The company is led by Aled Jones as
Bob Wallace, Tom Chambers as Phil Davis, Wendi Peters as Martha, Graham Cole as
General Waverley, Rachel Stanley as Betty Haynes and Louise Bowden as Judy
Haynes, with Lori Haley Fox, Michelle Bishop, Phil Cole, Brendan Cull and
Jonathan Halliwell. Also in the cast are
Vikki-Marie Ryan, Lucinda Lawrence, Karen Aspinall, Emma Caffrey, Hayley Reed,
Helen Patching, Vicki Davids, Jennifer Davison, Grace Holdstock, Ross McLaren, Joshua
Lay, Matthew Cheney, Jonny Labey, Anthony Whiteman, Eddie Myles, Stuart Winter,
Matt Clark and Gary Murphy. Amy Snudden, Emily Robins, Sophia Pettit and Tatum
Confrey will alternate the role of Susan.
Irving Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS
will open at London’s newly refurbished Dominion Theatre on Wednesday 12
November, following previews from 8 November, for a strictly limited eight-week
season, ending on 3 January 2015.
Irving Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS
tells the story of two ex-army pals as they team up with a pair of sisters to
put on a show to save their former General’s remote Vermont ski lodge that's
fallen on hard times. At the Dominion
Theatre, an 18-piece orchestra will accompany the cast in some of musical
history’s best loved songs, including Let
Yourself Go, Sisters, The Best Things Happen When You’re Dancing, Snow, Count
Your Blessings, Blue Skies, Love You Didn’t Do Right By Me, How Deep Is The
Ocean, I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm and, of course, the title song, White Christmas.
The stage musical is based on the Paramount Pictures timeless
movie classic, written for the
screen by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama & Melvin Frank, which starred Bing
Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen. The stage musical has music and lyrics by
Irving Berlin and a book by David Ives and Paul Blake, and was originally directed
on Broadway by Walter Bobbie, the director of Chicago. The musical was
originally produced in the
United States by The Producing Office, Inc. and BFI Productions, Inc. David Ives also wrote the Tony-nominated play
Venus in Fur. Paul Blake is the producer of the
Tony-nominated Broadway musical Beautiful:
The Carole King Musical.
The production of Irving Berlin’s
WHITE CHRISTMAS at the Dominion Theatre this Christmas will be directed by
Morgan Young and choreographed by Randy Skinner, with Helen Rymer as the UK
associate choreographer. Set design is
by Anna Louizos, costumes by Carrie Robbins, lighting by Ken Billington and
sound by Clem Rawling. Orchestrations
are by Larry Blank, dance and vocal arrangements by Bruce Pomahac and musical
direction by Andrew Corcoran.
Irving Berlin’s WHITE CHRISTMAS
will be presented at the Dominion Theatre by Michael Rose and U-Live for White
Christmas Onstage (UK) Limited.
