Final casting announced for European premiere of DEATH NOTE THE MUSICAL IN CONCERT
Final casting has been announced for Death Note: The Musical in Concert at the London Palladium on 21 & 22 August.
Broadway legend Adam Pascal (RENT, Broadway) will play Ryuk, a Shinigami (“god of death”), with Aimie Atkinson (Six; Pretty Woman, West End) as Rem, a Shinigami (“god of death”), Rachel Clare Chan (recent graduate) as Sayu, Light’s little sister, and Christian Ray Marbella (Miss Saigon, International tour) as Soichiro. They will join the previously announced Frances Mayli McCann, Dean John-Wilson and Joaquin Pedro Valdes in the cast.
They are joined by an ensemble featuring Felipe Bejarano, Charlotte Coggin, Jade Copas, Eu Jin Hwang, Yojiro Ichikawa, Deena Kapadia, David Kar-Hing Lee, Nick Len, Jasmine Leung, Jojo Meredith, Marcel Li-Ping, Janine Somcio.
Tickets sold out for the two evening performances in just 8 hours and only limited tickets remain available for the matinee.
Based on the best-selling Japanese manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata/Sheuisha, this ground breaking musical has a score by Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics by Jack Murphy and a book by Ivan Menchell, with direction by Nick Winston.
Light Yagami, a bright but dissatisfied high school student in Tokyo comes across a discarded notebook owned by Ryuk, a mythological god of death. Discovering he can kill anyone by just writing their names in the supernatural notebook, Light takes justice into his own hands by filling the notebook with names of the nation’s most wanted criminals. But a detective only known as ‘L’ is soon tracking him down...
Frank Wildhorn said: “Death Note THE MUSICAL has been the most unique, strange, edgy, and wonderful musical journey for me. It’s been a dream of mine to bring this show from Asia to the West End of London, and here we are!”
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