THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF MUSICAL to transfer to London’s West End

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Oct 18

It has been announced that The Great British Bake Off Musical will transfer to the West End, opening at the Noël Coward Theatre for a limited twelve-week run from 25 February to 13 May 2023.

Created in association with Creative Director and Executive Producer Richard McKerrow and the producers of the TV phenomenon, Love Productions, this musical comedy has perfectly reimagined the nation’s favourite baking show into a warm-hearted comedy musical. The Great British Bake Off was co-created by Anna Beattie and Richard McKerrow.

This adrenaline-fuelled, uplifting, funny new British musical which captivated the audiences at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham this summer is directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, and features a score written by multi-award-winning duo Jake Brunger, (book and lyrics) and Pippa Cleary (music and lyrics).

Award winning West End and Broadway star John Owen Jones (Les Misèrables, The Phantom of the Opera) reprises his starring role as Phil Hollinghurst, the esteemed blue-eyed, silver-fox judge.

Scott Paige (The Addams Family, Nativity!) reprises his role as a presenter along with the original cast of musical professionals who play the contestants: Claire Moore (Mary Poppins, The Girls), Catriana Sandison (Evita, We Will Rock You), Charlotte Wakefield (The Boy In The Dress, Crazy For You), Damian Humbley (Merrily We Roll Along, Hedda Gabler), Jay Saighal (Hedda Gabler, Romeo and Juliet), Michael Cahill (Martin Guerre, Les Misérables), and making his West End debut Aharon Rayner. Furhter casting will be announced soon.

The original creative team includes: choreographer Georgina Lamb, set, costume and cake designer Alice Power, lighting designer Ben Cracknell, sound designer Ben Harrison, orchestrator Tom Curran, musical supervisor Mark Collins, and casting director Jim Arnold CDG.

Inspired by the TV show this showstopper musical follows the amateur bakers as they seek to impress the judges and battle their way to be crowned Star Baker. The audience are taken on a rollicking journey of tap along songs and dance as the bakers face trials, tribulations, and baking failures along the way.

Prue Leith said: “I am thrilled to bits that The Great British Bake Off Musical is going to the West End. It is an uplifting, funny, heartfelt story, which will have you singing and dancing out of the theatre with a huge smile. A theatrical sweet treat. Just what we need right now.”

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