Rob Houchen, Celinde Schoenmaker & Waylon Jacobs to star in the Barn Theatre’s 2020 theatre recovery season

Casting has been announced for the Barn Theatre’s 2020 theatre recovery season productions of Marry Me A Little and Peter Pan.

Running from 16 October – 8 November, Stephen Sondheim’s musical revival of Marry Me A Little will star Rob Houchen (Les Misérables) and Celinde Schoenmaker (The Phantom of the Opera). The pair previously starred alongside one another in the 2019 London premiere of Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza, before reprising their roles for the American transfer at Los Angeles Opera.

The production will be directed by Kirk Jameson (Just So, Madagascar) with musical staging by Sam Spencer-Lane (The Last Five Years, Aspects of Love), set and costume design by Gregor Donnelly (Daddy Long Legs, Aspects of Love) and musical direction by Arlene McNaught (SIX, Little Miss Sunshine).

Later in the season, Waylon Jacobs will star in the title role of the world stage debut of Alan Pollock’s adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, running from 21 November 2020 - 3 January 2021. Jacobs was most recently seen in the outdoor revival production of The Last Five Years at the Minack Theatre and was part of the original West End cast of Hamilton.

The production features original music and arrangements by Nick Barstow (Rags, Just So), movement direction by Tosh Wanogho-Maud and set and costume design by Gregor Donnelly.

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