The UK première of Off Broadway hit musical Adding Machine: A Musical has been cast.
The show opens at London's Finborough Theatre on 28 September with a cast composed of Joseph Alessi taking the lead joined by Kate Milner-Evans, Joanna Kirkland and Edd Campbell Bird with James Dinsmore, Helen Walsh, George Rae and Sue Appleby.
The director is Josh Seymour and the musical director is Ben Ferguson.
is composed by Joshua Schmidt with a libretto by Jason Loewith and Joshua Schmidt.
The show is based on Elmer Rice's 1922 play The Adding Machine. It concerns the Mr Zero who takes control of his life when he finds himself replaced by a machine after 25 years in a soul destroying job.
The show won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score.
Adding Machine: A Musical plays the Finborough Theatre from 28 September to 22 October. It runs for approximately 95 minutes with no interval.