Chissick (Eugenius, Side Show, Sunday in the Park with George), with musical supervision and arrangements by Tony Award-winner Sarah Travis (Sweeney Todd) for an all-female band, and choreography by Olivier Award-winner Matt Cole (Newsies, Fiddler on the Roof).
Other creatives joining the production are Set & Costume Designer Paul Farnsworth and Lighting Designer Philip Gladwell.
Jerry’s Girls features many of Broadway legend Jerry Herman’s classic show-stoppers, covering all of his greatest hit musicals including Hello, Dolly!, Mame, Parade, La Cage Aux Folles, Mack & Mabel and more.
The revue was originated created by Larry Alford, Wayne Cilento and Jerry Herman.
Also playing in London this summer is Jerry Herman’s classic musical Hello, Dolly! at the London Palladium, directed by Dominic Cooke and starring Imelda Staunton.
Currently playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory is Power of Sail starring Julian Ovenden, Tanya Franks and Giles Terera, until 12 May.
Jerry’s Girls is playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory from 18 May to 29 June 2024.
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More about the cast
Cassidy Janson
Cassidy Janson returns to the Chocolate Factory, having previously appeared in Candide and Tick, Tick…Boom!. Her other theatre credits include Bare (The London Palladium), & Juliet (for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical), playing Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre), Aldonza in Man of La Mancha (London Coliseum) Elphaba in Wicked (Apollo Victoria), Chess (London Coliseum), The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre), Avenue Q (Gielgud Theatre) and Once (Tokyo).
Lyn Paul
Lyn Paul’s theatre credits include Calendar Girls – The Musical (UK tour), Blood Brothers (Phoenix Theatre, UK tour), Cabaret, Footloose (UK tour) and Taboo (Leicester Square Theatre). Her television credits include Emmerdale (as series regular Freda Danby). She was a member of pop group The New Seekers, who were a runner-up in the Eurovision Song Contest and whose song “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” was a number 1 hit in the UK and the US.
Julie Yammanee
Julie Yammanee previously appeared at the Chocolate Factory in Spamilton. Her other theatre credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Garrick Theatre), Clueless (Churchill Theatre, Bromley), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Hope Mill Theatre), Gatsby (Southwark Playhouse), Lazarus (King’s Cross Theatre), Here Lives Love (National Theatre), Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK & international tour) and Avenue Q (UK tour). Her film credits include Matilda and A Christmas Story Christmas.
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