Full cast announced for new musical THE BOOK THIEF

Full casting has been announced for the stage adaptation of best-selling novel The Book Thief, which will be presented at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre and Leicester’s Curve in autumn 2023.

The cast includes Obioma Ugoala (Frozen the Musical) as Narrator, Mina Anwar (The Sarah Jane Adventures) as Rosa Hubermann, Jack Lord (West Side Story) as Hans Hubermann and Daniel Krikler (Jersey Boys) as Max Vandenburg.

Joining them are Storytellers Matthew Caputo (Hamilton) as Referee, Katy Clayton (The Band) as Liesel’s Mother, Oonagh Cox (Matilda: The Musical) as Nurse, Mark Dugdale (Les Miserables) as Alex Steiner, Michał Horowicz (The Band’s Visit) as Max’s Mother, Thomas-Lee Kidd (Beauty and the Beast) as Mayor Hermann, Anu Ogunmefun (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) as Swing, Simon Oskarsson (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) as Swing, Corinna Powlesland (Grease) as Social Worker, Purvi Parmar (The Jungle Book) as Barbara Steiner, Wendy Somerville (Billy Elliot) as Ilsa Hermann, Edwin Ray (Chicago) as Walter Kugler, Lee V G (Only Fools & Horses: The Musical) as Gravedigger, and Russell Wilcox (The Producers) as Wolfgang Edel.

Liesel Meminger will be played by Tilly-Raye Bayer (Frozen The Musical), Mollie Casserley (The Sound of Music) and Eirini Louskou (Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and Rudy Steiner will be played by Thommy Bailey Vine (Matilda: The Musical), Preston Cropp (professional debut) and Oliver Gordon (Newsies). 

“The year: 1940. The place: Nazi Germany. The world is holding its breath, and Death is busier than ever.” 

By her brother’s graveside, 12-year-old Liesel steals a book abandoned in the snow - her first act of book thievery. Soon she is stealing from libraries, churches, and book burnings. But these are dangerous times for a girl with a curious mind. When her foster family hides a Jewish boxer in their cellar, Liesel learns that words are so much more than letters on a page - they hold power. As the Nazi regime wields words as weapons, Liesel, determined to fight back, picks up her pen and starts to write…

A mesmerising new musical based on Markus Zusak‘s international bestselling novel, The Book Thief is adapted by award-winning bestselling author Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald, with music and lyrics by  Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson.

The Book Thief is directed by Lotte Wakeham, with set and costume design by Good Teeth, choreography by Tom Jackson Greaves, orchestrations and arrangements, musical supervision and musical direction by Matthew Malone, lighting by Nic Farman, sound by Andy Graham, video design by Dick Straker, casting by Abby Galvin for Jessica Ronane Casting, and puppet design by Sam Wilde.

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