Crazy For You revival to transfer to West End with Charlie Stemp and Carly Anderson
The recent revival of Crazy For You at Chichester Festival Theatre is to transfer to the West End.
Celebrating the work’s 30th anniversary, the brand new production ran earlier this summer as part of the venue’s 60th anniversary season.
It’s been revealed the show will transfer to London for a limited season at the Gillian Lynne Theatre from from 24 June 2023, with an official opening on 3 July. Tickets are on sale now here
Charlie Stemp (Half A Sixpence, Mary Poppins) and Carly Anderson (Wicked, Sunny Afternoon, Sunset Boulevard) are set to reprise their leading roles of Bobby and Polly from the Chichester run. They’ll be joined by Tom Edden (Cyrano de Bergerac) as Bela Zangler.
Further casting is to be announced.
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The revival is directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman: true Broadway royalty and winner of five Tony and two Olivier Awards for productions including The Producers, Contact and The Scottsboro Boys.
Theatre-mad Bobby Child is torn between his show-business dreams and his rich, demanding New York fiancée and rich, demanding New York mother who want him to run the family bank. On his mother’s insistence, he reluctantly heads west for the bygone mining town of Deadrock, Nevada, to foreclose on a mortgage.
There he finds the mortgage in question is on a dilapidated Victorian theatre and the owner’s daughter Polly is the girl of his dreams. Desperate to prove his good faith and win her love, Bobby lights on the idea of putting on a show – complete with glamorous dancers from New York’s Follies – to save the theatre and renew the town…
This hilarious, riotously entertaining musical is packed with glorious Gershwin melodies (including Someone to Watch Over Me, Embraceable You, I Got Rhythm and They Can’t Take That Away from Me), and its stunning tap-dance routines are guaranteed to set the spirits soaring. The witty book and dialogue are written by Ken Ludwig, who also wrote this season’s Murder on the Orient Express and is the author of the Tony Award-winning Lend Me a Tenor.
The set designer is Beowulf Boritt; the costume designer is William Ivey Long; the lighting designer is Ken Billington, musical director, Alan Williams; with new orchestrations by Doug Besterman and Mark Cumberland, original orchestrations by William David Brohn, sound design by Kai Harada, new arrangements by David Krane, original arrangements by Peter Howard and casting by Jill Green CDG.
