Check out the latest photos and videos of the Chichester Festival Theatre production of new musical The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, based on Rachel Joyce’s best-selling novel.
The brand new musical is now playing at Chichester Festival Theatre as part of its new 2025 season, until 14 June 2025.
New in: See the first production photos for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which stars Mark Addy (The Full Monty, The Rig, Game of Thrones) as Harold Fry, Olivier Award-winner Jenna Russell (Sunday in the Park with George, Hello, Dolly!, Flowers for Mrs Harris) as Maureen, and Olivier Award-nominee Jack Wolfe (Next to Normal) as The Balladeer.
Photos: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at Chichester Festival Theatre
The cast also includes Ralph Birtwell (The Band’s Visit, Donmar; Life of Pi, UK tour), Amy Booth-Steel (Assassins, CFT; Tammy Faye, Almeida), Tarinn Callender (The Cat and the Canary, CFT; Hamilton West End), Don Gallagher (Crazy for You, CFT; Aladdin, West End), Jacqueline Hughes (Hello, Dolly, Clueless The Musical, West End), Nell Martin (Crazy for You, CFT; My Fair Lady, Curve), Anu Ogunmefun (The Creakers, Southbank; Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, West End), Ben Redfern (The Red Shoes, RSC; Groundhog Day, The Old Vic), Sharon Rose (Sylvia, The Old Vic; Hamilton, West End), Timo Tatzber (Jesus Christ Superstar, UK tour; Sondheim’s Old Friends, West End), and Madeleine Worrall (Tonight at 8.30, CFT; Jane Eyre, National Theatre).
Directed by Katy Rudd (Ballet Shoes, The Ocean at the End of the Lane), The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry has a book by Rachel Joyce, based on her novel, with modern folk songs by the chart-topping indie musician, Passenger (Let Her Go).
Video: Watch Passenger sing “One for the Road” from the new musical
The show is billed as a “funny, profound, deeply moving and uplifting” new musical that centres on Harold Fry – grey, tired and lonely, who receives a letter from an old friend and heads out to post his reply. And just keeps walking, from South Devon to Berwick upon Tweed, leaving his bewildered wife Maureen behind.
Video: Interview with Mark Addy and the cast
Joining Katy Rudd in the creative team are designer Samuel Wyer, choreographer Tom Jackson Greaves, arranger and orchestrator Jeremy Holland-Smith, musical supervisor Phil Bateman, lighting designer Paule Constable, sound designers Ian Dickinson and Gareth Tucker for Autograph, musical director Chris Poon, and casting director Anna Cooper CDG.
The adaptation is co-created by Rachel Joyce, Peter Darling and Katy Rudd.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is now playing at Chichester Festival Theatre until 14 June 2025.
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