WORLD PREMIERE OF A NEW MUSICAL COMEDY
Welcome to Las Vegas in 1952, where every mushroom cloud has a silver lining and
fallout is your friend.
As the US military proudly tests its atomic bombs within sight of the Vegas
strip, tourists are flocking into town to cheer the blasts and see who will be
crowned the Miss Atomic Bomb beauty queen.
But in the midst of this euphoria, farm girl Candy’s (Florence Andrews) sheep
have mysteriously died, her fashionista friend Myrna (Catherine Tate) is
designing clothes for pigs, young soldier Joey (Dean John-Wilson) has deserted
the army, and his hapless hotel manager brother Lou (Simon Lipkin)
desperately needs an atomic gimmick. In a city controlled by the military and
the mob, time is running out for our four friends.
Inspired by the real life bomb tests and beauty pageants of the era, Miss Atomic
Bomb is a radiant new musical comedy co-directed by the Olivier Award-winning
choreographer Bill Deamer (Top Hat) and Adam Long (The Complete Works of William
Shakespeare Abridged).
Miss Atomic Bomb stars award winning star of TV and theatre, Catherine Tate, who
is reunited with West End star Simon Lipkin following their critical and
audience success in Sondheim’s Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
They are joined by Dean John Wilson who will take the lead role in
Disney’s Aladdin this Summer, Daniel Boys – a finalist in BBC 1’s Any
Dream Will Do, rising musical theatre star Florence Andrews and the youngest
member of the musical dynasty Sasi Strallen.
Featuring original songs by Adam Long, Gabriel Vick and Alex Jackson-Long, with musical supervision and orchestrations by Matthew Brind (conductor and arranger for The X Factor, with West End credits including Women on the Verge and Legally Blonde)
Cast
Catherine Tate - Myrna Ranapapadophilou
Catherine Tate’s stage credits include Assassins at the Menier Chocolate
Factory, The Vote at the Donmar Warehouse, Much Ado About Nothing at the
Wyndham’s Theatre, Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre, Under the Blue
Sky at the Duke of York’s Theatre, Some Girls at the Gielgud Theatre and A
Servant to Two Masters at the Ambassadors Theatre.
Catherine is known to television audiences for her multi-awarding winning
Catherine Tate Show, Catherine Tate’s ‘Nan’ specials, Big School, Doctor Who and
The Office (USA). Her forthcoming series Do Not Disturb starts on Gold later
this month.
Dean John-Wilson - Joey Lubowitz
Dean John-Wilson’s stage credits include Songs For A New World at the St. James
Theatre, Here Lies Love at the National Theatre, From Here To Eternity at the
Shaftesbury Theatre, Super Ordinary at the Soho Theatre, Bare at the Union
Theatre and Sister Act: The Musical’s UK Tour.
Dean John-Wilson will be joining the West End cast of Disney’s Aladdin,
playing the title role, following the run of Miss Atomic Bomb, at the Prince
Edward Theatre in May
Simon Lipkin - Lou Lubowitz
Simon Lipkin’s stage credits include the title role in The Lorax at the Old Vic,
Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory, As You Like It at Southwark
Playhouse, I Can’t Sing at the London Palladium, Rock Of Ages at the Shaftesbury
Theatre and Garrick Theatre, Spamalot on UK and International Tour, Avenue Q at
the Noël Coward Theatre, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and A Christmas
Carol at the Arts Theatre, The Wedding Singer and Footloose on UK Tour, Joseph
And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the New London Theatre, Alice In
Wonderland at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, Austentatious at the Landor
Theatre, News Revue at Canal Café and Never The Sinner at the Kenneth Moore
Theatre.
Simon’s screen credits include Doctor Who, The Bill, Casualty, The Royal
Variety Performance, Children In Need, Muppets Most Wanted, The Harry Hill
Movie, That Puppet Game Show and Nativity 3. He also voices characters on the
Cartoon Network show The Amazing World of Gumball.
Daniel Boys - Mr Potts
Daniel Boys is an award-winning performer who rose to prominence on the hit BBC
television series Any Dream Will Do.
Daniel’s stage credits include Spamalot at the Playhouse Theatre, Tommy
at the Prince Edward Theatre, Avenue Q at the Gielgud Theatre and Noël Coward
Theatre, for which he won the 2009 WhatsOnStage Theatregoers Choice Award for
Best Takeover in a Role, Grease at the Victoria Palace Theatre & Japanese Tour,
Rent at the Prince of Wales Theatre and UK Tour, Sweeney Todd at the Royal
Festival Hall, Ordinary Days and Wolfboy, both at Trafalgar Studios, Little Shop
of Horrors at Theatre Clwyd, Love Story at Bolton Octagon, The Opinion Makers at
Mercury Colchester and Derby Playhouse, High Society, Sunset Boulevard and War
of the Worlds all on UK Tour, The Importance of Being Earnest at the Theatre
Royal, Windsor, Peter Pan at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton and Grand Canal
Theatre, Dublin, Rent and West Side Story on European Tour and the 40th
Anniversary concert of Godspell at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.
Sasi Strallen - Delilah/Ensemble
Sasi Strallen’s stage credits include The Blues Brothers: Xmas Special at the Arts Theatre, Ultimate Broadway at Shanghai Culture Square Theatre, Oklahoma!, Fame, Scrooge, 9 to 5: The Musical and Jesus Christ Superstar all on UK Tour, Street of Dreams at the MEN Arena, Manchester, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Dames At Sea and Bells Are Ringing all at the Union Theatre, Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Scrooge at the London Palladium, Whistle Down The Wind at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking and Annie and Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the New Wimbledon Theatre.
When: Saturday 19th March, 7:30pm
Price: £34.50 (£5 discount and no booking fee)
Where: St James Theatre, 12 Palace Street, London, United Kingdom, SW1E 5JA
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Please note: The cast may change at short notice due to
illness or unforeseen circumstances.