The West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera welcomes several new cast members to the newly renamed His Majesty’s Theatre July 31.
Lily Kerhoas (Les Misérables) joins the company as Christine Daaé, with Joe Griffiths-Brown (Hamilton) as Raoul, David Kristopher-Brown (The Play That Goes Wrong) as Ubaldo Piangi, and Maiya Hikasa (Billy Elliot) as Meg Giry.
Continuing in the show are Jon Robyns as The Phantom, Kelly Glyptis as Carlotta Giudicelli, Adam Linstead as Monsieur André, Matt Harrop as Monsieur Firmin, and Francesca Ellis as Madame Giry. At certain performances the role of Christine Daaé is played by Paige Blankson.
The cast is completed by Hollie Aires, Federica
Basile, Corina Clark, Michael Colbourne, Leonard Cook, Colleen Rose
Curran, Lily De-La-Haye, Hywel Dowsell, Connor Ewing, Serina Faull,
Florence Fowler, James Gant, Melanie Gowie, Eilish Harmon-Beglan, Yukina
Hasebe, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Holdsworth, Jacob Hughes, Grace Hume,
Tim Morgan, Eve Shanu-Wilson, Tim Southgate, Zoë Soleil Vallée, Jasmine Wallis, Victoria Ward, Ralph Watts, Simon Whitaker, and Andrew York.
The Phantom of the Opera has music by Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Charles Hart, additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe, and a book by Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber, based on the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opera by Gaston Leroux.
The musical also has orchestrations by David Cullen and Lloyd Webber, music supervision by Simon Lee, production design by Maria Björnson, set design adapted by Matt Kinley with associate costume design by Jill Parker, lighting by Andrew Bridge, associate lighting design by Warren Letton, and sound by Mick Potter. The musical staging and choreography are by Gillian Lynne, recreated and adapted by Chrissie Cartwright. Originally directed by Harold Prince, this production is directed by Seth Sklar-Heyn.
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The Phantom of the Opera is produced by Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group Ltd. Tickets are currently on sale through March 2, 2024.