It has been announced that Samantha Barks has joined the previously announced Hadley Fraser and Rosalie Craig in City Of Angels at the Donmar Warehouse.
The Donmar's Artistic Director, Josie Rourke, will direct Cy Coleman, David Zippel and Larry Gelbart’s musical.
Following a successful sell-out run in Coriolanus, Fraser returns to the Donmar to play Stine. He stars opposite Craig (his fiancée). The Light Princess actress is making her Donmar debut as Gabby/Bobbi alongside Les Miserables' Barks as Mallory/Avril
The musical comedy is set in Broadway in the 1940s with two plots: a Hollywood comedy and a detective drama involving the world of a writer trying to turn his book into a screenplay and the world of the fictional film. It is a homage to the film noir genre of motion pictures in the 1940s.
Directed by Michael Blakemore, City of Angels ran on Broadway from 1989 to 1992 winning six Tony Awards in 1990. It was first performed in London's West End in 1993 with Blakemore again directing and Roger Allam as Stone, Martin Smith as Stine and Henry Goodman as Buddy Fidler leading the cast. It won the 1994 Olivier Award for Best Musical.
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