First look: New musical Cake in rehearsals ahead of UK tour
Go into the rehearsal room for the upcoming tour of Cake – A Parisienne Dance Gig.
The brand-new musical, come gig, come ballet is inspired by Marie Antoinette and was first seen as part of MTFestUK in 2021.
A UK tour opens this month at the Mayflower Studios, Southampton (18 – 25 March) before visiting The Lowry, Salford (27 March – 1 April), The Drum, Plymouth (4 – 8 April), Curve Theatre, Leicester (18 – 22 April) and Theatre Royal, Norwich (25 – 29 April).
Zizi Strallen stars as Marie Antoinette with Renée Lamb as Jeanne.
The cast is completed by B Terry as Nicole, Travis Ross as Cardinal with Ope Sowande and Megan Bryony Gibbs as the ensemble and Lukas Hunt and Amie Hibbert as swings.
Cake combines music with 18th century France to retell a story that sparked a revolution. When Marie Antoinette married King Louis, her reputation was already tarnished by gossip. But when she is implicated in a crime to defraud the crown jewellers of a diamond necklace, it is not just her reputation at stake, but the monarchy and France itself.
The new musical has a book co-written by Morgan Lloyd Malcom and Tasha Taylor Johnson, songs by Tasha Taylor Johnson and Jack McManus, and direction and choreography by Drew McOnie with casting by Will Burton CDG.
You can get a first listen to songs from the musical online here.
