Final casting has been announced for the UK premiere of Muriel’s Wedding at The Curve Theatre in Leicester.
Joining the previously announced Megan Ellis (Spring Awakening, Careen) as Muriel Heslop and Annabel Marlow (Six The Musical) as Rhonda Epinstall are:
Darren Day (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, London Palladium) as Muriel’s father Bill Heslop, Laura Medforth (Hello, Dolly! London Palladium) as Muriel’s mother Betty Heslop, Jacob Warner (Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, 2019 Australian tour) as Muriel’s brother Perry Heslop, Joseph Peacock (Becoming Nancy, Birmingham Rep) as Malcolm Heslop and Lena Pattie Jones (FANGIRLS, Lyric Hammersmith) as Muriel’s sister Joanie Heslop.
Too hot to hang with Muriel, Porpoise Spit’s girl gang will be led by Helen Hill (Pretty Woman The Musical, Savoy Theatre) as Tania, Lillie-Pearl Wildman (CABARET, Kit Kat Club) as Cheryl, Jasmine Beel (Bonnie & Clyde, UK tour) as Nicole and Daisy Twells (Heathers, @sohoplace and UK tour) as Janine.
Ethan Pascal Peters (Cable Street, Southwark Playhouse) will play Brice, with Stephen Madsen (Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, world premiere at Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre) as Alexander Schkuratov, Chris Bennett (Only Fools and Horses, Theatre Royal Haymarket) as Bill Heslop’s business partner Ken, Bronte Alice-Tadman as Deidre and Frida, Jasmine Hackett as Agnetha, Aaron Tsindos as Benny and Jamie Doncaster as Björn.
The cast is completed by Edward Turner, Carlo Boumouglbay, Andrew Berlin, Sophie Linder-Lee, Charlotte O’Rourke, Lizzie Nance, Serina Mathew, Will Luckett, and Jamil Abbasi.
Muriel’s Wedding The Musical will play the Curve, Leicester from 10 April to 10 May 2025.
The show is also widely rumoured to be heading to the West End.
The production is a collaboration between Made at Curve and the show’s Australian producers Global Creatures (Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Strictly Ballroom The Musical), in association with Sydney Theatre Company.
Muriel’s Wedding is directed by Simon Phillips (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), who directed the Australian world premiere production; and choreography is by Andrew Hallsworth, who again choreographed the Aussie version of the show.
The show boasts a book by PJ Hogan, who wrote and directed the original movie version, with songs by Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall, and additional songs by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson originally written for ABBA.
Muriel’s Wedding The Musical played the Lyric Theatre in Sydney in 2017, proving a huge hit with audiences and winning five Helpmann Awards – the Australian equivalent of the Oliviers, and 7 Sydney Theatre Awards. The show came back in 2019 with a successful Australian tour.
The show has been rumoured to be coming to the UK for a number of years. In January this year the composer of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical, Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke, said in an interview in the Sydney Morning Herald that there were plans for a UK tour of the show, before it comes to the West End.
Video: Watch Megan Ellis and Annabel Marlow sing “Amazing”
Video: Watch the Muriel’s Wedding Teaser Trailer
This teaser trailer is from the 2019 Australian production.
Muriel’s Wedding The Musical is about Muriel Heslop: stuck in a dead-end life in Porpoise Spit, Muriel dreams of the perfect wedding – the white dress, the church, the attention. Unfortunately, there’s one thing missing. A groom. Following her dreams to Sydney, Muriel ends up with everything she ever wanted – a man, a fortune and a million Twitter followers. That’s when things start to go really wrong.
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