Singin' In The Rain, which has just successfully completed a run at Chichester Festival Theatre, is to transfer to Palace Theatre in London on 4th February along with its principal cast including Scarlett Strallen and Adam Cooper.
Jonathan Church's new production premiered in Chichester in June to rave reviews, including Charles Spencer writing about the show in the Daily Telegraph stating that "the show creates a buzz of pure pleasure".
Based on the 1952 MGM movie of the same name, starring Gene Kelly, Singin' In The Rain is set in Hollywood at the end of the silent movie era. Don Lockwood (Cooper) is film star with all the fame and adulation he could want, as well as a high profile romance with his co-star. But rumours of a new kind of movie where the actors actually talk... and sing and dance are emerging and Hollywood is about to change forever.
The musical score, by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed, features classic numbers including Make ‘Em Laugh, Moses Supposes and of course the title song Singin' In The Rain.
Cooper is a former Royal Ballet dancer and has worked with Matthew Bourne's New Adventures company, creating the role of the Swan in Bourne's all-male Swan Lake, which transferred over to Broadway. His previous work in the West End includes Guys And Dolls at the Piccadilly theatre and Wizard Of Oz at the Royal Festival Hall.
Scarlett Strallen was last seen on the stage in London starring in Passion at the Donmar Warehouse. Her credits also include the title role in Mary Poppins both in the West End and on Broadway, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium and several other stage productions at the Regent's Park Open Air theatre.
The pair are joined by their Chichester co-stars Daniel Crossley (Anything Goes at the National Theatre, Hello, Dolly!) and Katherine Kingsley (Aspects Of Love, Piaf).
Singin' In The Rain is choreographed by Andrew Wright, whose previous work includes By Jeeves for the Landor theatre, Almost Like Being In Love at the National Theatre and Chichester's production of 42nd Street in 2010.
Singin'In The Rain sets up home at the Palace theatre following the closure, this coming New Year's Eve, of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert The Musical, which has occupied the venue since 2009.
Theatre tickets to all performances of Singin' In The Rain can be purchased securely online through this website.
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