Summer Strallen to join the company of BEETLEJUICE for strictly limited run
Photo credit: Danny Kaan
It has been announced that four-time Olivier Award-nominee Summer Strallen, whose extensive West End roles include Top Hat, Love Never Dies, Young Frankenstein, The Sound of Music, The Drowsy Chaperone and CATS, will play the endlessly optimistic, crystal-obsessed life coach, Delia Deetz, in Beetlejuice The Musical for a strictly limited season.
Summer takes over the role from Aimie Aitkinson from 3 August – 2 November*.
*During her short break from the production, original SIX: The Musical West End cast member Aimie Atkinson will be making her Broadway debut, reprising her Olivier Award-nominated role as Katherine Howard at the Lena Horne Theatre. She returns to Beetlejuice The Musical in the West End on 3 November.
Summer Strallen says of joining the company: “I’m beyond excited to have the time of my afterlife this summer as I join the company of the West End’s most deliciously unhinged show, stepping into the delightfully deluded world of Delia. Playing Delia feels suspiciously like being typecast as Summer circa 2017 - all crystals, moon ceremonies, affirmations, and an unwavering belief that the universe has a plan! I can’t wait to revisit that chapter of myself and bring my own brand of inspirational “good vibes” to the Deetz family. My crystals are charged… now let’s see if they can handle the Netherworld.”
Summer joins current cast members David Fynn as the West End’s new best fiend, Beetlejuice, with Tom Xander as alternate ‘guide to the other side.’ They are currently giving a hell of a time to everyone’s favourite dark darling of the dearly departed, Hannah Nordberg as Lydia Deetz.
David Hunter and Chelsea Halfpenny star as newly-dead homemakers and amateur after-lifers, Adam and Barbara Maitland; Summer appears as Lydia’s bereaved father, Charles Deetz’s fiancée, played by Alasdair Harvey, offering him upbeat support and new-age wisdom as he finds his way in a new family dynamic; Chasity Crisp is Maxine Dean/Juno, Otho is played by Richard Frame; Irvine Iqbal is Maxine’s investor husband, Maxie Dean; Rachel Macdougall is Girl Scout; and Vanessa Aurora Sierra is Miss Argentina.
The company is completed by Jemma Alexander, Samuel Bangs, Natasha Cayabyab, Chris Draper, Harley Emmitt, Catherine McCormick, Robbie McMillan, Kieran Mellish, Elliott Parry, Jacob Smith, Adam Taylor, Tyler Timmins, and Issie Wilman.
Following three smash hit Broadway hauntings, Beetlejuice crossed the pond this year, making its West End debut at London’s Prince Edward Theatre, where it plays a limited run until 17 April 2027.
