Casting has been announced for Chichester Festival Theatre’s revival of Irving Berlin musical Top Hat, which is also setting out on a UK tour.
The show is getting a big new production courtesy of multi-Tony award-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall.
Top Hat will run at Chichester Festival Theatre from 14 July to 6 September 2025, will then tour to Woking, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh, London Wimbledon, Canterbury, Liverpool, Cardiff, Sunderland, and Manchester, with more dates to be confirmed. A number of tour dates are now on sale.
Top Hat will star Phillip Attmore (Hello, Dolly) as Jerry Travers, with Lucy St. Louis (Wicked) as Dale Tremont, Clive Carter (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) as Horace, and Sally Ann Triplett (Cabaret) as Madge.
The cast will also include James Clyde as Bates and Alex Gibson-Giorgio as Beddini, plus Lindsay Atherton, Rhiannon Bacchus, Jeremy Batt, Freddie Clements, Pedro Donoso, Bethan Downing, Autumn Draper, Tilly Ducker, Laura Hills, Connor Hughes, James Hume, George Lyons, David McIntosh, Jordan Oliver, Emily Ann Potter, Molly Rees Howe, Kirsty Sparks and Toyan Thomas-Browne.
Top Hat is directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, a three-time Tony Award winner known for her acclaimed revival of Anything Goes. This production of Top Hat promises dazzling choreography, lavish sets, and Irving Berlin’s timeless score, featuring classics such as Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, and Puttin’ on the Ritz.
Marshall leads a creative team that includes set designer Peter McKintosh, costume designers Peter McKintosh and Yvonne Milnes, musical supervisor Gareth Valentine, musical director Stephen Ridley, orchestrator & arranger Chris Walker, lighting designer Tim Mitchell, sound designer Paul Groothuis, casting director Natalie Gallacher CDG for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting, associate director Carol Lee Meadows and assistant director & choreographer Richard Pitt.
Based on the iconic 1935 film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Top Hat was adapted for the stage by Matthew White and Howard Jacques. The show’s 2013 West End run won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out.
Justin Audibert, Chichester Festival Theatre’s Artistic Director, said in a statement: “We are dancing with delight that Kathleen Marshall has assembled such a fantastic cast for what promises to be a glorious summer highlight in Chichester. In Phillip Attmore, Lucy St. Louis, Clive Carter and Sally Ann Triplett, we have two of the brightest rising stars paired with two of the most distinguished and seasoned performers in musical theatre, on both sides of the Atlantic, with a wonderful supporting company. We can’t wait to welcome them all.”
The tour of Top Hat is produced by Kenny Wax Productions and Jonathan Church Theatre Productions.
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Phillip Attmore (Jerry Travers) is one of Broadway’s most exciting performers, and winner of the Fred and Adele Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer for Shuffle Along and a Playbill Breakout Performance Award for On the 20th Century. His US credits also include Hello, Dolly!, Cheek to Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood and TV’s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Lucy St. Louis (Dale Tremont) is an award-winning West End star, with roles including Glinda in Wicked, Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, Diana Ross in Motown: The Musical, Guenevere in Camelot in Concert, and Little Eva in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.
Clive Carter (Horace) is a three-time Olivier Award nominee for Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Come From Away and Into The Woods. His many West End credits also include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wicked and Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Sally Ann Triplett (Madge), last appeared at Chichester in A Damsel in Distress. Among her many distinguished London roles are Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gran in The Witches and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes for which she won a WhatsOnStage Award, and Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!.
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