Casting has been announced for five of this year's Chichester Festival
productions:
From 20th May to 5th June the cast for Yes, Prime Minister,
adapted for the stage by the writers of the original sitcom Antony
Jay and Jonathan Lynn, will be - in addition to the already announced
David Haig as Jim Hacker and Henry Goodman as Sir Humphrey Appleby
- William Chubb (Jeremy Burnham), Sam Dastor (Ambassador), Emily Joyce
(Claire), Jonathan Slinger (Bernard) and Tim Wallers (Simon Chester).
The Festival Theatre production is directed by Jonathan Lynn.
Also in the Festival Theatre, the cast for 42nd Street,
directed by Paul Kerryson, will be Kathryn Evans (Dorothy Brock),
Lauren Hall (Peggy Sawyer), Oliver Brenin (Billy Lawlor), Peter McCarthy
(Oscar), Alan Burkitt (Andy Lee), Lisa Donmall (Ann Reilly), Tim Flavin
(Julian Marsh), Steve Fortune (Abner Dillon), Steven Houghton (Pat
Denning), Chris Howell (Bert Barry), Lucinda Lawrence (Gladys), David
Lucas (Mac), Kate Nelson (Phyllis Dale), Louise Plowright (Maggie
Jones), Pippa Raine (Lorraine Fleming), Helen Wei George (Ethel),
Jason Winter, Karen Aspinall, Matthew Cheney, Matthew Malthouse, Jane
Fowler, Luke Fetherston and Gary Wood. The production will run from
21st June to 28th August.
In Pygmalion, joining the already announced Rupert
Everett as Henry Higgins and Stephanie Cole as his mother will be
Honeysuckle Weeks as Eliza Doolittle with Phil Davis (Alfred Doolittle),
Peter Eyre (Colonel Pickering), Peter Sandys-Clarke (Freddy Eynsford-Hill)
and Candida Benson (Clara Eynsford-Hill). Philip Prowse directs the
production which runs from 9th July to 27th August in the Festival
Theatre.
In the Minerva, the cast for Love Story (Music by Howard
Goodall, book by Stephen Clark and lyrics by Clark and Goodall) which
runs from 29th May to 26th June, will be Peter Polycarpou (Phil),
Emma Williams (Jenny), Michael Xavier (Oliver IV), Claire Carrie (Alice),
Keiron Crook (Tony/Young Doctor), Rob Edwards (Oliver Barrett III),
Lillie Flynn (Ensemble) and Jos Slovick (Ensemble). Rachel Kavanaugh
directs.
Also in the Minerva, in the double bill of The Real Inspector
Hound By Tom Stoppard and The Critic By Richard
Brinsley Sheridan (2nd July to 28th August), Sean Foley will play
both Sir Fretful Plagiary and Major Magnus Muldoon while Le Prevost
plays critic Birdboot and Mr Dangle, the critic of the title of Sheridan's
play.
