Cast announced for Edinburgh Fringe world premiere musical HOT MESS
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High-energy original romcom musical Hot Mess has announced its full cast and company today.
West End stars Danielle Steers (SIX, The Cher Show) and Tobias Turley (Mamma Mia!) will play Earth and Humanity, respectively, in the comedy romcom, which reimagines the climate crisis as a story of love, hope and the ultimate break-up.
Joining the team alongside 42 Balloons creative duo Ellie Coote and Jack Godfrey are Tony and Grammy nominated sound designer Paul Gatehouse, musical supervisor and co-orchestrator Joe Beighton, movement director Alexzandra Sarmiento, set and costume designer Shankho Chaudhuri, lighting designer Ryan Joseph Stafford, musical director Issie Osborne, dramaturg Deirdre O'Halloran, intimacy director Lex Kaby, and casting director Pearson Casting CDG.
After a billion years of bad dates, Earth’s finally found the one... Humanity. Sparks fly. Wheat is harvested. Technology flourishes. But what begins as a passionate love affair between the universe’s most iconic couple quickly descends into a Hot Mess.
Created by the award-winning creative duo behind 42 Balloons, the pop comedy musical takes us to the heart of the tempestuous relationship between Earth and Humanity.
Hot Mess is the first Edinburgh Festival Fringe production from the UK’s only in-house New Musical Theatre Department at Birmingham Hippodrome. The new musical is presented in association with Vicky Graham Productions.
Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote said: “We’re so thrilled that Danielle Steers and Tobias Turley will be starring in the world premiere of Hot Mess at the Edinburgh Fringe. We can't quite believe we get to work with such an exciting pair of actors to bring Earth and Humanity's turbulent relationship to life this summer.
“Hot Mess is really a love story about Earth and Humanity - an unlikely romance between an entire species, and an entire planet - who have spent 200,000 years just trying to make their relationship work. We hope audiences will fall in love with these characters, and want to root for them, even in their darkest moments.
“We’re so excited to share Hot Mess with fringe audiences, and we can’t wait to bring this original new musical to Edinburgh very soon!”
Head of New Musical Theatre at Birmingham Hippodrome, Deirdre O’Halloran, said: “We are so excited to mark Birmingham Hippodrome’s Edinburgh Fringe debut with Hot Mess. We’re delighted that West End performers Danielle Steers and Tobias Turley will be our leads and can’t wait to see what they bring to this fantastic show at the world’s biggest arts festival.”
Hot Mess will preview at Birmingham Hippodrome on 24 & 25 July before transferring to Pleasance Courtyard in Edinburgh from 30 July-25 August.