West Finish Musical Theatre star Kerry Ellis will play Cruella de Vil on the New Theatre Oxford 3- 7 December and Brighton Theatre Royal 17 December 2024 – 5 January 2025, concluding the present UK and Eire tour of 101 Dalmatians The Musical. She follows fellow Cruellas Kym Marsh and Faye Tozer on this manufacturing.
The brand new musical model of Dodie Smith’s traditional ebook, 101 Dalmatians is written by Douglas Hodge (music and lyrics) and Johnny McKnight (ebook), from a stage adaptation by Zinnie Harris. The director is Invoice Buckhurst, with units designed by David Woodhead, costumes designed by Sarah Mercadé and choreography by Lucy Hind. Musical supervision is from Alfonso Casado Trigo, orchestration by Jack Hopkins, the puppets are designed by Jimmy Grimes, with lighting by James Whiteside and sound design from Chris Whybrow. The musical director is Leigh Stanford Thompson, and casting director is Lucy Casson.
Kerry Ellis is recognised because the main girl of West Finish and Broadway musicals, with numerous starring roles in London, New York, and world wide. She has achieved chart-topping success as a recording artist signed to each Common Decca Information and Sony Music. Kerry originated the function of Meat, in Queen’s We Will Rock You and was the primary British Elphaba within the worldwide smash, Depraved, for which she gained the 2008 Whatsonstage.com Award for ‘Greatest Takeover in a Position’. She then headed to Broadway to play Elphaba on the Gershwin Theater, the place she gained the Broadway.com Viewers Award for Favorite Feminine Breakthrough Efficiency, earlier than returning to London within the function. Her different main West Finish credit embody Grizabella in Cats, Nancy in Oliver!, Eliza Doolittle in My Honest Girl, Ellen in Miss Saigon, Fantine in Les Miserables, Sara in Homicide Ballad and Alice in Wonderland. In 2022 Kerry performed Reno Sweeney in Something Goes on the Barbican to very large acclaim, toured arenas throughout the UK with Queen Machine and headlined an enormous live performance in Japan on their largest TV community.
She joins the present forged of Charles Brunton (Casper), Victoria Compson-Bradford (Swing), Ross Dorrington (Ensemble), Benjamin Durham (Ensemble), Jessie Elland (Danielle), Benedict Hastings (Ensemble), Danny Hendrix (Jasper), Linford Johnson (Pongo), Lottie Johnson (Ensemble), Rachel Lea-Grey (Ensemble), Tom Norman (Ensemble), Hugo Rolland (Ensemble), Lindo Shinda (Ensemble), Eugene Shire (Swing), Samuel Thomas (Tom), Emma Thornett (Perdi) and Jasmine Triadi (Ensemble).
When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all of the Dalmatian puppies on the town to create her fabulous new fur coat, there’s hassle forward for Pongo and Perdi and their litter of cute, tail-wagging younger pups.
This traditional canine caper is delivered to life on stage with spectacular puppetry, show-stopping choreography, hilarious songs and irresistible puppies!
101 DALMATIANS THE MUSICAL 2024 UK TOUR VENUES
New Wimbledon Theatre
22-29 June 2024
The Alexandra, Birmingham
2-6 July 2024
Norwich Theatre Royal
9-13 July 2024
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
16-20 July 2024
Leicester Curve
23-27 July 2024
Palace Theatre, Manchester
30 July – 10 August 2024
Belfast Grand Opera Home
13-17 August 2024
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre
20-24 August 2024
Newcastle Theatre Royal
27 August – 1 September 2024
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
5-8 September 2024
Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Eire
17 – 21 September 2024
Liverpool Empire
24-28 September 2024
Milton Keynes Theatre
1-5 October 2024
Woking, New Victoria Theatre
8-12 October 2024
New Theatre Cardiff
15-19 October 2024
Southampton Mayflower Theatre
22-26 October 2024
His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen
29 October-2 November 2024
York Grand Opera Home
5-9 November 2024
Glasgow King’s Theatre
12-16 November 2024
Edinburgh Playhouse
19-23 November 2024
New Theatre Oxford
3- 7 December 2024
Brighton Theatre Royal
17 December 2024 – 5 January 2025
