Mark Goucher Productions has announced the cast for The Great British Bake Off Musical for its transfer to London’s West End after it opened at the Everyman, Cheltenham in summer 2022.
Haydn Gwynne will play Pam Lee, the “stylish, sharp-tongued” judge. Zoe Birkett will play presenter Kim and Grace Mouat will be contestant Izzy. Georgie Westall, Stuart Hickey and Jamil Abbasi join as understudies and Aanya Shah, Amelie Rouse and Maisy Mein will share the child role of Lily.
The new cast members join many of the original cast reprising their performances: John Owen Jones returns as Phil Hollinghurst, the “esteemed, blue-eyed, silver-fox” judge, along with Scott Paige, Claire Moore, Cat Sandison, Charlotte Wakefield, Damian Humbley, Jay Saighal, Michael Cahill, Aharon Rayner, Louis Gaudencio, Gabriella Stylianou and Annette Yeo.
Rachel Kavanaugh directs. The score is written by Jake Brunger (book and lyrics) and Pippa Cleary (music and lyrics). The original creative team includes choreographer Georgina Lamb, set, costume and cake designer Alice Power, lighting designer Ben Cracknell, sound designer Ben Harrison, orchestrator Tom Curran and musical supervisor Mark Collins.
Inspired by the television show, The Great British Bake Off Musical follows amateur bakers as they seek to impress the judges and battle their way to be crowned star baker. The bakers face “trials, tribulations and baking failures, bringing them together in a story of friendship and romance along the way”.
The Great British Bake Off Musical will run at the Noël Coward Theatre from Saturday 25 February until Saturday 13 May 2023.