After Titanic and Ragtime, Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento's Charing Cross Theatre season of musicals continues in January with DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY. Today, the full cast - led by Maxwell Caulfield, Zoe Doano and Chris Peluso - is announced...
Maxwell Caulfield, Zoë Doano and Chris Peluso (pictured below) are to head the cast of Death Takes A Holiday, the third Charing Cross Theatre musical directed by Artistic Director Thom Southerland following the critically acclaimed Titanic and Ragtime.
A soaring story of the preciousness of life and the overwhelming power of love, the European premiere of Death Takes A Holiday will run from Monday 16 January to Saturday 4 March 2017, with a press night on Monday 23 January.
Death Takes A Holiday has a lush, romantic score by multi Tony Award-winner Maury Yeston (Titanic, Nine) and a book by multi Tony Award-winners Thomas Meehan and Peter Stone. It is based on the 1928 Italian play of the same name, which also inspired the movie, Meet Joe Black, starring Brad Pitt.
In Northern Italy, shortly after World War One, Death disguises himself as a handsome young prince to try to understand why life is so precious and death so feared. But when he unexpectedly falls in love with a newly engaged young woman, this mysterious stranger discovers that love may in fact be stronger than death.
Death Takes A Holiday was nominated for 11 Drama Desk Awards when it premièred Off Broadway in 2011.
Note: Chris Peluso appears in the production until 11 February, at which time the role will be taken over by James Gant. The rest of the company are:
Kathryn Akin was last seen in the West End in Carousel as alternate Nettie to Lesley Garrett, and Gone With the Wind; Anthony Cable has featured in several West End productions including The Sound of Music, The Phantom of the Opera, Whistle Down the Wind and Napoleon; Trudi Camilleri recently covered the role of Mother in Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); Ken Christiansen was recently Best Actor Offie Award nominated as Grahame Chandler in The Fix, played Ray-Say in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and was Bob Saunders in Closer to Heaven (all Union theatre); Scarlett Courtney was Kate Mullins in Titanic in both London and Toronto; Sophie-May Feek was in Made in Dagenham (Hornchurch); James Gant was Etches in Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre), Mr Bumble in Oliver! (Leicester Curve); Rohna and Zinnowitz in Grand Hotel (Southwark Playhouse), cover Javert in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Matthew McDonald was in Allegro (Southwark Playhouse); Gay Soper was Mrs Strakosh in Funny Girl (Menier Chocolate Factory and West End) and Mrs Alexander in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (NT and West End transfer) and Sunday in the Park With George (Menier Chocolate Factory and Wyndhams); Ashley Stillburn’s West End shows include The Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables and he recently played Anthony in Sweeney Todd for Opera du Toulon; Samuel Thomas was Homer Collins in Floyd Collins (Wilton’s Music Hall), Lansdale in Allegro (Southwark Playhouse) and cover Jamie in The Last 5 Years (St James Theatre); Helen Turner was a finalist in the Stephen Sondheim Student Performer of the Year and has just played Demeter in Cats.
