Two big London musicals celebrated milestones at the weekend.
Mean Girls The Musical at the West End’s Savoy Theatre, and Starlight Express at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, both celebrated their 100th performances this weekend, after opening in London in June.
Mean Girls is a West End transfer for the hit Broadway musical that boasts a book by Tina Fey (30 Rock), based on her original movie version of Mean Girls.
Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw (Disney’s Aladdin, The Book of Mormon) , the show has music by Jeff Richmond (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), and lyrics by Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde).
The West End cast is led by Charlie Burn (Les Mis̩rables) as Cady Heron, with Georgina Castle as Regina George, El̬na Gyasi as Gretchen Wieners and Grace Mouat as Karen Smith Рplaying The Plastics, plus Elena Skye as Janis, Tom Xander as Damian and Daniel Bravo as Aaron Samuels.
The ensemble cast includes Lucca Chadwick-Patel, Ako Mitchell, and Zoë Rainey.
Mean Girls The Musical is now playing at the Savoy Theatre, booking to 16 February 2025.
Photos: Mean Girls
Starlight Express is the major reboot of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic musical, and an immersive theatrical event at the incredible Starlight Auditorium at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in London.
Directed by Luke Sheppard (& Juliet, The Little Big Things), the show takes all of the favourite characters from the original Starlight Express musical and shakes things up, with plenty of surprises.
The cast of 40 whizzing around and above the audience on special tracks include Jeevan Braich as Rusty, Kayna Montecillo as Pearl, Jade Marvin as Momma McCoy, Al Knott as Greaseball, Eve Humphrey as Dinah and Tom Pigram as Electra.
The ensemble features Ollie Augustin, Charles Butcher, Renz Cardenas, Catherine Cornwall, Jamie Cruttenden, Kelly Downing, Asher Forth, Sam Gallacher, Lucy Glover, Pablo Gómez Jones, Scott Hayward, Lilianna Hendy, Lewis Kidd, Hannah Kiss, Oscar Kong, Emily Martinez, Deearna Mclean, Marianthe Panas, David Peter-Brown, RED, Bethany Rose-Lythgoe, Ashley Rowe, Gary Sheridan, Elly Shaw, Jessica Vaux, Jaydon Vijn, Lara Vina Uzcatia, Sharon Wattis and Ashlyn Weekes.
Songs in the show, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, include AC/DC, Make Up My Heart, Light at the End of the Tunnel, and Starlight Express.
Starlight Express is booking at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in London to 8 June 2025.
Photos: Starlight Express
Book tickets to Mean Girls The Musical at the Savoy Theatre in London
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