Brand new musical SuperYou has revealed casting ahead of its run at the Leicester Curve.
Set to take the lead in the show is SIX The Musical star Vicki Manser, playing Katie in the new rock opera.
Reprising their roles from the sold-out West End concert performance of SuperYou last November is writer and composer Lourds Lane as Rise, Aaliyah Monk (School of Rock) as Young Katie and Lightning Girl, and Will Bozier (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) as Mi Roar.
Completing the cast are Kingsley Morton (Heathers) as Ima-Mazing, Courtney Stapleton (Beauty and the Beast) as Blast, B. Noel Thomas (Sister Act) as Seven, Damien Walsh (Dreamboats And Petticoats) as Jay, Owen Lloyd (Clueless The Musical) as Matty, Belinda Lee Chapman (Nutcracker!) as Mom, with Lu Anthony (Trapped Between Stories) as SuperYouman and cover Seven, Elizabeth Chalmers (A New World) as cover Katie and Young Katie, Ellen Eckersley (Snow White) as Alternate Rise, Jacob Fisher (Singin’ in The Rain) as SuperYouman and cover Mi Roar, Jay and Matty, Bayley Hart (Greatest Days) as SuperYouman and cover Ima-Mazing and Blast and Catherine Saunders (Swan Lake) as SuperYouman and cover Mom.
SuperYou features an entirely female band consisting of Musical Director Jenny Deacon, Associate Musical Director Issie Osborne, Maria Rocha, Laura Williams and Ashley Young.
The creative team for SuperYou features Direction and Choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter (Bad Cinderella, School Of Rock), Music Supervision by Wendy Bobbit Cavett (Come From Away, Hamilton), Set Design by Tony-nominated Anna Louizos (In The Heights, School of Rock), Costume Design by Cynthia Nordstrom (Rocktopia), Sound Design by Olivier Award Winner, Tony Gayle (My Neighbour Totoro), Lighting Design by Ryan O’Gara (Thoughts Of A Colored Man), and Video Design by Caite Hevner (Derren Brown: Secret). Will Bozier returns as Associate Choreographer and Billy Mitchell joins as Associate Director. Casting by Pearson Casting CDG, produced by Melissa M. Jones / All Awesome LLC with general management by Anthology Theatre Productions.
SuperYou is an uplifting musical, written and composed by Lourds Lane, that centres around the transformative journey of a comic book artist who discovers self-love and her own voice as her superheroine creations spring to life.
SuperYou will have its first fully staged UK production at Leicester’s Curve theatre this autumn, running from 22 October to 9 November 2024.
The show has been completely reimagined and rewritten following its West End concert tryout, and is now entirely through-sung.
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