Full cast and additional performances announced for THE BOOK THIEF in Concert
Full casting has been announced for the musical stage adaptation and concert performances of THE BOOK THIEF, which also adds two extra performances due to popular demand, now playing at London’s Prince of Wales Theatre on 19 & 26 October.
Joining the previously announced WhatsOnStage Award winning Melanie La Barrie as Death will be Isaac Gryn (Stranger Things: The First Shadow, West End) as Max Vandenburg, Jack Lord (War Horse, UK tour) as Hans Hubermann, Cat Simmons (Come From Away, West End) as Rosa Hubermann, Leo Abad (Bat Out Of Hell, UK tour) as Tommy Müller & Others, Matthew Caputo (Hamilton, West End) as Walter Kugler & Others, Oonagh Cox (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, West End) as Paula Meminger & Others, Michał Horowicz (The Band’s Visit, Donmar Warehouse) as Eva Vandenburg & Others, Thomas-Lee Kidd (Fiddler on the Roof, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) as Mayor Hermann & Others, Nell Martin (Crazy For You, West End) as Ilsa Hermann & Others, Corinna Powlesland (Grease, West End) as Frau Holtzapfel & Others, Gleanne Purcell-Brown (Saving Mozart, The Other Palace) as Barbara Steiner & Others, Edwin Ray (Hello Dolly, West End) as Alex Steiner & Others, Timo Tatzber (The Creakers, Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre) as Isaac Kleinmann & Others, and Russell Wilcox (Bonnie & Clyde, West End) as Wolfgang Edel & Others.
The musical, based on Markus Zusak's 16 million-copy global best-seller, has a book by award-winning best-selling author Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald, with music and lyrics by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson.
Red. White. Black. These are the colours by which Death remembers. And the colours of a girl who dared to write her story in the ruins.
THE BOOK THIEF is told by Death – they are haunted by humans, cataloguing the colour of the sky at the precise moment they carry each soul away. Tonight’s story belongs to Liesel Meminger, twelve years old and unafraid to take what matters: the red of a book found in the snow, the black of a novel rescued from a bonfire, the white of empty pages she will fill with her own defiant words. Down in a cellar painted in shadows, she reads to Max, a Jewish fist-fighter hidden by her foster family, and together they imagine a world lit by language. Above, Hans plays the accordion with fingers stained by tobacco and time, Rosa hurls curses wrapped in warmth, and Rudy runs beside Liesel, chasing a kiss that history won’t allow.
THE BOOK THIEF will be directed and choreographed by Tom Jackson Greaves, after original direction by Lotte Wakeham, orchestrations & musical supervision by Matthew Malone, set & costume design by Good Teeth, lighting by Nic Farman, sound by Sound Quiet Time, casting by Abby Galvin, and musical direction by Natalie Pound.
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