Cast and creative team announced for UK premiere of new musical INDIGO at Curve Leicester
Full casting has been announced for the UK premiere of INDIGO, which will run in Curve’s Studio Theatre from 26 June-19 July this summer.
Leading the uplifting, heartwarming and groundbreaking new musical will be Loose Women & The Bill’s Lisa Maxwell, Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn, and newcomer Katie Cailean.
With music and lyrics by Scott Evan Davis and a book by Kait Kerrigan, INDIGO celebrates the bonds that unite a family and tells the story of three generations of women navigating their need to reach one another.
Lisa Maxwell will play Elaine, a firecracker 63-year-old who is rebelling against the impacts of a recent early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Olivier Award winner Rebecca Trehearn (Show Boat, West End) will play Beverly, Elaine’s good-hearted daughter who is trying to hold together the great life she has built from a rocky past, and Katie Cailean will make her professional stage debut as Emma, Beverly’s autistic and non-speaking daughter who shares her whip-smart feelings and gifts of synesthesia with the audience.
Completing the cast are Nuno Queimado (Hamilton, West End) as Beverly’s husband Rick, Hugo Rolland (101 Dalmatians, UK tour) as local teenager Tyler, and Tania Mathurin (Come From Away, West End) as social worker Alicia. Inès Mazdon Delas will make her Curve debut as understudy for the role of Emma.
Elaine is starting to forget. Beverly wishes she wouldn’t remember. Emma just wants her family back. When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Beverly and her husband Rick open their home to care for her. While adjusting to their new circumstances, Beverly’s daughter Emma - a non-speaking autistic teenager with synaesthesia - unexpectedly crashes back into her life. Her arrival forces Beverly and Rick to confront the past and learn whether they can become the family Emma so desperately needs.
INDIGO has music and lyrics by multi-award-winning composer and lyricist Scott Evan Davis, a book by Kait Kerrigan, conceived by Jay Kuo, Lorenzo Thione and Scott Evan Davis, and is directed by Catie Davis, with musical supervision, arrangements and orchestrations by Brad Haak. The creative team also includes set and video designer Andrzej Goulding, costume designer Susan Kulkarni, lighting designer Jake DeGroot, sound designer Matt Peploe, and casting director Olivia Laydon for Jill Green Casting.