Leicester’s Curve is alive with the Sound of Music

Published: 22 November 2014
Reporter: Steve Orme

Michael French and Laura Pitt-Pulford in rehearsal for The Sound of Music Credit: Pamela Raith

Paul Kerryson, outgoing artistic director of Leicester’s Curve, is to direct a new production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of Music.

Laura Pitt-Pulford and Michael French will lead the cast. Pitt-Pulford, who plays Maria, has performed at Curve in Piaf and Hello Dolly!. Her other theatre credits include Mack and Mabel and Parade at Southwark Playhouse; the title role in Sweet Charity (Belfast MAC); The Little Prince (Lyric Belfast); the Salisbury Playhouse co-production with Clwyd Theatr Cymru and New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich of Guys and Dolls; and the Barry Manilow musical Copacabana at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury.

Michael French plays Captain Von Trapp. His work in the West End includes West Side Story (Her Majesty’s), Les Misérables (Palace Theatre), Art (Wyndhams) and Chicago (Adelphi). On television he was David Wicks in EastEnders and has also appeared in Casualty and Holby City.

The cast also includes Emma Clifford as Baroness Elsa Schraeder; Emma Harrold as Liesl Von Trapp; Lucy Schaufer who returns to Curve to play Mother Abbess, having previously appeared in The Light in the Piazza; Jack Wilcox who returns to Curve as Rolf Gruber after appearing in 42nd Street; Mark Inscoe (Max Dettweiler); and Annie Wensak (Frau Schmidt).

Kerryson reunites the team behind the Christmas 2013 production of Chicago: choreographer Drew McOnie and musical director Ben Atkinson.

The Sound of Music previews at Curve from Friday 28 November. Press night is Wednesday 3 December and it runs until Saturday 17 January 2015.

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