Cast announced for LOVE QUIRKS: A NEW MUSICAL at The Other Palace
Casting has been announced for the UK premiere of Love Quirks: A New Musical, coming to London’s The Other Palace from 18 September-12 October after a celebrated Off-Broadway run.
Featuring poignant songs and deeply relatable characters, Love Quirks holds up a mirror to the awkward, honest and sometimes beautiful emotional chaos of adulthood.
The cast comprises Lewis Bear Brown (Pretty Woman the Musical, International tour) as Ryan, a queer, witty and whimsical serial dater; Clodagh Greene (BARE, London Palladium) as Stephanie, the non-nonsense Brit; Ayesha Patel (Romeo and Juliet, Belgrade Theatre/Bristol Old Vic'/Hackney Empire) as Lili, a hilarious and wacky graduate student; and Tom Newland (The Pirates of Penzance, Wilton’s Music Hall/UK tour) as Chris, who’s a sweet American jock.
Director Cecilie Fray said: “We have assembled a fabulously adept and tenacious group of actors to bring the UK premiere of Love Quirks to life. Audiences can expect them to bring their comedic flair to this hilarious and hugely relatable musical.
Love Quirks is fifteen years in the making and began as a song cycle before evolving into a fully-fledged musical. Four broken hearts must face the past and look to the future in a story filled with laughter, pathos, sexual tension—and those inconvenient quirks that make love so unpredictable.
With an award-winning script from Mark Childers, who won the 2021 Off-Broadway BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Book of a Musical for Love Quirks, and a touching score by Seth Bisen-Hersh, this heartwarming and hilariously honest musical explores the complicated, messy and painfully relatable landscape of modern love and friendship.
Composer and lyricist Seth Bisen-Hersh said: “It is beyond exciting to have a fresh, young cast embody these beloved characters. Revisiting and revising the show for London audiences has been a thrilling experience, and I cannot wait to see it come alive again. The show is for anyone who has ever been in love, been out of love, or even been just intrigued by love.”
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