NEWS: Full Casting Confirmed for Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder!

The production heads to the West End’s Ambassador Theatre from the 25th May.

(c)Oliver Rosser

Full casting has now been confirmed for the West End run of Jon Brittain (Book and Lyrics / Co-Director ) and Matthew Floyd Jones’s (Music and Lyrics) musical.

With rehearsals having started this week, it has been confirmed that joining the previously announced Bronté Barbé (Newsies, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre) as Kathy, Rebekah Hinds (Oklahoma! Young Vic/ West End) as Stella and Imelda Warren-Green (Doctor Who: Time Fracture, Immersive LDN) as Erica+ will be Elliot Broadfoot (Annie Get Your Gun, Lavender Theatre) as Justin+, Hannah-Jane Fox (Close-Up, the Twiggy Musical, Menier Chocolate Factory) as Felicia, Elliotte Williams- N’Dure (Moulin Rouge, West End) as DI Sue Shaw+ and Ben Redfern (The Witches, National Theatre) as David Slatter+. The West End company will be completed by Jennifer Caldwell (Six the Musical, UK Tour), Chelsea Hall (Bring It On the Musical, UK Tour) and Sorelle Marsh (The Time Traveller’s Wife, West End and Storyhouse, Chester). Musicians will be Andrew Hilton (Musical Director / Keys 1), Catherine Benson (Associate Musical Director / Keys 2), Laura Browne (Guitar) and Philip Williams (Drums).

BFFs Kathy and Stella host Hull’s least successful true crime podcast. When their
favourite author is killed they are thrust into a thrilling whodunnit of their own!
This big-hearted, laugh out loud musical follows the unlikely crime-fighting duo as they
put their friendship on the line to become part of the story. Can they crack the case, (and become global podcast superstars) before the killer strikes again…?

The show was originally brought to the stage by Francesca Moody Productions (Fleabag, Olivier Award winner Baby Reindeer, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons) and Kater Gordon (2:22, Vanya). Meanwhile, the creative team includes: choreographer and co-director Fabian Aloise, set and costume design by Cecilia Carey, lighting design by Peter Small, co-sound design by Tingying Dong and Dan Samson. They are joined by musical supervisor and orchestrator Charlie Ingles, musical direction by Andrew Hilton and hair and make up supervisor Tevae Humphrey.