The production will run at Leicester’s Curve Theatre from the 10th April until the 10th May.
Complete casting has now been confirmed for the Leicester Curve’s production of Muriel’s Wedding, marking the UK premiere of the musical based on the film.
Leading the Curve production will be Muriel Heslop will be as Megan Ellis, while joining Ellis in the show will be Annabel Marlow as Rhonda Epinstal. Darren Day will play father Bill Heslop, with Laura Medforth as mother Betty Heslop. Jacob Warner, who performed in the 2019 Australian tour of Muriel’s Wedding, will play Perry Heslop, with Joseph Peacock as Malcolm Heslop and Lena Pattie Jones as Joanie Heslop.
Elsewhere, the Porpoise Spit girl gang will be led by Helen Hill as Tania, with Lillie-Pearl Wildman, Jasmine Beel and Daisy Twells as Cheryl, Nicole and Janine respectively.
Ethan Pascal Peters will play Brice, with Stephen Madsen reprising his role as Alexander Schkuratov from the world premiere production in Sydney. Chris Bennett will play Ken, with Bronte Alice-Tadman as Deidre and Frida, Jasmine Hackett as Agnetha, Aaron Tsindos as Benny and Jamie Doncaster as Björn.
The ensemble includes Edward Turner, Carlo Boumouglbay, Andrew Berlin, Sophie Linder-Lee, Charlotte O’Rourke, Lizzie Nance, Serina Mathew, Will Luckett and Jamil Abbasi.
Stuck in a dead-end life in Porpoise Spit, Muriel dreams of the perfect wedding – the white dress, the church, the attention.
Unfortunately, there’s one thing missing: a groom. Following her dreams to Sydney, Muriel ends up with everything she ever wanted – a man, a fortune and a million social media followers.
That’s when things start to go really wrong.
RSVP to the wedding of the year and enjoy this eccentric, laugh-out-loud musical based on the iconic Australian film.
The musical features a book by the film’s writer and director PJ Hogan, with music and lyrics by Kate Miller-Heidke and Keir Nuttall, as well as additional songs by ABBA’s Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Stig Anderson.
Muriel’s Wedding The Musical celebrated its world premiere in 2017 in Sydney, winning numerous awards including five Helpmann Awards and seven Sydney Theatre Awards.
It is directed by Simon Phillips and choreographed by Andrew Hallsworth. Meanwhile, the creative team also includes: music supervisor, orchestrator and arranger Isaac Hayward, set designer Matthew Kinley, costume designer Gabriela Tylesova, video designer Andrzej Goulding, lighting designer Natasha Chivers, sound designer Adam Fisher, and hair, wigs and makeup by Campbell Young Associates. Casting is by Stuart Burt.
To book tickets visit: https://www.curveonline.co.uk/whats-on/shows/muriels-wedding/