Cast announced for the London revival of Rodgers and Hart’s THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE

Casting has been announced for Rodgers and Hart’s classic 1938 musical comedy adaptation of The Comedy of Errors, The Boys from Syracuse, which returns to the London stage for the first time in over ten years, Upstairs At The Gatehouse from 5-29 September.

This madcap tale of mistaken identity, danger and romance in Ancient Greece features a score including hit songs ‘Falling in Love with Love’, ‘This Can’t Be Love’, and ‘Sing for Your Supper’.

Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio, arrive in Ephesus as part of a long search for their respective identical twins, from whom they were separated as children during a shipwreck. But citizens of Syracuse caught in Ephesus are subject to the death penalty. As fate has it, there’s another Antipholus who’s an established citizen of Ephesus, served by another Dromio. Confusions multiply as wives are baffled by husbands, one twin is wrongly jailed and Antipholus of Syracuse falls in love with his wife’s sister – or does he?

The cast is comprised of Caroline Kennedy (Sweeney Todd, The Lowry), Georgie Faith (Call Me Madam, Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Karen Wilkinson (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, West End/National Theatre), Bernadine Pritchett (The Phantom of the Opera, West End), John Faal (Sense and Sensibility: The Musical, Surrey Opera), Brendan Matthew (The Boy Friend, West End), Simon de Deney (The Crown, Netflix), and Enzo Benvenuti (Renegade Nell, Walt Disney Television).

Director Mark Giesser said: “I’ve always been a big fan of Lorenz Hart’s sophisticated, ironic and yet emotionally touching lyric writing, and I think his brilliant collaboration with Richard Rodgers is often overshadowed today by the enduring popularity of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s subsequent work. Rodgers and Hammerstein are credited with perfecting the classic American musical form, but the Rodgers and Hart partnership certainly laid the foundation for that success. Their work should be given every bit as much attention, and in particular, The Boys From Syracuse, combining the Rodgers and Hart genius with the book-writing finesse of the great George Abbott, is a show with which modern devotees of classic musicals should be more familiar.

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